Snow day

[Anonymous]

Seems like a lot of schools' parking lots are not plowed... that's on FCPS or VDOT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like a lot of schools' parking lots are not plowed... that's on FCPS or VDOT?

Technically school lots are on the schools but the personnel who clear those have to use the same roads we do to get there. If it’s icy and unsafe where they live there’s probably many who couldn’t show up to do the clearing. I have coworkers all the way out in West Virginia and some in Woodbridge where they got 15 inches of snow and then the icing we got. They can’t magically get to another district safely to work- we are all interconnected even if the entities function separately.

[Anonymous]

Back to school next Wednesday, Tuesday with. 2 hour delay at the earliest. Thread will hit 200 at least as we wait for Reid’s next missive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well it’s a good thing Reid decreased the number of built-in snow days this year to accommodate the early release Monday debacle. At this rate the teachers won’t have done their training (that the rest of the state knocked out in three days) and they’ll still be teaching on Fourth of July.

I think they go virtual after so many days.

That would be a departure from Reid saying “eliminating virtual learning days will enable us to maximize our in-person learning and provide for equitable access to instruction and student services for each and every one of our students.”

Hope she enjoys telling teachers to work in July.

No one is going to school in July...but if it feels better for you to go on about this and vent-have at it.

So where do you think they’re making up the legally mandated instructional hours, wise sage?

I will bet you $100,000 that the regular school year (not summer school) will not be extended into July.

Also, you’re ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:VDOT is majorly incompetent and failing. The procedures for clearing secondary roads is inadequate. School systems and children pay the price. Anybody mad at schools being closed should be blaming VDOT. Efforts need to be made to look at these policies and procedures. Anybody have contact info on who to complain to about VDOT?

Property owners need to clear sidewalks. Even still, there are many public sidewalks (no property owner responsibility here) that need cleared for kids to walk to school. FCPS has over 50K walkers! Does any other school system in the country have as many walkers?

Any big city will have that many walkers. If a mile or less from school kids should walk. Same for bus stops. 1 mile radius from stop. We have become a nation of wimps.

The students in my neighborhood are all designated walkers for the HS almost two miles away. What exactly are you complaining about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They really should be making the teachers do the trainings this week so elementary kids can have those days back.

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:They really should be making the teachers do the trainings this week so elementary kids can have those days back.

That’s not a bad idea— the teachers aren’t taking busses to work and presumably could do the training in the schools/central office which have been properly cleared.

You’re all delusional.

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Anonymous wrote:Based on the temps, FCPS will be closed on Friday.
We've gone through this before.

Cold temps is enough to stay closed? So if the same thing happens, say, two weeks from now, kids will miss another week? This is completely messed up. I'm not sure who to blame though. VDOT? Reid?

You know for sure the answer and just play dumb. Cold temperature will not close school, this entire topic is SNOW day. The cold tomorrow will make the situation (icy road) worse.

Oh, they aren’t playing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t someone falsely claim way earlier in this thread that they don’t close schools for sidewalks and bus stops? Hahaha. Joke’s on them. Reid specifically mentioned them in her message.

Yes, and haven’t been back since the closure notices started. Hilarious.

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Anonymous wrote:This proves you can't make everyone happy.

The kids are happy they won't have to risk their lives on a bus and icy roads.

Again, hug your children. Spend this time with them. You won't live forever. And for some of you, you will outlive your child.

This is a gift to you both.

I spend enough time with my kids thank you very much. We plan time! I need my kid who struggles with academics to learn so he will graduate and not live with me forever. If you want productive citizens get these kids to school!

I’m sorry not all streets are plowed. I don’t think that the kids should stay home because a few have piles of snow. Ugh! If you think it is unsafe and are worried keep them home. You want to punish all the kids for your kids safety. Let me be the judge.

Our neighborhood and school is fine.

It’s been four days. Please get a life.

And it isn’t about “your neighborhood and school.” It’s a large district. FFS.

