Jackson Jambalaya

Shad needs to investigate this. Sounds like they’re wasting money.

School is probably the safest place they could be. Somebody wants an early start to the holiday weekend.

Why spend the time, effort, and funds to bus them to school and then bring them home? The time was probably spent talking about the weather, and not specific academic topics.

Was this decision made by the same people who hired that woman from Tennessee?

Gaming the system comes to mind.

Sounds like they wanted the kids to make a half day to avoid having to make up a day. Typical bad behavior. Put the kids at risk (travel to and from school) so we can stay off for a long weekend. I'd get into the "In my day we didn't get off for weather", but I'm to old to remember and no one would care.

It's actually most probable that they didn't want school busses on the road when the worst of the weather hit. They could have done like JPS and Hinds Co Schools, followed the regular schedule, and had kindergarteners trapped on the road between fallen trees. Or they could have done like Rankin Co schools, and kept the kids in the hallways staring at the walls for three hours. Instead, Madison Co and Clinton had all their students home by 1:00, right before the worst of the weather hit. They were there long enough to have a 60% day, which means they won't have to make it up.

It is an almost impossible task for schools to figure out the right thing to do with often-unreliable weather predictions. Do they err on the side of protecting the kids, or err on the side of keeping the school day intact? No matter what they decide, someone is going to be pissy about it. Madison Co and Clinton got it about as close to right as any school district could get in today's situation.

Charlie ain't letting y'all trash her decision this time.

When is the makeup day for that day of closure due to the snow we didn't get two months ago? Asking for a man across the street building a snowman.

That was made up President's Day. It was good too, most teachers at my wife's school took the opportunity to teach about the duties of the Presidency.

I think everyone is terrified by what happened a few years ago in ATL when the school waited too long to release the kids and got caught by a flash winter storm where people and kids were stranded on the interstates.

I've never seen a Madison County school bus on the interstate.