Worcester prepping for snowday

WORCESTER, Mass. — Friday will be the third of five scheduled snow days in Worcester.

The superintendent says she is not taking any chances with the weather report that is supposed to get worse throughout the day.

“It would be getting icier as the day goes on and we would not be able to get them home safely,” said Worcester superintendent Maureen Binienda.

Parents in the state’s second-largest school district have also seen that weather report.

“In Worcester, there’s a lot of hills and there’s some danger with buses and there is a risk,” said parent Eric Wallace.

MassDOT says it cannot pretreat the roads for the ice and snow because the expected rain will just wash it away, so everything it does will have to be reactionary.

That’s why Worcester’s superintendent made the call at the end of Thursday’s school day, without concern about days already missed.

“We have not had any COVID days in the Worcester public schools,” said Binienda. “So we still have two more and I actually don’t even think about how many days left we have when we get a weather report like we read.”

MassDOT says once the ice begins to form, you should assume any wet pavement is ice.

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