FCPS closed Monday

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any avenue to complain about these teacher planning days and early release day? And things like this to keep people accountable?

Email your school board members. They are aware how brutally unpopular the schedule is, and unlike some other issues, removing early release is fully in their control and doesn’t impact any group’s disproportionately.

Unfortunately, I think the PP is less concerned with providing more time for his child’s education (which he clearly isn’t working on furthering, himself) than he is at removing what he perceives as some kind of “treat” from teachers. Luckily, in all my years as a teacher, I have only twice encountered children with this kind of personality disorder.

Eh, early release (particularly on Weds) and the 2025-26 calendar have been deeply unpopular since the summer. It was completely foreseeable that every additional disruption is going to be met with a lot more frustration. That’s why FCPS doing nothing for a week and then closing schools is going to trigger more anger.

Yes, and I know where that anger will be directed, and it’s not at the people who actually have any power to change the calendar.

I’m not sure what thread you’re but I think Michelle Reid has quite a lot of power to change the calendar.

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Anonymous wrote:The SACC Facebook page says that FCPS is wrong and SACC is closed. WTF is going on. This is ridiculous. Are they open or closed? We need to arrange childcare now.

I wondered how that was going to work to get full staffing for all day... too good to be true. Make other plans.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you guys complaining? See how iced up the sidewalks are? Perhaps you should do some shoveling instead of being lazy..
SACC is open as well as mentioned before, so might as well send my children there. Not a big problem, see?

SACC is not open. The incompetent people in charge of FCPS managed to screw that up and confuse everyone. So yeah there is a problem for parents who have to be at work and need childcare.

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Anonymous wrote:The SACC Facebook page says that FCPS is wrong and SACC is closed. WTF is going on. This is ridiculous. Are they open or closed? We need to arrange childcare now.

According to the SACC website, they are closed on Monday too and the FCPS alert was incorrect. They should be sending a correction soon. Everybody is SOL.

The SACC confusion (of course they are closed when schools are closed) is a clear indicator that FCPS had originally planned to just delay and switched when they saw what other nearby school districts were doing.

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Anonymous wrote:Good call, FCPS. Bus stops are mounds of ice. Sidewalks unshoveled. Roads around our school have 1.5 lanes with no sidewalks.

We have 10 snow days. We have used 2.5 of them.

6 OF THEM

Counting tomorrow, it’ll be 3.5 snow days used. Thurs/Friday last week were scheduled teacher workdays and wed was early release for end of quarter - so none of those days count as snow days.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you guys complaining? See how iced up the sidewalks are? Perhaps you should do some shoveling instead of being lazy..
SACC is open as well as mentioned before, so might as well send my children there. Not a big problem, see?

SACC is not open. The incompetent people in charge of FCPS managed to screw that up and confuse everyone. So yeah there is a problem for parents who have to be at work and need childcare.

I am shocked FCPS got that so wrong and put it in their official messaging. Of course SACC cannot provide all day care. Someone here even asked how will that work right after it was posted. FCPS parents who want to rail at teachers look insane when it’s clear the real issues are at the top. FCPS was the last district to announce AND got the details about childcare options wrong, putting parents in a scramble at 6 pm on Sunday. That is a real issue but it gets drowned out by the crazies yelling about pulling teachers in to shovel or stop paying teachers.

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This is ridiculous. How about we fine people for not clearing their sidewalks and have school on Tuesday.

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. How about we fine people for not clearing their sidewalks and have school on Tuesday.

As long as we also audit the FCPS snow removal contracts. Nothing has fallen in a week.

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. How about we fine people for not clearing their sidewalks and have school on Tuesday.

Who is supposed to do the sidewalks along public roads (not residential)? Example: Stringfellow Rd to Chantilly.

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Anonymous wrote:Just stop paying the teachers and let's see how long it takes before they want to start working again

Are you also on board to pay teachers for all the years when fcps didn’t close for all the alloted snow days in their contracts. It has been some time since schools have closed for more than eight days.

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. How about we fine people for not clearing their sidewalks and have school on Tuesday.

I’m up for that. In my neighborhood the guy who lives next to the bus stop only clears the sidewalk in front of his house, not on the side where the bus stop is. So someone else always has to do it. This year I think it was just too hard with the solid ice that formed there, along with mounds of snow from the plows

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. How about we fine people for not clearing their sidewalks and have school on Tuesday.

Who is supposed to do the sidewalks along public roads (not residential)? Example: Stringfellow Rd to Chantilly.

The county should take responsibility for these sidewalks that are on major roadways but not in front of houses or businesses. We pay enough in taxes… how about a critical service? VDOT did the roads, the schools cleared their property, the county should handle these sidewalks/paths.

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. How about we fine people for not clearing their sidewalks and have school on Tuesday.

I can't get this ice up even with a pick axe. And I shoveled every two hours while it was sleeting to stay on top of it, so it's not like I was lazy about letting it build up.

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Anonymous wrote:The early releases really need to be canceled.
Reid snuck them in again this year without notice or justification. The previous year they were announced very late with the stated justification being new state mandates training. There was no reason given for this year.

The reason is that FCPS is not meeting the required planning time for ES teachers.

How so?

ES Teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any avenue to complain about these teacher planning days and early release day? And things like this to keep people accountable?

Email your school board members. They are aware how brutally unpopular the schedule is, and unlike some other issues, removing early release is fully in their control and doesn’t impact any group’s disproportionately.

Unfortunately, I think the PP is less concerned with providing more time for his child’s education (which he clearly isn’t working on furthering, himself) than he is at removing what he perceives as some kind of “treat” from teachers. Luckily, in all my years as a teacher, I have only twice encountered children with this kind of personality disorder.

Eh, early release (particularly on Weds) and the 2025-26 calendar have been deeply unpopular since the summer. It was completely foreseeable that every additional disruption is going to be met with a lot more frustration. That’s why FCPS doing nothing for a week and then closing schools is going to trigger more anger.

Yes, and I know where that anger will be directed, and it’s not at the people who actually have any power to change the calendar.

I’m not sure what thread you’re but I think Michelle Reid has quite a lot of power to change the calendar.

He might write her a nasty email, to which she will send a form letter reply, and then he will find more accessible targets for his rage, ones which our society has approved worthy of denigration. He is probably an ICE employee who likes abusing immigrants because it makes him feel more like a man.