Schools closed for students Monday Feb 2

[Anonymous]

Closed for teachers as well.

If you are not admin or staff, be aware that you do not get workman’s comp for any injuries you experience working in the building tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

They just changed it to teachers stay home and have the day off as well.

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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.

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?

The work of teachers is not just delivering instruction. We had to put in a full duty day or take leave.

My principal came up with a pet project that we had to do once students left.

[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.

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.

Wait, but when I have to teach on makeup days in June I actually won’t be paid for that. Our work isn’t canceled — it’s just rescheduled.

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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.

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Summer here is usually gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wait, but when I have to teach on makeup days in June I actually won’t be paid for that. Our work isn’t canceled — it’s just rescheduled.

+1 There are many who don't know this. After contigency days, the make up days we teach are unpaid!

[Anonymous]

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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.

FCPS is closed tomorrow.
APS is closed tomorrow.
ACPS is closed tomorrow (virtual instruction)
FCCPS is 2 hour delay
PGCPS is 2 hour delay but should be closed tomorrow; they will probably pivot.
HCPSS is 2 hour delay
AACPS is 2 hour delay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wait, but when I have to teach on makeup days in June I actually won’t be paid for that. Our work isn’t canceled — it’s just rescheduled.

+1 There are many who don't know this. After contigency days, the make up days we teach are unpaid!

No other salaried professional talks like this. No lawyer working weekends says they're "not getting paid." They're getting their salary for doing all the work that needs to be done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

FCPS is closed tomorrow.
APS is closed tomorrow.
ACPS is closed tomorrow (virtual instruction)
FCCPS is 2 hour delay
PGCPS is 2 hour delay but should be closed tomorrow; they will probably pivot.
HCPSS is 2 hour delay
AACPS is 2 hour delay

DCPS is also open tomorrow (2 hour delay). They’ve been open since last Thursday.

[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.

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Summer here is usually gross.

Then I guess we should have a 3 month school year, if we can’t have school when it’s too hot or too cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wait, but when I have to teach on makeup days in June I actually won’t be paid for that. Our work isn’t canceled — it’s just rescheduled.

+1 There are many who don't know this. After contigency days, the make up days we teach are unpaid!

No other salaried professional talks like this. No lawyer working weekends says they're "not getting paid." They're getting their salary for doing all the work that needs to be done.

+100,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wait, but when I have to teach on makeup days in June I actually won’t be paid for that. Our work isn’t canceled — it’s just rescheduled.

+1 There are many who don't know this. After contigency days, the make up days we teach are unpaid!

No other salaried professional talks like this. No lawyer working weekends says they're "not getting paid." They're getting their salary for doing all the work that needs to be done.

Lawyers are not salaried? They are billing each and every hour

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wait, but when I have to teach on makeup days in June I actually won’t be paid for that. Our work isn’t canceled — it’s just rescheduled.

+1 There are many who don't know this. After contigency days, the make up days we teach are unpaid!

No other salaried professional talks like this. No lawyer working weekends says they're "not getting paid." They're getting their salary for doing all the work that needs to be done.[/quote


Tell you what. Give me lawyer salary and I’ll feel better about working 70 hour weeks.

[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.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wait, but when I have to teach on makeup days in June I actually won’t be paid for that. Our work isn’t canceled — it’s just rescheduled.

+1 There are many who don't know this. After contigency days, the make up days we teach are unpaid!

No other salaried professional talks like this. No lawyer working weekends says they're "not getting paid." They're getting their salary for doing all the work that needs to be done.

Lawyers are not salaried? They are billing each and every hour

A solo practitioner or partner, sure, but most lawyers are salaried.