Another snow day!

[Anonymous]

Great.

[Anonymous]

I cannot believe they waited until the last minute to make the call.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe they waited until the last minute to make the call.

They didn't. They bought themselves time by having a 2 hour delay and then called it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe they waited until the last minute to make the call.

They didn't. They bought themselves time by having a 2 hour delay and then called it.

Odd way of looking at it.

[Anonymous]

Woo hoo!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe they waited until the last minute to make the call.

They called it at 7:34 am. High school on a 2-hour delay starts at 9:45 am. Nobody was on a bus or walking to school yet. (My high school senior is going back to bed.)

[Anonymous]

Interesting. FCPS is sticking with the 2 hour delay as far as I know

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry, but this is a total joke. “Persistent difficulties with ice removal”? They had the entire day yesterday to remove the 4-5 inches of snow. If it’s now persistent ice it’s because they failed to remove it yesterday and froze overnight. We walked up to our ES yesterday and it was plowed to the pavement.

[Anonymous]

Fairfax isn’t closed. Why is our system so incompetent that they can’t clean up, but other area schools can? I expect resignations.

[Anonymous]

Nothing about temps or road conditions is a surprise. Annoying how they tend to delay the call.

[Anonymous]

Yes this seems like a VERY late call to me. Probably was waiting until the last minute. Is there a published list of cutoff times that MCPS tries to adhere to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax isn’t closed. Why is our system so incompetent that they can’t clean up, but other area schools can? I expect resignations.

I had to commute downtown yesterday and it was MD in general that did a poor job with removal.

[Anonymous]

There should be school. Since it is canceled it is time to cancel some of the contingency days and add back meaningful instruction time. No adding days in June after AP tests. Add them earlier. People who have plans can have excused absences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe they waited until the last minute to make the call.

They didn't. They bought themselves time by having a 2 hour delay and then called it.

Odd way of looking at it.

Not at all. They needed daylight to assess the status of the schools, busses, roads, etc. A few folks reported that our HS parking lot was a sheet of ice, even though everything was cleared yesterday.

[Anonymous]

They should have known this yesterday when their parking lots still hadn’t been plowed. We actually saw plows sitting in our high school parking lot NOT PLOWING. Maybe they were county plows but still ridiculous.