(Fairview Park) – The majority of schools in Greater Cleveland had a snow day on Tuesday, but what about those few districts that still opened their doors?
Fairview Park City Schools is one district that still had classes Tuesday, and superintendent Dr. Bill Wagner says it all comes down to a lot of factors when he makes the decision as whether or not to declare a snow day.
Every time the weather’s bad, Wagner says he consults with other superintendents, drives city streets, and checks out sidewalks. Wagner also goes to weatherunderground.com, where he can get localized, constantly changing weather information.
According to Wagner, there are cases when weather patterns are so specific that Fairview Park may have less snow than Rocky River, Westlake or North Olmsted. He said there was one time this year that a weather pattern changed so that it buried Fairview Park in snow, but if the wind had been in a different direction, snowfall would have been minimal.