What about Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:How can MCPS open if buses can’t physically drive their routes? They won’t fit down my street.

This. I don’t know why the bus comes down my street in normal times because it’s super narrow with cars parked on both sides. It doesn’t pick up kids on my street but kind of uses it as a way to go around the block to turn around. I’m hoping it figures out a different route until some of the snow and ice melts, hopefully before March.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Rock Creek Forest parking lot is untouched and no work being done on a Friday afternoon.

I drove by Quince Orchard high school today and the sidewalk just near the school on QO Road was shoveled but the sidewalks leading up to the school was half done - it was patches of clear sidewalks and mounds of snow in between. I think Monday will definitely be a closure - the streets off of QO Road were like one lane roads with no sidewalk to see, so how can the walkers walk from a mile away? And assuming parents will drop off the kids it will be a mess in that parking lot.

If the sidewalk isn't shoveled, walk on top
of the snow where the sidewalk is. Leave extra time.

This is the county that said it would be too much of a liability risk to have 16-18 year old kids shovel school parking lots. You really think they are going to be ok with the liability and lawsuit potential of 10k kids from ages 6-18 walking to school in roads and on top of ice mounds?

DCPS has been open since Thursday despite having to walk in difficult conditions to school. No one has died or gotten injured as far as I heard.

And parents in DCPS were pissed at went to the news about how irresponsible it was to reopen. Nice comparison!

No option makes everyone happy.

+1. I have friends with kids at DCPS who were thrilled they went back to school Thursday. Arlington public schools were open today too and people I knew were happy about that too.

There's a huge difference between "happy" and was it a safe decision? It wasn't. Numerous council members have saying Bowser made the wrong decision due to the unsafe conditions. You might not like having your kids home and it might make you happy they can go to school because YOUR neighborhood is safe, but start thinking about other people. The lack of empathy and narrow worldviews in this county is astounding.

No one in DCPS or APS reported major injuries due to the snow. And kids got educated. And received meals from the cafeteria, which is critical for the neediest students. The parents I know there were thrilled their kids went back.

You sound like you have a pretty narrow worldview and lack empathy if you can’t see that plenty of people are thrilled that DC and Arlington schools opened.

My colleague with DCPS school kids said after the first reopening, they switched to virtual because it was so bad.

Also keep in mind DCPS does not provide school buses. Colleague said the city bus never came and the kids walked a mile in the streets to school. High schoolers, but still.

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Yeah the Bus service for Special Ed students is going to be the biggest concern. Many of these busses go down residential streets and do driveway pickups. And their transportation and accommodations are federally mandated and protected unlike your AP students who are going to magically braindump a semester worth of knowledge because they missed a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

Walk around the mounds and wear boots (though, you ought to be able to follow tracks where you won't sink in much, so boots shouldn't be strictly needed).

What is it about snow that makes people give up so easily?

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Sounds like my HS is considering closing off the parking lot to students until the lot is cleared back to 100% capacity. We have one big lot where staff and students share and it sounds like they aren't willing to have staff miss out on parking in favor of a student.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

Wear boots to school!! Why is this so hard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like my HS is considering closing off the parking lot to students until the lot is cleared back to 100% capacity. We have one big lot where staff and students share and it sounds like they aren't willing to have staff miss out on parking in favor of a student.

We have parents who start snatching up staff parking at 1:45 or so in order to pick up their kids, while another group starts a pick up line through the entire lot. This is also high school and it blows my mind that so many people are willing to sit in their cars and wait for 45 minutes to pick up high schoolers from school. And, it is not because of freezing temperatures. It is all year long. It is some of the highest level helicoptering I have ever seen. Our parking lot will be disastrous at pick up/drop off.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

Walk around the mounds and wear boots (though, you ought to be able to follow tracks where you won't sink in much, so boots shouldn't be strictly needed).

What is it about snow that makes people give up so easily?

It’s not snow, it’s the ice. What do you not understand?

