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Parents ask Moore County Schools to review daycare weather-closure policy after preemptive shutdowns
Summary
A parent representing families using the Baby Bulls Academy at McNeese Creek Elementary asked the Moore County Board of Education to require a transparent, site-specific review of weather-closure policies for school-based, year-round childcare, saying preemptive closings are causing job and financial harm.
Jessica Arno, a parent of a child enrolled at the Baby Bulls Academy at McNeese Creek Elementary, told the Moore County Schools Board of Education on Aug. 11 that families who rely on year‑round, full‑day, tuition‑based childcare are being harmed when programs on school campuses close preemptively for weather without local, site‑level assessment. "In a county where 70% of children live in homes where all available adults work, these closures are more than inconvenient. They're costly and destabilizing," Arno said during public comment.
Arno said Baby Bulls recently revised its handbook to mirror the K‑12 calendar language on closures and that the program — which families self‑transport and…
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