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The level of fearfulness that our society has slipped down into makes me ill. No this is not enough snow to shut down anything.

WHEN I attended school, school would remain open and buses might have run late or not at all in conditions far worse than today. You made it to school the best way you could, or you were absent.

Why is it that Greyhound buses run in snow and school buses do not?
What makes a parent think a high school driver can drive in snow and ice when most adults can not do the same?

People look for excuses not to work. Real businesses are not closed.

NO!

Actually school was shut down last night before it even did anything. As usual not the doom and gloom the weathermen predicted. Just another non event. Yawn.

When will weathermen have to have accountability??

It was actually rather silly to close school today. I know they didn't want to take any chances, but come on! The announced the closing before 10 last night! It wasn't even raining at that point! When I was in school we'd get a foot of snow overnight and we'd be in school the next day. Of course, I did grow up in a northern climate, but still. And they never made the decision about closing until the snow had already started! It took a lot for them to close school.

Honestly, I wanted a snow day. I wanted a LOT of snow, I wanted to go sledding, build a snowman, drink hot chocolate. This rain day, though, is just....eh. My son wants to play outside in the snow, but there isn't enough to play in and I'm not going to stand around in the rain. He should be in school! Oh well, I think we'll make cookies.

No. Everytime school does not operate, it causes significant inconvenience and unnecessary stress to parent(s), that have to get to work, regardless. We already know of the vast amount of days kids are to be out throughout the given year, plus, the summer....
Kids should have been in school, today. Today's weather conditions did not warrant schools being closed.

Yes. It appeared that there was going to be a snow storm. Suck it up whiners... the kids enjoyed getting a break from school!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, they're getting a break from school but this day off will have to be made up on on February 25th, if their school is on a traditional calendar. Here is the list of make-up days, from the Guilford County Schools webpage:

Today, schools in the district were closed to students due to inclement weather. To make-up for the instruction lost, students will attend school on days previously designated as teacher workdays. Make-up days for student instruction missed due to inclement weather on Thursday, January 17 are as follows:

• Hampton Academy: Friday, January 25

• GCS middle colleges: Friday, February 15

• Schools on the traditional calendar, Oak Hill Elementary: Monday, February 25

• The Early College at Guilford: Tuesday, March 11

• Extended-year schools: No make-up day is needed

Btw, it didn't really appear that there was going to be a snowstorm...they were calling for a tiny bit of snow (up to 3 inches, I believe) and sleet and freezing rain. I understand closing for sleet and freezing rain, if it had happened, but it didn't. They probably should have just delayed the start of school because the sleet and freezing rain were supposed to start around rush hour, waited to see what happened, and then made the decision as to if they should close or not. Making the decision last night before anything even started was jumping the gun, in my opinion.

I think that the right decision was made based on what happened in 2005 when a Western Alamance student lost her life on a day similar to this morning.Ask yourself, is your child's life worth the risk? Yes this may have been an inconvenience to some but my hat's off to those in charge of making these very difficult calls.

Tracy,

True, but I think a 2 hour delay would have sufficed. The worst of it would have been over by then.

Tracy, do you really believe that you want government to be telling taking whatever measures are necessary to prevent people from experiencing any risk? Life is full because we have risks and challenges. What ever happened to personal responsibility? I grew up just fine before seat belts, before baby restraints, no cell phone so mom didn't know where I was all day till I came home at dinner time all dirty from playing outside in the dirt getting cuts and scrapes because I didn't have on a bunch of protective pads. In the 1970s I was a 17 year old school bus driver here in Greensboro and drove kids thru sun, snow and rain. What the heck is wrong with you people that hide from every shadow these days. If your kids stayed out of school today they would just stay safe and warm indoors playing video games anyways. god forbid they go out and take the risk of riding a sled down a hill when a car might come by.

I removed a comment by Ed because it contained an unnecessary personal comment toward another commenter.

I am 42 yrs. old, when I went to school, in the Washington, D.C., area, the schools would start of with opening late, and sometimes on the same day closing early...but to take a WHOLE day off, unless a blizzard is expected, it never happened. Poor kids have to make up for this day in the beautiful spring/summer.