[mware]

Farina announced Wednesday night that schools would remain open – despite a travel advisory urging people to stay off the roads.

She later defended the decision.

“If people can go to work, then kids can to school,” she told ABC. “Many of our kids don’t get a hot lunch and, in many cases breakfast, unless they go to school. So it’s still a parent’s decision whether they send their kids to school or not. My decision is where the kids are safest and the most taken care of, and the answer to that is in schools.”

[mware]

Saying the reason for going to school is to get a hot lunch is bad enough but the second part of the quote is even worse

. My decision is where the kids are safest and the most taken care of, and the answer to that is in schools.”

[kearnyirish2]

“Many of our kids don’t get a hot lunch and, in many cases breakfast, unless they go to school. So it’s still a parent’s decision whether they send their kids to school or not. My decision is where the kids are safest and the most taken care of, and the answer to that is in schools.”

The nanny state has always maintained that children are much safer in the hands of the state than parents, but a lot of these parents were off today. The schools were “open” just so they can reach their quota of school days; they could care less if no children showed up at all.