Snow day

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Anonymous wrote:My junior has been working on a dual enrollment assignment with the teacher posting messages to the class and also meeting virtually with students today for feedback on said assignment. But not sure if they have to stay on a strict schedule since it's DE?

Are they taking it with NVCC credit? That could be why.

DE is completely different. Yes it runs through NVCC.

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Can you stop acting like children and have a productive discussion?

How are the secondary roads? Sidewalks? Parking lots? That is good information for us to understand about if schools should be open or closed tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:We shoveled our own street in front of our house. If everyone would go out and do a little, then the community would be in better shape. Yes, it takes hours and some chipping at the ice, but it is satisfying to see it cleared.

Sorry, I have a "real job" in the "real-world".

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t even care about virtual school. But it seems ridiculous that the high school and middle school teachers have totally checked out, not answering emails, posting nothing on schoology, not updating grades. Kids (those that care) could be using this time to catch up or study. I get it that lots won’t do that, but some will and it seems relatively low effort to just do the bare minimum like check your email.

Who is emailing their teacher during the 3-week break?

It was their vacation. They were actually being told *not* to check email by their admin during that time.

Yes and why the F! would any of us post work on Schoology that kids who ARE NOT IN SCHOOL won’t do. It’s like you just have to be punitive against someone, for some reason, whether it makes any sense to be or not.

This is the attitude that emerged during COVID from the teachers and when I lost faith in the school district. I get not answering emails on vacation. But this week is not vacation and my kids have been using the time to study for end of quarter tests. I just have average kids too, not AAP type kids. Bizarre. Any other job would expect people to at lest check email.

Ok, could you also see why some of the hate on the last 160 pages would be the reason why some teachers are not checking emails?

There might be less anger if emails were being checked, calendars and grades updated, etc. I was fine with the snow days and naively assumed the teachers would at least check in at the high school level. Silly me.

No you wouldn’t. You’d be angry no matter what. You know damn well your kids are not refreshing their schoology pages wondering where the work is on a non instructional day. You’re just griping.

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Only 225 more pages to get the snow day thread last Hayfield thread. Reid hopes you all do it! Focus on snow and not boundaries or coaches or anything else that FCPS could actually have total control over.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t even care about virtual school. But it seems ridiculous that the high school and middle school teachers have totally checked out, not answering emails, posting nothing on schoology, not updating grades. Kids (those that care) could be using this time to catch up or study. I get it that lots won’t do that, but some will and it seems relatively low effort to just do the bare minimum like check your email.

Who is emailing their teacher during the 3-week break?

It was their vacation. They were actually being told *not* to check email by their admin during that time.

Yes and why the F! would any of us post work on Schoology that kids who ARE NOT IN SCHOOL won’t do. It’s like you just have to be punitive against someone, for some reason, whether it makes any sense to be or not.

This is the attitude that emerged during COVID from the teachers and when I lost faith in the school district. I get not answering emails on vacation. But this week is not vacation and my kids have been using the time to study for end of quarter tests. I just have average kids too, not AAP type kids. Bizarre. Any other job would expect people to at lest check email.

Ok, could you also see why some of the hate on the last 160 pages would be the reason why some teachers are not checking emails?

There might be less anger if emails were being checked, calendars and grades updated, etc. I was fine with the snow days and naively assumed the teachers would at least check in at the high school level. Silly me.

Why would calendars be updated, when we have no idea if there is school tomorrow? You truly are silly.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you stop acting like children and have a productive discussion?

How are the secondary roads? Sidewalks? Parking lots? That is good information for us to understand about if schools should be open or closed tomorrow.

Maybe write Reid directly and let her know to add you to her working group distro. She probably just didn’t realize you were left off if you are only getting her alert summary that sends out to rest of community each day.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t even care about virtual school. But it seems ridiculous that the high school and middle school teachers have totally checked out, not answering emails, posting nothing on schoology, not updating grades. Kids (those that care) could be using this time to catch up or study. I get it that lots won’t do that, but some will and it seems relatively low effort to just do the bare minimum like check your email.

Who is emailing their teacher during the 3-week break?

It was their vacation. They were actually being told *not* to check email by their admin during that time.

Yes and why the F! would any of us post work on Schoology that kids who ARE NOT IN SCHOOL won’t do. It’s like you just have to be punitive against someone, for some reason, whether it makes any sense to be or not.

This is the attitude that emerged during COVID from the teachers and when I lost faith in the school district. I get not answering emails on vacation. But this week is not vacation and my kids have been using the time to study for end of quarter tests. I just have average kids too, not AAP type kids. Bizarre. Any other job would expect people to at lest check email.

If your doctor’s office closed due to weather do you expect them to answer emails?

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Anonymous wrote:Can you stop acting like children and have a productive discussion?

How are the secondary roads? Sidewalks? Parking lots? That is good information for us to understand about if schools should be open or closed tomorrow.

