Close or delay for cold?

[Anonymous]

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MCPS delayed 2 hrs Wednesday AND Thursday.

The writing is on the wall. It’s going to be colder tomorrow than it was this morning and the advisory for negative wind chills goes through 11 am. It’s a no brainer they’re delaying. Imagine buses can’t start and are late and kids are standing in temps that can induce hypothermia. They’ll have the bus drivers arrive on time and kids late to make sure this doesn’t happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Do we think tomorrow will delay to due to the same weather?

No. This was a one time thing.

Why do you think that? Its a thing based on weather, so presumably would be the same for the same weather?

Stop with the logic. These decisions are not logical. They looked bad today delaying 2 hours and will not do it again tomorrow.

They… really don’t. That decision was in line with every other large district in this area.

Why does the size of the district matter on this topic if we closed because it's cold? I don't get it. Buses start or they don't. Kids are able to be outside in the cold or they're not.

Loudoun and MG County got more snow than us based on where they sit in the region.

It is easy to GOOGLE! Strictly going on the SIZE of the bus fleet due to the SIZE of the district and NUMBER of kids using transportation.
FCPS has a fleet of 1630+ school buses.Diesel power non heat block and About 50 of 1630 are electric, the fleet is the second largest school bus fleet in the country(New York city is largest) For perspective Greyhound has just over 1700 busses.

This is predicated on the idea the FCPS buses couldn't start this morning. If there is some percentage failure rate as you seem to think there would be at these temperatures (based on zero evidence this occurred by the way), ACPS and APS would experience this as well and it would impact some similar percentage of their student body, bus drivers, bus mechanics or personnel tasked with supporting buses.

It would make sense if you told me FCPS uses different buses than everyone else.

No idea what kind of Buses APS and ACPS use.nor how old they are Only that there are far fewer and less students use over a smaller area than fcps. Also no idea how many technicians each district has for repairs.

No one has returned with any logic as to why more buses means FCPS can't open on time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do we think tomorrow will delay to due to the same weather?

No. This was a one time thing.

Why do you think that? Its a thing based on weather, so presumably would be the same for the same weather?

Stop with the logic. These decisions are not logical. They looked bad today delaying 2 hours and will not do it again tomorrow.

They… really don’t. That decision was in line with every other large district in this area.

Why does the size of the district matter on this topic if we closed because it's cold? I don't get it. Buses start or they don't. Kids are able to be outside in the cold or they're not.

Loudoun and MG County got more snow than us based on where they sit in the region.

It is easy to GOOGLE! Strictly going on the SIZE of the bus fleet due to the SIZE of the district and NUMBER of kids using transportation.
FCPS has a fleet of 1630+ school buses.Diesel power non heat block and About 50 of 1630 are electric, the fleet is the second largest school bus fleet in the country(New York city is largest) For perspective Greyhound has just over 1700 busses.

This is predicated on the idea the FCPS buses couldn't start this morning. If there is some percentage failure rate as you seem to think there would be at these temperatures (based on zero evidence this occurred by the way), ACPS and APS would experience this as well and it would impact some similar percentage of their student body, bus drivers, bus mechanics or personnel tasked with supporting buses.

It would make sense if you told me FCPS uses different buses than everyone else.

No idea what kind of Buses APS and ACPS use.nor how old they are Only that there are far fewer and less students use over a smaller area than fcps. Also no idea how many technicians each district has for repairs.

No one has returned with any logic as to why more buses means FCPS can't open on time.

They’re waiting for you to put on your thinking cap and figure it out. C’mon, just try. You might get there.

[Anonymous]

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MCPS delayed 2 hrs Wednesday AND Thursday.

The writing is on the wall. It’s going to be colder tomorrow than it was this morning and the advisory for negative wind chills goes through 11 am. It’s a no brainer they’re delaying. Imagine buses can’t start and are late and kids are standing in temps that can induce hypothermia. They’ll have the bus drivers arrive on time and kids late to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Yet these are not actual things that are happening or would happen.

[Anonymous]

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MCPS delayed 2 hrs Wednesday AND Thursday.

The writing is on the wall. It’s going to be colder tomorrow than it was this morning and the advisory for negative wind chills goes through 11 am. It’s a no brainer they’re delaying. Imagine buses can’t start and are late and kids are standing in temps that can induce hypothermia. They’ll have the bus drivers arrive on time and kids late to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Yet these are not actual things that are happening or would happen.

Ok. It’s going to be a delay whether you believe extreme cold weather affects kids or diesel or not.

[Anonymous]

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MCPS delayed 2 hrs Wednesday AND Thursday.

The writing is on the wall. It’s going to be colder tomorrow than it was this morning and the advisory for negative wind chills goes through 11 am. It’s a no brainer they’re delaying. Imagine buses can’t start and are late and kids are standing in temps that can induce hypothermia. They’ll have the bus drivers arrive on time and kids late to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Yet these are not actual things that are happening or would happen.

