It is sad, terrible, devastating. The worst thing is that it could have been avoided if they made a desition to cancel school for that day, just in case. Prevention, why, why, why???they didn't cancel school? Why wait until the last minute?
A day can be recovered, a life, imposible. What do you think?
2007-03-02 00:54:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
For one you have no idea where a tornado is going to hit, and considering that part of Alabama is a rural area, the kids would statistically be in more danger on the buses then in the school. You also have to take into consideration, what happens to the kids who can't be picked up, you can't send them home by their selves.
The guy above me is right, I don't live very far from any of the tornadoes that happened in al or GA yesterday, and that kind of weather is weather we get every year, you can't cancel school for every storm or tornado watch, they'd never would be in school after the first of the year.
2007-03-02 02:40:24 · answer #1 · answered by kc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is terrible. But a tornado cannot be predicted with the accuracy of a hurricane. At the time, tornadoes were considered a possibility that day, but not a certainty. And if we cancelled school every time the possibility of bad weather arose in the South, there would be no school from February through May.
That being said, the superintendent intended to dismiss school at 1 p.m. that day. But conditions deteriorated much more quickly than the weather service could have guessed. So the superintendent, rather than sending all those children out into the community, actually did the prudent thing by keep them all inside in a relatively strong building. The problem is that in a strong twister there's really no safe place to be. The poor people in that school were just unlucky.
2007-03-02 02:34:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i asked the same thing, why didn't they call school off? i live 50 miles from where the devastation happened, in Alabama. it's a great state to raise kids, but the tornado's sukk. my kids got out of school at 12.00 noon. you should of been here when the first spell came threw at 1:45 am. i woke up to hearing hail hitting my home.
to the poster above, no we can not keep our kids home when we want. here in the south we have the probation officer on our back sides when kids miss a certain amount of days. don't judge until your in the same situation. the first day a child misses they call the parents.
2007-03-02 01:06:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is sad, but to pin-point where a tornado will hit, here in the south is impossible. Once a week from now until around late June, the weather here in Mississippi, will have the tendency to have tornado like weather. We can't stop liveing because of what we can't predict. I mean the weather was bad from Mississippi to Georgia and you can't shut down the wole state because of what will probably turn out to be a thunder storm.
2007-03-02 01:09:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that armchair quarterbacking is easy. Forecasting where or when a tornado will strike is not. No one forces you to go to school so parents could have kept their children home. Responsibility begins with good old mom and dad who, in reality, probably didn't know what they'd do with the kids if they kept them home so they sent them to the tax payer's baby sitter. Doom on them.
Hi, Loretta, in the NE we have snow, ice and hurricanes. I kept my kids home at times even if school wasn't canceled. The key to your response is "certain number of times". If you're a responsible parent and provide written "excuse" no problem. If your kids are missing school due to truancy that's a different story. It ain't North vs South, honey; it's common sense vs stupidity.
2007-03-02 01:04:32 · answer #5 · answered by canela 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tornadoes are not like snow storms the place they attitude in a predictable way. There in basic terms isn't a thank you to try this, or they might have. it fairly is uncomplicated to take a seat down returned and criticize them i comprehend, yet they have their palms finished good now.
2016-10-17 02:25:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the people there need a break and second guessing them isn't helping. They didn't know this storm was going to have the fury it did. I would be curious to see how many storms you have accurately predicted would turn into tornadoes?
2007-03-02 01:02:54 · answer #7 · answered by Lt. Dan reborn 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They were going to send the kids home but were afraid that they would be in more danger on the buses. No one knew that super cells would be forming causing such violent tornadoes.
2007-03-02 01:00:38 · answer #8 · answered by diogenese_97 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think you've begun to believe that we are god, with our knowledge.
We are not perfect.
If we called everything off when there was even a chance-
you couldn't even GET and education enough to be able to ask these kinds of questions!
2007-03-02 00:58:45 · answer #9 · answered by starryeyed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For everyday students are in school, State and Federal money are involved, its all about the buck not the kids.
2007-03-02 01:05:54 · answer #10 · answered by Granny 1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