School closed 1/20/22

[Anonymous]

Fine, fine, it's hard to call the weather correctly in this area. And yet our elem school kids are carting their laptops around everyday. Can we not do virtual for snow days? All that technology should be used for something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This one was an LOL. They quite reasonably relied on the weather forecast and the forecast got it wrong. I’m not going to blame anyone for not being clairvoyant. Oh well.

No.
Wrong.
They are supposed to check the weather conditions at 5am. If it's NOT SNOWING they are supposed to have school.

If it STARTS SNOWING during the school day they are supposed to evaluate the roads and consider early release

This was completely inline with the inept way the district is being run.

Not really. A good amount of other school districts in the area closed today too. I guess that would require you taking some time to educate yourself before jumping to conclusions though.

"Everyone else is an idiot so it's okay that I'm one too"

You’ve identified the problem. Good for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:725a: Starting to see some reports of rain changing to snow along I-81 and in W Loudoun as well as northern Maryland...It will take a couple of hours but it will snow right when kids were getting to school. Good call by mcps!

Time for school to let out, care to change your comment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fine, fine, it's hard to call the weather correctly in this area. And yet our elem school kids are carting their laptops around everyday. Can we not do virtual for snow days? All that technology should be used for something.

How about you tell them to get out their technology and make use of it right now? Mine have already written a persuasive essay and written code in robotics.

[Anonymous]

Even Sue Palka said this morning that she is going to move up her retirement and enter the witness protection plan because they screwed this one up so badly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fine, fine, it's hard to call the weather correctly in this area. And yet our elem school kids are carting their laptops around everyday. Can we not do virtual for snow days? All that technology should be used for something.

MCPS has drawn the line in the sand: either you are enrolled for in-person instruction only or the virtual academy only. There is no hybrid option. Nobody gets to swap one for the other, based on shifting circumstances. If you selected in-person, that’s all you get, unless staffing shortages make it virtually impossible to keep the school open.

[Anonymous]

I wish people in this area would unclench some and be ok with one fouled up snow day. If they could unclench, maybe we could have gone virtual for a while like PG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish people in this area would unclench some and be ok with one fouled up snow day. If they could unclench, maybe we could have gone virtual for a while like PG.

DCUM doesn't unclench.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish people in this area would unclench some and be ok with one fouled up snow day. If they could unclench, maybe we could have gone virtual for a while like PG.

DCUM doesn't unclench.

Grab your pearls!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish people in this area would unclench some and be ok with one fouled up snow day. If they could unclench, maybe we could have gone virtual for a while like PG.

DCUM doesn't unclench.

Grab your pearls!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

[Anonymous]

They made the best decision they could based on the information they had at the time. At the time that they had to make the call, there was still the possibility of freezing. They erred on the side of safety. If they'd sent kids to school and the roads were a mess, you'd complain about that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

They're looking for COVID circuit breakers anywhere they can find them.

Yeah this is my problem with the call. Not that they issued the 2-hr delay yesterday based on (what we know now was) a faulty forecast. But then at 7 am, when forecasters had changed the prediction, and there obviously wasn't snow, they upgraded to closure instead of recognizing that even the 2-hr delay was probably unnecessary. That made no sense whatsoever and fuels the politics/conspiracy talk.

[Anonymous]

The DMV is full of lame, coddled, afraid of everything in the world, weaklings. It’s is a disgrace that schools shut down - after many months of lost in person time - to rain. Did the person calling the shots not walk outside at 7:05? It was mild - 40 easy - and raining. Pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

The Capital Weather Gang provides all its updates this morning with timestamps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/20/dc-maryland-virginia-snow-burst/

At 5AM they called for an accumulation of an inch or two with the main burst between 8am and 11am
At 6:20 AM they said the changeover to snow was delayed but would likely occur between 8am and 10am rather than the previously predicted 6am - 8am.
At 7:20 AM they said there were reports of snow in western Loudoun County but that the changeover was occurring slower than projected.
At 7:30 AM a report from the National Weather Service kept the winter weather advisory in place though they were now calling for only up to 1 inch
At 8:20AM CWG called it a "snow bust"

So I'd say that at 7AM there was still reasonable expectation for a winter weather event.