I prefer to point my kids in the direction of "real life", where you still go to work, maybe leave a little earlier, when the roads are bad. Our school, last year, called off school at around 1:oo in the afternoon, because of rain. Yes, rain, in sedgwick county, where there are NO roads that are impassable in heavy rain. It had already quit raining at noon!!! No thought given to the fact that 1000 kids' parents had to make arrangements to somehow get home to take care of the kids that afternoon. I am not opposed to reasonable situations where we call off school, but adminstrators that flatout "take the day off", by calling off school for MINOR reasons, P*ss me off.