I know some people are upset about schools being closed again today. Many roads in the area are passable and when your own commute is okay, it's hard to imagine that others might have a different experience.
But over in Oakgrove (near Sterling), we have a slightly different situation.
One of the school buses here picks up kids on Oakgrove Road, turns right onto Trefoil Road, where it picks up more kids, makes another right onto Rock Hill (where I assume it picks up more kids), and then turns onto 606 to head off to the school.
Oakgrove Road is plowed. There are some snowy patches, but it's plowed.
Trefoil is NOT. It is snowy, bumpy, icy. There is no way that it would afford safe passage for a bus.
And that's just one road in one neighborhood. What about all the dirt roads in the county (like the western end of Waxpool!) that school buses are expected to travel to pick up kids?
The schools made the correct decision to stay closed today.
You make a good case that *a* school should have been closed. No doubt there were others. But no doubt there were many schools that didn't need to be and should not have been closed. It's foolish for a district as large as LCPS to adopt a "all or nothing" approach to school closings.
ReplyDeleteThere was hardly a school that did not have at least one impassable street on that day. Mill Run had the end of Waxpool. Sterling had my whole neighborhood. It is foolish to have the schools check every road. More than one route was impassable, that should be enough.
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