Early release Monday?

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For the Blair poster who can’t google:

https://mbhs.edu/schedule

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how this will play out for kids at Blair who have a 9th period? Will school really finish at 12 noon as stated in the message? Or will kids with a 9th period need to stay another 45 mins and not get the bus until nearly 1pm?

Students with a 9th period get out at 12:50, with buses leaving a few minutes after that.

How do you know?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how this will play out for kids at Blair who have a 9th period? Will school really finish at 12 noon as stated in the message? Or will kids with a 9th period need to stay another 45 mins and not get the bus until nearly 1pm?

What do they do on a normal early dismissal day?? after school activities are cancelled (obviously).

They get out at 12:50, but this isn’t a standard early dismissal day. The message from MCPS seemed to definitively say that high school will dismiss at 12 noon, not that they will follow early dismissal processes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the Blair poster who can’t google:

https://mbhs.edu/schedule

I’m the Blair poster and I am fully aware of the typical early dismissal schedule. However the message MCPS sent did not say schools would follow their regular early dismissal schedule - it said that high school would finish at 12 noon.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how this will play out for kids at Blair who have a 9th period? Will school really finish at 12 noon as stated in the message? Or will kids with a 9th period need to stay another 45 mins and not get the bus until nearly 1pm?

How does it work on other early release days?

Nothing is certain but death, taxes and 9th period

So funny

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I just saw big storms predicted at 11 and 1. I know they don’t want to cancel but I think they should if the forecast hasn’t changed for the better by 5 am.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw big storms predicted at 11 and 1. I know they don’t want to cancel but I think they should if the forecast hasn’t changed for the better by 5 am.

I agree. There is no safe window tomorrow to be doing dismissal. Sucks, but it is an unusual forecast due to the severity and the multiple waves covering the whole day. I will be wfh with two kids …. AGAIN

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Anonymous wrote:That's dumb, but at least they're not closing.

Are the buildings at least staying open for child care?

It’s a school system, not a child-care provider. The goal is getting kids home before the severe weather hits.

Get over yourself. Our aftercare provider is staying open.

Your aftercare staying open isn’t the flex you think it is. Managing a handful of kids indoors isn’t the same as getting an entire district home safely.

Keeping kids (and staff) inside a school building is safe and reasonable in the conditions expected. Much better than being on a bus or walking around outdoors, which is what we are trying to avoid with early dismissal.

Right, let’s just keep thousands of kids trapped in classrooms until normal dismissal while a Level 4 storm hits outside. Totally reasonable.

You don't seem to understand what level 4 means here.

Well, the level 4 level means we will have a good chance to see tornadoes in our area tomorrow afternoon and we will most likely be put under a tornado warning by 1pm tomorrow. According to Doug Kammerer, the storms will move through between 2-6pm and into the metro area between 3-5pm. Damaging winds are likely to occur and you don’t want to get caught outside when the storms roll through.

All of this supports the early dismissal that MCPS (and multiple other counties) has announced.

It's a 10-15% chance of tornadoes. That's certainty not "most likely."

Yes, we'll be under a tornado watch, but that doesn't mean much. They don't call a warning until they see one visually or on radar.

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Anonymous wrote:That's dumb, but at least they're not closing.

Are the buildings at least staying open for child care?

It’s a school system, not a child-care provider. The goal is getting kids home before the severe weather hits.

Get over yourself. Our aftercare provider is staying open.

Your aftercare staying open isn’t the flex you think it is. Managing a handful of kids indoors isn’t the same as getting an entire district home safely.

Keeping kids (and staff) inside a school building is safe and reasonable in the conditions expected. Much better than being on a bus or walking around outdoors, which is what we are trying to avoid with early dismissal.

Right, let’s just keep thousands of kids trapped in classrooms until normal dismissal while a Level 4 storm hits outside. Totally reasonable.

You don't seem to understand what level 4 means here.

Well, the level 4 level means we will have a good chance to see tornadoes in our area tomorrow afternoon and we will most likely be put under a tornado warning by 1pm tomorrow. According to Doug Kammerer, the storms will move through between 2-6pm and into the metro area between 3-5pm. Damaging winds are likely to occur and you don’t want to get caught outside when the storms roll through.

All of this supports the early dismissal that MCPS (and multiple other counties) has announced.

Why would we be put under a warning an hour before tornados hit? That makes no sense

Because she doesn't have a clue about what she's talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:That's dumb, but at least they're not closing.

Are the buildings at least staying open for child care?

It’s a school system, not a child-care provider. The goal is getting kids home before the severe weather hits.

Get over yourself. Our aftercare provider is staying open.

Your aftercare staying open isn’t the flex you think it is. Managing a handful of kids indoors isn’t the same as getting an entire district home safely.

Keeping kids (and staff) inside a school building is safe and reasonable in the conditions expected. Much better than being on a bus or walking around outdoors, which is what we are trying to avoid with early dismissal.

Right, let’s just keep thousands of kids trapped in classrooms until normal dismissal while a Level 4 storm hits outside. Totally reasonable.

You don't seem to understand what level 4 means here.

