MCPS closed for the day!
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The following Massachusetts schools have announced closures or delays. Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School -- Closed Wednesday Acton-Boxborough Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Advanced Math & Science Charter School -- Closed Wednesday Adams-Cheshire Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Agawam Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday American International College -- Opening delayed until 10:30 a.m. Amherst College -- Opening delayed until 11 a.m. Amherst Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Andover Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Anna Maria College -- Delayed opening Wednesday Ashburnham-Westminster Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Assabet Valley Regional Vocational School -- Closed Wednesday Assumption College -- Two-hour delay Wednesday Athol-Royalston School District -- Closed Wednesday Auburn Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Ayer-Shirley Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School -- Closed Wednesday Bay Path University -- Closed Wednesday Baystate Academy Charter Public School -- Closed Wednesday Becker College -- Closed Wednesday Belchertown Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Bellingham Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter -- Closed Wednesday Berkshire Community College -- Closed Wednesday Berkshire Country Day School -- Closed Wednesday Billerica Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Blackstone-Millville Public -- Closed Wednesday Blackstone Valley Regional Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Central Berkshire Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Blue Hills Regional Technical School -- Delayed 90-min. Wednesday Chelmsford Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Chicopee Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Clinton Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Carlisle Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Concord Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Diman Regional Vocational Tech High -- 90 minute delay Douglas Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Dracut Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Dudley-Charlton Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Easthampton Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday East Longmeadow Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Elms College -- Closed Wednesday Emma L. Miller Memorial School -- Closed Wednesday Erving Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Fall River Public Schools -- Two-hour delay Wednesday Farmington River Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Fitchburg Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Fitchburg State University -- Closed Wednesday Four Rivers Charter School -- Closed Wednesday Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School -- Closed Wednesday Franklin County Technical School -- Closed Wednesday Frontier Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Gabriel Abbott Memorial School -- Closed Wednesday Gardner Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Gateway Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Gill-Montague Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Grafton Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Granby Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Greater Lowell Technical -- Closed Wednesday Greenfield Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Groton Dunstable Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Hampden Charter School of Science -- Closed Wednesday Hadley Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Hampden-Wilbraham Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Hampshire College -- Closed Wednesday Hampshire Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Hancock Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Harvard Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Hatfield Schools -- Closed Wednesday Haverhill Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Hilltown Coop. Charter Public School -- Closed Wednesday Housatonic Academy -- Closed Wednesday Holyoke Community Charter School -- Closed Wednesday Holyoke Community College -- Closed Wednesday Holyoke Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Hopedale Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Hopkins Academy -- Closed Wednesday Hudson Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Lanesborough Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Lawrence Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Lee Public Schools -- Two-hour delay Wednesday Leicester Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Lenox Public Schools -- Two-hour delay Wednesday Leominster Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Leverett Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Lexington Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Littleton Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Longmeadow Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Lowell Community Charter Public School -- Closed Wednesday Lowell Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Ludlow Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Lunenburg Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Mahar Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Martin Luther King Charter School -- Closed Wednesday Mendon-Upton Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Methuen Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Middlesex Community College -- Closed Wednesday Milford Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Millbury Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School -- Closed Wednesday Mohawk Trail Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Monson Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School -- Closed Wednesday Mount Greylock Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Mount Holyoke College -- Opening delayed until noon Narragansett Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Nashoba Brooks School -- Closed Wednesday Nashoba Valley Technical High School -- Closed Wednesday New Salem-Wendell Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday North Adams Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday North Andover Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday North Brookfield Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday North Middlesex Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Northampton Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Northbridge Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Northern Berkshire Vocational School District -- Closed Wednesday Orange Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Oxford Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Palmer Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Pathfinder Vocational Technical School -- Closed Wednesday Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter -- Closed Wednesday Peabody Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Pentucket Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Petersham Center School -- Closed Wednesday Phoenix Charter Academy -- Closed Wednesday Pine Cobble School -- Two-hour delay Wednesday Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School -- Closed Wednesday Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School -- Closed Wednesday Pioneer Valley Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Pittsfield Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Quabbin Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Quaboag Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Quinsigamond Community College -- Closed Wednesday Richmond Consolidated -- Two-hour delay Shawseen Valley Technical High School -- Closed Wednesday Shrewsbury Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Shutesbury Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Smith College -- Closed Wednesday Smith Vocational High School -- Closed Wednesday South Hadley Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Southbridge Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Southwick-Tolland-Granville Schools -- Closed Wednesday Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Springfield Prep Charter School -- Closed Wednesday Springfield Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Springfield Technical Community College -- Closed Wednesday Sutton Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Tantasqua & Union 61 School Districts -- Closed Wednesday Tewksbury Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Tri-County School -- Closed Wednesday Tyngsborough Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday UMass Amherst -- Opening delayed until 11:30 a.m. UMass Lowell -- Closed Wednesday Union 38 School District -- Closed Wednesday Valley Collaborative -- Closed Wednesday Wachusett Regional School District -- Closed Wednesday Wakefield Public School -- Closed Wednesday Ware Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Webster Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday West Boylston Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday West Springfield Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Westfield Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Wilmington Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Williamstown Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Winchendon Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Whittier Vocational School -- Closed Wednesday Woburn Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Worcester Public Schools -- Closed Wednesday Worcester State University -- Closed Wednesday |
Anonymous
PP you responded to. Not well, I agree, but people should take a small measure of responsibility for themselves. I'm a worry-wart. I wouldn't want students out and about on sheets of ice. But today was ridiculous. There was hardly any ice at all, even in the areas that HAD ice. And while we're at it, I wish MCPS and all other school systems had more rigid systems to decide on closures and delays, because the current system is non-transparent and leaves parents guessing until the last minute. A rigid system will not be as flexible, but it will help parents who need to plan care for their children. |
Anonymous
They had much more snow in Massachusetts! Maybe schools were closed in Alaska too--want to post those schools as well? |
Anonymous
| Can I just say, as an FCPS parent, that I am cracking up reading this thread on the MD board? This is usually us! I feel your pain, MCPS families! |
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Anonymous
When FCPS looks down on us re: snow days, we've truly hit bottom. |
Anonymous
But schools never close in the Northeast! Or so I read on DCUM. |
Anonymous
You have some reading comprehension issues (maybe due to too many snow days). No one on this thread said that schools never close in the Northeast. But they typically close for more substantial snowfall than 1 inch that occurred hours before the start of school. |
Anonymous
+1 It's amazing that MoCo couldn't get its act together to clean off 1 inch of snow that would have allowed a delayed entry today. |
Anonymous
| It's really not MCPS's fault that the County opted not to clear any side roads before noon today. |
Anonymous
I didn't think she was looking down; thought she seemed sweet. |
Anonymous
+!! |
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Since we are out of snow days the calendar says the first makeup day will be 6/13.
What happens after that, the calendar only lists other possible dates in chronological order. Will they announce which contingency day they are using when they decide to close? I'd like to know sooner rather than later if spring break days will be used. |
Anonymous
OP off this post - yeah, I really do sympathize. But it's still funny reading the debate over closing by cluster instead of county-wide, the school system is so big / too big to do that, why the county/state should be better prepared with salting, and how the schools in the NE never close .... I swear most of this thread could have been copied and pasted from the VA school section from last week. We see the same debates every time. Hope we all get to go to school tomorrow! |
Anonymous
And now the Snow Day That Shouldn’t Have Been gets written up in the WaPo:
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