The city of Hamilton has closed their schools this week for the cycling championships. Huh???? I don't get it. Why keep hundreds (maybe thousands) of kids at home and burden parents for the cost of extra day care while they are at work? Is it just the schools or did the whole city shut down? Has Stelco given their employees the week off to watch skinny men in spandex pedal up a hill? This whole situation confuses me. I'm sure that arrangements could have been made to keep the kids in school. My kids didn't get the week off when Vijay Singh was in town to play golf! The funniest thing is that my ex asked me if our kids were off school this week. He's in Hamilton...We're in Niagara - totally different school boards - and NO, a few cyclists in the steel city did not keep my kids from reading and arithmetic.