[Anonymous]

I hate to defend the "make your 8 year olds walk in the snow" crowd but this ice is not very slippery. It's dangerous in the fact that it's piled into large mounds that can easily be fallen off of but nobody is going to slip and fall on anything unless it was shoveled to the ground and refrozen

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

Walk around the mounds and wear boots (though, you ought to be able to follow tracks where you won't sink in much, so boots shouldn't be strictly needed).

What is it about snow that makes people give up so easily?

It’s not snow, it’s the ice. What do you not understand?

put down the dcum and go outside. you can do this. it isn't ice

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

Walk around the mounds and wear boots (though, you ought to be able to follow tracks where you won't sink in much, so boots shouldn't be strictly needed).

What is it about snow that makes people give up so easily?

It’s not snow, it’s the ice. What do you not understand?

put down the dcum and go outside. you can do this. it isn't ice

You’re talking to adults here when the problem is aimed at children. You expect 5-10 year olds to troubleshoot like an adult? “Wear boots!” isn’t the advice (or zing) you think it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

Walk around the mounds and wear boots (though, you ought to be able to follow tracks where you won't sink in much, so boots shouldn't be strictly needed).

What is it about snow that makes people give up so easily?

It’s not snow, it’s the ice. What do you not understand?

I wore crampons from when I went ice cave hiking and still wiped out.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

Walk around the mounds and wear boots (though, you ought to be able to follow tracks where you won't sink in much, so boots shouldn't be strictly needed).

What is it about snow that makes people give up so easily?

It’s not snow, it’s the ice. What do you not understand?

put down the dcum and go outside. you can do this. it isn't ice

You’re talking to adults here when the problem is aimed at children. You expect 5-10 year olds to troubleshoot like an adult? “Wear boots!” isn’t the advice (or zing) you think it is.

I expect adults to troubleshoot for the 5-10 yr olds.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Maybe it's time for community to come to the rescue. If one parent of every enrolled child at a school showed up with their ice pick and snow shovel, the parking lots and sidewalks of all schools could be completed in a few hours. Yes, some families have 2 kids enrolled at a school and an infant at home so only 1 parent for 2 students could show up. And yes, there are single parent households with kids in both ES and MS so they shouldn't have to shovel 2x. And I'm sure there are families with multiple children and one parent who has to go to work and cannot help.

My point is, maybe the parents who want kids back in school need to take control. Volunteers could get this done quickly. Many hands makes light work.

“The parents who want kids back in school” — shouldn’t that be all parents?

No, some of us prioritize the safety of our kids over free daycare.

But there is no safety issue at this point.

Are you dense? Not all neighborhood sidewalks are cleaned. There are neighborhoods with narrow paths because of the snow and kids walking on those roads at 7:00am to get to school on top of ice is a safety issue. They slip and fall on that one mile stretch and who is going to cover the bills? You?

Get off your high horse and go to other neighborhoods and see for yourself and stop going on and on about kids needing to walk on ice to get to school because you are not capable of taking care of your kids at home and want free daycare on the pretext if education.

How is walking on top of the snow where sidewalks are a safety issue? Walking in the streets is a safety issue, yes. But on top of compact snow on sidewalks? What is the problem?

I don't know about other neighborhoods but in ours, even if you walk on the compacted ice - which I don't have an issue with actually - you can't cross at instersections because the plows in some places made small mountains. As in vertical 5 feet of snow blocking the exit from the sidewalk, taller than many of the kids. Fun to climb on in boots, not fun to cross when going to school. So the kids are forced to walk in the street, which sucks because cars don't respect the conditions and whip around corners despite not being able to see around the snow piles.

Walk around the mounds and wear boots (though, you ought to be able to follow tracks where you won't sink in much, so boots shouldn't be strictly needed).

What is it about snow that makes people give up so easily?

It’s not snow, it’s the ice. What do you not understand?

Call it whatever you want. You can walk on it. You can walk over it. You can walk through it.