Too early to talk about Tuesday weather

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher and parent here. I like a couple of snow days, but the stress due to MCPS not building them into the schedule has me worrying about how late it will go into the summer if we have a lot of snow. Why can’t they build in the days like Fairfax county? Every year it’s like this.

I thought they count minutes not days. I wish Maryland would move to that model, MCPS exceeds that amount by a lot.

Fairfax County does that, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meteorologists have been predicting a less-snowy weather than average. They could be wrong, of course, because a few miles can make the difference between a winter storm and some passing snowflakes... but the MAIN thing is DO NOT TRUST WEATHER APPS. For accurate snow predictions you need to listen to meterologists: for example, those at Capital Weather Gang (WaPo), or those on American Weather Forum online, etc... There are some decent met-adjacent presenters on TV, but a lot of them will be tempted to just look at apps and say "oh look, we could be getting as much as 3 feet!". When all along they know it's going to be 3 inches max.

Not according to that hottie Doug Kammerer: https://mocoshow.com/2025/11/10/18-30-inches-projected-by-nbc4s-doug-kammerer-predicts-snowy-cold-winter-ahead/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher and parent here. I like a couple of snow days, but the stress due to MCPS not building them into the schedule has me worrying about how late it will go into the summer if we have a lot of snow. Why can’t they build in the days like Fairfax county? Every year it’s like this.

We used to have more extra days built into the calendar. When my first was in kindergarten, we had 184 days scheduled, but since then we’ve added extra non instructional days (most recently the transition day and the day before Thanksgiving), so here we are. MCPS pleases no one by trying to please everyone. To give each constituency the days off they want and honor staff contracts, while meeting the requirement of 180 instructional days, we get one single built in snow day.

This is my family’s last year in MCPS. I’m cool with snow days because seniors don’t have to make up days tacked onto the end of the year. I feel for families with elementary school students, though. They’re the ones who take the brunt of it.

Why don't they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meteorologists have been predicting a less-snowy weather than average. They could be wrong, of course, because a few miles can make the difference between a winter storm and some passing snowflakes... but the MAIN thing is DO NOT TRUST WEATHER APPS. For accurate snow predictions you need to listen to meterologists: for example, those at Capital Weather Gang (WaPo), or those on American Weather Forum online, etc... There are some decent met-adjacent presenters on TV, but a lot of them will be tempted to just look at apps and say "oh look, we could be getting as much as 3 feet!". When all along they know it's going to be 3 inches max.

Not according to that hottie Doug Kammerer: https://mocoshow.com/2025/11/10/18-30-inches-projected-by-nbc4s-doug-kammerer-predicts-snowy-cold-winter-ahead/

Oh Mrs.K, you really need to tend to your family not be on here.

[Anonymous]

Give Tues and Wed off. Code purple or whatever it was for virtual asynchronous day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher and parent here. I like a couple of snow days, but the stress due to MCPS not building them into the schedule has me worrying about how late it will go into the summer if we have a lot of snow. Why can’t they build in the days like Fairfax county? Every year it’s like this.

FFX has fewer other days off, producing strains elsewhere in the calendar.

VA calculates things differently, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give Tues and Wed off. Code purple or whatever it was for virtual asynchronous day.

No more virtual days anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meteorologists have been predicting a less-snowy weather than average. They could be wrong, of course, because a few miles can make the difference between a winter storm and some passing snowflakes... but the MAIN thing is DO NOT TRUST WEATHER APPS. For accurate snow predictions you need to listen to meterologists: for example, those at Capital Weather Gang (WaPo), or those on American Weather Forum online, etc... There are some decent met-adjacent presenters on TV, but a lot of them will be tempted to just look at apps and say "oh look, we could be getting as much as 3 feet!". When all along they know it's going to be 3 inches max.

Not according to that hottie Doug Kammerer: https://mocoshow.com/2025/11/10/18-30-inches-projected-by-nbc4s-doug-kammerer-predicts-snowy-cold-winter-ahead/

He is quite handsome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give Tues and Wed off. Code purple or whatever it was for virtual asynchronous day.

Parents flipped out about virtual and asynchronous so it’s all gone. Oh well….youll have to get your kids to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
FFX has fewer other days off, producing strains elsewhere in the calendar.

VA calculates things differently, too.

Yes, because Virginia has a requirement for the number of instructional hours only. Maryland, on the other hand, has a minimum number of hours AND days. So even if a MD county meets the minimum number of hours, but not the 180 days, they have to extend the school year to meet that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give Tues and Wed off. Code purple or whatever it was for virtual asynchronous day.

No more virtual days anymore.

They need to bring back virtual days until the makeup day law is changed. Ending school the week of June 22 with an August 17 teacher report day makes summer very short for teachers. Summer 2024 went Friday, June 14-Sunday, August 18 for teachers (9 weeks). A June 22 or 23, 2026 last day along with an August 17 report day leaves less than 8 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Come on two hour delay!!

[Anonymous]

I'm calling it! No school Tues/Wed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give Tues and Wed off. Code purple or whatever it was for virtual asynchronous day.

No more virtual days anymore.

They need to bring back virtual days until the makeup day law is changed. Ending school the week of June 22 with an August 17 teacher report day makes summer very short for teachers. Summer 2024 went Friday, June 14-Sunday, August 18 for teachers (9 weeks). A June 22 or 23, 2026 last day along with an August 17 report day leaves less than 8 weeks.

Lady, no one wants virtual days! Bring back the Larry Hogan mandate (Labor Day and June 15th end) that's a true and proper summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meteorologists have been predicting a less-snowy weather than average. They could be wrong, of course, because a few miles can make the difference between a winter storm and some passing snowflakes... but the MAIN thing is DO NOT TRUST WEATHER APPS. For accurate snow predictions you need to listen to meterologists: for example, those at Capital Weather Gang (WaPo), or those on American Weather Forum online, etc... There are some decent met-adjacent presenters on TV, but a lot of them will be tempted to just look at apps and say "oh look, we could be getting as much as 3 feet!". When all along they know it's going to be 3 inches max.

Not according to that hottie Doug Kammerer: https://mocoshow.com/2025/11/10/18-30-inches-projected-by-nbc4s-doug-kammerer-predicts-snowy-cold-winter-ahead/

He is quite handsome.

Hi Doug