What do we think will happen on Monday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed Monday + 2 hour delay Tuesday + open Wednesday makes the most sense

Why? There isn’t going to be much melting (if any)

I believe it is so they can try to run the bus routes and defrost buses on Monday, let people get used to the walk to the bus stop in the light on Tuesday, and then do it normally, but with some foresight on the conditions on Wednesday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Monday 2 hours delay maybe doable, but expect a very slow movement, alot of late, very long kiss and ride. People slow down, road space is limited, parking is limited, sidewalk is slippery, and most likely injured will happen…

If injury is most likely, then it would be unconscionable for the school to open.

This will be routine FCPS “you damned if you do, and damned if you don’t”… moment.

Oh yeah. Reid should be getting fitted for a Kevlar suit now. No matter what the decision is, it will be the worst one according to someone.

I think she is hiding somewhere hoping no one notices they are hiding the Heyfield report the taxpayers paid for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Email from our elementary:

"Return to School
We are looking forward to having everyone back in the building on Monday. Snow and ice will still be on the sidewalks and corners as students arrive to and depart from school next week. Please talk to your students about how to safely walk to school or stand patiently at the bus stop. Many parents will be using Kiss & Ride, and we appreciate your patience as the line moves through. Students need to come to school with winter gear (coats, hats, gloves, and long pants) as it will be below freezing every morning next week."

My school had a principal like yours. We learned quickly that what she said was only what she wanted us to hear in order to manipulate us into doing what she wanted us to do. It’s a terrible management strategy, especially if a leader can safely assume the people who work for her are as or more intelligent than she is. I have no respect for liars and she was one. I thank God she’s gone.

Your principal is a liar and a manipulator. Of course you should be prepared to go back to school on Monday, but he should be honest and say that. This message was for YOU, to manipulate YOU. I doubt he thought you would be pasting and copying this message to a parent forum and that’s probably why he’s still an elementary school principal. If parents cancel childcare plans based on this information, you and he could be in hot water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email from our elementary:

"Return to School
We are looking forward to having everyone back in the building on Monday. Snow and ice will still be on the sidewalks and corners as students arrive to and depart from school next week. Please talk to your students about how to safely walk to school or stand patiently at the bus stop. Many parents will be using Kiss & Ride, and we appreciate your patience as the line moves through. Students need to come to school with winter gear (coats, hats, gloves, and long pants) as it will be below freezing every morning next week."

Is that FCPS? Why would your school send a message like that if the county hasn’t publicized its decision yet?

I have friends in APS and they are getting these same types of messages from their principals. None of these districts need to announce anything. The assumption is school is open.

People who think school is closed on Monday are nuts.

Also many of you don't understand the meaning of equity but that's another issue.

Perhaps but there were FCPS board members arguing that all schools stay closed in the covid panic era while others said that areas with better health outcomes should be able to go back. (This was maybe November 2020 or early in 2021) Because it wasn't fair that some kids would get in-person while others had to stay remote.

Everyone had to be prevented from in-person school if there was any area that was getting higher impacts.

Respectfully, this is nothing like that.

Actually, it is exactly like thaf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email from our elementary:

"Return to School
We are looking forward to having everyone back in the building on Monday. Snow and ice will still be on the sidewalks and corners as students arrive to and depart from school next week. Please talk to your students about how to safely walk to school or stand patiently at the bus stop. Many parents will be using Kiss & Ride, and we appreciate your patience as the line moves through. Students need to come to school with winter gear (coats, hats, gloves, and long pants) as it will be below freezing every morning next week."

Is that FCPS? Why would your school send a message like that if the county hasn’t publicized its decision yet?

I have friends in APS and they are getting these same types of messages from their principals. None of these districts need to announce anything. The assumption is school is open.

People who think school is closed on Monday are nuts.

Also many of you don't understand the meaning of equity but that's another issue.

Perhaps but there were FCPS board members arguing that all schools stay closed in the covid panic era while others said that areas with better health outcomes should be able to go back. (This was maybe November 2020 or early in 2021) Because it wasn't fair that some kids would get in-person while others had to stay remote.

