Northeast Ohio school closings for Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022; Cleveland, other major districts cancel classes
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Hundreds of school districts have canceled classes for Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, as Northeast Ohio continues to dig out from a winter storm that dumped more than a foot of snow on much of the region.
City school districts in Cleveland, Akron and Canton all have canceled classes. Cleveland State University, Kent State University and Cuyahoga Community College also will not have classes on Tuesday.
A list of school closings is below. For a more extensive lists that includes daycare centers, church events, charter schools, and smaller parochial schools, go to WKYC Channel 3 or WEWS Channel 5. All of the schools on the list have canceled classes unless otherwise noted.
Akron City Schools
Akron Preparatory School
Alliance City Schools
Archbishop Hoban High School
Ashtabula County Career and Tech Center
Assumption Academy
Auburn Career Center
Aurora City Schools
Barberton City Schools
Benedictine High School
Berea City Schools
Berkshire Local Schools
Bethel Christian Academy
Bio-Med Science Academy
Brecksville-Broadview Heights
Broadmoor School (Lake County)
Broadway Academy (Cuyahoga County)
Brooklyn City Schools
Brunswick City Schools
Buckeye Local School District (Ashtabula County)
Canton City Schools
Canton College Preparatory School
Canton Local Schools
Cardinal Local Schools
Chardon Local Schools
Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy
Cleveland Central Catholic High School
Cleveland College Prep School
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Cleveland State University
Cloverleaf Local School District
Conneaut Area City Schools
Copley-Fairlawn City School District
Cornerstone Christian School (Lake County)
Coventry Local Schools
Crestwood Local Schools
Cuyahoga Falls City Schools
Cuyahoga Heights Local Schools
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center Adult Education
Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy
Cuyahoga Community College
East Cleveland City Schools
Fairless Local Schools
Fairport Harding High School
Field Local Schools
Garfield Heights City Schools
Geneva Area City Schools
Grand Valley Local Schools
Green Local Schools
Highland Local Schools
Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School
Hudson City Schools
Jackson Local Schools
James Garfield Local Schools
Jefferson Area Local Schools
Kenston Local Schools
Kent City Schools
Kent State University (Portage County)
Kent State University (Ashtabula and Stark counties)
Lake Catholic High School
Lakeland Community College (all campuses)
Lake Local Schools
Lakewood City Schools
Louisville City Schools
Lutheran East High School
Lutheran West High School
Madison Local Schools
Magnificat High School
Manchester Local Schools
Maple Heights City Schools
Maplewood Career Center Joint Vocational School District
Marlington Local Schools
Massillon City Schools
Medina City Schools
Mentor Exempted Village Schools
Minerva Local Schools
Mogadore Local Schools
New London Local Schools (two-hour delay)
Nordonia Hills City Schools
North Canton City Schools
North Royalton City Schools
North Shore High School
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Northwest Local Schools
Notre Dame - Cathedral Latin School
Ohio College Preparatory School
Our Lady of Mt Carmel West - Cleveland
Our Lady of the Lake School
Padua Franciscan High School
Painesville City Schools
Parma City Schools
Perry Local Schools (Lake County)
Perry Local Schools (Stark County)
Portage Lakes Career Center
Pymatuning Valley Local Schools
Ravenna School District
Revere Local Schools
Riverside Local Schools (Painesville)
Rootstown Local Schools
Sandy Valley Local Schools
Southeast Local SD - PortagePortage County
Springfield Local Schools
Stark State College
St. Augustine
St. Barnabas Elementary
St. Benedict Catholic School
St. Charles Borromeo Elementary
St. Columbkille School
St. Francis - Cleveland
St. Gabriel School (Lake County)
St. Ignatius Elementary
St. Jerome Elementary
St. Joan of Arc Elementary - Chagrin Falls
St. John Lutheran School
St. John School (Ashtabula County)
St. Joseph - Mogadore
St. Mark Elementary
St. Mary Byzantine Elementary
St. Mary Elementary (Chardon)
St. Mary of the Assumption Elementary (Lake County)
Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools
Streetsboro City Schools
St. Rocco Elementary
Strongsville City Schools
St. Sebastian Elementary
Sts. Joseph & John Interparochial
Sts. Robert & William Elementary
St. Stanislaus Elementary
St. Thomas More Elementary
St. Vincent-St. Mary High School
Tallmadge City Schools
Trinity High School
University of Cleveland Preparatory School
Urban Community School
Villa Angela-St Joseph High School
Wadsworth City Schools
Walsh Jesuit High School
Waterloo Local Schools
West Geauga Local Schools
Wickliffe City Schools
Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools
Woodridge Local Schools
Greater Rochester area businesses, school closings and delays Jan. 17, 2022
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NY Mag: Progressives ‘quietly’ starting to accept closing schools was ‘historic blunder’
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The progressive left might be catching on to the possibility that prolonged school closings amid the coronavirus pandemic was a “catastrophic mistake” that hurt America’s kids, one writer argues.
