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Letter: Last-minute school closure not appreciated

'Do our elected officials have a clue what closing a school without due notice does to parents?'
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The B.C. provincial government announced on Tuesday, Sept. 13 that schools would be closed the following Monday to observe a day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II.

Monday, Sept. 19 marked an official holiday in Canada to mourn for the Queen. Schools in B.C. were closed too.

Sorry, but what the ****? Do our elected officials have a clue what closing a school without due notice does to parents?

The assumption that parents can willy-nilly take time off or afford childcare shows how inherently thoughtless our leaders are.

Patrick Smyth // Whistler