Parents Respond to JCPS Back to School After Winter Storm

On January 14, 2025By Littum

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – JCPS students returned to the classroom Monday with a two-hour delayed start due to concerns about snowy sidewalks and side streets.

Parents dropping off children at Shelby Elementary School had mixed opinions about returning to school, as did Amy Hamby, who is dropping off her third-grade daughter.

“In this kind of weather, I don’t think they should have had school today. It is so wrong,” she said.

Hamby said her daughter wasn’t looking forward to school returning either.

“She’s terrified for the day,” Hamby said. “We had a slip on the way out the door.”

Hamby said she had a less than ideal time to come to school.

“The side streets are terrible. This is bad. I was detoured on the way here. I live five minutes from here,” she said.

On the other hand, Roger Parrott, who takes his twin grandchildren to the same school, had a different take.

“It doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better, so they’re going to have to go back for a while,” Parrott said. “It was rough getting off the side streets, but all the main streets were good. It went better than I thought it would.”

Both said the two-hour delay did not disrupt their daily schedules.

As for buses, JCPS said they were about 30 minutes slower than normal Monday.

JCPS announced Monday afternoon that students would return to normal class schedules on Tuesday.