Ok. It’s going to be a delay whether you believe extreme cold weather affects kids or diesel or not.

This is laughably circular. It only affects certain buses and certain kids somehow.

MCPS and Loudoun are citing road conditions and plowing concerns in their explanations. Not buses can't start and cold kids.
Also, check out the map of how much snow fell. They got more snow on Sunday.

[Anonymous]

All I know is my assistant principal told me he had to jump start a bus this morning from his car since it was too cold

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MCPS delayed 2 hrs Wednesday AND Thursday.

The writing is on the wall. It’s going to be colder tomorrow than it was this morning and the advisory for negative wind chills goes through 11 am. It’s a no brainer they’re delaying. Imagine buses can’t start and are late and kids are standing in temps that can induce hypothermia. They’ll have the bus drivers arrive on time and kids late to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Yet these are not actual things that are happening or would happen.

Ok. It’s going to be a delay whether you believe extreme cold weather affects kids or diesel or not.

This is laughably circular. It only affects certain buses and certain kids somehow.

MCPS and Loudoun are citing road conditions and plowing concerns in their explanations. Not buses can't start and cold kids.
Also, check out the map of how much snow fell. They got more snow on Sunday.

Its also, or totally, about kids who walk a mile to school without proper gear for zero windchills

[Anonymous]

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MCPS delayed 2 hrs Wednesday AND Thursday.

The writing is on the wall. It’s going to be colder tomorrow than it was this morning and the advisory for negative wind chills goes through 11 am. It’s a no brainer they’re delaying. Imagine buses can’t start and are late and kids are standing in temps that can induce hypothermia. They’ll have the bus drivers arrive on time and kids late to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Yet these are not actual things that are happening or would happen.

Ok. It’s going to be a delay whether you believe extreme cold weather affects kids or diesel or not.

This is laughably circular. It only affects certain buses and certain kids somehow.

MCPS and Loudoun are citing road conditions and plowing concerns in their explanations. Not buses can't start and cold kids.
Also, check out the map of how much snow fell. They got more snow on Sunday.

and do you know how much western Fairfax got or every specific area within the 400+ square miles FCPS encompasses?Perhaps the supe will also send a message out regarding reason for delay( if another one is coming). There is a person on this thread that just wants hard evidence that clearly is new to the area or just now has kids in early ES. From the past decade, I can tell you this has always occurred (delays/closures) when there is extreme cold ( and for VA that is single digits and negative wind chills in the morning)in FCPS. It’s not new. Neither is a delay or closure for snow that accumulates even 1 inch( or even fraction of freezing rain). Not evidence but , it is what it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:




MCPS delayed 2 hrs Wednesday AND Thursday.

The writing is on the wall. It’s going to be colder tomorrow than it was this morning and the advisory for negative wind chills goes through 11 am. It’s a no brainer they’re delaying. Imagine buses can’t start and are late and kids are standing in temps that can induce hypothermia. They’ll have the bus drivers arrive on time and kids late to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Yet these are not actual things that are happening or would happen.

Ok. It’s going to be a delay whether you believe extreme cold weather affects kids or diesel or not.

This is laughably circular. It only affects certain buses and certain kids somehow.

MCPS and Loudoun are citing road conditions and plowing concerns in their explanations. Not buses can't start and cold kids.
Also, check out the map of how much snow fell. They got more snow on Sunday.

Yes yes. You win! Fairfax is the only county in the metro region impervious to a polar vortex. They and they alone will be open on time tomorrow!

[Anonymous]

the alert from yesterday is gone....... will a new one come LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:




MCPS delayed 2 hrs Wednesday AND Thursday.

The writing is on the wall. It’s going to be colder tomorrow than it was this morning and the advisory for negative wind chills goes through 11 am. It’s a no brainer they’re delaying. Imagine buses can’t start and are late and kids are standing in temps that can induce hypothermia. They’ll have the bus drivers arrive on time and kids late to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Yet these are not actual things that are happening or would happen.

Ok. It’s going to be a delay whether you believe extreme cold weather affects kids or diesel or not.

This is laughably circular. It only affects certain buses and certain kids somehow.

MCPS and Loudoun are citing road conditions and plowing concerns in their explanations. Not buses can't start and cold kids.
Also, check out the map of how much snow fell. They got more snow on Sunday.

Yes yes. You win! Fairfax is the only county in the metro region impervious to a polar vortex. They and they alone will be open on time tomorrow!

"No current alerts" on the site. We will know soon.

[Anonymous]

The alert for today is off the website so I guess we will know soon what the plan is. I hope they still say if the plan is to open on time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The alert for today is off the website so I guess we will know soon what the plan is. I hope they still say if the plan is to open on time.

Usually, they do.

[Anonymous]

Delayed tomorrow