[presidio9]

Teachers traveling a far distance in nasty weather are factored in, too

Same problem. Teachers have lawyers too.

[ShadowDancer]

But, not every school is a public school. The rule of thumb used by the principal where my kids go to school is this: Nasty weather is being called for. He waits until the last possible minute to cancel and generally goes on whether the teacher who lives farthest away (she lives an hour drive in good conditions and drives a 4 X 4 and will drive through all sorts of garbage) feels she can make it in safely. As a rule, school is almost never cancelled because of weather. He did mess up bad on it once this year and I had my kids all day because of it and I wanted to kill him for it but that is a rare exception and a whole 'nother therapy session.