School Opening Predictions for Tuesday?

[Anonymous]

Make hot chocolate. Put in large thermos. Get a few cups. Get a shovel. Walk to local school. Clear off 1000 sf of parking lot/driveway and 20 feet of sidewalk. Get 50 other parents to do the same. Bring your kids to help or play while you clear. Enjoy hot chocolate. Get the same word to the next neighboring school parents before you go.

Enjoy schools being open on Tuesday when the MCPS effort can focus on making sure the busses start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make hot chocolate. Put in large thermos. Get a few cups. Get a shovel. Walk to local school. Clear off 1000 sf of parking lot/driveway and 20 feet of sidewalk. Get 50 other parents to do the same. Bring your kids to help or play while you clear. Enjoy hot chocolate. Get the same word to the next neighboring school parents before you go.

Enjoy schools being open on Tuesday when the MCPS effort can focus on making sure the busses start.

But you see, if people were capable of organizing benevolently like this, we wouldn't be in this economic and political mess and we would already have world peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make hot chocolate. Put in large thermos. Get a few cups. Get a shovel. Walk to local school. Clear off 1000 sf of parking lot/driveway and 20 feet of sidewalk. Get 50 other parents to do the same. Bring your kids to help or play while you clear. Enjoy hot chocolate. Get the same word to the next neighboring school parents before you go.

Enjoy schools being open on Tuesday when the MCPS effort can focus on making sure the busses start.

This is not remotely realistic.

Have you seen attendance at PTA meetings, even at high performing schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Building service workers will be paid to come in on Monday to clear the school lots.

Is this a prediction, or Dr. Taylor speaking?

It is I, Dr. Taylor. Ya got me.

[Anonymous]

open on time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Why is this a thing. It’s winter. Snow and ice happen. That doesn’t mean we have to close schools.

Ice is a completely different thing from snow. Snow can be removed with plows and shovels. Salt can prevent ice from forming, but if rain washes the salt away and then the rain starts freezing, you’ve got a real problem. I attended American University in the early to mid 1990s. We were closed the entire week of either MLK Day or President’s Day one year because freezing rain left a thick coating of ice on absolutely everything and then the temperature stayed low for days. The city was paralyzed. Tree limbs and traffic lights buckled under the weight of the ice. There were power outages. Nobody could drive anywhere. People were slipping on ice and breaking bones trying to walk places.

[Anonymous]

PP, good point. CLOSED

[Anonymous]

Definitely closed for the week.

[Anonymous]

The breaking of bones part got me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Why is this a thing. It’s winter. Snow and ice happen. That doesn’t mean we have to close schools.

Ice is a completely different thing from snow. Snow can be removed with plows and shovels. Salt can prevent ice from forming, but if rain washes the salt away and then the rain starts freezing, you’ve got a real problem. I attended American University in the early to mid 1990s. We were closed the entire week of either MLK Day or President’s Day one year because freezing rain left a thick coating of ice on absolutely everything and then the temperature stayed low for days. The city was paralyzed. Tree limbs and traffic lights buckled under the weight of the ice. There were power outages. Nobody could drive anywhere. People were slipping on ice and breaking bones trying to walk places.

In the 1990s? When Barry was mayor?

[Anonymous]

The slush outside is going to get a hard freeze for several days. Super icy. That combined with the health concerns may get two full days off. I think at least two hour delays Tuesday and Wednesday. A lot of people may have trouble even getting cars started due to battery temp/ old battery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make hot chocolate. Put in large thermos. Get a few cups. Get a shovel. Walk to local school. Clear off 1000 sf of parking lot/driveway and 20 feet of sidewalk. Get 50 other parents to do the same. Bring your kids to help or play while you clear. Enjoy hot chocolate. Get the same word to the next neighboring school parents before you go.

Enjoy schools being open on Tuesday when the MCPS effort can focus on making sure the busses start.

Liability, duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Building service workers will be paid to come in on Monday to clear the school lots.

Is this a prediction, or Dr. Taylor speaking?

It is I, Dr. Taylor. Ya got me.

Working on another snow video?

[Anonymous]

Nasty out there now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I expect school will be open on time on Tuesday.

However, the concept of a normal school day is going to change a lot and snow days should be the last thing we’re worried about disrupting learning. The first time that LE shows up at a MCPS high school to detain undocumented students or middle schoolers get texts from parents who are being taken into custody, classes will not be able to continue as planned. Scared kids can’t learn.

This is what worries me. My heart if going to be heavy. The fears abd stress being out upon these families.