Most schools across the area will close on a second day due to the winter weather.
It doesn’t take long for parents and even the kids to get tired of a snow day but the games around the kitchen table are a much better choice than playing them on the playground these days.
Ice has socked in schools all across the metro, especially in the western half of North Texas where minus a few die-hard kids on sleds, the streets are a ghost town.
“Our district is 27 square miles. Yesterday there was freezing rain coming down on the west side of the district and nothing coming down on the east side of the district, and you don’t get to make these decisions on a school-by-school basis,” said Lori Rapp, Lewisville ISD Superintendent.
Rapp said she knows parents can get frustrated with the last-minute nature of the calls schools are making but we all know how unpredictable the weather can be in Texas.
“It’s definitely one of the hardest calls you make,” she said. “Everyone is comparing you to what everyone else is doing, but not everyone is seeing the same weather.”
From parking lots to busing and playgrounds. It’s a lot to “monitor”.
Angelica Ramsey, Fort Worth ISD Superintendent, has a long schedule of conference calls
“Our last call is at 9 p.m. and we get up for that 3:40 a.m. call and we do a lot of conversations with one another and TxDOT during the day,” said Ramsey.
School Wednesday is out of the question for most everyone due to road conditions, but none of the superintendents we talked to were willing to make a call yet for the rest of the week.
“Our real hope is that there is a possibility of opening Thursday. I did see there’s a possibility we will get above freezing. So there’s a glimmer of hope there”
