Early this morning, with temperatures outside in the teens and arctic air blowing across Baltimore, students, teachers and parents rolled over in bed and checked online to discover what, to many, came as horrible news:

Baltimore City Public Schools were opening on time.

Unlike pretty much every other jurisdiction and every private school in the region that delayed the start of school by two hours, city schools were on a regular schedule.

“It’s 16 degrees outside. It is cold. 16. Probably icy & I know sidewalks not clear,” one of scores of angry people said on Twitter. “Y’all couldn’t give us a two-hour delay?”

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE