{"id":12289,"date":"2012-08-27T17:06:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T21:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=12289"},"modified":"2012-08-28T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:04:53","slug":"why-schools-didnt-re-open-post-isaac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/27\/why-schools-didnt-re-open-post-isaac\/","title":{"rendered":"When Should Districts Announce School Closures During a Storm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12302\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/27\/why-schools-didnt-re-open-post-isaac\/isaacs-path\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12302\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12302\" title=\"Isaac's path\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/Isaacs-path-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/Isaacs-path-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/Isaacs-path.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">National Hurricane Center<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The projected path of Tropical Storm Isaac.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A lot of Florida students got to stay home from school today because of Tropical Storm Isaac &#8212; even though it didn&#8217;t strongly affect many parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>In South Florida, rain and wind was pretty light, but districts made the decision on Saturday to cancel school today.<\/p>\n<p>Should they have reopened schools once Isaac made its way north?<\/p>\n<p>Parents and students took to social media saying some districts jumped the gun. But others appreciated the precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our Storify after the jump, and read why one school district made the decision to cancel classes early on.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/storify.com\/WLRN\/why-schools-didn-t-re-open-post-isaac<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>When should districts make the decision to close school?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and students have taken to social media. Some say schools waited too long to announce school closures. Others say districts jumped the gun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1180],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12293,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions\/12293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}