School delayed and no sports or activities for 3 days straight just for cold weather?!?

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Btw I will continue expressing that I think MCPS administrators are self-absorbed entitled POSs who can't get it through their thick skulls that MCPS is taxpayer-funded and is not "free".

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

Except that your only response to parents actually being upset and expressing it is to say we're "helpless whining and ranting."

I don't know how you don't understand this, but here goes: the people who are complaining have also found a solution to this MCPS created problem. We have. There's no other choice. Some of us took off work, some of us relied on family members, some of us probably hired childcare. Now do we have your permission to advocate for change in the kinds of decisions MCPS makes?

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

You described people who are expressing their frustrations as "helplessly whining and ranting on the internet." Yes, you deserve to be cursed at. Who talks like that to people and then is like "oh why are you being so rude to me?" Lol

Aren’t you supposed to be working at your job rn?

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

Except that your only response to parents actually being upset and expressing it is to say we're "helpless whining and ranting."

I don't know how you don't understand this, but here goes: the people who are complaining have also found a solution to this MCPS created problem. We have. There's no other choice. Some of us took off work, some of us relied on family members, some of us probably hired childcare. Now do we have your permission to advocate for change in the kinds of decisions MCPS makes?

Sorry, I should have specified that I'm a DP.

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Anonymous wrote:Btw I will continue expressing that I think MCPS administrators are self-absorbed entitled POSs who can't get it through their thick skulls that MCPS is taxpayer-funded and is not "free".

And your ranting on an anonymous internet message board will continue to have the same effect.

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Anonymous wrote:Btw I will continue expressing that I think MCPS administrators are self-absorbed entitled POSs who can't get it through their thick skulls that MCPS is taxpayer-funded and is not "free".

Some of them walk around dressed and act in behavior as if working in a C-suite when they are actually a Principal at an ES. Get over yourselves, ES Principals.

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

Except that your only response to parents actually being upset and expressing it is to say we're "helpless whining and ranting."

I don't know how you don't understand this, but here goes: the people who are complaining have also found a solution to this MCPS created problem. We have. There's no other choice. Some of us took off work, some of us relied on family members, some of us probably hired childcare. Now do we have your permission to advocate for change in the kinds of decisions MCPS makes?

I’m sorry, so you actually were able to solve your childcare issue after all, and you also think posting on dcum is effective advocacy?

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Anonymous wrote:Btw I will continue expressing that I think MCPS administrators are self-absorbed entitled POSs who can't get it through their thick skulls that MCPS is taxpayer-funded and is not "free".

And your ranting on an anonymous internet message board will continue to have the same effect.

As will yours!

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. Roads and sidewalks are fine, and certainly aren't going to be any different at 9am. It's going to be just as warm tomorrow at 7am as today at 9am. They should go back to a full day tomorrow.

Many sidewalks are sheets of ice. My high schooler already slipped and bumped his head yesterday. He walks to the bus but there is a stretch of sidewalk through a park that he can’t avoid. At least he can see where he is going at 9am.

It’s light enough at 7am too.

No it is not. In some parts of the county students are expected to walk on ice for miles. Not every kid is as privileged as your Larla and Larlo.

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

Except that your only response to parents actually being upset and expressing it is to say we're "helpless whining and ranting."

I don't know how you don't understand this, but here goes: the people who are complaining have also found a solution to this MCPS created problem. We have. There's no other choice. Some of us took off work, some of us relied on family members, some of us probably hired childcare. Now do we have your permission to advocate for change in the kinds of decisions MCPS makes?

I’m sorry, so you actually were able to solve your childcare issue after all, and you also think posting on dcum is effective advocacy?

I'm sorry, why do you respond to people if you don't want us to post here. Do you think your responses are effective in stopping us from venting?

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

Except that your only response to parents actually being upset and expressing it is to say we're "helpless whining and ranting."

I don't know how you don't understand this, but here goes: the people who are complaining have also found a solution to this MCPS created problem. We have. There's no other choice. Some of us took off work, some of us relied on family members, some of us probably hired childcare. Now do we have your permission to advocate for change in the kinds of decisions MCPS makes?

I’m sorry, so you actually were able to solve your childcare issue after all, and you also think posting on dcum is effective advocacy?

