Stupid ice and snow

Though we didn't really get any bad weather, there were some icy road conditions this morning. As a result, the powers that be decided that school would open at 10:00 this morning. Normally I'd be tickled at any school delay, but the 10:00 starting time hung me up. See, our class schedule runs 8:00-9:15, 9:30-10:45, 11:00-12:15, etc. Given that, what does opening at 10:00 mean? Was I supposed to meet from 10:00-10:45 with my class or do classes resume on the normal schedule at 11:00? I didn't know and I couldn't find anyone who did. The consensus seemed to be that we should have class from 10:00-10:45 IF ANYONE SHOWED UP. There's the rub. At 10:00 I had 4 students in class. Was I supposed to have class for 45 minutes and leave the other 85% of the class behind or was I to tell the 4 who showed up, "Thanks for coming, but go home now." Though I hated to, I basically took the latter approach. They did so poorly on test 1, I didn't want to do anything that would put them even further behind.

ARGH, stupid cancellation policy!