Snow day

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Anonymous wrote:When do you think the decision will be announced?

5-6pm, they’ll want it to look like they deliberated over the decision.

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Anonymous wrote:Our entire McLean neighborhood (secondary roads) has not been plowed yet. This is not private or HOA streets.

Check the vdot plow map. https://plows.vdot.virginia.gov/public/map Most of McLean neighborhoods aren’t complete. Chantilly area hasn’t even started yet. Reston looks mostly done.

Ours in Springfield shows “complete”. Could have fooled me.

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Anonymous wrote:This must be a very hard decision, to be compassionate to superintendents. Literally all it takes is one bus crash on a slippery road and the district forever regrets their decision to be open. That being said, the pressure to re-open asap is IMMENSE.

Is that you Reid?

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I need one more day to sleep in, please God!!!!

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CWG has closing at 50-50 I think.

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from our school about tomorrow, they are planning to be open.

Directly from the school admin? Are you a staff member?

It said Wednesday will be an X day and Thursday will be a Y day, even if there's no school on Wednesday. So they are planning out the whole week and preparing for school tomorrow or the next day.

I don’t see how that predicts anything about tomorrow.

I’m a principal who is contact with many colleagues across the county. We have received NO communications about school opening/closure. My guess is that this person received an email from their MS or HS principal saying that the BUILDING will be open on Wednesday for staff who can or would like to come in.

Some schools are cleared and others are a mess. My guess at this point is that offices will be open tomorrow, but schools will still be closed. We’ll all know in good time.

Traditionally, they have opened offices a day ahead of opening the schools to give more time for readiness and make sure everything is ready. I know some principals have had to get in there and shovel too.

12-month non-teacher here. I’ve never had the office open a day early like this.

I’m also LOLing at the idea of my principal holding a shovel for anything other than a staged photo op.

Really? We have had a lot of snow days when schools were closed but offices opened.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect the largest % of parents with concerns is the cohort with both parents working in an office. Other than government workers, most people do not get "snow days". So when school is closed and there are kids, then someone has to take PTO for child care. Even where telework is a theoretical possibility, it can be hard or impossible to juggle that with child care.

Government workers do not get "snow days" . It's max telework and with young kids at home that means taking PTO.

I know MANY Federal civil service workers who still get snow days. The key is that those employees do NOT have a telework agreement. In several cases, the employee has declined to sign a telework agreement precisely because they have school-age kids. In their parts of the government, telework agreements are not required as a condition of employment. I gather that different departments/offices/sites in the government have different policies in this area.

This~~~Several of my neighbors were off yesterday and told us they had a SNOW day...meaning they didn't work. I'm so tired of hearing about the bashing of schools. Dr. Reid is damned if she does and if she doesn't. What I want as a parent of three is for Dr. Reid and the other decision makers to make good safe decision for all involved with our kids safety....that is not privilege or entitlement it is how normal parents should be thinking. It snowed a LOT- it's really cold and things will refreeze tonight. FCPS often has kids sitting on the floors of busses due to shortage of drivers....that is not safe on any day but especially not on back roads that are icy and snowy. Would you want to be a bus driver with those conditions dealing with unruly kids crammed on a bus. You wouldn't so just stop.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t have kids! They are your kids you made that choice ! Nobody cares about your work schedule. You had humans and you have to take care of them. Enjoy.

wow it mush be so nice living life from you high horse of privilege.

Did someone force them to have kids? They made a choice. Unselfish people consider work, finances, and life styles before having kids.

This is why the birthrate is declining in western societies and why people have kids at 50 if at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Our entire McLean neighborhood (secondary roads) has not been plowed yet. This is not private or HOA streets.

Check the vdot plow map. https://plows.vdot.virginia.gov/public/map Most of McLean neighborhoods aren’t complete. Chantilly area hasn’t even started yet. Reston looks mostly done.

Thanks for the link. There’s not even a truck in our neighborhood. This will take awhile. Our road is 4 inches of condensed ice. No truck has scraped or plowed. Not looking good for the school bus tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect the largest % of parents with concerns is the cohort with both parents working in an office. Other than government workers, most people do not get "snow days". So when school is closed and there are kids, then someone has to take PTO for child care. Even where telework is a theoretical possibility, it can be hard or impossible to juggle that with child care.

