Snow day

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Anonymous wrote: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

And at what temperature does diesel fuel freeze at?

- 1 something.

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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.

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.

Well you’re a $hitty teacher.

OK, let’s say that teacher couldn’t make it in so those 10 students needed to join another teacher’s class that is in another grade or another subject. Should that teacher teach a lesson specific to their grade/subject, now that they have 20 students? No.

[Anonymous]

next week if they are open we just be a catch up or review week Nothing will be caught- 4 week break.

[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.

+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.

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.

Well you’re a $hitty teacher.

No, they're an efficient teacher. Why would you teach something twice? Because that's what would need to happen if half the class missed a lesson. The parents on this board rooting for kids to return to school, even if it means just sitting in a classroom/auditorium all day, just further cement others' belief that there are many parents who view school as babysitting and/or can't stand to be with their kids. Ask yourself - if you were told to report to work, but you couldn't actually work, you'd have to just sit there for 8 hours - what would you say? You'd probably argue that it makes no sense to go to the office to just sit there. Apply that same reasoning to this situation.

Why efficient and not simply uncaring and lazy? The students in attendance wouldn't benefit from hearing the same lesson twice? If that's really a teacher above, that's a shameful post.

So you are telling me that when you are leading a meeting, and not everyone has shown up, you just go ahead and start the meeting...and then when the stragglers join, you then stop and repeat all the information that you already said? That's really what you do? Imagine applying this method to all the content that gets taught during the entire instructional period.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kids to grow up being big pu$$ies either but some neighborhood roads are still very bad. I think someone like a 100 pages ago came up with the best solution in THESE cases. When it gets several days in, maybe FCPS should access each school and just keep the worst ones closed. Of course there will still be bit-ching and moaning...why do they get to stay home and not us. Why do those kids get to go to school and not us. It's impossible to please everyone but the facts are...some streets are just still too dangerous for buses and kids. Just because some parents don't care, don't make it the best decision to send the kids anyway. Given the situation, I think FCPS made the right decision....and I'm assuming that tomorrow will be closed too. Why open for one day when the roads will still be suspect.

FCPS made the right call. VDOT completely abandoned the neighborhoods in my zip. There needs to be an investigation into what happened.

Same with my neighborhood and zip code and what is most frustrating is how they changed the plow schedule from "Assigned" to "100% Complete"...without even coming through. Someone is lying to someone.

Did you put a ticket in through VDOT? We had one pass by a plow on Monday morning. Some neighbors put service tickets in to VDOT yesterday and three trucks came through to plow and sand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

And at what temperature does diesel fuel freeze at?

- 1 something.

As it freezes, diesel fuel begins to gel. Typically, this can happen anytime the temperature drops below 32 degrees, but most often when the temperature hits 15 degrees. This diesel gelling process makes it impossible to pump through fuel tanks and can actually shut down equipment or vehicles entirely.

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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.

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.

Well you’re a $hitty teacher.

No, they're an efficient teacher. Why would you teach something twice? Because that's what would need to happen if half the class missed a lesson. The parents on this board rooting for kids to return to school, even if it means just sitting in a classroom/auditorium all day, just further cement others' belief that there are many parents who view school as babysitting and/or can't stand to be with their kids. Ask yourself - if you were told to report to work, but you couldn't actually work, you'd have to just sit there for 8 hours - what would you say? You'd probably argue that it makes no sense to go to the office to just sit there. Apply that same reasoning to this situation.

Why efficient and not simply uncaring and lazy? The students in attendance wouldn't benefit from hearing the same lesson twice? If that's really a teacher above, that's a shameful post.

So you are telling me that when you are leading a meeting, and not everyone has shown up, you just go ahead and start the meeting...and then when the stragglers join, you then stop and repeat all the information that you already said? That's really what you do? Imagine applying this method to all the content that gets taught during the entire instructional period.

I was just thinking the same thing. If 2/3 of the participants couldn’t come to a meeting at my job they would reschedule the meeting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kids to grow up being big pu$$ies either but some neighborhood roads are still very bad. I think someone like a 100 pages ago came up with the best solution in THESE cases. When it gets several days in, maybe FCPS should access each school and just keep the worst ones closed. Of course there will still be bit-ching and moaning...why do they get to stay home and not us. Why do those kids get to go to school and not us. It's impossible to please everyone but the facts are...some streets are just still too dangerous for buses and kids. Just because some parents don't care, don't make it the best decision to send the kids anyway. Given the situation, I think FCPS made the right decision....and I'm assuming that tomorrow will be closed too. Why open for one day when the roads will still be suspect.

FCPS made the right call. VDOT completely abandoned the neighborhoods in my zip. There needs to be an investigation into what happened.

Same with my neighborhood and zip code and what is most frustrating is how they changed the plow schedule from "Assigned" to "100% Complete"...without even coming through. Someone is lying to someone.

Did you put a ticket in through VDOT? We had one pass by a plow on Monday morning. Some neighbors put service tickets in to VDOT yesterday and three trucks came through to plow and sand.

Link please. We need it for our neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

And at what temperature does diesel fuel freeze at?

- 1 something.

I’m pretty sure it’s closer to 12°

[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.

+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.

