According to the Humboldt County Office of Education most Humboldt County schools have elected to close today due to the tsunami warning.
The list shows no response from Bridgeville and Kneeland schools, officials assume this is probably because they were scheduled to attend a Math Fair today at Arcata High, which has been cancelled.
Here’s the list:
Arcata School District – Closed
Big Lagoon Union School District – Closed
Blue Lake Union School District – Closed
Bridgeville School District – No answer
Cuddeback Union School District – Open
Cutten School District – Closed
Eureka City Schools – Closed
Ferndale Unified School District – Open
Fieldbrook School District – Open
Fortuna Union Elementary School District – Open
Fortuna Union High School District – Closed
Freshwater School District – Closed
Garfield School District- Closed
Green Point School District – Field Trip – AHS
Hydesville School District – Closed
Jacoby Creek School District – Closed
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District – Open
Kneeland School District – No Answer
Loleta Union School District – Closed
Maple Creek School District – Closed
Mattole Unified School District – Open
McKinleyville Union School District – Closed
Northern Humboldt Union High School District – Open
Orick School District – Closed
Pacific Union School District – Closed
Peninsula Union School District – Closed
Rio Dell School District – Open
Rohnerville School District – Closed
Scotia Union School District – Closed
South Bay Union School District – Closed
Southern Humboldt Unified School District – Open
Trinidad Union School District – Closed
HCOE – Closed
Del Norte Office of Education – Closed
This article appears in Probing Tools.
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What was HSU thinking?
As the Superintendent of Eureka City Schools said on the news on TV, the important thing was NOT to have students (and staff) “in transport” during the Tsunami Evacuation time period.
HSU had announcements on its website about the HSU campus being up out of the Tsunami zone — but that is not the point! It is unconscionable that HSU had classes in session on Friday while all other schools were closed! Not only did students and staff and faculty feel obligated to make the trip to school – where they might have gotten stranded and possibly unable to return home – but also, that put thousands of people out on the roads potentially in the way of law enforcement and first responders. Some students and staff were certainly evacuated in the wee morning hours and displaced from their homes – only to find out that not only were they not allowed to return home yet, but they were expected to go to work or attend classes that day!
I can NOT believe HSU did not cancel classes. It would have been tragic if even just one student or just one staff member had been “washed away” off of Highway 101 because of being in the wrong place at the wrong time while trying to get to school that day. We were so fortunate about the timing of the low tides and all that, but the level of damage that ended up not happening was not something anyone could be certain of at 6am or 7am – the time when people would have been leaving for school. Those individual students who, for safety and sanity decided not to make the trip to HSU were unfairly penalized.