September 26, 2005
Snow Day!
In an extraordinary measure to conserve fuel during the pending crisis with Hurricane Rita in the Gulf Coast, Gov. Sonny Perdue Friday called on Georgia’s public schools to voluntarily close Monday and Tuesday.
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“We had a conference call with the governor and state school Superintendent Kathy Cox at 2:45 p.m.,” said Harris County School Superintendent Susan Andrews. “The governor asked school systems to voluntarily comply. He told us Colonial Pipeline is shut down. He said school buses in Georgia use more than 225,000 gallons of diesel fuel a day, and that he was letting us know as quickly as he knew. He said they had thought about doing it later next week.”
Andrews said Cox was asked if schools must make up these two days and Cox said no.
Great job. It’s not like Georgia’s schools are known across the country as wonderful. But on the off chance that one of these teachers might actually give useful knowledge during these two days, I would think it’s important that those kids do learn something. Why doesn’t he just close down all nonessential state government offices for a week? That’s gotta be about 80% of state employees, and if they’re not at work dreaming up new ways to spend my money, it might actually save the State quite a bit!
The response from Democrats is predictable:
Shortly after the governor’s announcement, Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for governor Cathy Cox strongly opposed the move in a statement. “Clearly, the governor didn’t consider the impact of this stunt on working Georgians,” she said. “He must not realize how much Georgia families will have to spend for last-minute child care alternatives for their children on Monday and Tuesday. What was he thinking?”
The meaning of that: “How can we use conservation and the environment as an issue if Perdue beat us to it? I know! We’ll call him insensitive to the poor working man, that always works!”
Oh well, it could be worse. We could be California.
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