‘Sluffing off’

Dear Editor:

RE: Local school boards change April PA day due to solar eclipse, Feb. 22.

So, the local school boards are moving their April 19 PA day to April 8, the day of the eclipse?  The reason given is that they want children to stay home rather than be let out of school during the eclipse on the 8th.

They state: “The safety and well-being of our students is our top priority.”

If they are really so concerned with safety of the students and it really is their top priority, I would suggest they should keep their April 19 PA day and on the 8th not let children out at 3:30pm but keep them inside, occupied until the eclipse passes.

Wouldn’t that be a better approach than sluffing off the responsibility to thousands of families who will now have to make special arrangements for children who are not in school on the 8th?

Dushan Divjak, Elora