Protecting Students from Voters

The Grand Rapids Public Schools have announced that they'll be closing school on Election Day, both to make the buildings (where most polling places are located) more accessible to voters, and to keep students safer. I guess opening the schools to so many people poses a security problem, and sending the kids home for the day will protect them from the voters.

I only wish they could protect the students from the voters whenever there's a school millage renewal on the ballot. The "I don't have kids in the public schools" crowd, combined with the "no such thing as a bad tax cut" clan, are a clear and present danger to our school budgets... and society's kids.