Schools closed for students Monday Feb 2

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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)?

What part of my post that mentioned that I DROVE four separate times did you think indicated that I stayed home all week? Maybe we do need to go back to school because hopefully your kids aren't as dumb as you are.

[Anonymous]

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!

Vote them all out!

[Anonymous]

For everyone who screaming into the void that MCPS and their leadership are so uniquely incompetent… here is the thread of Virginia parents screaming the same things because their students are also not going to school tomorrow in Fairfax: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1312347.page

Consider that maybe this was just a giant and rare storm, and large counties are struggling to clean it all up.

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This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

have you considered the possibility that this could be an early sign that one of the professional days later in the year could be used as a make up day now?

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Anonymous wrote:For everyone who screaming into the void that MCPS and their leadership are so uniquely incompetent… here is the thread of Virginia parents screaming the same things because their students are also not going to school tomorrow in Fairfax: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1312347.page

Consider that maybe this was just a giant and rare storm, and large counties are struggling to clean it all up.

Or consider that lots of big school districts make the same terrible choices that prioritize everything but education.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

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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.

If they fall into the street and get hit by an MCPS school bus, they do. Or if a bus exits the roadway and goes up on the sidewalk. And kids walking to school who successfully make it onto MCPS property could still have an accident.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

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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.

If they fall into the street and get hit by an MCPS school bus, they do. Or if a bus exits the roadway and goes up on the sidewalk. And kids walking to school who successfully make it onto MCPS property could still have an accident.

They should just stop having school. Too much liability. Parents should just homeschool their kids and if they don't like that they shouldn't have had kids s/

[Anonymous]

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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.

If they fall into the street and get hit by an MCPS school bus, they do. Or if a bus exits the roadway and goes up on the sidewalk. And kids walking to school who successfully make it onto MCPS property could still have an accident.

They should just stop having school. Too much liability. Parents should just homeschool their kids and if they don't like that they shouldn't have had kids s/

Definitely they shouldn’t have school in January and February because a kid might get cold. Instead cancel summer and kids can go to school in July and August.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

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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)?

What part of my post that mentioned that I DROVE four separate times did you think indicated that I stayed home all week? Maybe we do need to go back to school because hopefully your kids aren't as dumb as you are.

Calm down. You can use your superior reading comprehension skills to see that there were multiple people who wrote in the thread, and the response was to those who questioned that people would be driving anywhere since the storm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

+1. Did you get a lower salary last year because you only had to teach half days in June rather than full days in the winter?