Is it time for MCPS to be more bold in having regular school when it snows?

[Anonymous]

Today there should have been school. I'm not going to argue about the snow-crete week, but there are so many "snowless" snow days most years. MCPS is just way too cautious.

Let's lean in to going to school and educating our kids, please.

[Anonymous]

Yes please. So tired of my kid being home when I have to work and there is 3 millimeters of snow on the ground.

[Anonymous]

How do you expect is to get our kids there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today there should have been school. I'm not going to argue about the snow-crete week, but there are so many "snowless" snow days most years. MCPS is just way too cautious.

Let's lean in to going to school and educating our kids, please.

We get it, you live down county and got 3 inches and the roads were clear. In parts of the county there were a little over 7 inches and the streets were not clear. It's one county, and one school system. And until that changes, you will have to keep your kids home when it's not safe for kids in Damascus or Poolesville to get to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today there should have been school. I'm not going to argue about the snow-crete week, but there are so many "snowless" snow days most years. MCPS is just way too cautious.

Let's lean in to going to school and educating our kids, please.

We get it, you live down county and got 3 inches and the roads were clear. In parts of the county there were a little over 7 inches and the streets were not clear. It's one county, and one school system. And until that changes, you will have to keep your kids home when it's not safe for kids in Damascus or Poolesville to get to school.

That is the crux of the problem. The school system is too big. But recognizing that isn't going to change, where is it written in stone that because some schools in Poolesville, Clarksburg or Damascus have to close, so must schools in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Rockville and Silver Spring? It isn't divinely ordained. Yes, it will take changes to teachers; contracts, union rules, bus schedules, etc. But I simply refuse to believe that those issues are insurmountable - the powers that be just need to be incentivized to start dealing with them. There isn't an instant fix, but it is possible.

[Anonymous]

If the county allowed certain schools to make their own opening decision on snow days there would be a lot of schools who suddenly see like 60% of their teachers quit to go to other schools or districts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the county allowed certain schools to make their own opening decision on snow days there would be a lot of schools who suddenly see like 60% of their teachers quit to go to other schools or districts

I'm sure there are a lot of teachers who would have preferred to brave the conditions on Monday rather than tack another day on at the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

They could have let child care open yesterday at schools that didn't have a lot of snow, like they did on January 30, a few weeks ago. But they needed to give their people the day off.

[Anonymous]

It is my imagination or did we go to school in snow back in the 80s and 90s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you expect is to get our kids there?

The same way they do every other day. Roads were fine yesterday. A two hour delay would have been more than sufficient. Just likes they could have opened on Thursday or Friday after the earlier storm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today there should have been school. I'm not going to argue about the snow-crete week, but there are so many "snowless" snow days most years. MCPS is just way too cautious.

Let's lean in to going to school and educating our kids, please.

We get it, you live down county and got 3 inches and the roads were clear. In parts of the county there were a little over 7 inches and the streets were not clear. It's one county, and one school system. And until that changes, you will have to keep your kids home when it's not safe for kids in Damascus or Poolesville to get to school.

Right- and they're not clear today either You guys who only got 3 inches are lucky, I had to catch a ride in my neighbor's 4WD truck to get out of our neighborhood, I have no idea how buses will manage. If it were up to me there would have at least been a delay today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They could have let child care open yesterday at schools that didn't have a lot of snow, like they did on January 30, a few weeks ago. But they needed to give their people the day off.

Isn't Taylor and his crew from the south? He seems pretty fearful to commute or ask his staff to commute if there is any snow at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They could have let child care open yesterday at schools that didn't have a lot of snow, like they did on January 30, a few weeks ago. But they needed to give their people the day off.

Isn't Taylor and his crew from the south? He seems pretty fearful to commute or ask his staff to commute if there is any snow at all.

He needs to look around, tons of people went to work yesterday. I didn't because I didn't have child care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today there should have been school. I'm not going to argue about the snow-crete week, but there are so many "snowless" snow days most years. MCPS is just way too cautious.

Let's lean in to going to school and educating our kids, please.

FFS is another Mad Mommy of MoCo Big Mad?

No, OP, you dipshit. Try not to be so stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today there should have been school. I'm not going to argue about the snow-crete week, but there are so many "snowless" snow days most years. MCPS is just way too cautious.

Let's lean in to going to school and educating our kids, please.

We get it, you live down county and got 3 inches and the roads were clear. In parts of the county there were a little over 7 inches and the streets were not clear. It's one county, and one school system. And until that changes, you will have to keep your kids home when it's not safe for kids in Damascus or Poolesville to get to school.

Right- and they're not clear today either You guys who only got 3 inches are lucky, I had to catch a ride in my neighbor's 4WD truck to get out of our neighborhood, I have no idea how buses will manage. If it were up to me there would have at least been a delay today.

I'm sure your FWD car would have made it out fine. I bet you didn't try.