>Ridgewood Schools : a better contingency plan
People should also be insisting that the schools/board come up with a better contingency plan. This is the second time in two years that Willard needed to remain closed a day longer than the rest of the schools. Its only November and Willard is already -1 in terms of emergency closings.
I’m no expert in school contingency planning, but there should be a plan in place. What would we have done if the power was not back at Willard for a week..??? (or longer). Three days is a long time to be closed for a storm like this. Consider the March windstorm of 2010 (which closed Willard for 3 days), Hurricane Irene (which would likely have closed schools for a few days) and now this storm.
These are not “freak” 1 in 100 year events — there have been 3 in the past two years. If the schools are not going to implement a contigency plan than they should build more than 2 days into the schedule becuase storms like this do and will occur often.