School Cancelation

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Anonymous wrote: Anything announced yet?

I walked past the kids' elementary school on my way home. Part of the sidewalk is a little icy but generally safe. Wisconsin is open. The Wisconsin sidewalk is generally safe, except that you have to walk slowly over the bumps of snow. Buses are running. Many kids are out. It is a beautiful day. At least for Northwest schools, Janney, Mans, Hearst, and Murch, I don't see how it is dangerous to go to school tomorrow.

My elementary-age kids go to one of those schools and have been walking there since yesterday to meet up with friends! Our car got plowed in, which was annoying, but it wasn't that hard to shovel it out. All to say, we probably could have had school today even and been fine ...

You can walk what about the employees who must drive. Congrats on your area being clear. It’s amazing to think that others have not been touched at all.

those who has to drive don't have to come to work. Most of the roads near DC is clear.

The roads are clear but the cars are encased in a berm of solid ice.

The wintry mix stopped falling 40 hours ago. Why haven’t people done their shoveling?

You can't "shovel" a wall of solid ice.

I did. You can too!

Yep, so did we.

do y’all want to come over and shovel out my alley in Logan Circle? bc we can’t do half a city block and my neighbors dgaf bc they don’t need to drive anywhere.

Where do you have to drive if you live in Logan?

I have to (yes and choose to) drive my kid to a dc private bc my local DCPS high school has a 70% graduation rate, a truancy issue and the teen pregnancy program on site. Assume that if you’re commenting on school closings on the private school board, your kid likely goes to private school, no?

Then I guess you and your teen need to get out there and shovel.

Precisely. What do you plan to do? Being cozy until next week?

We should shovel ice out of our block
long alley and put it where? Have you ever been in an alley downtown? There aren’t open spaces to put this ice and snow in. And my child will uber when school opens if my car can’t be moved. It’s not a big deal. But lots of people’s cars are blocked in, roads aren’t plowed, many sidewalks aren’t clear. This attitude of get out there and do it yourself is nice in theory but we can’t clear all this cement like ice ourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:our street in bethesda hasn't been plowed yet. not sure how i'd get out unless we see a plow before tomorrow morning

also, one can walk. If you live in Bethesda, you have access to the bus and metro. they are all running.

I can’t climb 6 ft walls of snow!

I used to live closer to the school where I worked, and the expectation was you walk in if you could. This made it incredibly dangerous. No one realizes how impassable snow banks are.. you literally are scaling rough ice to land in the street. Driving is actually safer.

This is how it is in our neighborhood right now. We can’t cross the main road due to snowbanks at the crosswalks. They are several feet high. Who is supposed to clear this? The city? I can’t clear it by hand we need a machine.

So you stay inside all week?

Huh? No one said they wanted to stay inside all week. They are asking who can clear the crosswalks so people can cross the roads and kids can walk to school.

They can walk over the "snow bank". The kids won't die to climb over that.

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Anonymous wrote:our street in bethesda hasn't been plowed yet. not sure how i'd get out unless we see a plow before tomorrow morning

also, one can walk. If you live in Bethesda, you have access to the bus and metro. they are all running.

I can’t climb 6 ft walls of snow!

I used to live closer to the school where I worked, and the expectation was you walk in if you could. This made it incredibly dangerous. No one realizes how impassable snow banks are.. you literally are scaling rough ice to land in the street. Driving is actually safer.

This is how it is in our neighborhood right now. We can’t cross the main road due to snowbanks at the crosswalks. They are several feet high. Who is supposed to clear this? The city? I can’t clear it by hand we need a machine.

So you stay inside all week?

Huh? No one said they wanted to stay inside all week. They are asking who can clear the crosswalks so people can cross the roads and kids can walk to school.

It seems folks do not mind school being closed that means they do not mind staying all day inside to wait the snow to melt.

Oh shut up already.

It is ice! How is this a hard concept? Our streets are not plowed. Buses can not get kids to school safely.

Screw off already.

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Anonymous wrote:Public school are canceling Wednesday.

MCPS is now closed through Thursday.

lol

LOL? why don't you get off your ass and clear 235 parking lots of ice-encrusted snow?

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Anonymous wrote:our street in bethesda hasn't been plowed yet. not sure how i'd get out unless we see a plow before tomorrow morning

also, one can walk. If you live in Bethesda, you have access to the bus and metro. they are all running.

I can’t climb 6 ft walls of snow!

I used to live closer to the school where I worked, and the expectation was you walk in if you could. This made it incredibly dangerous. No one realizes how impassable snow banks are.. you literally are scaling rough ice to land in the street. Driving is actually safer.

This is how it is in our neighborhood right now. We can’t cross the main road due to snowbanks at the crosswalks. They are several feet high. Who is supposed to clear this? The city? I can’t clear it by hand we need a machine.