Last time I check this was not a blizzards .......
6 INCHES OF SNOW THEY GOT OUT A WEEK. WE NEEDED 15 INCHES OF SNOW TO BE OUT FOR THE WEEK.
WE ARE NO THE SAME. 6 INCHES GOT OUT MAYBE 2 DAYS....... NOT ALL WEEK. SOME ARE ALREADY ASKING TO CLOSE FOR NEXT WEEK AND OF COURSE FCPS WILL BE OKAY WITH THAT. I JUST CAN'T ANYMORE
OPEN ON TIME MONDAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. JUST HOPE THEY WANT TO GO BACK ON TIME- IF JUST ONE PERSON SAYS NO PERSON SAYS NOPE THEY ARE CLOSED AGAIN. I JUST CANT ANYMORE.

Get some help, seriously.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kids to grow up being big pu$$ies either but some neighborhood roads are still very bad. I think someone like a 100 pages ago came up with the best solution in THESE cases. When it gets several days in, maybe FCPS should access each school and just keep the worst ones closed. Of course there will still be bit-ching and moaning...why do they get to stay home and not us. Why do those kids get to go to school and not us. It's impossible to please everyone but the facts are...some streets are just still too dangerous for buses and kids. Just because some parents don't care, don't make it the best decision to send the kids anyway. Given the situation, I think FCPS made the right decision....and I'm assuming that tomorrow will be closed too. Why open for one day when the roads will still be suspect.

FCPS made the right call. VDOT completely abandoned the neighborhoods in my zip. There needs to be an investigation into what happened.

Same with my neighborhood and zip code and what is most frustrating is how they changed the plow schedule from "Assigned" to "100% Complete"...without even coming through. Someone is lying to someone.

Did you put a ticket in through VDOT? We had one pass by a plow on Monday morning. Some neighbors put service tickets in to VDOT yesterday and three trucks came through to plow and sand.

Link please. We need it for our neighborhood.

https://my.vdot.virginia.gov/#0

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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.

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.

Well you’re a $hitty teacher.

No, they're an efficient teacher. Why would you teach something twice? Because that's what would need to happen if half the class missed a lesson. The parents on this board rooting for kids to return to school, even if it means just sitting in a classroom/auditorium all day, just further cement others' belief that there are many parents who view school as babysitting and/or can't stand to be with their kids. Ask yourself - if you were told to report to work, but you couldn't actually work, you'd have to just sit there for 8 hours - what would you say? You'd probably argue that it makes no sense to go to the office to just sit there. Apply that same reasoning to this situation.

Why efficient and not simply uncaring and lazy? The students in attendance wouldn't benefit from hearing the same lesson twice? If that's really a teacher above, that's a shameful post.

So you are telling me that when you are leading a meeting, and not everyone has shown up, you just go ahead and start the meeting...and then when the stragglers join, you then stop and repeat all the information that you already said? That's really what you do? Imagine applying this method to all the content that gets taught during the entire instructional period.

This happens all of the time. Do you live in the real world?

[Anonymous]

I emailed them a 6 page email - maybe on Monday

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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.

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.

Well you’re a $hitty teacher.

No, they're an efficient teacher. Why would you teach something twice? Because that's what would need to happen if half the class missed a lesson. The parents on this board rooting for kids to return to school, even if it means just sitting in a classroom/auditorium all day, just further cement others' belief that there are many parents who view school as babysitting and/or can't stand to be with their kids. Ask yourself - if you were told to report to work, but you couldn't actually work, you'd have to just sit there for 8 hours - what would you say? You'd probably argue that it makes no sense to go to the office to just sit there. Apply that same reasoning to this situation.

Why efficient and not simply uncaring and lazy? The students in attendance wouldn't benefit from hearing the same lesson twice? If that's really a teacher above, that's a shameful post.

So you are telling me that when you are leading a meeting, and not everyone has shown up, you just go ahead and start the meeting...and then when the stragglers join, you then stop and repeat all the information that you already said? That's really what you do? Imagine applying this method to all the content that gets taught during the entire instructional period.

This happens all of the time. Do you live in the real world?

I most certainly do and when people are late to my meeting, I hold off beginning until everyone is there. If I had half my participants unaccounted for, I'd reschedule. Why is this concept so difficult for you?

[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.

+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.

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.

Well you’re a $hitty teacher.

No, they're an efficient teacher. Why would you teach something twice? Because that's what would need to happen if half the class missed a lesson. The parents on this board rooting for kids to return to school, even if it means just sitting in a classroom/auditorium all day, just further cement others' belief that there are many parents who view school as babysitting and/or can't stand to be with their kids. Ask yourself - if you were told to report to work, but you couldn't actually work, you'd have to just sit there for 8 hours - what would you say? You'd probably argue that it makes no sense to go to the office to just sit there. Apply that same reasoning to this situation.

Why efficient and not simply uncaring and lazy? The students in attendance wouldn't benefit from hearing the same lesson twice? If that's really a teacher above, that's a shameful post.

So you are telling me that when you are leading a meeting, and not everyone has shown up, you just go ahead and start the meeting...and then when the stragglers join, you then stop and repeat all the information that you already said? That's really what you do? Imagine applying this method to all the content that gets taught during the entire instructional period.

This happens all of the time. Do you live in the real world?

I most certainly do and when people are late to my meeting, I hold off beginning until everyone is there. If I had half my participants unaccounted for, I'd reschedule. Why is this concept so difficult for you?

Why is it hard to grasp that this isn't analogous in the slightest. Meeting attendees have plenty of other things they can be doing while waiting for the reschedule. Is there a magic number of students who need to be present for the teacher to do their job? Would it be 12, 13, 14? Or is it "everyone" like you describe above?