There was no school and Nelson County today, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports it's because more than 200 staff suddenly took the day off.

In a letter to families, Superintendent Wesley Bradley said the district, quote, would not be able to safely and effectively deliver academic and operational experiences for students, end quote.

The paper reports students walked out of school yesterday.

Today in Bardstown, we found people voicing opposition to a decision made during Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting in a 3 to 2 vote.

The board voted to continue exploring a possible merger of two high schools.

Many in the community are split on that issue.

Harlan County has four high schools and what, 16,000 students?

We have four high schools in Nelson County with Bardstown and Balcombe in our two schools, and we're looking at less than one 8000 students.

We can't we can't function like this.

As taxpayers, we got to say, you know, we're going to give up our money, but let's be smart when we spend it.

So my my proposal would be to merge the high schools back together.

I just hope that if a vote is coming tonight in the future to merge two high schools back together, putting 1500 kids under one roof, that you can look these kids in the eye.

So if you vote to merge these high schools back together, that you can go to Thomas Nelson High School and Nelson County High School.

And look, these kids in the eyes and tell them that you did this because it's what was best for every single student.

We reached out to the Nelson County superintendent today, but he did not get back to us.