Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue asked the state’s schools to take two “early snow days” and cancel classes Monday and Tuesday to help conserve gasoline as Hurricane Rita threatens the nation’s fuel supply line.

Damn, they’ll do anything in this state not to teach kids. Considering that Georgia TIED for last place with South Carolia in SAT scores, you’d think that they wouldn’t let the kids out of school for ANYTHING. But no, they cancel school at the hint of gas shortage. Ironically it was announced on a day when the kids only had a half day. All it managed to do in Savannah was create a short gas panic as people feared the worst. Meanwhile, Rita didn’t do as much damage as feared.

I’m trying to find a good argument for doing this, but it just seems silly and short sighted, unless the governor is trying to make up for money spent elsewhere. Even still, this is a crappy way to do it.