Well, the level 4 level means we will have a good chance to see tornadoes in our area tomorrow afternoon and we will most likely be put under a tornado warning by 1pm tomorrow. According to Doug Kammerer, the storms will move through between 2-6pm and into the metro area between 3-5pm. Damaging winds are likely to occur and you don’t want to get caught outside when the storms roll through.

All of this supports the early dismissal that MCPS (and multiple other counties) has announced.

It's a 10-15% chance of tornadoes. That's certainty not "most likely."

Yes, we'll be under a tornado watch, but that doesn't mean much. They don't call a warning until they see one visually or on radar.

We're not even under a tornado watch yet which at this point I find a bit strange- there are a lot of "warnings" about the weather but we are under no actual weather advisory from NWS. Not even a wind advsiory which is in effect in other parts of MD.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw big storms predicted at 11 and 1. I know they don’t want to cancel but I think they should if the forecast hasn’t changed for the better by 5 am.

I agree. There is no safe window tomorrow to be doing dismissal. Sucks, but it is an unusual forecast due to the severity and the multiple waves covering the whole day. I will be wfh with two kids …. AGAIN

I'm seeing showers forecast at that time and strong storms later in the afternoon. Where are you guys seeing "big storms" predicted for 11am-1pm?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For the Blair poster who can’t google:

https://mbhs.edu/schedule

I’m the Blair poster and I am fully aware of the typical early dismissal schedule. However the message MCPS sent did not say schools would follow their regular early dismissal schedule - it said that high school would finish at 12 noon.

Magnet buses can’t start their runs until middle school dismissal time. Middle schools always dismiss 30 minutes after the high schools. 9th period at Blair is designed to fill the time after regular high school dismissal until the magnet buses arrive from the middle schools.

Thus, as a previous poster said, the only sure things are death, taxes, and 9th period.

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Anonymous wrote:That's dumb, but at least they're not closing.

Are the buildings at least staying open for child care?

It’s a school system, not a child-care provider. The goal is getting kids home before the severe weather hits.

Get over yourself. Our aftercare provider is staying open.

Your aftercare staying open isn’t the flex you think it is. Managing a handful of kids indoors isn’t the same as getting an entire district home safely.

Keeping kids (and staff) inside a school building is safe and reasonable in the conditions expected. Much better than being on a bus or walking around outdoors, which is what we are trying to avoid with early dismissal.

Right, let’s just keep thousands of kids trapped in classrooms until normal dismissal while a Level 4 storm hits outside. Totally reasonable.

You don't seem to understand what level 4 means here.

Well, the level 4 level means we will have a good chance to see tornadoes in our area tomorrow afternoon and we will most likely be put under a tornado warning by 1pm tomorrow. According to Doug Kammerer, the storms will move through between 2-6pm and into the metro area between 3-5pm. Damaging winds are likely to occur and you don’t want to get caught outside when the storms roll through.

All of this supports the early dismissal that MCPS (and multiple other counties) has announced.

Why would we be put under a warning an hour before tornados hit? That makes no sense

Because she doesn't have a clue about what she's talking about.

Tornado WATCH, not warning. I got one word wrong. I literally copied and pasted the rest from what Doug Kammerer said on his FB post yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Side note but today is a reminder of how trash these weather apps are. iPhone weather app showing 1.25” rain today but no chance of storms, just says wind gusts up to 39 mph lol.

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Anonymous wrote:That's dumb, but at least they're not closing.

Are the buildings at least staying open for child care?

It’s a school system, not a child-care provider. The goal is getting kids home before the severe weather hits.

Get over yourself. Our aftercare provider is staying open.

Your aftercare staying open isn’t the flex you think it is. Managing a handful of kids indoors isn’t the same as getting an entire district home safely.

Keeping kids (and staff) inside a school building is safe and reasonable in the conditions expected. Much better than being on a bus or walking around outdoors, which is what we are trying to avoid with early dismissal.

Right, let’s just keep thousands of kids trapped in classrooms until normal dismissal while a Level 4 storm hits outside. Totally reasonable.

You don't seem to understand what level 4 means here.

Well, the level 4 level means we will have a good chance to see tornadoes in our area tomorrow afternoon and we will most likely be put under a tornado warning by 1pm tomorrow. According to Doug Kammerer, the storms will move through between 2-6pm and into the metro area between 3-5pm. Damaging winds are likely to occur and you don’t want to get caught outside when the storms roll through.

All of this supports the early dismissal that MCPS (and multiple other counties) has announced.

It's a 10-15% chance of tornadoes. That's certainty not "most likely."

Yes, we'll be under a tornado watch, but that doesn't mean much. They don't call a warning until they see one visually or on radar.

The Central Maryland Weather Authority Facebook page responded to someone yesterday that made this very same comment. This was their reply. “Please do not downplay this risk. 15% is exponentially higher than our average risk. About 6x higher. It is reserved for tornado outbreaks that post a threat to life and property. No, the sky isn’t falling, but this is an exceptionally rare and high end threat. We haven’t had a risk this high in over a decade.”

Sounds to me like this could be a little more severe than you are making it out to be.