Wed no school or 2hr delay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roads will probably all be cleared today.

There is no way, PP. Most of the county isn't plowed, they need two days (so Wednesday as well) if they're very diligent. I could see school on Thursday.

Where aren't the roads clear?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roads will probably all be cleared today.

There is no way, PP. Most of the county isn't plowed, they need two days (so Wednesday as well) if they're very diligent. I could see school on Thursday.

Where aren't the roads clear?

THE SIDE STREETS YOU DUMBASS. WHERE PEOPLE LIVE. My main street close to my house was only cleared this morning, but the neighborhood is still mostly unplowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roads will probably all be cleared today.

There is no way, PP. Most of the county isn't plowed, they need two days (so Wednesday as well) if they're very diligent. I could see school on Thursday.

Where aren't the roads clear?

THE SIDE STREETS YOU DUMBASS. WHERE PEOPLE LIVE. My main street close to my house was only cleared this morning, but the neighborhood is still mostly unplowed.

More specifically. All the side streets I've driven by have been clear upcounty/midcounty. And my coworkers tell me their downcounty streets have been plowed.

Is the issue that people expect to see a full lane of pavement without any snow on it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate to get into a whole virtual learning debate, but using the example of the pandemic where virtual learning was used exclusively for a year is entirely different from considering using virtual learning for a day or a few days to bridge a gap. It’s a moot point because it’s not allowed by the MD dept of Ed. right now. But there is an argument to be made for having secondary students do virtual instruction (could be synchronous, webinar or asynch) and for younger students to have packets and videos sent home.

Virtual would be worthless for elementary kids. Packets wouldn't work because the worksheets themselves don't have the lessons included on them. Parents would have no clue what to do.

You can't just suddenly shift to virtual. Even for the ideal set of students who don't need the supports available in a classroom, you need to have lessons that work in a virtual setting. Those need to be prepared ahead of time.

My daughter had a COVID quarantine closure in fall 2021 in kindergarten and the teacher did an amazing job of engaging and teaching a bunch of 5 year olds a lot of content over the course of the 1.5 weeks... it absolutely can be done. And by upper elementary they are not much different than middle schoolers-- same kid now in 4th would have no problem paying attention to and learning from virtual lessons almost as well as in-person. (Again, remember, the benchmark here is "would they learn more than if the day gets made up as a half-day on June 22 where half the kids don't go and the other half watch movies all day?" not "would they learn as much as if it were a normal day?" In other words, *any* learning at all through virtual means they learn more than the zero they will learn if they're summer make-up days instead.) And yes, the lessons would need to be prepared ahead of time-- the idea would be if there's a week of closure, virtual classes would begin on day 2 or 3 so the teachers have the first couple days to plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roads will probably all be cleared today.

There is no way, PP. Most of the county isn't plowed, they need two days (so Wednesday as well) if they're very diligent. I could see school on Thursday.

Where aren't the roads clear?

THE SIDE STREETS YOU DUMBASS. WHERE PEOPLE LIVE. My main street close to my house was only cleared this morning, but the neighborhood is still mostly unplowed.

More specifically. All the side streets I've driven by have been clear upcounty/midcounty. And my coworkers tell me their downcounty streets have been plowed.

Is the issue that people expect to see a full lane of pavement without any snow on it?

As I look out of my office window here in Montgomery Village, I currently see a car spinning its wheels in the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate to get into a whole virtual learning debate, but using the example of the pandemic where virtual learning was used exclusively for a year is entirely different from considering using virtual learning for a day or a few days to bridge a gap. It’s a moot point because it’s not allowed by the MD dept of Ed. right now. But there is an argument to be made for having secondary students do virtual instruction (could be synchronous, webinar or asynch) and for younger students to have packets and videos sent home.

Virtual would be worthless for elementary kids. Packets wouldn't work because the worksheets themselves don't have the lessons included on them. Parents would have no clue what to do.

