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Close the School or Not?

Along with much of the East Coast, the Great Snowstorm of 2003 has caused poor roads around here and resulted in some of the local public school systems being closed for several days. Today, the temperature went to around 50, causing a lot of melting. Therefore, most of the school systems are opening tomorrow. But not School System H. SSH decided to remain closed tomorrow, and the local talk show host on radio ridiculed the situation. He says if that if we do that, then we need to send kids home when it rains because they might get wet, or not have school in the autumn because the falling leaves could attack the students. He said that ice is not melting at 56 degrees F in SSH. A caller said that she spun around 180 degrees twice when navigating roads in H. So which is it? Does H close the schools tomorrow or not? Note that if H does close the school, five days will be permanently lost.

To me this looks like a decision between opening the schools and having the kids become injured intellectuals, or keeping them closed and having them become safe idiots. So which is it, H? Injured intellectuals or safe idiots? I don't think I could decide that one.