When I was a public school teacher in a small Maine town, we had an intense snowstorm that shut the region down for days.

School was closed for two days. On the third day, my district, alone among the others, decided to open.

The roads weren’t safe. I will never forget the drive in that morning — twenty minutes of intense concentration on a winding road that was already notoriously dangerous and didn’t appear to have been treated with salt.

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