Madison City Schools Superintendent Robby Parker has a message for students who wanted to know why heavy rains weren’t enough to delay or cancel school: You won’t melt.

In a video posted to Twitter Wednesday, Parker, known for his use of social media to talk to students, said he’d received thousands of messages asking why they had to come to school on days of heavy rain.

Parker’s reply?

“Y’all aren’t going to melt,” he said. “The weather’s fine. Got a little sprinkle. Y’all want to stay at home. Y’all know If it’s a bad snow – even though it don’t bother me – I’m going to get you out. But a little bit of rain? Come on guys. Come on. Y’all ought to be ashamed of yourself sending me that stuff.”

He signed off with a final message to students:

"Y’all are going to have to come to school in the rain.”