A light snowfall overnight and the coldest temperatures of the winter so far have combined to delay the opening of Baltimore County Schools Thursday.
School officials announced the two-hour delay on the Baltimore County Public Schools website early Thursday morning.
If these bus drivers can't drive safely through half an inch of snow, then they should be canned. I'd have gone to school growing up 100 times out of 100 in New York. It took 5-6 inches of snow overnight for them to even consider a 4 hour delay or closure. ...and yes, I have a kid that goes to school on those said buses.
Complain all you want, but when a kid slips and falls on an icy school sidewalk and the district eventually pays a 5 or 6 figure settlement to the family to make a lawsuit go away, you might complain about that as well. It's funny, but elsewhwre on Patch people are arguing that having armed security in our schools is worth any price so long as it saves the life of at least one child. I guess asking parents and children to come to school 2 hours late is too high of a price to pay to perhaps keep some (or even one?) children safe?
Many of you know this, but the pussification of America has been going on for a couple decades now. Some of it, like a degree of gun regulation/banning, I agree with it. However, a good percentage of it, things like excesive political correctness, fear of being sued for anything at any time, I disagree with wholeheartedly. See, as long as people are doing dangerous activities (and by any definition, driving is inherently dangerous - even when you are a good driver), rare accidents will happen. That's why they are called accidents. The problem is, the one occasion in, let's say every 5 years in the county lets kids go to school with 2-3 inches of snow on the ground, a bus has an accident and skids off the road. No one's 'really' hurt. Yet you can bet your bottom dollar some kid's sycophant parents will irrationally raise holy hell and try suing the county - and our blind justice system will generally agree with them. Heck, anyone who follows the NFL sees this happening right before our eyes. Former players actually suing the league for injuries they got playing? Seriously?
and this is EXACTLY what is wrong with our society. Twenty five years ago, we kids were out playing in this outside. Sometimes we fell and got injured. It happens.
Not to mention, the lack of A/C (a real hot button issue of mine) makes these poor kids suffer through June days in sweltering schools because it seems this county was run assbackwards for a couple decades or so on this issue.
It doesn't just apply to the poor/abusers of welfare. As Evets notes above, it exists in all rungs of American society. It's a disease that I can only hope someday gets cured.
Good Comments from all. Tim is so right to say the County (Gov and BCPS) has been run with no forethought in mind. We live in a society that kicks the proverbial tin can down the street, instead of dealing with the issues. The BCPS issues and comments that are being written lately on PATCH, shows there is a major disconnect between BCPS and the community. We need to have 'United" themes, Dundalk United, Towson United, to get our voices heard by BCPS. There is more going on here than just frustration by parents over the BCPS schools opening 2 hours late...