Schools closed for students Monday Feb 2

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The reality is noci parents love to sue and mcps makes every decision through the fear of lawsuits

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why MCPS doesn't have a plan on file? It's obvious that a virtual learning plan needs to demonstrate how it will help all students, including special needs kids. But if half of the counties in the state figured out how to get that done, then shouldn't MCPS have done so as well? It's just BS that every child does not have access to a chromebook, or couldn't, given what the county has spent. Or materials could have been sent home in advance if children do not have digital access or that type of learning doesn't work for them. The Board of Education needs to be held to account.
This is a killer for those of us who have sophomores and juniors in high school who will now have a week and a half (the way it's looking) of less preparation for AP exams and other standard national tests. and melt for younger students is real, too. I hope someone out there does a study on comparing how MCPS students did on these tests compared with schools that started virtual learning or went back to school in person last week.

Because there's no plausible way to make virtual effective for young students and students with special needs. Some people just don't care and want to do it anyway. None of the people here pushing for virtual care at all about lower elementary kids or students with disabilities.

So how did Baltimore and Anne Arundel do it? And DCPS? And Alexandria Public Schools? Why did they have virtual learning last week and McPS had nothing. There was a long list in the Washington Post of school status and a lot of districts were doing virtual.

Do all those school districts not care about lower elementary or students with disabilities?

Much more likely that they’re better at planning and making the best of crappy weather rather than doing nothing like MCPs.

It’s not that MCPS can’t. It’s that it’s too much effort when they can get away with doing nothing at all.

But MCPS caaant! Because if we do anything parents complain! And no other school district in the country has parents who complain!

So we will do nothing because parents like that better. And if that just happens to be easier for our staff and the preference of our teacher’s union, so much the better.

This does seem to be the problem. Meanwhile Alexandria has kids G4+ online as of last Wednesday. MCPS lets the perfect be the enemy of the good.

But McPS is rarely perfect so most of the time it just doesn’t do anything.

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Anonymous wrote:The message said all schools are ready.

So then why the closure?

Because kids can't safely walk to school and they can't pick up students with disabilities. They lay that out in the message. The problem is this is unlikely to change any time soon.

Are the kids in Frederick County and the other MD counties that are open magically safer than the MoCo kids?

Other counties are not as densely populated as MCPS and it leads to much fewer walkers and less small neighborhood streets. Picking kids up at the end of their rural driveways is not an issue. Navigating a bus through Silver Spring is.

Those are often in walk zones. People have been walking all week.

We are not rural and no sidewalks. Streets are hit or miss but all are basically one lane. It’s impossible to get to some buses and walking to school is dangerous. Driving is hard as not all streets are passable.

Have you gone anywhere this weekend? How did you get there?

Unlike you and the rest of the Partridge family, I don't travel by bus. I drive a Ford Maverick. It's slightly easier to maneuver.

So you have been driving around this weekend?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe the expectation is that teachers & other school based staff are going in to shovel sidewalks and clear the roads? Those were the reasons that Dr Taylor gave for MCPS to be closed tomorrow for students.

Our grading was done over the snow days because we were told it was due when we came back and nobody expected teachers to come back but not students. I’m sure most of our planning is also done.

I have no problems going back, but can’t see the reasons for school not opening for students going away anytime soon. Exactly when are we supposed to have a long stretch of non-freezing weather to melt the ice?

Teachers wouldn’t be covered under insurance for any injuries from shoveling out sidewalks and streets near the schools.

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NP - Just cancel Spring Break and make-up lost days. I am sorry, but what's going on here is a joke. Virtual learning is still better than no learning.

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Anonymous wrote:The message said all schools are ready.

So then why the closure?

Because kids can't safely walk to school and they can't pick up students with disabilities. They lay that out in the message. The problem is this is unlikely to change any time soon.

Are the kids in Frederick County and the other MD counties that are open magically safer than the MoCo kids?

Other counties are not as densely populated as MCPS and it leads to much fewer walkers and less small neighborhood streets. Picking kids up at the end of their rural driveways is not an issue. Navigating a bus through Silver Spring is.

Those are often in walk zones. People have been walking all week.

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No they haven’t. Utter BS

I guess the people I’ve seen all week walking to work/supermarkets/the gym/metro/bus stops are phantom creatures because no one is walking anywhere because you say so.

MCPS doesn’t have any responsibility for those people. They will have potential liability for students and staff upon opening.

They really don’t have potential liability for any of this. No one is winning a lawsuit against a school system because they slipped on a non-MCPS sidewalk.

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Anonymous wrote:This county is a joke

How does one move ice in subfreezing multiple day weather that happens once very 7 years at best?

Come on get your shovel out.

I am sure you shoveled your HS< MS & elementary bus routes, stops and all walkways for walkers.

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Anonymous wrote:The message said all schools are ready.

So then why the closure?

Because kids can't safely walk to school and they can't pick up students with disabilities. They lay that out in the message. The problem is this is unlikely to change any time soon.