Government workers do not get "snow days" . It's max telework and with young kids at home that means taking PTO.

I know MANY Federal civil service workers who still get snow days. The key is that those employees do NOT have a telework agreement. In several cases, the employee has declined to sign a telework agreement precisely because they have school-age kids. In their parts of the government, telework agreements are not required as a condition of employment. I gather that different departments/offices/sites in the government have different policies in this area.

This~~~Several of my neighbors were off yesterday and told us they had a SNOW day...meaning they didn't work. I'm so tired of hearing about the bashing of schools. Dr. Reid is damned if she does and if she doesn't. What I want as a parent of three is for Dr. Reid and the other decision makers to make good safe decision for all involved with our kids safety....that is not privilege or entitlement it is how normal parents should be thinking. It snowed a LOT- it's really cold and things will refreeze tonight. FCPS often has kids sitting on the floors of busses due to shortage of drivers....that is not safe on any day but especially not on back roads that are icy and snowy. Would you want to be a bus driver with those conditions dealing with unruly kids crammed on a bus. You wouldn't so just stop.

The bashing doesn't seem to come from a place of entitlement (for most). It comes from a place of "My single-town-sized district in Illinois where snow was plowed or sanded over regularly never closed. Why does FCPS?" People idealize what should be happening - maybe because their kids are at a cute neighborhood ES where things really do feel ideal! - and extrapolate from that to all of FCPS. Or they assume FCPS could close region by region, forgetting about programs like the county-wide deaf and hard of hearing schools and other major programs that aren't local.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t have kids! They are your kids you made that choice ! Nobody cares about your work schedule. You had humans and you have to take care of them. Enjoy.

wow it mush be so nice living life from you high horse of privilege.

Did someone force them to have kids? They made a choice. Unselfish people consider work, finances, and life styles before having kids.

This is why the birthrate is declining in western societies and why people have kids at 50 if at all.

They used to say to have kids cause they make you rich when you're older.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t have kids! They are your kids you made that choice ! Nobody cares about your work schedule. You had humans and you have to take care of them. Enjoy.

wow it mush be so nice living life from you high horse of privilege.

Did someone force them to have kids? They made a choice. Unselfish people consider work, finances, and life styles before having kids.

This is why the birthrate is declining in western societies and why people have kids at 50 if at all.

DP, and some could argue that, depriving our world of the amazing people who would be the kids who aren't born, is as selfish to society as can be.

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from our school about tomorrow, they are planning to be open.

Directly from the school admin? Are you a staff member?

It said Wednesday will be an X day and Thursday will be a Y day, even if there's no school on Wednesday. So they are planning out the whole week and preparing for school tomorrow or the next day.

I don’t see how that predicts anything about tomorrow.

I’m a principal who is contact with many colleagues across the county. We have received NO communications about school opening/closure. My guess is that this person received an email from their MS or HS principal saying that the BUILDING will be open on Wednesday for staff who can or would like to come in.

Some schools are cleared and others are a mess. My guess at this point is that offices will be open tomorrow, but schools will still be closed. We’ll all know in good time.

Traditionally, they have opened offices a day ahead of opening the schools to give more time for readiness and make sure everything is ready. I know some principals have had to get in there and shovel too.

12-month non-teacher here. I’ve never had the office open a day early like this.

I’m also LOLing at the idea of my principal holding a shovel for anything other than a staged photo op.

Really? We have had a lot of snow days when schools were closed but offices opened.

“Building is open if you want to come in” is different from “office workers report even though no teachers/students”

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Anonymous wrote:I need one more day to sleep in, please God!!!!

DO YOU EVER WANT TO REOPEN?
LET US KNOW]
THE COLD AND SNOW ISN'T GOING AWAY.

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I could see a closure tomorrow but building open for teachers, and then Thurs/Fri 2 hour morning delays. Roads still seem bad in a lot of places and we’re only getting minimal melting at the moment.