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But according to Bloomer, communication problems make it impossible to go with delayed school openings here.
He explained that neighboring counties, for the most part, are in the broadcast area of a single radio station while parents in Rappahannock must tune in to one of ten stations, for school news depending on where they live. If conditions are bad enough to delay classes for an hour, Bloomer said, then his decision would be to close instead.
If all ten radio stations can be contacted to announce school closings, where’s the problem in contacting those same stations to announce a delayed opening?
State policy on what constitutes a school day encourages administrators to err on the side of risk. Scheduling make-up time for snow days often means extending the calendar into the summer, bringing complaints from parents who’ve planned vacations and causing a hardship on teachers who have enrolled in summer courses or who have second summer jobs.
Scheduling headaches can be avoided by sending kids off to school if just for a few minutes even though Rappahannock students were actually in class for only 30 minutes, they are credited with attending a full day. They don’t have to make up the time they missed on Monday.
State policy should be changed to require a minimum of class time for at-, tendance credit. Then maybe the buses won’t roll when road conditions are questionable and snow is on the way.
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