Snow day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m kind of glad that I don’t have to go out in these winds, but I would still rather have school open.

It's completely dangerous in some neighborhoods. I guess some are lucky that they can actually drive on a road that is not icy to a school that is actually open, but that's not the case in many n'hoods.

You're okay with your kid sleeping all day?

Huh? Of course not. I've already got their activities planned out. What about you?

16 year old.... it doesn't work....

[Anonymous]

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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.

I think it js safe. My driveway and neighborhood street is clear and DRY. The route to school is safe. It can’t be perfect. It will never be perfect. There is always risk. I’m sorry some people are still in unsafe places but keeping education from my kids while we wait for everyone to think it is safe is not right. If you don’t think it is safe keep your kids home. Teachers and other school employees can also decide for themselves. Again, might not be perfect but you’ve got to start getting the kids back.

What is the purpose of coming in, if other people can’t, and then your kids are just being babysat in the cafeteria. If I’m a teacher and I come into school and see that 10 out of my 25 kids were also able to come in, I am not teaching a lesson. I’m not going to re-teach it the next day. The kids will just sit there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone that can telework I love having my kids in the house, but I completely understand the frustration of those that need to burn time off because their work doesn't afford them the same benefit, then they go outside, and things look perfectly normal in their neighborhood and school.

The truth of it is FCPS is too large for its own good, it would be preferable to have smaller districts (or independent subdivisions that are empowered to make their own decisions) that are more local and that can better respond to local needs.

Baltimore County - another very large district - has figured it out. They divided the county into zones and some will remain closed while others open depending on weather conditions. It works and has for decades. Meanwhile, FCPS has tried nothing and is all out of ideas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Open with a delay on Monday.

THEY WONT REOPEN- THere will always be teachers saying they want more more more days off is over. they won

Yes, teachers made this decision.

<sarcasm>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to pull my obnoxious midwesterner card here - snow and ice are not hot lava. You can drive on it. Just take it slow.

The sidewalk thing is even more mind-boggling. The kids have been out playing in the snow for 4 days but now they can't walk on a snowy/icy sidewalk? Come on.

You aren't getting it. My Midwestern hubby attempted to go out this am and turned around. There are hills. The roads are ice. It's not rocket science to understand this is not safe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open with a delay on Monday.

THEY WONT REOPEN- THere will always be teachers saying they want more more more days off is over. they won

Yes, teachers made this decision.

<sarcasm>

+1. people on this forum are very lazy thinkers. No school? Blame the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Sunday NightMostly clear, with a low around 16.

Monday NightPartly cloudy, with a low around 21.

Tuesday NightMostly clear, with a low around 14.

no way they will be open next week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open with a delay on Monday.

THEY WONT REOPEN- THere will always be teachers saying they want more more more days off is over. they won

Yes, teachers made this decision.

<sarcasm>

+1. people on this forum are very lazy thinkers. No school? Blame the teachers.

Why are they happy about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone that can telework I love having my kids in the house, but I completely understand the frustration of those that need to burn time off because their work doesn't afford them the same benefit, then they go outside, and things look perfectly normal in their neighborhood and school.

The truth of it is FCPS is too large for its own good, it would be preferable to have smaller districts (or independent subdivisions that are empowered to make their own decisions) that are more local and that can better respond to local needs.

Baltimore County - another very large district - has figured it out. They divided the county into zones and some will remain closed while others open depending on weather conditions. It works and has for decades. Meanwhile, FCPS has tried nothing and is all out of ideas.

Good for them! Nobody who lives in this area wants to attend school in Baltimore county.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I know that’s the line you’re all spouting, but no, it literally is. Sorry. DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open with a delay on Monday.

THEY WONT REOPEN- THere will always be teachers saying they want more more more days off is over. they won

Yes, teachers made this decision.

<sarcasm>

+1. people on this forum are very lazy thinkers. No school? Blame the teachers.

Why are they happy about it?

Why are teachers happy about snow days? Why do you think? It’s not rocket science. But in the end, if school was open today, they would have gone to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

So arrange childcare. Weather related school closures are part of life and part of parenting. To parent is a verb. You should already have a plan. If you don’t, best get busy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I know that’s the line you’re all spouting, but no, it literally is. Sorry. DP

I’m not sure why this person is throwing Gen X under the bridge. I’m Gen X and grew up in Fairfax County. I had so many snow days as a child where it never even snowed. We also got a few blizzards where we messed a week of school nothing has changed in this county regarding snow dayssince I was a student in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

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

There are 200 schools in FCPS. Can you be more specific? “Seems like a lot” is pretty weak without an actual number. Or do you just spew whatever pops in your head at the moment with no real evidence?

Calm down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open with a delay on Monday.

THEY WONT REOPEN- THere will always be teachers saying they want more more more days off is over. they won

You’re so melodramatic.