Snow day

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Friday Movie Day is back! Going to watch Hidden Figures for math class.

Yup! If I’m going to be treated like a babysitter than babysitter I will be.

I am happy to babysit my own kids while working a job with deadlines/deliverables in order to not have to deal with driving them back and forth to diff schools on icy hilly roads and dealing with extra HW BS on a weekend.

Exactly!! 2 hour delay makes lives harder for all working parents, teachers, and kids. This was an idiotic move by Reid and the surrounding counties as well

+100 Reid caved to the pressure of the screaming parents who need childcare.

I didn’t scream (or send anyone anything). I don’t need childcare - my kids are old enough. But I’m very happy they are going to school tomorrow. Not only do we not have to figure out rescheduled athletics, but they also get to see their friends and teachers after a very long break. There is no reason to keep schools closed just because it’s Friday. They can get some short reviews in.

They can see their friends and teachers on Monday. Not like they’re going anywhere.

Let’s just be done with it and go back on March 20 the first day of spring

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ice near our community is ridiculous. We can barely back out of the driveway without my car losing control and slipping. It’s not just the neighborhood streets either. Once I get onto the main roads leading to my son's local high school in Fairfax County, it’s just as bad. The roads haven’t been properly salted, so there’s this thick, slick layer of ice covering everything. I’ve already seen a couple of cars struggling to make turns and almost hitting the curb. It’s honestly not safe for anyone heading to school or work. Without proper treatment of the roads, we’re risking serious accidents and our kids' lives. Something really needs to be done about this before a child gets hurt.

You can buy rock salt. Dump way more than you think you need, grind it in, wait an hour, come back. Shovel the slush away. Repeat for the lower level that the salt maybe didn’t reach. Done. You’re welcome. It hasn’t snowed since Monday evening. This is not rocket science for your own driveway.

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Do we think the busses will start?

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Anonymous wrote:Do we think the busses will start?

Pretty sure busses can start in colder weather than this. Wasn’t it like 34 today.

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Will move to closure when only a fraction of busses start. Plan accordingly.

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Just took a drive around 22101. Kirby and West Moreland are fine. The school parking lots are fantastic. But, the side roads are frightening. Ivy Hill is rendered impassable. We renamed it Icy Hill as it leads down to Kirby. Barbee Rd is the bus route and it is icy at the intersection of Kirby. The intersection of W Moreland and Kirby which is a major thoroughfare for Longfellow is awful for walkers. Youngblood St is a disaster waiting to happen as it is a continual sheet of ice down the hill and back up again. The ice is so high that one doesn’t sense the speed hump at the moment. The giant Tucker St is continual compacted ice and snow. Kids are literally sledding down this street tonight. El Nido St looks to be a thick sheet of ice curb to curb where it then intersects with Birch. Birch, however, is clear. Chesterfield is clear except at the critical intersection where it meets Kirby. Thats a sheet of ice as one tries to make a right on to Kirby. The sidewalks in general are treacherous along West Moreland and along Kirby—-all thick, lumpy ice. The Kiss n Ride exit after leaving Longfellow is reduced to one lane at the top of the hill past the old folk home because the Tiawanese Presbyterian did not plow or shovel the second exit that loops in front of the church to a different stop sign on the right. This will likely back up the exiting of the K&R lane at Door 4. Good luck everyone. This is a VDOT failure. The lots of the FCPS schools are beautifully cleared. They scooted the snow off of the parking lots altogether. We need VDOT to treat these icy secondary roads. It’s obvious which roads they plowed and which ones they did not. Please join me in calling VDOT to complain.

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This is an effing joke. Schools should’ve been closed for tomorrow. Reid simply couldn’t handle the screaming working parents who demanded schools open at any cost so they can work.

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Anonymous wrote:Will move to closure when only a fraction of busses start. Plan accordingly.

It’s not going to be that cold …

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Anonymous wrote:This is an effing joke. Schools should’ve been closed for tomorrow. Reid simply couldn’t handle the screaming working parents who demanded schools open at any cost so they can work.

Then keep your kids home. Nobody is stopping you.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Friday Movie Day is back! Going to watch Hidden Figures for math class.

Yup! If I’m going to be treated like a babysitter than babysitter I will be.

I am happy to babysit my own kids while working a job with deadlines/deliverables in order to not have to deal with driving them back and forth to diff schools on icy hilly roads and dealing with extra HW BS on a weekend.

Exactly!! 2 hour delay makes lives harder for all working parents, teachers, and kids. This was an idiotic move by Reid and the surrounding counties as well

+100 Reid caved to the pressure of the screaming parents who need childcare.

Hi, no she didn't. Because those parents were screaming yesterday and the day before that. The weather / conditions / melt has gotten significantly better today, so they are able to open. It being a Friday is not relevant to the equation.

Reopening for half a day doesn't help parents who work FULL TIME. this is only helping SAHMs who want their kids out of the house for a few hours. It only creates extra work for working parents having to drive kids around at odd times and also dealing with extra assignments that come out of it, which is all burden on parents for zero benefit whatsoever. Again, ladies of leisure win here and working parents get stuck with extra chores.

Actually, I'm PP who works full time and this helps me immensely. But I'm mostly just happy for my kid, who is so excited to go back.

And I thought all the stay at home moms you speak of (I think I know two, maybe three, in my kid's entire grade) have already planned weekend getaways and are heading out of town?

+1. I will be working from home and glad kids can finally go back. Both for their own benefit and so I can have some quiet time to work.

Amen. And all of my friends / neighbors with whom I've spoken feel the same way. They're just not arguing about it on the internet like we are, ha! (I will take their lead and kindly see myself out).

