No school on Thursday due to ice?

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Anonymous wrote:I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.

Our provider is clear they wanted to open, and are trying to work with MCPS to address this issue. AFAIK parents do not get a refund when MCPS forces them to close. That's out of the providers' control. I think MCPS, not providers, should refund parents when they force providers to close and the county government has no delay or closure. That's on MCPS.

ha!

Come back when that happens everyone wants to know.

Girl nobody thinks that will happen. If we lived in a world where MCPS was accountable for how it managed its taxpayer-funded buildings, it might be possible.

Sadly, we do not live in that world and MCPS just does what gives its administrators the most time off.

The only answer is for working parents and childcare providers to put political pressure on MCPS, as they did during the pandemic when MCPS wanted to keep its buildings empty while essential workers scrambled for childcare.

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Anonymous wrote:I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.

Our provider is clear they wanted to open, and are trying to work with MCPS to address this issue. AFAIK parents do not get a refund when MCPS forces them to close. That's out of the providers' control. I think MCPS, not providers, should refund parents when they force providers to close and the county government has no delay or closure. That's on MCPS.

It is better to bring up all of these points when contacting people rather than the one poster who keeps saying MCPS DGAF about working parents. There might be a logistical reasoning behind the closure, but there's no reason why MCPS cannot explain this to impacted parents. I don't have kids in one of these programs, but I would contact everyone involved in the decision making process to see of there"s an explanation.

It's multiple posters accurately noting MCPS's very obvious disdain for working parents.

And again, the providers have made clear they are not the reason for the closures, so stop trying to insinuate something else.

Contact your county councilmembers, folks.

The lack of self-awareness and self-centered is amazing with you all. As is the lack of empathy. You realize that it is people that open up schools and drive buses and that have to be there earlier than your child. It is these folks that have to drive in potentially icy conditions to be somewhere in person. But screw them, right. It's MCPS's fault - not the weather - for you missing a friggin zoom call while MCPS was trying to keep its employees and your kids safe. Your lack of preparedness is not any one else's problem but your own.

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Anonymous wrote:ES parent here: why is there a discrepancy between before care providers about opening tomorrow morning? Some are following the McPS email that says all AM programs and childcare are closed while some are opening 2 hours later than usual. Feels like the poorer schools are getting punished for following the rules. I’ll have to take a full day off work if my kid can’t be dropped off until 10:45 tomorrow

Sounds like it was a miscommunication. KAH initially said they were opening at 9am, but now they are not opening in the morning.

High schools can open at 9:45 but working parents of ES students are SOL until 11am or later.

Definitely a big fat middle finger to working parents.

I would argue that it is you that is hellbent on giving someone the finger rather than the school system taking precautions to protect children. Do you have fat fingers?

So you think high school kids can go to school, but parents can't drop their kids off at before care? How does that make sense other than Taylor hating working parents?

Well, one way to make sense of it is to understand that Taylor cares about your kids.
— signed Someone who once watched a young child slip, fall, and slide across a busy street near their school.
It was in a city that for various well-intentioned reasons tried to remain open at all costs.

Are you saying he doesn't care about high school kids? Why not open child care the same time as high schools?

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Anonymous wrote:I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.

Our provider is clear they wanted to open, and are trying to work with MCPS to address this issue. AFAIK parents do not get a refund when MCPS forces them to close. That's out of the providers' control. I think MCPS, not providers, should refund parents when they force providers to close and the county government has no delay or closure. That's on MCPS.

It is better to bring up all of these points when contacting people rather than the one poster who keeps saying MCPS DGAF about working parents. There might be a logistical reasoning behind the closure, but there's no reason why MCPS cannot explain this to impacted parents. I don't have kids in one of these programs, but I would contact everyone involved in the decision making process to see of there"s an explanation.

It's multiple posters accurately noting MCPS's very obvious disdain for working parents.

And again, the providers have made clear they are not the reason for the closures, so stop trying to insinuate something else.

Contact your county councilmembers, folks.

The lack of self-awareness and self-centered is amazing with you all. As is the lack of empathy. You realize that it is people that open up schools and drive buses and that have to be there earlier than your child. It is these folks that have to drive in potentially icy conditions to be somewhere in person. But screw them, right. It's MCPS's fault - not the weather - for you missing a friggin zoom call while MCPS was trying to keep its employees and your kids safe. Your lack of preparedness is not any one else's problem but your own.

Talk about projection. Everything else opened on time today. I was at my office hours before anyone had to be in my child's school building.

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And fyi, yes we are coming for your delayed openings, MCPS office workers who are trying to shame us from advocating for ourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.

Our provider is clear they wanted to open, and are trying to work with MCPS to address this issue. AFAIK parents do not get a refund when MCPS forces them to close. That's out of the providers' control. I think MCPS, not providers, should refund parents when they force providers to close and the county government has no delay or closure. That's on MCPS.

