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MCPS closing/delaying on Monday?
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Anonymous
I agree that it's looking like Monday and Tuesday off. Perhaps schools will open on Wednesday? |
Anonymous
Don't you remember how much parents and teachers freaked out over a picking a make-up day last year? And remember, MCEA can't push for another "worksheets-at-home" day this year. We'll need to add real school days. |
Anonymous
You are joking? Some areas of the county will have a foot of snow by Tuesday morning. The county doesn’t consider school parking lots a priority and MCPS has 211 parking lots. Once those lots are cleaned and it won’t be by Tuesday night at the absolute earliest, the schools crew comes in to do all the school walkways and sidewalks. Oh and not to mention clearing out the bus lots and all the buses and hoping they all start in the frigid cold expected all week. Plan on no school Wednesday |
Anonymous
Mid-day Tuesday leaves plenty of time to clear parking lots and walkways by Wednesday morning. I think we'll find that last January's failure was a wake-up call to MCPS admin. It was very unusual for the county to publicly call out MCPS's BS about the response to that storm. As screwed up as MCPS is, they must have made changes after that. I don't think we'll see a repeat. |
Anonymous
That's what MCPS tried to claim last January and the county took the highly unusual step of refuting that. MCPS isn't going to be able to try to pin the blame on the county again this year. They're going to have plenty of time to prepare schools for Wednesday unless the storm lasts through the night. |
Anonymous
Frigid cold? Look at the forecast again. The overnight lows are still in the upper teens. That's plenty warm to start even the diesel engines in buses. Don't be hysterical. |
Anonymous
MCPS never makes changes and there has never been a storm of a foot of snow and ice where schools weren’t closed for 3 days. If it was ending early Monday, maybe but the warning ends 1am Tuesday. If you all think the county will have 200+ school parking lots, bus lots, and walkways all cleared and treated in less than 24hrs, you are delusional. |
Anonymous
1am Tuesday to 7am Wednesday is more than 24 hours. Also, why do think they won't start before 1am Tuesday? The county is going to be clearing roads as it snows. |
Anonymous
The forecast doesn't predict a foot of snow. |
Anonymous
I think there are some posters on this thread who aren’t aware of how much work there is to do (bus lots, parking lots, sidewalks, damage to school buildings, heating concerns, pipes, access roads, etc.). They also aren’t aware of staffing issues, and that there isn’t an army of people at the ready to prepare all of these schools. So to them, this is easy. |
Anonymous
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"Damage to school buildings, heating concerns, pipes"? It's barely below freezing and its just snow.
You people are ridiculous. Schools in the northeast don't have armies of facilities workers, either. They get it done because they're expected to get it done, and everyone accepts that the objective is "good enough" not "perfectly cleared of any evidence of snow". |
Anonymous
Are you the same poster over and over, saying the work isn’t hard? I can’t imagine there are tons of people this obtuse. And yes, damage to school buildings. I’m a teacher. We didn’t get much snow last year, but one of those minor snow events actually caused a leak in my classroom. I had to relocate for days. |
Anonymous
There are hundreds of school districts that demonstrate you're wrong. Despite what people here seem to think, they don't have larger staffs. And if a leak was enough to close an office, my whole agency would have to shut down. Whether its after snow, rain, or causes unknown, we deal with those with a bucket for a few days until facilities can get to it. School worked the same way. Why does MCPS think they have it so much harder than everyone else? |
Anonymous
I don’t think MCPS does. I just refuse to discredit the hard work facilities people have ahead of them. I’m very aware of the enormity of their job because I’ve seen it with my own eyes. And use your reading comprehension skills. I said I had to move my class, so clearly the building was open. Still, that was just ONE issue they were dealing with in an open building. So imagine what they deal with when it’s bad enough to remain closed. But your fiction is more important to you than their reality. So believe what you want. |
Anonymous
I don't think the staff is the problem. It's the policies that tell them not to come in until the county plows the parkings lots, management that won't pay overtime or shift working hours earlier, and residents that seem to think any snow on roads or sidewalks makes them impassable. |