What About The Parents

Dear Ann Proctor,

I realize that you think virtually all of Camden County is behind the Wild Cat football team. And I would agree with you on that statement. Yet not all of Camden County works for you. I would say that a lot of people who support the Cats don't work for you, and don't have the time or money to find a babysitter so the school can close for a football game. I am not saying that you should not close the school, but this would have been a day some parents would have had to taken off to watch their kids. It is easy to say I can't come in to work because school is closed due to bad weather or a water main break, but here in the real world you can't go to your boss and say I need Friday off as the school is closed for a football game. All I ask is that for next year lets have some place to take the kids, whose parents don't work you, were they can be safe. Let's face it every year we get a last minute memo, or as is the case this year a letter to the editor. That letter was directed toward every employee of yours yet not one mention of the parents. I ask do you and the board realize your job is to work for the parents and children. If only you would make things this easy for us. We need to have a plan in place for next year so parents don't have to scramble around and find daycare with only a weeks notice.