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.

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.

Yes, I read that. My apologies for generalizing... I should have said icy roads/sidewalks to include all possibilities so that everyone can fill included.

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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.

This was my DS experience.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yup and a lot of them are on this site.

[Anonymous]

HS Teacher:

1st -20/28
3rd-18/27
5th-planning
7th-23/29

[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.

This is what happens when there is an obsession with equity, coming down from leadership. People start to think every student must have the same exact experience all the time, every day or it isn’t fair. So if they didn’t feel safe sending their kids to school no one else should get to go because it’s not fairrr.

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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.

This is what happens when there is an obsession with equity, coming down from leadership. People start to think every student must have the same exact experience all the time, every day or it isn’t fair. So if they didn’t feel safe sending their kids to school no one else should get to go because it’s not fairrr.

FCPS finally had to draw the line. Families "horrified" by ice just needed to sit it out for the day. There's always Monday.

[Anonymous]

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.

Not surprised about the worst behaved kids being out. They probably took off for a long weekend skiing or something. They are people who think attendance requirements don’t apply to them, so it’s not a huge stretch that behavior requirements also don’t apply to them.

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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.

This is what happens when there is an obsession with equity, coming down from leadership. People start to think every student must have the same exact experience all the time, every day or it isn’t fair. So if they didn’t feel safe sending their kids to school no one else should get to go because it’s not fairrr.

FCPS finally had to draw the line. Families "horrified" by ice just needed to sit it out for the day. There's always Monday.

You sound stupid

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It's no different than a sick day. First, anything new will be repeated over and over again because that's how they teach now. Second, your kid will catch up. Grow up, mommas.

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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.

This is what happens when there is an obsession with equity, coming down from leadership. People start to think every student must have the same exact experience all the time, every day or it isn’t fair. So if they didn’t feel safe sending their kids to school no one else should get to go because it’s not fairrr.

FCPS finally had to draw the line. Families "horrified" by ice just needed to sit it out for the day. There's always Monday.

You sound stupid

Were you horrified by that additional inch of snow we received last night? Still internally processing it?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Not surprised about the worst behaved kids being out. They probably took off for a long weekend skiing or something. They are people who think attendance requirements don’t apply to them, so it’s not a huge stretch that behavior requirements also don’t apply to them.

My worst behaving students’ families don’t do family activities like ski trips. Their behavior is awful because the parents are uninvolved. They probably spent the day on their Xbox.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is what happens when there is an obsession with equity, coming down from leadership. People start to think every student must have the same exact experience all the time, every day or it isn’t fair. So if they didn’t feel safe sending their kids to school no one else should get to go because it’s not fairrr.

FCPS finally had to draw the line. Families "horrified" by ice just needed to sit it out for the day. There's always Monday.

You sound stupid

Were you horrified by that additional inch of snow we received last night? Still internally processing it?

Keep proving your stupidity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's no different than a sick day. First, anything new will be repeated over and over again because that's how they teach now. Second, your kid will catch up. Grow up, mommas.

+1

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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.

Not surprised about the worst behaved kids being out. They probably took off for a long weekend skiing or something. They are people who think attendance requirements don’t apply to them, so it’s not a huge stretch that behavior requirements also don’t apply to them.

My worst behaving students’ families don’t do family activities like ski trips. Their behavior is awful because the parents are uninvolved. They probably spent the day on their Xbox.

Even the involved parents have kids on xboxes so let's be real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Not surprised about the worst behaved kids being out. They probably took off for a long weekend skiing or something. They are people who think attendance requirements don’t apply to them, so it’s not a huge stretch that behavior requirements also don’t apply to them.

My worst behaving students’ families don’t do family activities like ski trips. Their behavior is awful because the parents are uninvolved. They probably spent the day on their Xbox.

I’m the teacher PP they’re responding to and I agree. The kids with the worst behavior aren’t paid any attention by their parents. Parents seemed to think when they were potty trained and could operate a screened device, the parenting job was done. Make them go to school? Why or how? Do anything about their abhorrent behavior at the school when they do go? Never.

I know it’s hard to fathom because even when we disagree on a lot of things , the parents who populate this forum all deeply care about their kids. But some parents - you guys, you probably can’t fathom how little guidance, structure, boundary setting and attention some kids get from their parents. It’s a free for all for those kinds of kids and it’s very sad. They didn’t go on ski vacations , they literally sat in their room on their phone the last 3 weeks. Their parents likely never even talked to them about whether they’d go yesterday or not- the parents didn’t care either way.