I was out for awhile today. Secondary roads vary a lot. Mostly fine and dry, BUT some have slightly impeded curbs or turning lanes where they pushed the snow and left it. Neighborhood roads are not good - I’m talking the dead end, cul-de-sac type roads. VDOT is generally responsible for these UNLESS they are HOA owned, but usually the HOA owned roads are pipe stems or townhouse courts. Even if you’re in an HOA, if it’s SFH, usually VDOT is responsible. If your street sign has a smaller sign under it with the street number, it’s a public road and VDOT maintains it. These seem to be the roads where it’s been rumored that VDOT outsourced the plowing to “guys with a truck” and they made one pass over it and called it a day, and then when people started driving on it they packed down the snow into a sheet of solid ice.

I passed 3 elementary schools and all were well plowed with no packed down snow in the parking lots or bus loops, and sidewalks mostly clear.

Neighborhood sidewalks seemed decently well shoveled, but the problem seems to be with sidewalks and side paths on more main roads where people don’t directly live. Those were still untouched.

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Wait Fairfax was closed AGAIN on Thursday? lol. Howard and Baltimore counties were back Wednesday and got like, 3 inches less of snow. What are you guys doing down there?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t even care about virtual school. But it seems ridiculous that the high school and middle school teachers have totally checked out, not answering emails, posting nothing on schoology, not updating grades. Kids (those that care) could be using this time to catch up or study. I get it that lots won’t do that, but some will and it seems relatively low effort to just do the bare minimum like check your email.

Who is emailing their teacher during the 3-week break?

It was their vacation. They were actually being told *not* to check email by their admin during that time.

Yes and why the F! would any of us post work on Schoology that kids who ARE NOT IN SCHOOL won’t do. It’s like you just have to be punitive against someone, for some reason, whether it makes any sense to be or not.

This is the attitude that emerged during COVID from the teachers and when I lost faith in the school district. I get not answering emails on vacation. But this week is not vacation and my kids have been using the time to study for end of quarter tests. I just have average kids too, not AAP type kids. Bizarre. Any other job would expect people to at lest check email.

If your doctor’s office closed due to weather do you expect them to answer emails?

DP. Doctor's offices don't close for an entire week due to weather. Stupid comparison. Not answering emails during the two weeks of winter break is completely expected. Not answering them this week is just lazy. Many teachers are great, but there are some straight up lazy and unprofessional teachers who get away with it because there is a shortage. Anyone who is professional and takes their job seriously can answer some emails as they sit at home not having to go in to work. This mentality of "I'm not on contract" would not fly in most other professions. Don't expect to be treated like a white collar professional if you act like an hourly worker.

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Anonymous wrote:We shoveled our own street in front of our house. If everyone would go out and do a little, then the community would be in better shape. Yes, it takes hours and some chipping at the ice, but it is satisfying to see it cleared.

Sorry, I have a "real job" in the "real-world".

DP, but if you had a real job in the real world didn't you have to leave your house? Everyone on our street who had to leave their house was out shoveling Monday afternoon and again Tuesday morning so they could get to work - which I was at by Tuesday afternoon.

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Anonymous wrote:We shoveled our own street in front of our house. If everyone would go out and do a little, then the community would be in better shape. Yes, it takes hours and some chipping at the ice, but it is satisfying to see it cleared.

Sorry, I have a "real job" in the "real-world".

So do we.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you stop acting like children and have a productive discussion?

How are the secondary roads? Sidewalks? Parking lots? That is good information for us to understand about if schools should be open or closed tomorrow.

I was out for awhile today. Secondary roads vary a lot. Mostly fine and dry, BUT some have slightly impeded curbs or turning lanes where they pushed the snow and left it. Neighborhood roads are not good - I’m talking the dead end, cul-de-sac type roads. VDOT is generally responsible for these UNLESS they are HOA owned, but usually the HOA owned roads are pipe stems or townhouse courts. Even if you’re in an HOA, if it’s SFH, usually VDOT is responsible. If your street sign has a smaller sign under it with the street number, it’s a public road and VDOT maintains it. These seem to be the roads where it’s been rumored that VDOT outsourced the plowing to “guys with a truck” and they made one pass over it and called it a day, and then when people started driving on it they packed down the snow into a sheet of solid ice.

I passed 3 elementary schools and all were well plowed with no packed down snow in the parking lots or bus loops, and sidewalks mostly clear.

Neighborhood sidewalks seemed decently well shoveled, but the problem seems to be with sidewalks and side paths on more main roads where people don’t directly live. Those were still untouched.

Another person who had to do quite a bit of driving today. I'm from 22101 and reported yesterday was a complete mess on side roads. Now it varies as PP described. Some are still in shockingly poor condition. More were in good shape today. Main roads were all in great shape. I could see a 2 hour delay. My kids walk and I will need to drive them. I did not check out the local schools, but I would think by now they are in decent shape. It's not ideal. I remember schooldays in the past where I saw quite a few kids wipe out walking, but they were usually wearing sneakers. If you ca, insist on boots.

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we got some sand today finally