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While DCUM is hardly broadly representative, I am quite surprised at the large number of parents so eager to get their kids out of the house that safety is a secondary concern. As has been said over and over, FCPS has 13 built-in snow days (elementary has 10 this year). We've used four in the name of safety. So, there will be four fewer joke days at the end of the school year where kids have "study hall" (a/k/a play on your FCPS-provided device) or watch a movie and throw spitballs. If you have child care issues, that is not FCPS's job to solve. Public schools exist to provide education -- not babysit your kids -- and there is enough fluff built in that these four days make no difference in achieving that aim. For once, Reid is actually putting the kids -- all the kids -- first. Get your priorities straight. You're just going to have to suffer through having your kids at home.

[Anonymous]

I'm hoping kids get Friday off too. At this point, let them have a three week holiday.

[Anonymous]

Why does it feel longee than three weeks lol

[Anonymous]

If anyone is wondering why FCPS remains closed, just look at VDOT's wonderful job removing the snow:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/1hwt9uq/judging_by_this_monumental_snow_removal_effort/#lightbox

Somebody posted that from yesterday afternoon, it's Springhill Elementary.

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Anonymous wrote:This proves you can't make everyone happy.

The kids are happy they won't have to risk their lives on a bus and icy roads.

Again, hug your children. Spend this time with them. You won't live forever. And for some of you, you will outlive your child.

This is a gift to you both.

I spend enough time with my kids thank you very much. We plan time! I need my kid who struggles with academics to learn so he will graduate and not live with me forever. If you want productive citizens get these kids to school!

I’m sorry not all streets are plowed. I don’t think that the kids should stay home because a few have piles of snow. Ugh! If you think it is unsafe and are worried keep them home. You want to punish all the kids for your kids safety. Let me be the judge.

Our neighborhood and school is fine.

It’s been four days. Please get a life.

And it isn’t about “your neighborhood and school.” It’s a large district. FFS.

+1

While DCUM is hardly broadly representative, I am quite surprised at the large number of parents so eager to get their kids out of the house that safety is a secondary concern. As has been said over and over, FCPS has 13 built-in snow days (elementary has 10 this year). We've used four in the name of safety. So, there will be four fewer joke days at the end of the school year where kids have "study hall" (a/k/a play on your FCPS-provided device) or watch a movie and throw spitballs. If you have child care issues, that is not FCPS's job to solve. Public schools exist to provide education -- not babysit your kids -- and there is enough fluff built in that these four days make no difference in achieving that aim. For once, Reid is actually putting the kids -- all the kids -- first. Get your priorities straight. You're just going to have to suffer through having your kids at home.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re missing the point. It’s not about not wanting kids at home. There’s too many figurative snowflakes who are worried about everything, including their own shadows, so “safety” becomes this all-encompassing excuse for everything. Do we need to go back to 2020? As predicted, the impacts of that disaster (the one we created, not the virus) are still being felt. Of course, we were told “safety”. There’s a lot of people now screaming “safety”, and we don’t love our kids because we want them not to miss weeks and weeks of school at a time, when we know there are learning loss impacts. We also know that those of us who are Gen X, the generation who grew up being sent to school in 50 inches of snow. We threw chains on the buses and made it happen. Today, we cancel for cold, wind, rain. So all this fear mongering doesn’t work. We lived it (keyword lived). We’re clearly heading in the wrong direction. I’m sorry you can’t see that and have to strike back with “you don’t love your children” or some version that implies that. Obviously we do, but want to prepare our kids to be more than our precious little snowflakes. Or we can take the other angle of those less affluent parents who have to work and can’t afford childcare. The ones people always say they want to help at election time because they’re the party that cares about the less fortunate, but in principle only care about if they don’t inconvenience what they want.

[Anonymous]

My main problem now is that I am required to work in the office. I am burning through vacation leave that I would have used in the summer. Our streets and sidewalks are clear. I will gladly help shovel, salt, whatever to get school open. I also love spending time with my kid, but he really should be in school.