It should be because MCPS have their people on this board.

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

You described people who are expressing their frustrations as "helplessly whining and ranting on the internet." Yes, you deserve to be cursed at. Who talks like that to people and then is like "oh why are you being so rude to me?" Lol

Aren’t you supposed to be working at your job rn?

No, like a good MCPS parent I am at home waiting by the phone in case MCPS decides to close schools. Parents are not supposed to do other things while kids are in school since school is not childcare.

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. Roads and sidewalks are fine, and certainly aren't going to be any different at 9am. It's going to be just as warm tomorrow at 7am as today at 9am. They should go back to a full day tomorrow.

Many sidewalks are sheets of ice. My high schooler already slipped and bumped his head yesterday. He walks to the bus but there is a stretch of sidewalk through a park that he can’t avoid. At least he can see where he is going at 9am.

It’s light enough at 7am too.

No it is not. In some parts of the county students are expected to walk on ice for miles. Not every kid is as privileged as your Larla and Larlo.

Where? Where in MoCo are there miles of ice to walk on? You lose credibility when you make outrageous claims like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

Except that your only response to parents actually being upset and expressing it is to say we're "helpless whining and ranting."

I don't know how you don't understand this, but here goes: the people who are complaining have also found a solution to this MCPS created problem. We have. There's no other choice. Some of us took off work, some of us relied on family members, some of us probably hired childcare. Now do we have your permission to advocate for change in the kinds of decisions MCPS makes?

I’m sorry, so you actually were able to solve your childcare issue after all, and you also think posting on dcum is effective advocacy?

I'm sorry, why do you respond to people if you don't want us to post here. Do you think your responses are effective in stopping us from venting?

If you’d just want to vent without people responding to you, this is not the place for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Posters complaining about a 2 hour delay are the same people who let their kids wear a tshirt in below freezing temperatures and obviously don’t care. They don’t care about frost bites, kids slipping and hurting themselves, bus issues etc.

Oh sure, its only a 2 hour delay... but it's for three day in a row, elementary schools are not opening until after 11. So for three day in a row some parents have to miss a half day of work. Maybe you are so rich that this does not matter to you, but it does have negative consequences for others.

You do not have to miss half a day of work. You are free to seek out childcare or trade off with other families in your situation, especially since the roads aren’t unplowed. I get that it often costs money and takes effort to identify someone, but missing work is not your only option.

Prohibiting the child care that parents are already paying for from operating is not MCPS's only option. In fact, it is a bizarre choice and people are rightfully perplexed and upset about it.

I agree that this is unusual and unnecessary, and I’d be perplexed and upset too. But even if I had those feelings, they wouldn’t prevent me from pivoting to alternative arrangements.

I'm always perplexed by people like you that think every family in MCPS is either indigent and just leaves their kids home alone or with neighbors in these situations, or is wealthy and can drop tons of extra money for three mornings child care and school drop off on top of the child care they are already paying for and getting no discount on.

Did I say any of those things? I don’t think any of those things. I think it’s hard to be in that situation no matter what your financial or work situation is. You can be upset about it. But you can simultaneously be an adult, a parent, who solves the problem while expressing how this creates hardship rather than helplessly whining and ranting on the internet.

so you are basically ranting to parents to stfu? What is your problem? GTH.

I literally said it’s reasonable for parents to be upset and express it. I didn’t say parents should shut up. I also wasn’t cursing at an anonymous stranger and wouldn’t characterize my tone as a rant at all.

Except that your only response to parents actually being upset and expressing it is to say we're "helpless whining and ranting."

I don't know how you don't understand this, but here goes: the people who are complaining have also found a solution to this MCPS created problem. We have. There's no other choice. Some of us took off work, some of us relied on family members, some of us probably hired childcare. Now do we have your permission to advocate for change in the kinds of decisions MCPS makes?

I’m sorry, so you actually were able to solve your childcare issue after all, and you also think posting on dcum is effective advocacy?

I'm sorry, why do you respond to people if you don't want us to post here. Do you think your responses are effective in stopping us from venting?

If you’d just want to vent without people responding to you, this is not the place for you.

If you don't want to see posts about people venting, then this is not the place for you.