You can't just suddenly shift to virtual. Even for the ideal set of students who don't need the supports available in a classroom, you need to have lessons that work in a virtual setting. Those need to be prepared ahead of time.

My daughter had a COVID quarantine closure in fall 2021 in kindergarten and the teacher did an amazing job of engaging and teaching a bunch of 5 year olds a lot of content over the course of the 1.5 weeks... it absolutely can be done. And by upper elementary they are not much different than middle schoolers-- same kid now in 4th would have no problem paying attention to and learning from virtual lessons almost as well as in-person. (Again, remember, the benchmark here is "would they learn more than if the day gets made up as a half-day on June 22 where half the kids don't go and the other half watch movies all day?" not "would they learn as much as if it were a normal day?" In other words, *any* learning at all through virtual means they learn more than the zero they will learn if they're summer make-up days instead.) And yes, the lessons would need to be prepared ahead of time-- the idea would be if there's a week of closure, virtual classes would begin on day 2 or 3 so the teachers have the first couple days to plan.

No, any attempt at virtual for elementary is worse than a waste of time because parents don't know how to cover the material. Have you seen the math worksheets and books? They don't explain the lesson at all. Unless they can make a copy of all the teacher lessons plans and then them out, and then provide training to go with them, trying to do virtual school would just create more confusion.

If you want to do virtual, we need a completely different curriculum.

[Anonymous]

PG county just announced closed until Friday at earliest. MCPS will probably be the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roads will probably all be cleared today.

There is no way, PP. Most of the county isn't plowed, they need two days (so Wednesday as well) if they're very diligent. I could see school on Thursday.

Where aren't the roads clear?

THE SIDE STREETS YOU DUMBASS. WHERE PEOPLE LIVE. My main street close to my house was only cleared this morning, but the neighborhood is still mostly unplowed.

More specifically. All the side streets I've driven by have been clear upcounty/midcounty. And my coworkers tell me their downcounty streets have been plowed.

Is the issue that people expect to see a full lane of pavement without any snow on it?

As I look out of my office window here in Montgomery Village, I currently see a car spinning its wheels in the street.

And I bet the road they're on has been plowed, no? You can drive on snow if you're not an idiot. And the idiots can't drive without snow, either, which is why we see accidents every day.

[Anonymous]

All the side streets in my Kensington neighborhood are still unplowed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PG county just announced closed until Friday at earliest. MCPS will probably be the same.

That’s really dumb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PG county just announced closed until Friday at earliest. MCPS will probably be the same.

That’s really dumb

Why can’t they move school online starting Wednesday? At least the kids would get some instruction in. It’s not like the infrastructure doesn’t exist post-Covid

[Anonymous]

I'm currently watching a UPS van just spin its wheels in our neighborhood parking lot. The plows have been through once or twice but it all keeps freezing over. My money is Wednesday odd at the very least.

[Anonymous]

off, not odd. 😀

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roads will probably all be cleared today.

There is no way, PP. Most of the county isn't plowed, they need two days (so Wednesday as well) if they're very diligent. I could see school on Thursday.

Where aren't the roads clear?

THE SIDE STREETS YOU DUMBASS. WHERE PEOPLE LIVE. My main street close to my house was only cleared this morning, but the neighborhood is still mostly unplowed.

More specifically. All the side streets I've driven by have been clear upcounty/midcounty. And my coworkers tell me their downcounty streets have been plowed.

Is the issue that people expect to see a full lane of pavement without any snow on it?

PP you replied to. No, I am talking first pass plowing, obviously. I live in Bethesda and have no trouble driving on squashed plowed snow. But I cannot drive in 6 inches of sleetpack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roads will probably all be cleared today.

There is no way, PP. Most of the county isn't plowed, they need two days (so Wednesday as well) if they're very diligent. I could see school on Thursday.

Where aren't the roads clear?

THE SIDE STREETS YOU DUMBASS. WHERE PEOPLE LIVE. My main street close to my house was only cleared this morning, but the neighborhood is still mostly unplowed.

My side street in Rockville hasn't been plowed yet.