A RETURN TO TRADITIONAL SNOW DAYS IN IOWA.

As of this morning, the government schools are back in session.  Note the way in which that came to pass.

[Iowa governor Kim] Reynolds has allowed schools to offer a hybrid plan where 50 percent of their instruction had to be in-person and the other half could be online. But she made returning students to the classroom full-time a priority when she delivered her Condition of the State address in January. The GOP-controlled legislature was swift in getting her a bill to sign.

“It’s unconscionable to think about their social-emotional well-being and to think to not have access to behavioral health,” Reynolds said after signing the bill on Jan. 29. “We have a responsibility to make sure these kids have a safe environment to learn in.”

Now, all school districts will have the option to send their kids to school or have them learn completely online.

It matters less to me what the current policies are, or whether the lockdown scolds -- and, as I got the article from an Iowa public radio affiliate, you know the lockdown scolds get most of the coverage -- don't like them.  It matters more to me that the governor and the legislature worked together to change the quarantines, and share the responsibility for what comes next.  Which will probably still be better than the outcome in Illinois.