Originally Posted by Rochard

Of course they can.

If you told me my child had to attend school at a location that was directly in the path of three massive tornadoes in the past ten years, I would put my kid into a different school. Here where I live our kid is assigned to a school, but there is a lot of leeway as to what school they end up going to. If that's not enough, here we have charter schools. If all else fails, private school or home school them.

Yesterday on CNN they showed the track of the last three major tornadoes and all three of them were very similar. At this point it should be criminal to build a school without a large underground shelter. It's not a matter of "if" a tornado was going to hit that school, it was a matter of when.