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How are DC schools open when VA and MD are closed?
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Anonymous
| If that happens, DC will close early after all the kids have lunch. For a lot of these kids it's the only decent meal they will eat. |
Anonymous
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OP - lemme get this straight: you think DC schools - and the federal government - should close today because Montgomery County and Fairfax County schools are closed?
I really have no response to that "logic" (using the loosest possible definition of the term). As others have pointed out, it's RAINING in DC. Raining. |
Anonymous
| Arlington Co. is open. However, it is their early release day...so kids should be home before the bulk of it. |
Anonymous
Hello, FFX and MoCo are closed because we're supposed to be getting a ton of snow starting early this afternoon, before school lets out. Not because it is currently raining. |
Anonymous
| Why in the world would the federal government close just b/c schools close?? Back up care people... or th horror, take a day off. All of us who work in the private sector figure it out, you feds can too. |
Anonymous
So the federal governenment and DC schools shoeu close because suburban counties are expecting significant snow later in the afternoon (snow that hasn't started yet). In what world does that make sense? |
Anonymous
Snow is started to start coming down before 2 PM. |
Anonymous
So what? |
Anonymous
| The surrounding counties are closed because they are huge geographically. Both FFX and MC has snow and ice early this morning when the busses had to be rolling to pick up the HS kids. In those conditions, it probably made sense to do a 2 hour delay. However, with snow predicted this afternoon to start anywhere from 2-5pm, they might have had to close early, resulting in a useless school day. DC didn't face that level of transportation nightmare, to be frank. |
Anonymous
| ACPS is closing at 1. |
Anonymous
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Not sure about VA, but this morning in MD it was a winter mix of snow sleet rain freezing rain etc.
Still probably would have been doable to have school for a half day, but often when DC gets rain or less snow, MD gets sleet or freezing rain or more snow. This afternoon I think they're calling for either 3-6 or 4-8 inches of snow and some fairly nasty conditions. |
Anonymous
| I know this area is not set up for winter weather, but it is getting a bit ridiculous when people want schools closed because snow might start after 2 pm. At worst there will be more traffic, and maybe one or two idiots who end up in a ditch because they drive like the laws of physics don't apply to them. I see trucks putting down salt on side streets. And it's not even freezing. |
Anonymous
Exactly this. The early morning transportation issue coupled with the afternoon transportation issue. (My kids' elem school doesn't dismiss until 3:55 pm and then ride the bus home, getting home about 4:30... just when we're supposed to get slammed with snow). By the way, OPM just announced that the federal government is doing a 2 hour early dismissal for the DC area. |
Anonymous
I know this is just based on my personal contact with the DCPS teachers, which is limited, but aren't most teachers child-free? That's a big part of the disconnect some of our teachers have with assigning homework and so on. I don't know why I should feel sorry for a person commuting into a job that pays them 80k+ when they have no kids. Wusses. |
Anonymous
I REALLY hope this is a joke or something. |