Were Attendance Levels Status Quo Today?

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Anonymous wrote:The bus drivers had difficulty in 22101. It is awful they were put in a position to have to drop kids off on 123 (over 1.5 miles from home) because the neighborhoods were too icey to navigate.

This is our situation, glad I didn't send my kids to walk on icy roads with no sidewalks for a mile to get home.

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I don't understand, people who chose to keep their children home today are complaining because other children went to school and learned something? Your child missing one short day of school is not going to cause them any problems. They'll be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if it wasn't normal attendance, it was worth starting back up again to get the system going.

And this snow just shows how stupid the excessive school holidays are before January.

We get it you don't want to be around your kids.

Why does some insecure SAHM always post this? Like no, it’s not that we would like for our children to actually be in school for the first time in three weeks so that they can continue their education, it’s just that we don’t like them. That must be it!!

Yep.

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Anonymous wrote:HS Teacher here:

29/30 present 1st Period (although quite a few late)
28/30 present 3rd Period
24/27 present 5th Period
Off 7th Period

We were able to move on and start new content today.

Thank you! Glad teachers are moving ahead.

Glad your streets were plowed and you have flexibility at work or SAH to be able to take your kids to school on a weird last minute schedule. Ours are icy hills with piles of snow/ice and not passable by school buses. And I don't get paid time off or able to reschedule work meetings based on a last minute whim to reopen the schools on a Friday for a short day.

You have to make the decisions best for your family, but that doesn't mean the rest of the world stops until you're ready. The beat goes on.

You are being smug.
I am hardly an outlier in this. I wouldn't be posting if this was a one-off type of thing that happens when kids get sick, travel, etc. This is a problem affecting many people today, and some schools are affected more than others depending if they are in the plowed/unplowed areas and/or serve majority of plowed/unplowed neighborhoods. I am glad "the beat goes on" for you in whatever race you are running that you think is going to get you further than those who had to skip one half school day
So far you are succeeding in your smugness

You should probably log off DCUM since you are so busy with your job that doesn't off paid time off or the ability to reschedule anything. That must be hard to balance with all your anonymous posting.

Nothing at all was last minute. We learned about the 2-hour delay yesterday afternoon.

I had a heavy morning schedule, afternoon less than 24 hours notice is tough for many professions. You got your way and your kids out of the house, why post? Did your massage and Pilates get cancelled today or something?

This sounds like your fault to assume FCPS would be closed again. A 2 hour delay was an expected decision if you had been paying any attention. How do you manage actual life problems?

How do you manage to remain so pissed and keep responding to these threads that no longer have any relevance for you since you got what you wanted? Unlike those of us who wanted schools closed today you have zero to complain about, yet there you are. Are we raining on your smug parade?

Posters are here to report that things were normal.

Some schools maybe but not all.

My kids teachers were all NOT present today (she has an off campus period). Most of her classes were “practically empty”. No new content taught. She’s a HS student in AP classes.

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I’m a teacher. In one class, about 70% were there. In the other two, under 50%. But the best part is the worse behaved kids just stayed home so the day was incredibly peaceful and lowkey. We did some light work, nothing the kids who missed can’t catch up later but the ones who were there got a nice little head start. We certainly didn’t start new material or take a test or anything but we didn’t watch movies either.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. In one class, about 70% were there. In the other two, under 50%. But the best part is the worse behaved kids just stayed home so the day was incredibly peaceful and lowkey. We did some light work, nothing the kids who missed can’t catch up later but the ones who were there got a nice little head start. We certainly didn’t start new material or take a test or anything but we didn’t watch movies either.

The worst behaved kids get it from their parents, shocking.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. In one class, about 70% were there. In the other two, under 50%. But the best part is the worse behaved kids just stayed home so the day was incredibly peaceful and lowkey. We did some light work, nothing the kids who missed can’t catch up later but the ones who were there got a nice little head start. We certainly didn’t start new material or take a test or anything but we didn’t watch movies either.

The worst behaved kids get it from their parents, shocking.

+1000 a bunch of complaining privileged sahm who don't have to work and can just coddle their little turds endlessly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The bus drivers had difficulty in 22101. It is awful they were put in a position to have to drop kids off on 123 (over 1.5 miles from home) because the neighborhoods were too icey to navigate.

This is our situation, glad I didn't send my kids to walk on icy roads with no sidewalks for a mile to get home.

