Ferguson-Florissant School District again delays start of classes

[brooklynite]

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Ferguson-Florissant School District on Sunday postponed its first day of school for the second time in less than a week.

The school year had been scheduled to begin Thursday, then was moved to Monday. Late Sunday, the district posted on its website this message: "Due to continuing unrest in some areas of Ferguson, and in the interest of the safety of students and families, all schools in the Ferguson-Florissant School District will be closed Monday, Aug. 18.

"Information we have received from officials on the scene late Sunday evening has contributed to concerns we have about children walking to school or waiting for buses on streets impacted by this activity, debris on the roads that could impact transportation, and continued disruption affecting our students and families in the area."

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/ferguson-florissant-school-district-again-delays-start-of-classes/article_c2435462-d3e4-59f6-9edd-2ae6b5cfe438.html

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Those children need to be in school

and not out on the streets where they are right now. If it takes a Federal presence to do it, then do it. Otherwise they are losing out on formalized education and instead will continue to internalize the chaos around them without some sort of counseling to help them reconcile the disparate circumstances that they are facing.

[jwirr]

2. Open it for the children who will go and hope that others will follow. I am sure that there are

parents who will send their children. Do not close down the institutions that are part of normal life - it is counterproductive.

[mainstreetonce]

3. Some group

Should provide safe escorts to get children to and from school.

[jwirr]

4. Agreed. It will make things better the sooner things start to go back to normal but I would not want

to endanger the children. They are in enough danger as it is.