Public schools in Medford, Massachusetts will shut their doors on Good Friday, 3 April, after district officials said they could not find enough staff to operate safely, a last‑minute decision that has angered parents and carers who now face scrambling for childcare on what many assumed would be a normal school day.
The Medford district announced on Tuesday that all public schools would be closed on Good Friday because of staffing shortages. The move came just days before the holiday, despite Good Friday's date being fixed in the school calendar, and it immediately forced families to reorganise work shifts, childcare arrangements and holiday plans. Officials have not detailed the precise scale of the staffing problem, but have framed it as a shortage serious enough to make keeping schools open impractical.
