Early release Monday?

[Anonymous]

What is today’s bell schedule going to be like? High school is releasing at 12.

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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.

I was wondering about this too- particualrly since as noted above the local forecasters have been stressing the abnormally high tornado risk.

[Anonymous]

They should have canceled. It is pouring sheets of rain and gale winds. How are high schoolers and staff supposed to commute in these conditions? Not safe

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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.

You can take it seriously without exaggerating the risk. 15% is not "most likely." And 6x is not "exponentially higher."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should have canceled. It is pouring sheets of rain and gale winds. How are high schoolers and staff supposed to commute in these conditions? Not safe

Good window for you to travel right now- take advantage and stay safe.

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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.

Why would we be under a watch now? The conditions aren't currently right for tornadoes. Later they will be, but not now.

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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.

Why would we be under a watch now? The conditions aren't currently right for tornadoes. Later they will be, but not now.

Sorry my bad, I always thought watches were typically issued hours in advance- like I could swear in the summer we'd often get heads-up early in the day from the summer swim team if there was potential for disruption of vening meets if there was a severe thunderstorm watch.

My mom in SW PA is under a wind advisory. I would be glad if we don't get the bad winds here I was just surprised this area was left out.

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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.

Why would we be under a watch now? The conditions aren't currently right for tornadoes. Later they will be, but not now.

Sorry my bad, I always thought watches were typically issued hours in advance- like I could swear in the summer we'd often get heads-up early in the day from the summer swim team if there was potential for disruption of vening meets if there was a severe thunderstorm watch.

My mom in SW PA is under a wind advisory. I would be glad if we don't get the bad winds here I was just surprised this area was left out.

Not PP but the bad stuff is really not scheduled to hit until later. I understand why MCPS called for an early release but cancelling afterschool activities might have been sufficient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is today’s bell schedule going to be like? High school is releasing at 12.

Your HS should have their bell schedule on their website, including an early release schedule.

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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.

12 noon is the normal HS early release dismissal time.

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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.

Why would we be under a watch now? The conditions aren't currently right for tornadoes. Later they will be, but not now.

Sorry my bad, I always thought watches were typically issued hours in advance- like I could swear in the summer we'd often get heads-up early in the day from the summer swim team if there was potential for disruption of vening meets if there was a severe thunderstorm watch.

My mom in SW PA is under a wind advisory. I would be glad if we don't get the bad winds here I was just surprised this area was left out.

Not PP but the bad stuff is really not scheduled to hit until later. I understand why MCPS called for an early release but cancelling afterschool activities might have been sufficient.

It would have, but then they wouldn't have gotten to take the afternoon off (paid).

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Anonymous wrote:They should have canceled. It is pouring sheets of rain and gale winds. How are high schoolers and staff supposed to commute in these conditions? Not safe

It was a little rain. Big deal.

We previously joked that MCPS would start calling off for rain. I guess we shouldn't have given them ideas.

[Anonymous]

W&M canceled classes today. Many - if not all - school districts in NC and VA are canceling school today or doing early dismissal. It's just not MCPS.

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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.

12 noon is the normal HS early release dismissal time.

Not for 9th period. The messaging is typically that school will end 2.5 hours early, not at noon.

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Anonymous wrote:W&M canceled classes today. Many - if not all - school districts in NC and VA are canceling school today or doing early dismissal. It's just not MCPS.

Do you have any closer examples? What are our neighboring counties doing? The timing and severeity of the severe weather is not necessarily the same in southern VA and NC.