I was among the many surprised Boulder Valley School District parents who felt school should’ve been cancelled during last week’s snowstorm. Our end of Boulder received over a foot of snow and the temperature was dangerously low. I worried that if a school bus got stuck in a drift, many of the kids would not be appropriately dressed to withstand the freezing temperatures.

Tuesday, as I was driving through yet another fresh foot of snow on the way to Fairview High School, I mentioned to my freshman that the first time a bus slid off the road, Superintendent Bruce Messinger would have to answer to angry parents. My daughter mentioned that in fact two buses got stuck in a canyon en route to school on Monday. The drivers told the kids that the announcement to hold school as usual came too late for them to get chains on all buses.

My daughter also told me that it was almost comical in first period Monday as the announcements kept interrupting class to ask for “any math teachers who are in school and don’t have a first-period class…” and quickly devolved into requests for “any teachers who are in school and are free first period.” What’s next? Any seniors free to teach? The kid with the highest grade teaches the class?

Delayed start. It’s a good idea. Snow day. Even better.

KATE KUPFERER

Boulder