January 7th?

[Anonymous]

I bet she thinks her waiting seems like she's not jumping the gun like "every other school district in the surrounding area," and instead it's making her look irresponsible as hell.

[Anonymous]

What else do we expect from Bowser at this point?

She is the queen of chaos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet she thinks her waiting seems like she's not jumping the gun like "every other school district in the surrounding area," and instead it's making her look irresponsible as hell.

I'm far from a Bowser fan, but this type of a decision is truly a no-win for her. Whatever option she chooses (cancel, delay, open) will be criticized, as will the time it takes her to make the decision. DC also has to think about a lot of things -- namely, that a large portion of its public-school students get their only guaranteed meals of the day at their schools -- that places like Montgomery and Fairfax mostly don't have to worry about. DC also is the only district in the area where city buses are school buses, and I'm going to guess WMATA (still incompetent despite the unwarranted hosannas its director now gets from the people of mediocre privilege crowd) hasn't been forthcoming with its plans to get the bus system 100 percent online by tomorrow's rush hour.

[Anonymous]

As I said in the other thread, 2/5 of my department lives in DC. I live 3 blocks outside of the city and haven’t seen a plow once.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In 2016, the last time DC received significant snow, the storm began on a Friday night was more or less over by Saturday and DCPS still was closed the following Monday and Tuesday. There was a lot more snow involved in that one, however.

But until the city can get the majority of side streets plowed, there's no way DCPS is opening tomorrow. From my limited observation, very few of them have even seen a plow.

You can see them all here. https://citizeninsights.geotab.com/#/dcsnowgov

Wow. I didn't realize how uniquely unplowed NE Capitol Hill was, because none of the streets right around us have been plowed at all... but the map actually reflects that and it's pretty unusual.

Yeah we live right on a “snow emergency route” and haven’t seen a plow yet!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet she thinks her waiting seems like she's not jumping the gun like "every other school district in the surrounding area," and instead it's making her look irresponsible as hell.

I'm far from a Bowser fan, but this type of a decision is truly a no-win for her. Whatever option she chooses (cancel, delay, open) will be criticized, as will the time it takes her to make the decision. DC also has to think about a lot of things -- namely, that a large portion of its public-school students get their only guaranteed meals of the day at their schools -- that places like Montgomery and Fairfax mostly don't have to worry about. DC also is the only district in the area where city buses are school buses, and I'm going to guess WMATA (still incompetent despite the unwarranted hosannas its director now gets from the people of mediocre privilege crowd) hasn't been forthcoming with its plans to get the bus system 100 percent online by tomorrow's rush hour.

Teachers living outside the district (which I'd wager is the majority) won't be able to get to school. That's a pretty big deal to have in a school, ya know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet she thinks her waiting seems like she's not jumping the gun like "every other school district in the surrounding area," and instead it's making her look irresponsible as hell.

I'm far from a Bowser fan, but this type of a decision is truly a no-win for her. Whatever option she chooses (cancel, delay, open) will be criticized, as will the time it takes her to make the decision. DC also has to think about a lot of things -- namely, that a large portion of its public-school students get their only guaranteed meals of the day at their schools -- that places like Montgomery and Fairfax mostly don't have to worry about. DC also is the only district in the area where city buses are school buses, and I'm going to guess WMATA (still incompetent despite the unwarranted hosannas its director now gets from the people of mediocre privilege crowd) hasn't been forthcoming with its plans to get the bus system 100 percent online by tomorrow's rush hour.

Teachers living outside the district (which I'd wager is the majority) won't be able to get to school. That's a pretty big deal to have in a school, ya know?

Nope. A student getting injured in a bus accident is bad press. Students missing out on a meal is something they care about. Residents of DC being able to go to work is important to politicians. A teacher getting in an accident in another state is not something they care about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet she thinks her waiting seems like she's not jumping the gun like "every other school district in the surrounding area," and instead it's making her look irresponsible as hell.

I'm far from a Bowser fan, but this type of a decision is truly a no-win for her. Whatever option she chooses (cancel, delay, open) will be criticized, as will the time it takes her to make the decision. DC also has to think about a lot of things -- namely, that a large portion of its public-school students get their only guaranteed meals of the day at their schools -- that places like Montgomery and Fairfax mostly don't have to worry about. DC also is the only district in the area where city buses are school buses, and I'm going to guess WMATA (still incompetent despite the unwarranted hosannas its director now gets from the people of mediocre privilege crowd) hasn't been forthcoming with its plans to get the bus system 100 percent online by tomorrow's rush hour.

Teachers living outside the district (which I'd wager is the majority) won't be able to get to school. That's a pretty big deal to have in a school, ya know?

Nope. A student getting injured in a bus accident is bad press. Students missing out on a meal is something they care about. Residents of DC being able to go to work is important to politicians. A teacher getting in an accident in another state is not something they care about.

Correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS is trolling us with all these aftercare survey texts/emails.

What does the text say? I didn't get one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS is trolling us with all these aftercare survey texts/emails.

What does the text say? I didn't get one?

DC Public Schools (DCPS) is collecting feedback on your experiences with afterschool opportunities to better understand how we can best serve families during the critical hours after school lets out. This information will be used to inform DCPS’ strategic plan goals of improving afterschool offerings across the district. Your feedback on this survey is greatly appreciated! Take the survey here.

The DCPS Afterschool Survey will close on Friday, January 24.

[Anonymous]

Wow, wonder why we didn't get one. Thanks for sharing!

[Anonymous]

Baltimore City (the last holdout in the region besides DCPS?) just announced their closed tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

We have got to be closed. I mean c'mon! She's got to announce soon.

But fwiw, the PP who said that she was the "Queen of Chaos"... For those of us old timers who lives here during the Barry administration, she seems like the Queen of Calm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baltimore City (the last holdout in the region besides DCPS?) just announced their closed tomorrow.

I think Baltimore got less snow than DC

[Anonymous]

Instagram post says canceled