Yet many kids did walk a mile on roads and icy sidewalks to get to/from school yesterday. And they managed just fine. I'm a teacher (HS), and my classes were mostly full, with about 1 or 2 absences per class. I would argue that you should be allowing (and even pushing/encouraging) your kids out into the world to take risks and overcome challenges. Walking on icy sidewalks? Watching the cars/traffic carefully? Yes, these type of situations should be navigated from time to time as kids grow through the years. Do not bubble-wrap your kids. You are not doing them any favors.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. In one class, about 70% were there. In the other two, under 50%. But the best part is the worse behaved kids just stayed home so the day was incredibly peaceful and lowkey. We did some light work, nothing the kids who missed can’t catch up later but the ones who were there got a nice little head start. We certainly didn’t start new material or take a test or anything but we didn’t watch movies either.

The worst behaved kids get it from their parents, shocking.

Haha! The kids of those parents on Facebook loudly proclaiming that they weren’t sending their kids in yesterday. Meanwhile their teachers breathed a sigh of relief 😅

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. In one class, about 70% were there. In the other two, under 50%. But the best part is the worse behaved kids just stayed home so the day was incredibly peaceful and lowkey. We did some light work, nothing the kids who missed can’t catch up later but the ones who were there got a nice little head start. We certainly didn’t start new material or take a test or anything but we didn’t watch movies either.

The worst behaved kids get it from their parents, shocking.

Haha! The kids of those parents on Facebook loudly proclaiming that they weren’t sending their kids in yesterday. Meanwhile their teachers breathed a sigh of relief 😅

Yep. I’m sure the union rep is negotiating a daily email from Reid saying “it’s still kinda unsafe, so stay home if you’re afraid”. Teacher retention would go to 100%. Knowing some of the wackos in this group, they’d buy it in the middle of June.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. In one class, about 70% were there. In the other two, under 50%. But the best part is the worse behaved kids just stayed home so the day was incredibly peaceful and lowkey. We did some light work, nothing the kids who missed can’t catch up later but the ones who were there got a nice little head start. We certainly didn’t start new material or take a test or anything but we didn’t watch movies either.

The worst behaved kids get it from their parents, shocking.

+1000 a bunch of complaining privileged sahm who don't have to work and can just coddle their little turds endlessly.

You sound nice!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The bus drivers had difficulty in 22101. It is awful they were put in a position to have to drop kids off on 123 (over 1.5 miles from home) because the neighborhoods were too icey to navigate.

This is our situation, glad I didn't send my kids to walk on icy roads with no sidewalks for a mile to get home.

Yet many kids did walk a mile on roads and icy sidewalks to get to/from school yesterday. And they managed just fine. I'm a teacher (HS), and my classes were mostly full, with about 1 or 2 absences per class. I would argue that you should be allowing (and even pushing/encouraging) your kids out into the world to take risks and overcome challenges. Walking on icy sidewalks? Watching the cars/traffic carefully? Yes, these type of situations should be navigated from time to time as kids grow through the years. Do not bubble-wrap your kids. You are not doing them any favors.

Reading comprehension isn’t your thing. The PP you are replying to said “icy roads” and that no sidewalks were available.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s funny that third graders are able to report that they learned “new material.” Mine had already forgotten everything he did today, per usual, by the time he ran off the bus…

My fourth grader said they didn’t start a new benchmark lesson but did learn something new in math.

My 3rd grader learned something new today and articulated it perfectly. But he’s AAP level 4.

WTF kind of flex is this supposed to be? Newsflash: the vast majority of 3rd graders can perfectly articulate what they did all day. Not sure why you think AAP makes your child special? He's either just better at taking tests or he's a high SES kid in a low SES school.

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Anonymous wrote:The bus drivers had difficulty in 22101. It is awful they were put in a position to have to drop kids off on 123 (over 1.5 miles from home) because the neighborhoods were too icey to navigate.

This is our situation, glad I didn't send my kids to walk on icy roads with no sidewalks for a mile to get home.

Yet many kids did walk a mile on roads and icy sidewalks to get to/from school yesterday. And they managed just fine. I'm a teacher (HS), and my classes were mostly full, with about 1 or 2 absences per class. I would argue that you should be allowing (and even pushing/encouraging) your kids out into the world to take risks and overcome challenges. Walking on icy sidewalks? Watching the cars/traffic carefully? Yes, these type of situations should be navigated from time to time as kids grow through the years. Do not bubble-wrap your kids. You are not doing them any favors.

Reading comprehension isn’t your thing. The PP you are replying to said “icy roads” and that no sidewalks were available.

DP but there are not any children who live on busy roads without sidewalks that are walkers. We know a kid who lives across the street from the school but they get a bus because there are no sidewalks to get them to the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand, people who chose to keep their children home today are complaining because other children went to school and learned something? Your child missing one short day of school is not going to cause them any problems. They'll be fine.

People need to own their decisions. You made a decision that you thought was best for your child. I made a decision that I thought was best for my child. Period.