It is better to bring up all of these points when contacting people rather than the one poster who keeps saying MCPS DGAF about working parents. There might be a logistical reasoning behind the closure, but there's no reason why MCPS cannot explain this to impacted parents. I don't have kids in one of these programs, but I would contact everyone involved in the decision making process to see of there"s an explanation.

It's multiple posters accurately noting MCPS's very obvious disdain for working parents.

And again, the providers have made clear they are not the reason for the closures, so stop trying to insinuate something else.

Contact your county councilmembers, folks.

The lack of self-awareness and self-centered is amazing with you all. As is the lack of empathy. You realize that it is people that open up schools and drive buses and that have to be there earlier than your child. It is these folks that have to drive in potentially icy conditions to be somewhere in person. But screw them, right. It's MCPS's fault - not the weather - for you missing a friggin zoom call while MCPS was trying to keep its employees and your kids safe. Your lack of preparedness is not any one else's problem but your own.

Talk about projection. Everything else opened on time today. I was at my office hours before anyone had to be in my child's school building.

Nearly every area school system had a delayed opening or closure today.

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Anonymous wrote:I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.

Our provider is clear they wanted to open, and are trying to work with MCPS to address this issue. AFAIK parents do not get a refund when MCPS forces them to close. That's out of the providers' control. I think MCPS, not providers, should refund parents when they force providers to close and the county government has no delay or closure. That's on MCPS.

It is better to bring up all of these points when contacting people rather than the one poster who keeps saying MCPS DGAF about working parents. There might be a logistical reasoning behind the closure, but there's no reason why MCPS cannot explain this to impacted parents. I don't have kids in one of these programs, but I would contact everyone involved in the decision making process to see of there"s an explanation.

It's multiple posters accurately noting MCPS's very obvious disdain for working parents.

And again, the providers have made clear they are not the reason for the closures, so stop trying to insinuate something else.

Contact your county councilmembers, folks.

The lack of self-awareness and self-centered is amazing with you all. As is the lack of empathy. You realize that it is people that open up schools and drive buses and that have to be there earlier than your child. It is these folks that have to drive in potentially icy conditions to be somewhere in person. But screw them, right. It's MCPS's fault - not the weather - for you missing a friggin zoom call while MCPS was trying to keep its employees and your kids safe. Your lack of preparedness is not any one else's problem but your own.

Talk about projection. Everything else opened on time today. I was at my office hours before anyone had to be in my child's school building.

Nearly every area school system had a delayed opening or closure today.

I wasn't talking about school systems. There is a whole world outside of education. That world matters. It directly impacts your life, makes it possible for you to have food, healthcare, roads, public transit, home repairs, etc. All those people made it to work on time today, unless they had to take time off (paid or unpaid) to care for their kids, even if they had paid for childcare that was supposed to cover that time.

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.[/quote]

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.[/quote]

Our provider is clear they wanted to open, and are trying to work with MCPS to address this issue. AFAIK parents do not get a refund when MCPS forces them to close. That's out of the providers' control. I think MCPS, not providers, should refund parents when they force providers to close and the county government has no delay or closure. That's on MCPS.[/quote]

It is better to bring up all of these points when contacting people rather than the one poster who keeps saying MCPS DGAF about working parents. There might be a logistical reasoning behind the closure, but there's no reason why MCPS cannot explain this to impacted parents. I don't have kids in one of these programs, but I would contact everyone involved in the decision making process to see of there"s an explanation.[/quote]

It's multiple posters accurately noting MCPS's very obvious disdain for working parents.

And again, the providers have made clear they are not the reason for the closures, so stop trying to insinuate something else.

Contact your county councilmembers, folks.[/quote]

The lack of self-awareness and self-centered is amazing with you all. As is the lack of empathy. You realize that it is people that open up schools and drive buses and that have to be there earlier than your child. It is these folks that have to drive in potentially icy conditions to be somewhere in person. But screw them, right. It's MCPS's fault - not the weather - for you missing a friggin zoom call while MCPS was trying to keep its employees and your kids safe. Your lack of preparedness is not any one else's problem but your own. [/quote]

People are just asking that childcare in elementary schools open at the same time as high schools opened. If it's safe to drive to a high school it's safe to drive to an elementary school at the same time.

DP.

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Anonymous wrote:I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.

Our provider is clear they wanted to open, and are trying to work with MCPS to address this issue. AFAIK parents do not get a refund when MCPS forces them to close. That's out of the providers' control. I think MCPS, not providers, should refund parents when they force providers to close and the county government has no delay or closure. That's on MCPS.

It is better to bring up all of these points when contacting people rather than the one poster who keeps saying MCPS DGAF about working parents. There might be a logistical reasoning behind the closure, but there's no reason why MCPS cannot explain this to impacted parents. I don't have kids in one of these programs, but I would contact everyone involved in the decision making process to see of there"s an explanation.

It's multiple posters accurately noting MCPS's very obvious disdain for working parents.