Everyone had to be prevented from in-person school if there was any area that was getting higher impacts.

Respectfully, this is nothing like that.

Actually, it is exactly like thaf.

Like that. Clarify how it’s different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed Monday + 2 hour delay Tuesday + open Wednesday makes the most sense

Why? There isn’t going to be much melting (if any)

I believe it is so they can try to run the bus routes and defrost buses on Monday, let people get used to the walk to the bus stop in the light on Tuesday, and then do it normally, but with some foresight on the conditions on Wednesday.

Yeah no.

[Anonymous]

It wouldn’t make much sense to close the schools Monday. Everyone is out and about today and has been for quite some time. They’re just going to have to go to school in imperfect conditions. I’m saying 2 hour delay Monday but otherwise open, and open on time all week other than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we'll be open, AND it will be a huge cluster. This was posted by a bus driver in the FCPS staff Facebook group:

I’m a bus driver. Some of the issues: the roofs of our buses are covered with ice. It’s not going to be warm enough to melt the ice. We are not supposed to drive ice covered buses because of the danger posed by large pieces of ice flying off and striking other vehicles.
Many of our buses are encased in solid ice. The buses are stuck. The areas around the buses are quite slippery and slick. The areas around the buses have not been cleared.
We do not have access to the equipment or to trained staff who know how to address the problems. I don’t know if FCPS has asked for assistance.

Do the electric busses even work in this cold?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email from our elementary:

"Return to School
We are looking forward to having everyone back in the building on Monday. Snow and ice will still be on the sidewalks and corners as students arrive to and depart from school next week. Please talk to your students about how to safely walk to school or stand patiently at the bus stop. Many parents will be using Kiss & Ride, and we appreciate your patience as the line moves through. Students need to come to school with winter gear (coats, hats, gloves, and long pants) as it will be below freezing every morning next week."

Is that FCPS? Why would your school send a message like that if the county hasn’t publicized its decision yet?

I have friends in APS and they are getting these same types of messages from their principals. None of these districts need to announce anything. The assumption is school is open.

People who think school is closed on Monday are nuts.

Also many of you don't understand the meaning of equity but that's another issue.

Perhaps but there were FCPS board members arguing that all schools stay closed in the covid panic era while others said that areas with better health outcomes should be able to go back. (This was maybe November 2020 or early in 2021) Because it wasn't fair that some kids would get in-person while others had to stay remote.

Everyone had to be prevented from in-person school if there was any area that was getting higher impacts.

FCPS motto is "If one child cannot make it to school, then no children shall be allowed to go to school."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we'll be open, AND it will be a huge cluster. This was posted by a bus driver in the FCPS staff Facebook group:

I’m a bus driver. Some of the issues: the roofs of our buses are covered with ice. It’s not going to be warm enough to melt the ice. We are not supposed to drive ice covered buses because of the danger posed by large pieces of ice flying off and striking other vehicles.
Many of our buses are encased in solid ice. The buses are stuck. The areas around the buses are quite slippery and slick. The areas around the buses have not been cleared.
We do not have access to the equipment or to trained staff who know how to address the problems. I don’t know if FCPS has asked for assistance.

Do the electric busses even work in this cold?

Next week will still be cold, but not as cold as this week. Lows in the mid-high teens and highs in the mid 30s. The single digits won’t be in the picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email from our elementary:

"Return to School
We are looking forward to having everyone back in the building on Monday. Snow and ice will still be on the sidewalks and corners as students arrive to and depart from school next week. Please talk to your students about how to safely walk to school or stand patiently at the bus stop. Many parents will be using Kiss & Ride, and we appreciate your patience as the line moves through. Students need to come to school with winter gear (coats, hats, gloves, and long pants) as it will be below freezing every morning next week."

Is that FCPS? Why would your school send a message like that if the county hasn’t publicized its decision yet?

I have friends in APS and they are getting these same types of messages from their principals. None of these districts need to announce anything. The assumption is school is open.

People who think school is closed on Monday are nuts.

Also many of you don't understand the meaning of equity but that's another issue.

