Jeez, from all the whining and sniveling about having school during last week's snow flurries you would have thought this region got some actual snowfall (yes, if it's less that six inches, it's flurries, not a snowstorm). What a bunch of prissy losers! The roads were fine, at least for me and anyone else with a smidgen of intelligence and some first year driver's skills ("Baltimore flunks basic snowmanship," Jan. 6). My son's school, Gilman, didn't even open late. And guess what? It was no problem whatsoever. All you had to do was drive like the ground was wet from a light rain. Even the roads that hadn't been salted at all, like the one I live on, were fine as long as you slowed down. Not rocket science, people.
As far as I can tell, the problem isn't the roads or the plows or the salt. The problem is people from Baltimore can't drive. I don't know if they're just plain stupid or if they simply have no understanding of something my son mastered at age 5. Either way, the vast majority of Baltimorons are incompetent behind the wheel and ought to be required to take intensive remedial driver training.
And don't close the schools because parents are morons. If they can't drive properly, make them walk to school.
William Smith, Baltimore