Why are schools open tomorrow with no Metro service and Fed govt closed?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do all these DC teachers live in the burbs?

because the DC schools are crap?

cos DC is too pricey.... on a teacher salary...

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Anonymous wrote:You should recycle.

Enjoy being stuck on your suburban blocks tomorrow. (Isn't Glover Park missing some sidewalks?) For lunch tomorrow, I think DC and I will walk out to one of the many restaurants that will be open just around the corner. Or we could catch a train downtown. Or we could walk downtown.

You sure are sanctimonious, hipster. I was once like you. Enjoy your overpriced lunch. And no, there are no missing sidewalks in Glover Park.

NP here. I live right by a metro stop and can also walk downtown but I'm not a smug snob. Glover Park is hardly the suburbs. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

I find it very disturbing that this post has gone from DC Schools open - Ridiculous! to DC is full of teachers who whine and don't want to work.

I am a DC teacher and, yet again, I am offended by Rhee and Fenty and anyone on here who thinks it is okay to bash teachers. Most of us love our jobs (and our principals) and would have happily walked to work, or shoveled our STREETS to get to work, but for what? Disrespect from the top? Another PR stunt to make us look bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do all these DC teachers live in the burbs?

because the DC schools are crap?

Because a 1 bedroom studio apartment within a mile of an accessible metro station is $2000. A 2 bedroom house in Fairfax is $1500 a month.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the reasons DCPS tries to open -- even when conditions are bad -- is because many children get a free lunch at school. The percentage of kids getting free meals is over 90% at quite a few schools.
I know a lot of streets are bad, but some kids are going to be hungry tomorrow.

there are lots of kids on the free lunch program in MoCo and Arlington and their districts are wisely closed

There are kids on free lunch in every school system. The percentage is much, much higher in DC than in the surrounding counties. And DC is much smaller and denser than MoCo, meaning that getting to school should be easier for more kids in DC than MoCo.

[Anonymous]

Fine 11:53. Will you carry my 4 year old through the thigh-high slush at every curb cut on our 2 mile commute to school?

We generally walk and do the Circulator, but in light of the circumstances, I'm sure the Chancellor and her driver will swing by and drop us off.

It's all about the children!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the reasons DCPS tries to open -- even when conditions are bad -- is because many children get a free lunch at school. The percentage of kids getting free meals is over 90% at quite a few schools.
I know a lot of streets are bad, but some kids are going to be hungry tomorrow.

there are lots of kids on the free lunch program in MoCo and Arlington and their districts are wisely closed

There are kids on free lunch in every school system. The percentage is much, much higher in DC than in the surrounding counties. And DC is much smaller and denser than MoCo, meaning that getting to school should be easier for more kids in DC than MoCo.

Actually, I'd say the opposite. In active snow I think that kids who walk are much better off. Now, a few days later though when streets are often plowed and sidewalks aren't, I'd much rather have my child on a school bus, with all it's safety features than walking in the street because sidewalks are impassible.

[Anonymous]

True enough PP - I live 3 blocks from work and, although we were closed, I went to work today. I had to walk most of the way in the middle of the street since the sidewalks weren't shoveled and I almost fell three times since it was so slippery.