01/17 -2 Hour delay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my day, we bundled up in coats, hats and gloves and went to school on time on cold days.

Totally sissyfication of America. We are making our children weak.

You’re just an embarrassing person. I feel sorry for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I predict that they will move to a full cancellation. I was just out in our neighborhood and there is a lot of ice. It's going to be 13 degrees tomorrow so nothing is going to melt.

I do too. Bad fall from mcps and I cannot wait to get my kids back to school

How was it a fail? MCPS does not control the weather. 2 h delay was the right call but I hope they reevaluate conditions tomorrow morning and then close if conditions are unsafe

[Anonymous]

Why do they never do a 3 h delay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unreal. McKnight doesn’t care about actually educating kids in the classroom, clearly.

Well if Americans weren’t so sue-happy this wouldn’t be as tough of a call. One kid slips on ice and hits their head, parents sue. Parents can’t sue for too many two hour delays.

Kids leave to go to school in HS before 7 and when it's dark out/not enough time for the ice to melt. Some neighborhoods don't have sidewalks. Some kids walk up to two miles to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my day, we bundled up in coats, hats and gloves and went to school on time on cold days.

Totally sissyfication of America. We are making our children weak.

In your day you didn't live in Montgomery County, MD.

-- local

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unreal. McKnight doesn’t care about actually educating kids in the classroom, clearly.

What were the options, go virtual or delay. You would complain at both. This isn't why kids are struggling. This reason is because their parents cannot be bothered with them and want to dump them at school for free babysitting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unreal. McKnight doesn’t care about actually educating kids in the classroom, clearly.

All of the surrounding counties will follow suit. You just want someone to blame because you don’t want to actually parent your child, clearly.

A lot of districts called it BEFORE this one. So the PP moaning about McKnight clearly should moan about all the other Supers too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do they never do a 3 h delay?

They make a set of alternative schedules (2.5hr early release, 2hr delay, etc) and work everything out for buses to service elementary, middle and high schools. Don't forget that schools all share the same buses. So there cannot be a 3hr delay schedule, it doesn't work out with the bus distances in traffic, they wouldn't have time to get everyone back and forth for every school.

Logistical operations for such a large county are a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my day, we bundled up in coats, hats and gloves and went to school on time on cold days.

Totally sissyfication of America. We are making our children weak.

In your day you didn't live in Montgomery County, MD.

-- local

Exactly! I graduated from MCPS in the mid-1990s. In my day, tomorrow would've been a closing with the amount of snow we got - and Thursday would've been a 2-hour delay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my day, we bundled up in coats, hats and gloves and went to school on time on cold days.

Totally sissyfication of America. We are making our children weak.

You’re just an embarrassing person. I feel sorry for your kids.

Saying “in my day” makes you sound ancient

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my day, we bundled up in coats, hats and gloves and went to school on time on cold days.

Totally sissyfication of America. We are making our children weak.

lol I grew up in Canada. Never had a snow day, temps were often -30 with a lot of snow. What kind of buses do we have here in MCPS that they won't start at 21F?

[Anonymous]

Anyone else catch the “MCSP”? Goodness….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my day, we bundled up in coats, hats and gloves and went to school on time on cold days.

Totally sissyfication of America. We are making our children weak.

In your day you didn't live in Montgomery County, MD.

-- local

Exactly! I graduated from MCPS in the mid-1990s. In my day, tomorrow would've been a closing with the amount of snow we got - and Thursday would've been a 2-hour delay.

I’d really like a closing tomorrow. Kids can sleep in late and then play in the snow for another day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my day, we bundled up in coats, hats and gloves and went to school on time on cold days.

Totally sissyfication of America. We are making our children weak.

lol I grew up in Canada. Never had a snow day, temps were often -30 with a lot of snow. What kind of buses do we have here in MCPS that they won't start at 21F?

There hasn’t been a snow like this for 3 years. The roads are not treated and quickly plowed like in Canada. Most people are not prepared to drive in this condition as snow tire is not needed here.

When I lived in a state that never closes for snow, I actually hated it as I still had to drive on the highway during blizzard in the early morning and actually had car accidents with five other cars. Nobody cared!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my day, we bundled up in coats, hats and gloves and went to school on time on cold days.

Totally sissyfication of America. We are making our children weak.

lol I grew up in Canada. Never had a snow day, temps were often -30 with a lot of snow. What kind of buses do we have here in MCPS that they won't start at 21F?

1. Snowplows don't know how to plow properly and there aren't enough of them, because usually they're not needed.
2. Not enough personnel to shovel and salt, for the same reason.
3. Ice on the road is more of an issue at the margin of freezing. In really cold climates, when it gets reliably very cold all winter, it's less of a problem. Here it's always a problem, and that changes the calculus for closures and safety procedures. Ice is by far the most dangerous state.
4. Windshield wiper fluid. The year round one is cheaper and generally works for DC temperatures, people don't think to change it to winter fluid.
5. This area spends most of its energy money in A/C in the summer!!! That's where all their efforts go.

So have some understanding and tolerance. I come from a colder place too, the kind where people can unwittingly drive onto frozen lakes (Dad, looking at you).
But I understand southern places like DC are not equipped, and it would be unreasonable and onerous to do so for the minuscule number of cold days they have.