Schools will be flying without a net after using the final bad weather day this past Thursday due to flooding conditions.

“I think we may have been able to get them to school but if it kept raining, we may not have been able to get them home,” said Director of Schools Patrick Cripps on the decision to cancel schools Thursday.

The Director said he and others took the roads early Thursday morning and found some such as Seven Springs and Blue Springs covered with water and several others on the brink of flooding.

“It just wouldn’t have been a safe condition,” Cripps admitted.

With the cancellation, DeKalb County has no more bad weather days left.

“We hope and pray we don’t have to use any more days,” Cripps said, pointing out the season for most snow and cold related weather is nearly at an end, leaving things like flooding and other spring-weather issues as the primary threat.

However, should there be a need to cancel school again this school year, Cripps suspects those days will be added to the end of the school year.

“Some people say Spring Break, but there’s a lot of families who already have plans for vacation on Spring Break so we don’t want to interrupt those,” Cripps said. “It would be a board decision but I think adding days to the end of the school year would be the best choice.”