...not to mention consultations with the individual parent's attorneys.

Conservative faculty that sees nothing wrong with these kids wearing magahats!

The alt right bottom feeders like Jack Posobiec, Cassandra Fairbanks, Gateway Pundit and Charlie Kirk have been calling the parents (they claim) and hooking them up with lawyers to sue the media and any Twitter user who threatened the students. They claim the school is closed because of death threats from liberals. Pushing the outrage is getting them a lot of page clicks and attention. Cassandra's being interviewed on a Catholic radio show on Sirius. They'll probably keep this going for a good while.

Northern Kentucky probably got a few inches, then the temperature fell to 16 degrees or below. That's plenty enough for most schools in Kentucky to call off classes for a day.

the ground or when temperatures fall in the teens or single digits.

But what about the community these kids terrorize? Who will protect us from them?

Sometimes it is hard to tell. I was hoping the poster would clarify.

All-white beforehand.

comes to shove, the snarky little pricks hide under their beds. When facing something other than a solitary old man, crapping themselves is the order of the day I guess.

Did the diocese express any request for concern for the old man?

Standard advice. Also, divert from the main story whenever possible to shift attention to "risks." Standard disaster recovery PR stuff.

Or should they have had school instead?

It's about the only advice they can give at the moment. Generally, after a few days, the furor over most things cools down. A few days also gives you time to construct a plausible story that benefits your position, instead of speaking quickly and, perhaps, unwisely.

PR disaster recovery teams have just one job: minimize the long-term damage from a situation that makes their client look bad. Sometimes the standard PR strategies of diversion and delay work pretty well. Other times, they backfire badly and the PR firm gets replaced with another one.

What I think will not matter at all. I'm just an observer of this mess. It's not a comfortable position for the Diocese of Covington to be in, nor for the school administration. Some heads will, no doubt roll, at the school. Corrective action must be seen to have been taken.

There it is.