Perhaps but there were FCPS board members arguing that all schools stay closed in the covid panic era while others said that areas with better health outcomes should be able to go back. (This was maybe November 2020 or early in 2021) Because it wasn't fair that some kids would get in-person while others had to stay remote.

Everyone had to be prevented from in-person school if there was any area that was getting higher impacts.

Respectfully, this is nothing like that.

This is more like The Great Garza Shutdown, where FCPS was closed for weeks in spite of 40 degree weather and dry roads, because Clifton back roads and Herndon sidewalks still had patches of ice.

[Anonymous]

Open Monday. They're going to spend all weekend digging out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email from our elementary:

"Return to School
We are looking forward to having everyone back in the building on Monday. Snow and ice will still be on the sidewalks and corners as students arrive to and depart from school next week. Please talk to your students about how to safely walk to school or stand patiently at the bus stop. Many parents will be using Kiss & Ride, and we appreciate your patience as the line moves through. Students need to come to school with winter gear (coats, hats, gloves, and long pants) as it will be below freezing every morning next week."

My school had a principal like yours. We learned quickly that what she said was only what she wanted us to hear in order to manipulate us into doing what she wanted us to do. It’s a terrible management strategy, especially if a leader can safely assume the people who work for her are as or more intelligent than she is. I have no respect for liars and she was one. I thank God she’s gone.

Your principal is a liar and a manipulator. Of course you should be prepared to go back to school on Monday, but he should be honest and say that. This message was for YOU, to manipulate YOU. I doubt he thought you would be pasting and copying this message to a parent forum and that’s probably why he’s still an elementary school principal. If parents cancel childcare plans based on this information, you and he could be in hot water.

WTF? I'm a parent. I'm sharing the email that was sent out through the weekly automated newsletter thing to all families at the school. This isn't private information I'm posting.

This weather is making people psycho.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we'll be open, AND it will be a huge cluster. This was posted by a bus driver in the FCPS staff Facebook group:

I’m a bus driver. Some of the issues: the roofs of our buses are covered with ice. It’s not going to be warm enough to melt the ice. We are not supposed to drive ice covered buses because of the danger posed by large pieces of ice flying off and striking other vehicles.
Many of our buses are encased in solid ice. The buses are stuck. The areas around the buses are quite slippery and slick. The areas around the buses have not been cleared.
We do not have access to the equipment or to trained staff who know how to address the problems. I don’t know if FCPS has asked for assistance.

Other jurisdictions have their buses out today and yesterday doing runs to spot problems.

Sounds like FCPS is just blazingly incompetent.

I was at Cub Run rec center on Wednesday, which is next to Westfield. There’s a big bus parking lot there between the school and the rec center. I saw a couple of buses driving away from the lot and many, but not all, of the buses that I could see were no longer trapped in by snow. So while they may not have all of the buses dug out and ice removed, they’re definitely working on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email from our elementary:

"Return to School
We are looking forward to having everyone back in the building on Monday. Snow and ice will still be on the sidewalks and corners as students arrive to and depart from school next week. Please talk to your students about how to safely walk to school or stand patiently at the bus stop. Many parents will be using Kiss & Ride, and we appreciate your patience as the line moves through. Students need to come to school with winter gear (coats, hats, gloves, and long pants) as it will be below freezing every morning next week."

My school had a principal like yours. We learned quickly that what she said was only what she wanted us to hear in order to manipulate us into doing what she wanted us to do. It’s a terrible management strategy, especially if a leader can safely assume the people who work for her are as or more intelligent than she is. I have no respect for liars and she was one. I thank God she’s gone.

Your principal is a liar and a manipulator. Of course you should be prepared to go back to school on Monday, but he should be honest and say that. This message was for YOU, to manipulate YOU. I doubt he thought you would be pasting and copying this message to a parent forum and that’s probably why he’s still an elementary school principal. If parents cancel childcare plans based on this information, you and he could be in hot water.

WTF? I'm a parent. I'm sharing the email that was sent out through the weekly automated newsletter thing to all families at the school. This isn't private information I'm posting.

This weather is making people psycho.

That poster clearly has issues as evidenced by how they’re projecting their issues with some past principal on an unnamed principal the have never met.