Should Boston Schools Have Been Closed Today?
It snowed throughout the night making roads slick and dangerous, and many bus stops and sidewalks are still covered.
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Boston Public Schools did not close school today despite the continued snowfall throughout the night and into this afternoon.
With sidewalks, streets, bus stops all being needing to be plowed, and with some not being plowed once - should Boston schools have been cancelled today?
Boston Public School officials have already said they will forgive all absences today, according to WBZ's Beth Germano.
Boston Public Schools posted that school was open today, and a message about buses, "Some school buses are delayed due to heavy traffic in the city. All of our school buses are on the road and will complete their scheduled routes this morning and afternoon. If you have school bus transportation questions, please call our Transportation Hotline at (617) 635-9520."
Do you think Boston Public Schools should have been cancelled today due to snow? How are your streets, sidewalks and public ways? Let us know in the comments section.
Lisa McGoff Collins
12:25 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
I work in Boston Public Schools, I live in the same Community as my School, I live approx. 4 min from my school by Car, it took me about 15 min to get there, none of the streets were plowed. It was dangerous. We are in School until June 28th as it is what would another day be.
Ann
1:20 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
I live ten min from my kid school and my van was all over the road. i took her out of school. Boston should close the school that's why the have snows days!
Ryan
6:05 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
It definitely should've been closed. I'm a student and when i got to school, most of my teachers were not even there yet. Not only that, but i took me more than two times as long to get to school.
Jan Paulsen
2:27 pm on Saturday, March 9, 2013
Yes, school should have been called off - How many inches of snow does it take to warrant a snow day? Blaming the lateness of the time for not calling school off is a lame excuse, Mr. Mayor. All it would have taken was a radio announcement and TV announcement and a posting on line. Those who saw it would have shared it with those who did not. As for saying that there would be problems about child care - Wow! How about endangering the kids on the way to and from school and their parents on the way to and from work? So far this winter, they called off school on one day when the expected storm fizzled out, and now they failed to do it when the fizzling that was expected did not happen. Out of three tries they got one right and that is because when it began it was obvious that it would be a bad one. Better to cancel and be safe than to not cancel and be sorry!