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My question is why the fuck the parents thought sending their child to school by himself during flash flooding was a good idea?
The parents may have already gone to work, or they trusted the school to notify them if classes were cancelled.
Kind of hard to know unless the parents say. Maybe it would be good not to blame them without proof.
I believe the parents have a bigger responsibility for the child's safety than the school. The school should obviously have shut down, but in the end, the parents are the people who are supposed to keep the child safe, not some strangers. And I don't care wether the parents had already gone to work. If you live in a place where flash flooding can occour, you know the risk is there after strong storms. If the school is expected to know it was a risk, the parents should damn well know aswell.
Parents have to base their decisions on the available information from trusted sources. One assumes they would consider the school district a trusted source. It's very possible that they didn't imagine that the district would actually put their child in danger like this.
While the parents certainly now wish they had ignored the schools decision to hold classes, it's not really their fault at all that they didn't.
I don't think there's enough information to blame them but there's also not enough to absolve them completely like that. If they were working you would think they would see how bad the weather and flooding was on their way to work or something and think, hey, maybe Johnny shouldn't be walking in this?
The bus stop can be up to 1/4 mile away from the kids' house so it could have looked fine to walk to the bus from a weather perspective, but the route to the stop was the dangerous area.