And again, the providers have made clear they are not the reason for the closures, so stop trying to insinuate something else.

Contact your county councilmembers, folks.

The lack of self-awareness and self-centered is amazing with you all. As is the lack of empathy. You realize that it is people that open up schools and drive buses and that have to be there earlier than your child. It is these folks that have to drive in potentially icy conditions to be somewhere in person. But screw them, right. It's MCPS's fault - not the weather - for you missing a friggin zoom call while MCPS was trying to keep its employees and your kids safe. Your lack of preparedness is not any one else's problem but your own.

Talk about projection. Everything else opened on time today. I was at my office hours before anyone had to be in my child's school building.

Nearly every area school system had a delayed opening or closure today.

I wasn't talking about school systems. There is a whole world outside of education. That world matters. It directly impacts your life, makes it possible for you to have food, healthcare, roads, public transit, home repairs, etc. All those people made it to work on time today, unless they had to take time off (paid or unpaid) to care for their kids, even if they had paid for childcare that was supposed to cover that time.

You are talking about adults going to work. They accept the risk. And I am sure that many offices did not open on time. And I am sure many adults were late to work. We are talking about thousands of children. One bus accident would be devastating. It is the job of MCPS to access the risk and make the call. They called for a 2 hour delay. If it would have been on time, how many teachers would not have made it in. We already don't have enough subs to cover a normal day. I am not sure what you want to happen.

You can look for child care that is not tied to MCPS so you can get to your job when you need to.

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People are just asking that childcare in elementary schools open at the same time as high schools opened. If it's safe to drive to a high school it's safe to drive to an elementary school at the same time.

DP.[/quote]

It's impossible to have a coherent discussion with someone who literally thinks nobody actually needs to work, and none of the work they do matters.

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Anonymous wrote:I would strongly recommend working parents that rely on school-based childcare providers contact their County Councilmembers. Andrew Friedson was pretty active on this issue during the pandemic so he might be somebody to start with. Somebody needs to light a fire under MCPS's lazy asses.

I would also talk to your providers. Do they want to open on a delay? Do they know why MCPS is not allowing them to open on delays? Are parents being charged even when the providers cannot open? If yes, can you start getting credit or refunds for those mornings? Basically find out the justification and then find some solutions.

Our provider is clear they wanted to open, and are trying to work with MCPS to address this issue. AFAIK parents do not get a refund when MCPS forces them to close. That's out of the providers' control. I think MCPS, not providers, should refund parents when they force providers to close and the county government has no delay or closure. That's on MCPS.

It is better to bring up all of these points when contacting people rather than the one poster who keeps saying MCPS DGAF about working parents. There might be a logistical reasoning behind the closure, but there's no reason why MCPS cannot explain this to impacted parents. I don't have kids in one of these programs, but I would contact everyone involved in the decision making process to see of there"s an explanation.

It's multiple posters accurately noting MCPS's very obvious disdain for working parents.

And again, the providers have made clear they are not the reason for the closures, so stop trying to insinuate something else.

Contact your county councilmembers, folks.

The lack of self-awareness and self-centered is amazing with you all. As is the lack of empathy. You realize that it is people that open up schools and drive buses and that have to be there earlier than your child. It is these folks that have to drive in potentially icy conditions to be somewhere in person. But screw them, right. It's MCPS's fault - not the weather - for you missing a friggin zoom call while MCPS was trying to keep its employees and your kids safe. Your lack of preparedness is not any one else's problem but your own.

Talk about projection. Everything else opened on time today. I was at my office hours before anyone had to be in my child's school building.

Nearly every area school system had a delayed opening or closure today.

I wasn't talking about school systems. There is a whole world outside of education. That world matters. It directly impacts your life, makes it possible for you to have food, healthcare, roads, public transit, home repairs, etc. All those people made it to work on time today, unless they had to take time off (paid or unpaid) to care for their kids, even if they had paid for childcare that was supposed to cover that time.

You are talking about adults going to work. They accept the risk. And I am sure that many offices did not open on time. And I am sure many adults were late to work. We are talking about thousands of children. One bus accident would be devastating. It is the job of MCPS to access the risk and make the call. They called for a 2 hour delay. If it would have been on time, how many teachers would not have made it in. We already don't have enough subs to cover a normal day. I am not sure what you want to happen.

You can look for child care that is not tied to MCPS so you can get to your job when you need to.

The fact you keep talking about buses which are completely irrelevant to child care providers opening tells me you are a waste of my time.

Btw, DCPS opened on time today. PG schools, unlike MCPS, allowed child care providers to open with a 2 hour delay. Anne Arundel County schools opened on time. Yes, people think MCPS administrators are lazy overpaid leeches for a reason.

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Parents make the decision to have kids then go pikachu face when having a kid has schedule complications.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents make the decision to have kids then go pikachu face when having a kid has schedule complications.

We get it you are an entitled administrator on a power trip. That's not pathetic at all.