On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:25:19 -0600, Jules
wrote:

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:27:24 +0000, Mike Clarke wrote:
With the result that some of the kids are turned away to roam the streets
with no parents at home. The kids are then in a situation where the staff
to student ratio is zero but the school no longer has to worry about
being held liable for anything that happens to them.

So what's the solution? Parents should check before packing them off to
school, or is that too hard? (actually, it probably is for some of them)

Here closures/late starts are always put up on the school's website,
the school district website, as a scrolling message on the local TV
weather channel, and every ten minutes or so on several local radio
stations.

Trouble is that the school web sites and the County Council one all
went down last week because they couldn't cope with the extra traffic.

The local radio station announces the closures but only after we had
to leave to take them to school!

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