It's not a full day of school and it will suck up time to drive them back and forth, especially if you have more than one kid. How old are you kids and what type of job do you do that you find this such a relief?

DP but I will answer. I’m a college professor. We are still on winter break (meaning no classes) but I have plenty of writing, semester planning, and administrative tasks to get done. It’s been tough to get much done with two ES kids at home. One is too young to play outside without an adult present, and I was trying not to let the week just be a screen filled free for all. My spouse was traveling two of the days so we couldn’t switch off. I got some work done but the interruptions are very frequent when my kids are home.

Even a few hours of quiet will be helpful. I plan to drive my kids to/from school. The roads from our home to school are just fine but I am not sure about some
of the roads the bus will stop on.

I cleared our bus stop earlier for the sake of the other ES and MS kids who use it. It was hard work chipping away at the ice mountain created by the plows, but I used it as my workout for the day.

Growing up my mom kept us home from school if it was open but she didn’t think it was safe to get there. My parents couldn’t drive us because of their jobs. It will all be fine either way. Deep breaths everyone.

So you *are* just treating public school like a nanny service

Oh brother, I have not heard this stay at home mom one-liner in so many years since we went private.

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Anonymous wrote:Just took a drive around 22101. Kirby and West Moreland are fine. The school parking lots are fantastic. But, the side roads are frightening. Ivy Hill is rendered impassable. We renamed it Icy Hill as it leads down to Kirby. Barbee Rd is the bus route and it is icy at the intersection of Kirby. The intersection of W Moreland and Kirby which is a major thoroughfare for Longfellow is awful for walkers. Youngblood St is a disaster waiting to happen as it is a continual sheet of ice down the hill and back up again. The ice is so high that one doesn’t sense the speed hump at the moment. The giant Tucker St is continual compacted ice and snow. Kids are literally sledding down this street tonight. El Nido St looks to be a thick sheet of ice curb to curb where it then intersects with Birch. Birch, however, is clear. Chesterfield is clear except at the critical intersection where it meets Kirby. Thats a sheet of ice as one tries to make a right on to Kirby. The sidewalks in general are treacherous along West Moreland and along Kirby—-all thick, lumpy ice. The Kiss n Ride exit after leaving Longfellow is reduced to one lane at the top of the hill past the old folk home because the Tiawanese Presbyterian did not plow or shovel the second exit that loops in front of the church to a different stop sign on the right. This will likely back up the exiting of the K&R lane at Door 4. Good luck everyone. This is a VDOT failure. The lots of the FCPS schools are beautifully cleared. They scooted the snow off of the parking lots altogether. We need VDOT to treat these icy secondary roads. It’s obvious which roads they plowed and which ones they did not. Please join me in calling VDOT to complain.

Longfellow parents are hardcore and legally savvy. Surprised they’d risk opening when these are the families/kids that will be most at risk, lol.

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Our neighborhood is snow packed entering. On hills. No idea how a bus will do it. This is an abject failure this year by VDOT or their contractors. Where is the salt. it was only 5 or 6 inches of snow 3 days ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Friday Movie Day is back! Going to watch Hidden Figures for math class.

Yup! If I’m going to be treated like a babysitter than babysitter I will be.

I am happy to babysit my own kids while working a job with deadlines/deliverables in order to not have to deal with driving them back and forth to diff schools on icy hilly roads and dealing with extra HW BS on a weekend.

Exactly!! 2 hour delay makes lives harder for all working parents, teachers, and kids. This was an idiotic move by Reid and the surrounding counties as well

+100 Reid caved to the pressure of the screaming parents who need childcare.

I didn’t scream (or send anyone anything). I don’t need childcare - my kids are old enough. But I’m very happy they are going to school tomorrow. Not only do we not have to figure out rescheduled athletics, but they also get to see their friends and teachers after a very long break. There is no reason to keep schools closed just because it’s Friday. They can get some short reviews in.

They can see their friends and teachers on Monday. Not like they’re going anywhere.

Let’s just be done with it and go back on March 20 the first day of spring

3-4 hours of watered-down school instruction = 15+ weeks. Someone needs to go back to school more than her kids

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Friday Movie Day is back! Going to watch Hidden Figures for math class.

Yup! If I’m going to be treated like a babysitter than babysitter I will be.

I am happy to babysit my own kids while working a job with deadlines/deliverables in order to not have to deal with driving them back and forth to diff schools on icy hilly roads and dealing with extra HW BS on a weekend.

Exactly!! 2 hour delay makes lives harder for all working parents, teachers, and kids. This was an idiotic move by Reid and the surrounding counties as well

+100 Reid caved to the pressure of the screaming parents who need childcare.

I didn’t scream (or send anyone anything). I don’t need childcare - my kids are old enough. But I’m very happy they are going to school tomorrow. Not only do we not have to figure out rescheduled athletics, but they also get to see their friends and teachers after a very long break. There is no reason to keep schools closed just because it’s Friday. They can get some short reviews in.

They can see their friends and teachers on Monday. Not like they’re going anywhere.

Let’s just be done with it and go back on March 20 the first day of spring

3-4 hours of watered-down school instruction = 15+ weeks. Someone needs to go back to school more than her kids

The dramatics are hilarious. Now I know where the kids get it from

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Anonymous wrote:Our neighborhood is snow packed entering. On hills. No idea how a bus will do it. This is an abject failure this year by VDOT or their contractors. Where is the salt. it was only 5 or 6 inches of snow 3 days ago.

Same here. School bus stop is on a hill that's not plowed. None of the streets beyond commercial strip are plowed. They better allow excused absence tomorrow or make it attendance optional day. There is no logic to having this treated as a regular school day.