Five days off in two weeks for public school students. Private schools in session.

BY: STAFF REPORT | BocaNewsNow.com

BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2024 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — For the fourth time in four days and the fifth time in two weeks, Palm Beach County Public Schools are closed again today. This time it is Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day. We tell you that because the public school kids certainly aren’t around enough to learn what the holidays are and why they are celebrated, since education is apparently secondary to holidays in Palm Beach County.

For those of you not playing the home game, or should we say “stay at home” game, the Palm Beach Couty public schools are closed due to Hurricane Helene, which was nothing. Then the school district closed again on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday due to Hurricane Milton, which did cause some power outages in very small parts of Palm Beach County, but certainly not widespread power outages. The damage – and it was minimal damage – was limited to a very small part of the province.

Parents, and we mean a lot of parents, have contacted BocaNewsNow.com suggesting that the Palm Beach County School District divide the county into two operating units. North and South. That way, children in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Lake Worth Beach and nearby communities won’t miss school when bad things happen in the northern and northwestern parts of the area. And conversely, if something bad happens in Boca, Delray, Boynton or other nearby areas, children in the Glades and other rural parts of PBC won’t miss school.

We note that area private schools Pine Crest and St. Andrew’s are also closed due to the hurricanes. But American Heritage, which has more National Honor Society semifinalists than any other school in Florida, held mandatory virtual learning while all other schools were closed. The good news: The American Heritage children will need employees for their future companies.

All private schools in the area – including American Heritage, Pine Crest, St. Andrew’s and North Broward Prep – are open today.