Ah, the full-throated passion of the Public Official Spouse.
Municipalist first post here. Washington Post initial article here (free registration required). AP here. Next-day column from the Post's Marc Fisher here ("In Cyberspace, Everyone Can Hear Your Scream"). Fisher chat here, with great reader wisdom. Atlanta Journal Constitution blog on manners tweaks schools PR guy for his bizarre statement regarding calling the administrator at home. The school district in a neighboring county received plenty of calls that day. The issue is not snow days. The issue is how school districts make these decisions with little or no engagement with their constituents. It's: Trust us. Now stop complaining if you don't like it. Ideas: How about establishing a parent council on this? Or a blog that describes the process in the early morning that school district leaders go through, watching the weather, trying to make a tough call, etc. A blog would also provide a great place for a discussion of this. Would everybody be happy? No. Would some much-needed engagement and transparency open a pressure valve on such issues for parents and students? Municipalist suggested this at a presentation he did a couple years ago advocating blogging for school PR people. And the reaction was confusion and flat-out opposition.
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