No, of course not, but the people in charge of the schools should have considered closing early. They do that for snow, so why on earth wouldn’t they consider it for something as drastic as a tornado?
The problem when you live in a tornado alley is that almost all the warning result in little or nothing happening.
After a while, you tend to get complacent if you haven’t actually been through one hitting your immediate area.
It wouldn't be closing early because of a tornado, it would be because of being in an area of millions of square miles that MIGHT have a few tornadoes in it that damage a few square miles of it.
In my high school, college and young adult days, I spent eight years in Oklahoma. Had countless tornado watches and a few warnings. Never had a tornado come closer than 10 miles to me. It’s a very random kind of event. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are hosed. But the odds of getting hosed are fairly low.
The weather forecasters said there was barely 60 minutes from clear skies to an EF-5 tornado. Hardly enough time to do anything but take immediate shelter.
Channel 9 reporter has been told there are 30-40 little bodies in the Plaza Tower school. News anchor says he hopes the source is incorrect.
The problem is these tornadoes pop up out of nowhere and you don’t know where they’re headed until the last minute. Parents can pick their kids up anytime they wish so you’re blaming them, too? Releasing kids early would take time to get their parents there and you’d have kids on buses and walking home. Which do you want, kids inside the school building or walking home?