So you stay inside all week?

Huh? No one said they wanted to stay inside all week. They are asking who can clear the crosswalks so people can cross the roads and kids can walk to school.

They can walk over the "snow bank". The kids won't die to climb over that.

I can’t speak for all but the ones near me are an unstable mix of sludge, snow and ice. Some are three feet tall. One at a major crosswalk is a pure snow wall that you couldn’t climb up. So no, I don’t expect small kids or the elderly or anyone to have to scale that. That’s ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:our street in bethesda hasn't been plowed yet. not sure how i'd get out unless we see a plow before tomorrow morning

also, one can walk. If you live in Bethesda, you have access to the bus and metro. they are all running.

I can’t climb 6 ft walls of snow!

I used to live closer to the school where I worked, and the expectation was you walk in if you could. This made it incredibly dangerous. No one realizes how impassable snow banks are.. you literally are scaling rough ice to land in the street. Driving is actually safer.

This is how it is in our neighborhood right now. We can’t cross the main road due to snowbanks at the crosswalks. They are several feet high. Who is supposed to clear this? The city? I can’t clear it by hand we need a machine.

So you stay inside all week?

Huh? No one said they wanted to stay inside all week. They are asking who can clear the crosswalks so people can cross the roads and kids can walk to school.

They can walk over the "snow bank". The kids won't die to climb over that.

I can’t speak for all but the ones near me are an unstable mix of sludge, snow and ice. Some are three feet tall. One at a major crosswalk is a pure snow wall that you couldn’t climb up. So no, I don’t expect small kids or the elderly or anyone to have to scale that. That’s ridiculous.

And they go well out into the road where cars are driving by too. The city should have a plan for clearing them. It’s unreasonable to expect people to scale icy mounds for day to day life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are all closing sit tight.

Wrong! Many are virtual.

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Anonymous wrote:They are all closing sit tight.

Wrong! Many are virtual.

Virtual the same as closed. We learned this during Covid

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I walked past the kids' elementary school on my way home. Part of the sidewalk is a little icy but generally safe. Wisconsin is open. The Wisconsin sidewalk is generally safe, except that you have to walk slowly over the bumps of snow. Buses are running. Many kids are out. It is a beautiful day. At least for Northwest schools, Janney, Mans, Hearst, and Murch, I don't see how it is dangerous to go to school tomorrow.

My elementary-age kids go to one of those schools and have been walking there since yesterday to meet up with friends! Our car got plowed in, which was annoying, but it wasn't that hard to shovel it out. All to say, we probably could have had school today even and been fine ...

You can walk what about the employees who must drive. Congrats on your area being clear. It’s amazing to think that others have not been touched at all.

those who has to drive don't have to come to work. Most of the roads near DC is clear.

The roads are clear but the cars are encased in a berm of solid ice.

The wintry mix stopped falling 40 hours ago. Why haven’t people done their shoveling?

You can't "shovel" a wall of solid ice.

I did. You can too!

Yep, so did we.

do y’all want to come over and shovel out my alley in Logan Circle? bc we can’t do half a city block and my neighbors dgaf bc they don’t need to drive anywhere.

Where do you have to drive if you live in Logan?

I have to (yes and choose to) drive my kid to a dc private bc my local DCPS high school has a 70% graduation rate, a truancy issue and the teen pregnancy program on site. Assume that if you’re commenting on school closings on the private school board, your kid likely goes to private school, no?

Then I guess you and your teen need to get out there and shovel.

Precisely. What do you plan to do? Being cozy until next week?

We should shovel ice out of our block
long alley and put it where? Have you ever been in an alley downtown? There aren’t open spaces to put this ice and snow in. And my child will uber when school opens if my car can’t be moved. It’s not a big deal. But lots of people’s cars are blocked in, roads aren’t plowed, many sidewalks aren’t clear. This attitude of get out there and do it yourself is nice in theory but we can’t clear all this cement like ice ourselves.

If you plan to uber, what are you complaining about?

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Day 3 of school school closure on the Close! What about other privates?

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Holton, Potomac, NPS, STA, NCS all closed.

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Anonymous wrote:They are all closing sit tight.

Wrong! Many are virtual.

Virtual the same as closed. We learned this during Covid

Except that your kids still have to log on and do work or are penalized.

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Norwood is closed tomorrow with distance learning for 3rd and up. They said they hope to be open on Thursday.

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Landon with a joke of an email saying two hour delay or virtual learning - we’ll let you know later. Just make a decision, we know what the potential options are.

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Anonymous wrote:They are all closing sit tight.

Wrong! Many are virtual.

Virtual the same as closed. We learned this during Covid

Except that your kids still have to log on and do work or are penalized.

But then they have to pay attention to them because the nanny is snowed in.