In a note to people other than myself, Superintendent of Schools Phyllis Edwards expresses her concern about the gas shortage’s impact on schools.  But this has nothing to do with getting students to school on buses, which according to her note still have the needed fuel to get around our 5-square mile city, but teachers and staff.

Apparently over half of Decatur’s school staff live outside the zip, and are concerned about getting to work if gas doesn’t become more freely available soon.  Now this point might now be moot (since gas lines are getting shorter) but the crisis has got CSD thinking more about conservation and Edwards announces the following…

• a car-pooling list for staff
• completely shutting all schools down during the 4 day Columbus Day holiday weekend
• working with neighborhood gas stations to get school staff the gas they need
• looking at the future possibility of a 4-day workweek school year schedule (especially during the summer)

Oh man, that last one is going to go over like a lead balloon. I can see the headline now…”Unsupervised Kids Take Over City Hall.  Demand Jake’s Ice Cream in Return for Unharmed City Staffers”