Schools need to give MORE than a few hours notice!

Its crass stupidity not to. It maybe only a Cat1 storm but if its due to hit Tuesday why oh why open on Monday?

Get your heads out of the sand School Board!

Remember some years back when a hurricane was on the way and Dan White refused to make a cancellation announcement?

11 PM the night before he still stubbornly said there would be school. It wasn't until 5 AM the next morning that he finally conceded that perhaps school should be cancelled. At that point it really didn't matter, because people had evacuated and the teachers and students weren't going to go in anyway.

Let's see how Collier handles it. What do you want to bet that if it arrives Tues. AM as a tropical storm, that we'll still have school? It's not a "hurricane", so send them in!

Are these guys idiots or what? This storm is slated to come early Tuesday and who knows what will happen.

Miami-Dade is closing schools on Monday
Monroe County is closing schools on Monday.

Collier Schools which is in the dam cone of probability is open for schools tomorrow! Unbelievable.

I guess parents will have to make the big decision. Send them to school ...Don't them them to school.

Why do we need to rely on someone else to raise our kids. If the school is open. it is your responsibility to decide to send them or not.

Broward has closed it's schools as well. Guess we know better out here.

#3 collier schools open for students om tuesday

One thing to consider is that EMS won't respond in winds over 40 mph.

Regardless of whether it's a storm or hurricane, obviously if the winds are greater than 40 we can't send students to school. It's predicted to be at least 58 from what I heard.

So typical of CCPS to wait to announce the obvious.

Just taking care of our people here in Collier!

Bend over and back in!

Especially since the first day is always chaotic...buses run late, children get left.....smoothe move James.

Broward County's decision is dumb - especially since they aren't even in a tropical storm warning or hurricane watch at last report...

talk about overreaction -

if the weather isn't supposed to turn for the worse until Monday night/Tuesday morning, there's no reason to keep kids out of school Monday...especially for those of us parents who cannot take off work tomorrow to sit home with our kids for no reason. if the weather was supposed to turn bad Sunday night, then I could see canceling school Monday -

Hey don't ya think that if they can make the school a shelter it would be the safest place for the kids...DUH!!.. I know all you parents want them out, ya gotta pay the mortgage and if your employer is open then it's better that the school acts as the sitter, it's been a long summer!!!!

I agree with the comment above posted by justobserving2, and I don't even have kids. This is SWFL. People need to get used to the fact that hurricanes happen... even if there are none for 40 years and then the new pattern brings one every year. I am not saying we should endanger children, families or staff in any way but on the other hand jumping the gun does no good. This storm is predicted to strike Tuesday or possibly even Wednesday (depending on models, etc). People should be prepared but life does go on until the threat arrives in our vicinity.

i think having school open is a bad idea. You all know me as an optimist but, you never know what can happen with these storms. anyway, i wouldn't have my child at school with what Wilma did last year...at the last second turned Cat2 when all thought it was going to be a tropical storm