Snow day

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Anonymous wrote:It’s silly to go back for one day but we could still get another big storm this winter. I would rather go back tomorrow for one day than waste a snow day.

There's no chance we're going back tomorrow. The only mystery is when will the announcement come out and how whiny will it be.

People have made other plans by now. Barely anyone will show up if it’s open tomorrow.

I’m a high school teacher and kids already have such issues with attendance that I can PROMISE you if we have just one Friday of school this week, in single digit morning feel temps, with snow and ice still out, fewer than 50% are showing up. Like way fewer than 50%. Honestly, that goes for staff too.

ARE YOU OKAY WITH GOING BACK NEXT WEEK? MN YOU WANT ANOTHER WEEK OFF?

Can we get this person put in a timeout? I’m usually against reporting people just bc I don’t like what they post, but this is completely obnoxious.

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I work in APS and a student came in with their face all bloody because they slipped on ICE.

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My kids are absolutely loving the snow days. As a parent who grew up in this area, this is nothing new under the sun. We have always had snow days. We have missed entire weeks due to significant snow and ice. And we all managed and the kids were fine. Their education was not impacted. The difference now is that we have a lot more households where two parents work so they feel inconvenienced. Too bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in APS and a student came in with their face all bloody because they slipped on ICE.

Yeah, happens. Might have happened if they were playing in the snow too.

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Anonymous wrote:I work in APS and a student came in with their face all bloody because they slipped on ICE.

I as an adult have slipped on ice. I have learned to watch the ground and be more careful.

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Anonymous wrote:Things are getting better every day. More roads were finally plowed yesterday—-for the first time. Neighbors were shoveling sidewalks and streets to clear more ice. The problem is that the thin melt becomes frozen with this 20 degree weather and wind. This leads to a dangerous sheet of ice. Now we need VDOT to salt and sand the secondary roads.

Did the salt the roads BEFORE the storm? Genuinely curious.

Yes, but possibly not the secondary roads.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work in APS and a student came in with their face all bloody because they slipped on ICE.

Yeah, happens. Might have happened if they were playing in the snow too.

+1. Saw tons of kids out walking on unshoveled sidewalks while I was running errands yesterday. I get that some kids have disabilities that prevent them from dealing with walking on ice and snow, but many kids have been doing it for days.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are absolutely loving the snow days. As a parent who grew up in this area, this is nothing new under the sun. We have always had snow days. We have missed entire weeks due to significant snow and ice. And we all managed and the kids were fine. Their education was not impacted. The difference now is that we have a lot more households where two parents work so they feel inconvenienced. Too bad.

Education not impacted because: 1) the kids don't learn much in a given week anyway, and 2) the parents who care and have resources will continue/ramp up enrichment. If anything, those kids will probably learn more than usual this week while Larlo sits in front of the tablet all day.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are absolutely loving the snow days. As a parent who grew up in this area, this is nothing new under the sun. We have always had snow days. We have missed entire weeks due to significant snow and ice. And we all managed and the kids were fine. Their education was not impacted. The difference now is that we have a lot more households where two parents work so they feel inconvenienced. Too bad.

OK, before 2003 when schools were out for so long they had to extend the school year and they got fed up with 4 measly snow days I'm not sure that we have always missed that time. Maybe '92 (blizzard), '94 (ice storm), '96 (blizzard) and '03, but certainly not eveyr year.

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Anonymous wrote:I work in APS and a student came in with their face all bloody because they slipped on ICE.

That's a skill issue.

So what cancel school all winter?
If kids can be outside all say sledding they can survive going to school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are absolutely loving the snow days. As a parent who grew up in this area, this is nothing new under the sun. We have always had snow days. We have missed entire weeks due to significant snow and ice. And we all managed and the kids were fine. Their education was not impacted. The difference now is that we have a lot more households where two parents work so they feel inconvenienced. Too bad.

Education not impacted because: 1) the kids don't learn much in a given week anyway, and 2) the parents who care and have resources will continue/ramp up enrichment. If anything, those kids will probably learn more than usual this week while Larlo sits in front of the tablet all day.

maybe not for younger kids but for HS kids it means they have one less week to get all material in before AP exams.

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Anonymous wrote:It's mostly VDOT's fault, but it's also FCPS's faut. There should be contingency plans in place. Not every bus stop is going to be ice-free, and that cannot be the standard for sending a county full of children to school.

It's so sad how education is never at the top of the list of priorities.

OMG. Just stop. There are literally thousands of bus stops. We do not get a consistent snowfall each year. And you want people sitting around making contingency plans.

I can’t tell which you have more of: entitlement or stupidity.

I can promise you I am neither entitled nor stupid. But the superintendent seems to think that every bus stop needs to be cleared with a blow dryer in order to send kids to school. Consolidate bus stops. Have a designated consolidated bus stop for snow events. Have kids wait somewhere else. We got 6 inches of snow, these are not giant mounds. The kids will be fine. It’s so pathetic here.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are absolutely loving the snow days. As a parent who grew up in this area, this is nothing new under the sun. We have always had snow days. We have missed entire weeks due to significant snow and ice. And we all managed and the kids were fine. Their education was not impacted. The difference now is that we have a lot more households where two parents work so they feel inconvenienced. Too bad.

Education not impacted because: 1) the kids don't learn much in a given week anyway, and 2) the parents who care and have resources will continue/ramp up enrichment. If anything, those kids will probably learn more than usual this week while Larlo sits in front of the tablet all day.

maybe not for younger kids but for HS kids it means they have one less week to get all material in before AP exams.

“Education isn’t impacted because kids don’t actually learn at school anyways!” Do you even hear yourselves? And people are just ok with this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are absolutely loving the snow days. As a parent who grew up in this area, this is nothing new under the sun. We have always had snow days. We have missed entire weeks due to significant snow and ice. And we all managed and the kids were fine. Their education was not impacted. The difference now is that we have a lot more households where two parents work so they feel inconvenienced. Too bad.

Education not impacted because: 1) the kids don't learn much in a given week anyway, and 2) the parents who care and have resources will continue/ramp up enrichment. If anything, those kids will probably learn more than usual this week while Larlo sits in front of the tablet all day.

maybe not for younger kids but for HS kids it means they have one less week to get all material in before AP exams.

“Education isn’t impacted because kids don’t actually learn at school anyways!” Do you even hear yourselves? And people are just ok with this.

This is the ourobouros of the snow day threads in the FCPS forum. Somehow we go from the frantic “kids need to be in SCHOOL!” to the reverse stance of “they don’t even learn in school so it doesn’t matter” once the desperation sets in. Every year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work in APS and a student came in with their face all bloody because they slipped on ICE.

That's a skill issue.

So what cancel school all winter?
If kids can be outside all say sledding they can survive going to school.

You don’t understand the difference? Really? Damn, some of you people REALLY aren’t very bright.