“Many liberals are complaining that the recent debates over short-term closings are creating a hysterical overreaction from people still angry about the 2020-21 school shutdown,” liberal New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait wrote. “Perhaps a first step to building trust that we are not planning to repeat a catastrophic mistake is to admit the mistake in the first place.”
Even though Democrats continue to dub those against closing schools as “neoliberal ghouls carrying out the bidding of the billionaire class,” Chait said, he hinted that progressives may be ready to surrender without a sound.
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“Most progressives aren’t insisting on refighting the school closing wars,” he said. “They just want to quietly move on without anybody admitting anybody did anything wrong.”
Chait reacted to statistician Nate Silver’s tweet suggesting that keeping kids out of school was a historic blunder on par with invading Iraq, infuriating liberals who decried reopening schools as reckless.
“The furnace-hot backlash seemed to be triggered by Silver’s assumption that school closings were not only a mistake — a possibility many progressives have quietly begun to accept — but an error of judgment that was sufficiently consequential and foreseeable that we can’t just shrug it off as a bad dice roll,” he wrote. “It was a historic blunder that reveals some deeper flaw in the methods that produced it and which demands corrective action.”
Chait made clear that it is “indisputable and almost undisputed” that virtual schooling had grave consequences on students. According to Chait and various studies, students on average were left six months behind pace and nearly a million kids dropped out altogether. School closings had a particularly negative effect on poorer children and minorities.
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Perhaps the most significant consequence of socially isolating kids, he mentioned, has been the developing mental health crisis, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
“The damage to a generation of children’s social development and educational attainment, and particularly to the social mobility prospects of its most marginalized members, will be irrecoverable,” he said.
The writer flagged how pulling kids from classrooms did not have much of an effect on containing coronavirus spread, being that children face little risk to their health upon contracting the virus and there’s “almost no evidence” of increased community spread in towns that kept schools open.
But despite this evidence, even at the very beginning of the pandemic, Chait shared the “truly disturbing” reality that the left rejected the truth and were instead swayed by a zero-COVID policy and loyalty to teachers unions.
“Those strands combined into a refusal to acknowledge the scale or importance of losing in-person learning with a moralistic insistence that anybody who disagreed was callous about death or motivated by greed,” he said. “The Democratic Party’s internal debate on school closings was making room at the table for some truly unhinged ideas.”
As an example of the left’s “transparently irrational” thinking on the topic, Chait mentioned how the head of Los Angeles’ most powerful teachers union, Cecily Myart-Cruz, insisted “there is no such thing as learning loss” and called plans to reopen schools “a recipe for propagating structural racism.”
Rising Covid cases also contributing to school closings
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Rising Covid cases also contributing to school closings
UPDATE: “Due to a spike in COVID-19 numbers in our school system, students will have a Remote Learning Day on Tuesday, January 18. Teachers will be available via email. Schools and administrative offices will be closed.” — Whitfield County Schools
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – While concerns over lingering snow and ice in the mountains have caused many school system to either close, delay or move to virtual learning on Tuesday.
But that’s not the only reason.
The combination of a long holiday weekend (MLK Day) and rising illnesses also are playing a factor.
In fact, Chattanooga Christian is closing their campus through Wednesday, saying they are seeing a rise in Covid cases among students and staff.
And Hamilton County is saying illness and weather are both playing a part in their decision to close on Tuesday.
“Some higher elevation roads and school parking lots pose a safety issue and the added day will provide relief to schools experiencing high cases of COVID among students and staff. We urge families and staff to be mindful of any potential symptoms during this time and if you are experiencing symptoms please get tested and be symptom free for 48 hours before returning to school.”
Knox County schools to our north are shutting down on Tuesday because of staffing issues created by various illnesses.
You can see our current list of closings, delays and virtual classes here on the website.
Multiple local school districts close schools Tuesday due to weather
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Multiple local school districts have announced schools will be closed Tuesday due to weather.
Buffalo Public Schools changed its position on going ahead with classes Tuesday late Monday evening and posted an alert to its website that read: “After further consultation with the Board and the Mayor, the District has reconsidered its decision to open schools tomorrow in the interest of staff and student safety.”
The district’s central offices are also closed and all after-school activities are canceled as well.
All Niagara Falls City School District schools and Head Start will be closed Tuesday due to inclement weather, according to an announcement on the district’s website.
Brian Graham, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools in the Grand Island Central School District, announced all schools would be closed Tuesday. After school events such as athletic practices, contests, musical rehearsal and the vaccine clinic will continue as planned.
Due to the significant snow fall on Grand Island and the amount of work required to clear out our buses, schools will be closed tomorrow. After school events such as athletic practices, contests, musical rehearsal and the vaccine clinic will continue as planned. @GrandIslandCSD — BrianSGraham, Ed.D. (@BrianSGraham) January 17, 2022
North Tonawanda police announced all North Tonawanda City Schools will be closed Tuesday.
Schools in the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District will be closed Tuesday, according to an announcement on the district’s website. “Due to the anticipated high winds and additional snow forecasted by the National Weather Service through 10:00 am tomorrow, all schools and school related activities will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, January 18. Please stay safe,” the website says.
7 News will work to keep this list updated as possible but you can track the latest closings and delays here.