redneck winter wonderland

We had another round of Arkansas winter-ish weather yesterday and possibly today.  There's nothing like a couple of inches of snow to bring out the moron in everyone.  You expect the normal rush to buy gas, generators, candles, bread, milk, cereal, sugar, matches, batteries, bottled water, cookie dough, pizza, bottlecaps, whoppers, sleds, gloves, snow shovels, driveway melt stuff, and whatever else a family could need for the apocalypse of winter.  But then there are the other issues that pop up.  Schools.  Should they cancel school, should they let school out early, do they run the buses, do they call parents to come get there kids, do they just sell the kids to a sweat shop making Ipads, what do they do with all of these miniature adults they are charged with guarding every day?  Yesterday in our little slice of paradise that is Greenwood, Arkansas, the weather forecast showed that after lunchtime the weather was going to start getting bad.  So the school day started cold, but normally, but then it became apparent that the roads were going to end up a lot worse than had been anticipated.  So the decision was made not to run the school buses and to send out notifications to parents of all of the students that they needed to come get their kids.  This apparently caused a ruckus with some folks. Then, apparently one of the local news outlets thought it was in the best interest of the community to run this little jewel.  http://5newsonline.com/2013/02/20/winter-weather-halts-greenwood-buses/ .  By all means, we need to pile onto the school administrators in the midst of dealing with crappy weather.  There were those who said they just should have called school off that day. (The same ones who would be griping about the extra day they might have to go in may/june) Some people said they should have called school off early.  Maybe, but the roads got pretty bad, pretty quick, so there would probably have been the same issue with the buses.  Some said they should have just run the buses anyway.  Really, slick roads, no seat-belts.  There's about a thousand lawsuits waiting to happen.  But they didn't do that.  Instead they cancelled the buses, and sent messages to people to come get their kids.  For the whining parents who "didn't get the message quick enough", HEY, GROW UP.  Were you watching the weather?  If so, and you're so concerned about your kid, get your tail in your car and go get them.  Don't wait for school to be called off if you think it should have been cancelled or let out anyway, just go get them.  Don't sit around waiting for the someone else to look out for your kid's best interest.  Take it upon yourself to be a parent, and go get them.  At work? Tell your boss the weather's getting bad and you need to go pick up your kid.  If you're going to lose your job over that, then maybe you should reconsider your present employer.Don't want to lose that 2 hours of pay? Really, would that be an issue?  Most of the whiners probably just didn't want to turn of Dr Phil, or General Hospital, or whatever was on their idol, and drive across town to get their kids.  Start making safety decisions for thousands of kids simultaneously, before you pile on the administrators over this.
All that being said, I'm not sure what the deal was with the special Ed kids on the buses.  There may have been a breakdown in communications as to how that was handled.
Even with that being added, I think they made the right call.  Safety over convenience.  My kids are car-riders anyway, so it didn't affect me. :)