Will DCPS be closed tomorrow (Wednesday)?

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Anonymous wrote:OMG people look at a weather report.

Yes, I'm sure Georgia Avenue was easy to drive down at 4pm this afternoon after multiple passes with snowplows and spending much of the day in the sun with cars driving over it to heat up the road.

And overnight, the melted snow on the road is going to freeze solid into black ice, the snow plowed in the parking lane is going to freeze solid into slippery little mountains obstructing cars and pedestrians. Any sidewalks that were fully cleared on Monday will be good, every other sidewalk will be a slippery mess. And it will be 10 degrees during morning rush, in a city where it rarely dips below freezing more than a handful of times in the winter, so plenty of kids don't even own proper snow boots or waterproof mittens.

Y'all do not understand how bad it was going to be tomorrow if they reopened. Even with a two hour delay, school's would be half empty and kids would be doubling up classrooms with teachers out and subs unable to get in.

AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! You could just go out and drive around and see for yourself. It's not that bad. This all seems a tad silly.

No, what is no big deal is just keeping kids home an extra day.

But by all means, I encourage you to go drive around tomorrow morning and see for yourself. Enjoy! I'm gonna sleep in.

You can sleep in because you don't have to report first thing in the morning at work. Or teach 8:30am undergrad class online. So entitled.

Someone who teaches an 8:30 am class from their living room to undergrads is calling other people entitled? Didn’t you just have a month off from teaching. And you can wake up at what, 8:15 to teach this class? You are really out of touch.

You have freaking no idea. We also have to go to the university for many in-person meetings. A month off? You had no clue how hard faculty work in the university. Thesis committee, faculty interview, may administrative work, grants reviewing, peer reviewing, mentoring 100 independent studies, and teaching.

Many in person meetings? Sounds tough.

Yes, because the students actually live on campus, unlike in a K-12. And there are actually events scheduled weeks in advance requires personal meetings.

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Anonymous wrote:DC isn't open tomorrow, and it's because the streets haven't been cleared. Which in turn is because the snow/6 inch ice pack is unusually heavy, I assume. Whatever the reason, plowing is much less pervasive than usual.

I was blase about it until I killed my back trying to dig my car out this afternoon. It's never been this hard to dig out a car for me in DC before. I could easily make an igloo with the 10x10x6 blocks of ice I pried up and threw in a five foot pile next to the sidwalk.

Regardless, the city has called it, so, it is what it is.

Seriously. It is crystal f-ing clear that the people complaining haven't tried to clear any of this crap themselves.

Today was a no brainer. Tomorrow is justifiable. Our city has too many entitled a-holes.

Eh, you should get off your couch, put away the giant bowl of potato chips, turn off Wheel of Fortune and go outside. The streets aren't that bad. There's people on bikes and scooters out.

Long line at Popeyes. Not too dangerous for fried chicken.

it's funny how in dc schools are always the very last things to open.

Bitterness kills.

Also no, DCPS stays open for snow more than any other surrounding district. Lying doesn’t do yu any good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG people look at a weather report.

Yes, I'm sure Georgia Avenue was easy to drive down at 4pm this afternoon after multiple passes with snowplows and spending much of the day in the sun with cars driving over it to heat up the road.

And overnight, the melted snow on the road is going to freeze solid into black ice, the snow plowed in the parking lane is going to freeze solid into slippery little mountains obstructing cars and pedestrians. Any sidewalks that were fully cleared on Monday will be good, every other sidewalk will be a slippery mess. And it will be 10 degrees during morning rush, in a city where it rarely dips below freezing more than a handful of times in the winter, so plenty of kids don't even own proper snow boots or waterproof mittens.

Y'all do not understand how bad it was going to be tomorrow if they reopened. Even with a two hour delay, school's would be half empty and kids would be doubling up classrooms with teachers out and subs unable to get in.

AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! You could just go out and drive around and see for yourself. It's not that bad. This all seems a tad silly.

No, what is no big deal is just keeping kids home an extra day.

But by all means, I encourage you to go drive around tomorrow morning and see for yourself. Enjoy! I'm gonna sleep in.

Love these teachers who think going to school is not important. And we wonder why our test scores are worse than Mississippi's.

In Mississippi's defense, they've made remarkable progress on K-12 educational metrics the past decade or so and are no longer at or near the bottom of state rankings. Regardless, I get you point.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG people look at a weather report.

Yes, I'm sure Georgia Avenue was easy to drive down at 4pm this afternoon after multiple passes with snowplows and spending much of the day in the sun with cars driving over it to heat up the road.

And overnight, the melted snow on the road is going to freeze solid into black ice, the snow plowed in the parking lane is going to freeze solid into slippery little mountains obstructing cars and pedestrians. Any sidewalks that were fully cleared on Monday will be good, every other sidewalk will be a slippery mess. And it will be 10 degrees during morning rush, in a city where it rarely dips below freezing more than a handful of times in the winter, so plenty of kids don't even own proper snow boots or waterproof mittens.

Y'all do not understand how bad it was going to be tomorrow if they reopened. Even with a two hour delay, school's would be half empty and kids would be doubling up classrooms with teachers out and subs unable to get in.

AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! You could just go out and drive around and see for yourself. It's not that bad. This all seems a tad silly.

No, what is no big deal is just keeping kids home an extra day.

But by all means, I encourage you to go drive around tomorrow morning and see for yourself. Enjoy! I'm gonna sleep in.

Love these teachers who think going to school is not important. And we wonder why our test scores are worse than Mississippi's.

In Mississippi's defense, they've made remarkable progress on K-12 educational metrics the past decade or so and are no longer at or near the bottom of state rankings. Regardless, I get you point.

They also have school buses to help make sure kids go to school. I know some of you do not know but some kids miss 25-60% of school anyway AND will miss because of the snow. At least this way some days will be made up and there isn’t any inequity for families who can get to school more easily or are willing to risk it.