No school on Thursday due to ice?

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Anonymous wrote:ES parent here: why is there a discrepancy between before care providers about opening tomorrow morning? Some are following the McPS email that says all AM programs and childcare are closed while some are opening 2 hours later than usual. Feels like the poorer schools are getting punished for following the rules. I’ll have to take a full day off work if my kid can’t be dropped off until 10:45 tomorrow

Sounds like it was a miscommunication. KAH initially said they were opening at 9am, but now they are not opening in the morning.

High schools can open at 9:45 but working parents of ES students are SOL until 11am or later.

Definitely a big fat middle finger to working parents.

Try working on changing to swap ES and HS start times.

This. High school students have been begging for a later start time

That's completely irrelevant to Taylor's choice to prevent private childcare providers from opening at all this morning.

Again, it is clear Taylor is hostile to families with two working parents.

Maybe, just maybe, it isn’t all about you???? maybe the decision was made to consider the safety of the people who have to arrive at the buildings first in order to clear the sidewalks.

There's no ice on the sidewalks in our neighborhood. This really doesn't need to be a systemwide decision.

This is always a systemwide decision.

They can make a systemwide decision to let providers decide if they can open.

NP. And this is historically what's been done. Our childcare provider has only rarely been closed before but this year it's become standard. I'm not sure why posters here are trying to obscure that by conflating it with the decision to close or delay schools.

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A huge branch nearly fell on our house in Bethesda. It made a huge cracking sound this morning as it fell, bumped the exterior wall near my bed, and landed with a thump in the front yard.

I'm surprised, because A, we trim and take care of all our trees, and B, there didn't seem to be that much ice accumulation on the branches.

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A huge branch nearly fell on our house in Bethesda. It made a huge cracking sound this morning as it fell, bumped the exterior wall near my bed, and landed with a thump in the front yard.

I'm surprised, because A, we trim and take care of all our trees, and B, there didn't seem to be that much ice accumulation on the branches.

YIKES!!! Hope everybody is ok.

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Anonymous wrote:ES parent here: why is there a discrepancy between before care providers about opening tomorrow morning? Some are following the McPS email that says all AM programs and childcare are closed while some are opening 2 hours later than usual. Feels like the poorer schools are getting punished for following the rules. I’ll have to take a full day off work if my kid can’t be dropped off until 10:45 tomorrow

Sounds like it was a miscommunication. KAH initially said they were opening at 9am, but now they are not opening in the morning.

High schools can open at 9:45 but working parents of ES students are SOL until 11am or later.

Definitely a big fat middle finger to working parents.

Try working on changing to swap ES and HS start times.

This. High school students have been begging for a later start time

That's completely irrelevant to Taylor's choice to prevent private childcare providers from opening at all this morning.

Again, it is clear Taylor is hostile to families with two working parents.

Maybe, just maybe, it isn’t all about you???? maybe the decision was made to consider the safety of the people who have to arrive at the buildings first in order to clear the sidewalks.

There's no ice on the sidewalks in our neighborhood. This really doesn't need to be a systemwide decision.

This is always a systemwide decision.

They can make a systemwide decision to let providers decide if they can open.

NP. And this is historically what's been done. Our childcare provider has only rarely been closed before but this year it's become standard. I'm not sure why posters here are trying to obscure that by conflating it with the decision to close or delay schools.

Because they can't justify the decision to prevent before-care from opening.

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A huge branch nearly fell on our house in Bethesda. It made a huge cracking sound this morning as it fell, bumped the exterior wall near my bed, and landed with a thump in the front yard.

I'm surprised, because A, we trim and take care of all our trees, and B, there didn't seem to be that much ice accumulation on the branches.

Cool story bro

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A huge branch nearly fell on our house in Bethesda. It made a huge cracking sound this morning as it fell, bumped the exterior wall near my bed, and landed with a thump in the front yard.

I'm surprised, because A, we trim and take care of all our trees, and B, there didn't seem to be that much ice accumulation on the branches.

Wow! A branch fell! Shut it all down!!!

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS has all schools start at 8.30 am. Elementary, middle and high school. That would be great. Such a normal time

You have to be smarter than this. Comparing a system that doesn’t provide buses to a system that has 60K more students and spans a geographic area that is 9 times bigger is ridiculous.

Over 100k more students.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS has all schools start at 8.30 am. Elementary, middle and high school. That would be great. Such a normal time

You have to be smarter than this. Comparing a system that doesn’t provide buses to a system that has 60K more students and spans a geographic area that is 9 times bigger is ridiculous.

Over 100k more students.

Not in before-care programs.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS has all schools start at 8.30 am. Elementary, middle and high school. That would be great. Such a normal time

You have to be smarter than this. Comparing a system that doesn’t provide buses to a system that has 60K more students and spans a geographic area that is 9 times bigger is ridiculous.

Over 100k more students.

Not in before-care programs.

Huh????

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS has all schools start at 8.30 am. Elementary, middle and high school. That would be great. Such a normal time

You have to be smarter than this. Comparing a system that doesn’t provide buses to a system that has 60K more students and spans a geographic area that is 9 times bigger is ridiculous.

Over 100k more students.

Not in before-care programs.

Huh????

The people complaining here are mostly taking issue with the decision to forbid before-care programs from opening, not the delay itself.

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Doesn't this screw things up for teachers, too? Surely some middle and high school teachers have elementary school kids. Or elementary school teachers with kids at a different school. It is absurd to close before-care.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't this screw things up for teachers, too? Surely some middle and high school teachers have elementary school kids. Or elementary school teachers with kids at a different school. It is absurd to close before-care.

They should have a SAHP. I think some of the teachers should consider polygamous marriages to address this issue. Childcare is for neglectful parents that don't care about their kids.

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I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

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A huge branch nearly fell on our house in Bethesda. It made a huge cracking sound this morning as it fell, bumped the exterior wall near my bed, and landed with a thump in the front yard.

I'm surprised, because A, we trim and take care of all our trees, and B, there didn't seem to be that much ice accumulation on the branches.

YIKES!!! Hope everybody is ok.

PP you replied to. Thanks, everyone's OK. I haven't gone up to the roof, but I don't see any damage to the gutter on that side. I think we're going to have to trim these trees even more? Anyway. My point was that even though the roads in Bethesda are fine, be aware that branches might not be.

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Anonymous wrote:I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.