Here's an interesting editorial on Perdue's decision to close the schools. I'm glad that the author pointed out the disconnect from the suggestion that the workers telecommute, and the reality of many worker's lives. I was reading When Affirmative Action was White, and one thing that I learned from it was to always monitor the proposed implementation of legislation. One chapter of this book deals with the GI Bill. The author argues that even though the GI Bill was written as a color blind bill, the fact that local authorities were in charge of implementing it caused many of the benefits to denied to blacks. One example that he uses is schooling. Many qualified blacks were denied higher education because there were simply not enough spots in black only schools. This is an important thing to keep in mind because there is often a disconnect between what seems like a good idea at the top, and how it is actually carried out, and that bad implementation can often hurt a good idea.