Any chance the 2 hour delay will change by 5am?

[Anonymous]

I guess we needed a weenie thread.

Knock yourselves out, weenies.

You can keep your kids home if you're not happy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Ooh, now the decision to open has been made, I see the forum will now be populated by portion of the population who can't deal with ice and snow.


You have no business whining. Keep your kids home! Let the rest of us go on with our lives.

Your kids are not part of your life? Shameful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess we needed a weenie thread.

Knock yourselves out, weenies.

You can keep your kids home if you're not happy!

Why don't you create a name calling thread? Go on.

[Anonymous]

Do they have seat belts on the school buses?

[Anonymous]

First day DCPS re opened, they had maybe 20% show up. It's not much different in Montgomery county today than it was in DC last Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP probably means whether we'll close.

Not a chance we're going to close tomorrow. Sorry.

wish you would close. your public school poverty ilk clogs up the streets.

[Anonymous]

If they plan to change can they announce it sooner than 5am so those needing to rearrange child care can do so ? Does anyone know if they give updates before 5am on day of the delay/closure?

[Anonymous]

Why would they close at this point? They’ve made the decision. If you want to keep your kid home, that’s on you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they plan to change can they announce it sooner than 5am so those needing to rearrange child care can do so ? Does anyone know if they give updates before 5am on day of the delay/closure?

They're not going to close. Conditions aren't changing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They made the wrong call on this one. The streets are barely plowed in many neighborhoods.There are cars parked on the streets so plowing didn't move the snow to the side but the snow banks are along the cars creating even less space for buses. This is a call they should change in the morning. Open up child care for drop ins at the schools for families who need child care.

You are in the minuscule minority with that opinion, PP. Most of us reasonably expected schools to open on Monday, and considered a week of closure sufficient for school access to be "passable". It's not going to be perfect until March, with the compacted snow we've had from this storm This is not a normal storm - I've lived in the area for more than 20 years and never had this snowcrete stuff, even in the 20+ inches we received in 2016. Kids need to be in school. My teen has AP exams in May and most APs are not self-study sort of classes.

Feel free to keep your child home if you think conditions aren't acceptable for your family.

+1

I was expecting a delayed opening today.

There is no way it will change to closed at 5am

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First day DCPS re opened, they had maybe 20% show up. It's not much different in Montgomery county today than it was in DC last Friday.

You're just making up numbers. There's no published source that says that. My friend's kid said his high school was full.

[Anonymous]

I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

No one who has lived here in the past 20 years has seen such a storm. Maybe you are new. No one was ready clearly from what we see of the post storm cleanup efforts.