You left off the top reason they gave us that many streets are too narrow for buses to drive or turn?

They didn’t take physics and don’t understand how a school bus isn’t like their SUV.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember this chaos when it comes time to vote out all these incompetent fools. Don’t listen to the harpies that say anyone who even whiffs of being a conservative is unfit. The time is now to save the children!

We’re already suffering from your former uneducated voting record. No one is going to be saved by voting in Republicans.

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Anonymous wrote:The message said all schools are ready.

So then why the closure?

Because kids can't safely walk to school and they can't pick up students with disabilities. They lay that out in the message. The problem is this is unlikely to change any time soon.

Are the kids in Frederick County and the other MD counties that are open magically safer than the MoCo kids?

Other counties are not as densely populated as MCPS and it leads to much fewer walkers and less small neighborhood streets. Picking kids up at the end of their rural driveways is not an issue. Navigating a bus through Silver Spring is.

Those are often in walk zones. People have been walking all week.

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No they haven’t. Utter BS

I guess the people I’ve seen all week walking to work/supermarkets/the gym/metro/bus stops are phantom creatures because no one is walking anywhere because you say so.

MCPS doesn’t have any responsibility for those people. They will have potential liability for students and staff upon opening.

They really don’t have potential liability for any of this. No one is winning a lawsuit against a school system because they slipped on a non-MCPS sidewalk.

They would if their principal told them to go out and shovel.

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Anonymous wrote:The message said all schools are ready.

So then why the closure?

Because kids can't safely walk to school and they can't pick up students with disabilities. They lay that out in the message. The problem is this is unlikely to change any time soon.

Are the kids in Frederick County and the other MD counties that are open magically safer than the MoCo kids?

Other counties are not as densely populated as MCPS and it leads to much fewer walkers and less small neighborhood streets. Picking kids up at the end of their rural driveways is not an issue. Navigating a bus through Silver Spring is.

Those are often in walk zones. People have been walking all week.

We are not rural and no sidewalks. Streets are hit or miss but all are basically one lane. It’s impossible to get to some buses and walking to school is dangerous. Driving is hard as not all streets are passable.

Have you gone anywhere this weekend? How did you get there?

Unlike you and the rest of the Partridge family, I don't travel by bus. I drive a Ford Maverick. It's slightly easier to maneuver.

So you have been driving around this weekend?

Yup. Drove to shovel out my sister in Martinsburg, WV. Drove to shovel out two different coworkers in Germantown. Drove to pick up and deliver groceries for a coworker in Olney who is recovering from surgery. Also drove and shoveled at my school.

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Why do you people have kids?

Big whoop it has been a week.

You are not smart enough to fill your kids time with learning activities?

Vote for year round schools that will fix this issue.

Stop camps in the summers send them to school. Given a week is such a big deal to all you complaining idiots vote for year round schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The message said all schools are ready.

So then why the closure?

Because kids can't safely walk to school and they can't pick up students with disabilities. They lay that out in the message. The problem is this is unlikely to change any time soon.

Are the kids in Frederick County and the other MD counties that are open magically safer than the MoCo kids?

Other counties are not as densely populated as MCPS and it leads to much fewer walkers and less small neighborhood streets. Picking kids up at the end of their rural driveways is not an issue. Navigating a bus through Silver Spring is.

Those are often in walk zones. People have been walking all week.

We are not rural and no sidewalks. Streets are hit or miss but all are basically one lane. It’s impossible to get to some buses and walking to school is dangerous. Driving is hard as not all streets are passable.

Have you gone anywhere this weekend? How did you get there?

Unlike you and the rest of the Partridge family, I don't travel by bus. I drive a Ford Maverick. It's slightly easier to maneuver.

So you have been driving around this weekend?

Yup. Drove to shovel out my sister in Martinsburg, WV. Drove to shovel out two different coworkers in Germantown. Drove to pick up and deliver groceries for a coworker in Olney who is recovering from surgery. Also drove and shoveled at my school.

Who are you people who have been sequestered for a week due to a snowstorm that ended 6 days ago and haven’t gone anywhere?

Don’t you have jobs that require you to be in the office? Kids that need groceries? Kids that need to go to activities (which continued after school despite MCPS being closed)?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you people have kids?

Big whoop it has been a week.

You are not smart enough to fill your kids time with learning activities?

Vote for year round schools that will fix this issue.

Stop camps in the summers send them to school. Given a week is such a big deal to all you complaining idiots vote for year round schools.

I’m a teacher and would do 185 days of instruction spread out year round with breaks that include the 10 additional duty days.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like PWCS, Loudon is a 2 hour delay, PG hasn't made a decision and Fairfax has not made a decision yet!

Fairfax is open

PG remote learning

LCPS and HCPSS 2 hour delay

We are the only ones closed

Fairfax is not open. It’s doing the same thing MCPS is.