Where is the Superintendent of the Moore ISD to give an explanation of why his district did not dismiss at 1:00 PM as the OKC schools did? In the last week of school, nothing that crucial is being done that it should cost he injury and death of those children. There should be consequences for this wrong-headed decision.
OKC weathermen, headed by the Dean of Tornado Warnings, Gary England, know when to sound the alarm about incoming weather there. They should ALWAYS be obeyed because they are 99% correct.
It makes me wonder too, because does not the southern, southwestern schools get out first for the summer by Memorial Day?
Dismiss to where? To go home only to be killed or injured as that F5 ripped the house apart?
Would dismissal at 1:00 pm had those children on the road or going to homes where there were no parents? They may have thought the storm was too imminent to send the buses out.
What about drills did they have such things during the school year? Was someone supposed to shut off the water and electricity and gas during this coming storm? I’m just asking questions ....
We know people who tried to get their children out of the school 25 minutes before it was demolished. There’s no excuse for not releasing the children to those parents who showed up in time. The schools do not own the children, and parents should have both the ultimate authority and responsibility for their children.
That said, this discussion isn’t going to help anyone right now. There will be plenty of time later to hold the school leadership responsible. As for the individual teachers, it appears they heroically did everything possible to protect the children.
There should be consequences for this wrong-headed decision.
In time past these were called Acts of God. Our insurance policies even referred to this. We used to get angry with God for these things but that was ok, He could handle it and direct us to the truth.
Act of God is a legal term[1] for events outside of human control, such as sudden floods or other natural disasters, for which no one can be held responsible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God