Bets on late start Monday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bus drivers are to report 30 minutes early and monitor local news channels and radio as FCPS will reassess in the morning.

Why? What will change at 5:30? it will still be 16 (feels like 1).

The condition of the roads come the morning will be assessed. The ability of the busses to actually get turned on will be assessed.

Growing up, they almost always waited for the morning and drove a few representative bus runs around 4:30am to gauge actual morning conditions. Then, they decided if it was going to be safe to put buses on those roads or if they had to delay or cancel. Why would they make a call tonight instead of waiting to see the conditions the busses will actually face?

It sucks for dual working homes but being able to pivot as needed to care for your kids comes with being a parent. I've already sent emails to key people reminding them I may have to make last minute changes to my day tomorrow because of the chance of a delay.

This makes sense, but growing up, we didn't have the technology that we have today, which can help us to assess the situation earlier.
In this way, she (Michelle Reid) is torturing parents. This is not OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bus drivers are to report 30 minutes early and monitor local news channels and radio as FCPS will reassess in the morning.

Not trying to doubt but what is your source?

Email that went out to drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bus drivers are to report 30 minutes early and monitor local news channels and radio as FCPS will reassess in the morning.

Why? What will change at 5:30? it will still be 16 (feels like 1).

The condition of the roads come the morning will be assessed. The ability of the busses to actually get turned on will be assessed.

Growing up, they almost always waited for the morning and drove a few representative bus runs around 4:30am to gauge actual morning conditions. Then, they decided if it was going to be safe to put buses on those roads or if they had to delay or cancel. Why would they make a call tonight instead of waiting to see the conditions the busses will actually face?

It sucks for dual working homes but being able to pivot as needed to care for your kids comes with being a parent. I've already sent emails to key people reminding them I may have to make last minute changes to my day tomorrow because of the chance of a delay.

This makes sense, but growing up, we didn't have the technology that we have today, which can help us to assess the situation earlier.
In this way, she (Michelle Reid) is torturing parents. This is not OK.

Not just parents, everybody.

[Anonymous]

Stop complaining.

For god's sake, people lost kids at Brow,n and you all are spewing about the weather.

The US is imploding, and you are all spewing about the weather.

Just stop already.
This is not hard the school system is not responsible for your child care.

You had kids in the US what the hell did you expect.

Weather happens it's unpredicable, move on get over it and shut up. Stop having kids you don't want to take care of. Ice is unsafe. Cold temps like tomorrow are unsafe.

Stop complaining

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining.

For god's sake, people lost kids at Brow,n and you all are spewing about the weather.

The US is imploding, and you are all spewing about the weather.

Just stop already.
This is not hard the school system is not responsible for your child care.

You had kids in the US what the hell did you expect.


Weather happens it's unpredicable, move on get over it and shut up. Stop having kids you don't want to take care of. Ice is unsafe. Cold temps like tomorrow are unsafe.

Stop complaining

Well guess what? Maybe the world wasn’t quite so bad then. Maybe we had hope that the world could change for the better. And maybe, just maybe, people are scared that their kids’ bus would crash and the’d lose them too? Have compassion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just drove through our neighborhood. Black ice all over. I am an experienced driver and even I had to be very cautious. I cannot imagine kids tomorrow driving, they already park like idiots.

KIDS CAN RIDE THE YELLOW BUS....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bus drivers are to report 30 minutes early and monitor local news channels and radio as FCPS will reassess in the morning.

Why? What will change at 5:30? it will still be 16 (feels like 1).

The condition of the roads come the morning will be assessed. The ability of the busses to actually get turned on will be assessed.

Growing up, they almost always waited for the morning and drove a few representative bus runs around 4:30am to gauge actual morning conditions. Then, they decided if it was going to be safe to put buses on those roads or if they had to delay or cancel. Why would they make a call tonight instead of waiting to see the conditions the busses will actually face?

It sucks for dual working homes but being able to pivot as needed to care for your kids comes with being a parent. I've already sent emails to key people reminding them I may have to make last minute changes to my day tomorrow because of the chance of a delay.

This makes sense, but growing up, we didn't have the technology that we have today, which can help us to assess the situation earlier.
In this way, she (Michelle Reid) is torturing parents. This is not OK.

Not necessarily. How many times this year alone have people been demanding a delay or closure the night before only for it to be 100% the right call to open the schools. It sucks but again, sometimes we really do need to just wait and see what the roads look like in the morning. It isn't torture, it's exactly what our parents did every time there was a snowstorm. Welcome to being a parent.

[Anonymous]

This is the way things are in the county. The people making the decisions keep everything in secret and offer no transparency on decisions. There are only a few people you make any decisions and a hundred incompetent “yes men/women”. Look at the boundary fiasco with Langley and the new school with Westfield population being cut in half. They keep things in secret until the last second bc they know they will upset someone and don’t want to deal with it

[Anonymous]

are people this unhappy in other parts of the country? jeez, i've been reading the last few snow day threads and opinions are STRONG in both directions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining.

For god's sake, people lost kids at Brow,n and you all are spewing about the weather.

The US is imploding, and you are all spewing about the weather.

Just stop already.
This is not hard the school system is not responsible for your child care.

You had kids in the US what the hell did you expect.


Weather happens it's unpredicable, move on get over it and shut up. Stop having kids you don't want to take care of. Ice is unsafe. Cold temps like tomorrow are unsafe.

Stop complaining

Well guess what? Maybe the world wasn’t quite so bad then. Maybe we had hope that the world could change for the better. And maybe, just maybe, people are scared that their kids’ bus would crash and the’d lose them too? Have compassion

+1
And saying “they will be fine” does not reassure them.

[Anonymous]

Do you think the waiting is more to see if they should delay vs close? I think otherwise, they would have called a 2-hour delay already based on past decisions.

[Anonymous]

Reid just sent her weekly email. Here is the first paragraph:

I trust this note finds each of you well, especially as we deal with really cold temperatures this weekend. I want to share that staff have been driving our roads this afternoon and evening and all looks ready for school tomorrow. I trust that you each will dress warmly and travel safely in the morning. Please give yourselves plenty of time to drive given our winter conditions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think the waiting is more to see if they should delay vs close? I think otherwise, they would have called a 2-hour delay already based on past decisions.

They are incompetent. They’ll wait until morning—like it’s 30 years ago—to look out the window and “assess the situation.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reid just sent her weekly email. Here is the first paragraph:

I trust this note finds each of you well, especially as we deal with really cold temperatures this weekend. I want to share that staff have been driving our roads this afternoon and evening and all looks ready for school tomorrow. I trust that you each will dress warmly and travel safely in the morning. Please give yourselves plenty of time to drive given our winter conditions.

As a former teacher and school administrator, she must know what a demoralizing message it is to students and educators as counties all around us close in the interest of safety. Better to not say anything. But here we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reid just sent her weekly email. Here is the first paragraph:

I trust this note finds each of you well, especially as we deal with really cold temperatures this weekend. I want to share that staff have been driving our roads this afternoon and evening and all looks ready for school tomorrow. I trust that you each will dress warmly and travel safely in the morning. Please give yourselves plenty of time to drive given our winter conditions.

Heh. Black ice does look ready to cause crashes tomorrow doesn’t it