What do we think will happen on Monday?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one has come back to meaningfully address what will be different mid week or when they think schools can re open.

The point is that communities need more time. Everyone in my neighborhood is shoveling but our cars keep getting re-buried by plows and the work of breaking through this ice is frankly exhausting and a multi-day endeavor. I appreciate Reid’s email about communities coming together but the work she’s asking people to do is not feasible in 2 days. The ice isn’t going anywhere but we can at least wait until more progress is made on clearing roads and sidewalks.

You are still seeing plows? Are you just off a main road? We were plowed once on Sunday and at this point I’m fine with that. There are just piles of ice blocks now along the side of the road from people digging out and if a plow came by at this point…😡

Pretty sure the PP was hyperbolic fiction.

[Anonymous]

Everyone saying there’s “no way” we’re not sending the kids back clearly didn’t have school age kids during Snowmageddon… we were out 2 weeks for conditions frankly better than this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has come back to meaningfully address what will be different mid week or when they think schools can re open.

The point is that communities need more time. Everyone in my neighborhood is shoveling but our cars keep getting re-buried by plows and the work of breaking through this ice is frankly exhausting and a multi-day endeavor. I appreciate Reid’s email about communities coming together but the work she’s asking people to do is not feasible in 2 days. The ice isn’t going anywhere but we can at least wait until more progress is made on clearing roads and sidewalks.

You are still seeing plows? Are you just off a main road? We were plowed once on Sunday and at this point I’m fine with that. There are just piles of ice blocks now along the side of the road from people digging out and if a plow came by at this point…😡

Pretty sure the PP was hyperbolic fiction.

Nope I live near a high school so they keep sending plows down our road and burying us in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone saying there’s “no way” we’re not sending the kids back clearly didn’t have school age kids during Snowmageddon… we were out 2 weeks for conditions frankly better than this.

Yeah there’s a lot of people here who didn’t have school aged kids in 2010 AND in 2026. That’s a 16 year difference , of course most of us didn’t have school aged kids then AND now 😵‍💫

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:80s kid here. We would have been at school all but last Monday. Maybe Monday.

Did you live in Vermont? I graduated from a Fairfax high school in 96 and we missed over two weeks of school due to one snow storm my senior year.

+1

+2
class of '96

+3
Class of 96!

(Grew up in Clifton, couldn’t go anywhere for more than a week.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has come back to meaningfully address what will be different mid week or when they think schools can re open.

The point is that communities need more time. Everyone in my neighborhood is shoveling but our cars keep getting re-buried by plows and the work of breaking through this ice is frankly exhausting and a multi-day endeavor. I appreciate Reid’s email about communities coming together but the work she’s asking people to do is not feasible in 2 days. The ice isn’t going anywhere but we can at least wait until more progress is made on clearing roads and sidewalks.

You are still seeing plows? Are you just off a main road? We were plowed once on Sunday and at this point I’m fine with that. There are just piles of ice blocks now along the side of the road from people digging out and if a plow came by at this point…😡

Pretty sure the PP was hyperbolic fiction.

Nope I live near a high school so they keep sending plows down our road and burying us in

Not sure what the plows are moving since it's packed ice, not snow. So anyway, yeah I guess?

In any event, they can't wait for the county to entirely unfreeze and clear. They can wait a couple more days or even a week. But not for the county to clear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

Yes but they’ve also been clear in messaging that that their hope IS to open and they won’t be making a decision any earlier than 4 pm Sunday to give things as long as possible to improve. Staying closed is their last ditch resort, not the first choice they’re leaning into or a foregone conclusion. Truly none of us, school staff or parents, WANT school to be closed next week- if it still is, for any days, it will clearly mean it was not safe. Closing again is not the preference of any local school district leader I assure you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has come back to meaningfully address what will be different mid week or when they think schools can re open.

The point is that communities need more time. Everyone in my neighborhood is shoveling but our cars keep getting re-buried by plows and the work of breaking through this ice is frankly exhausting and a multi-day endeavor. I appreciate Reid’s email about communities coming together but the work she’s asking people to do is not feasible in 2 days. The ice isn’t going anywhere but we can at least wait until more progress is made on clearing roads and sidewalks.

You are still seeing plows? Are you just off a main road? We were plowed once on Sunday and at this point I’m fine with that. There are just piles of ice blocks now along the side of the road from people digging out and if a plow came by at this point…😡

Pretty sure the PP was hyperbolic fiction.

Nope I live near a high school so they keep sending plows down our road and burying us in

Not sure what the plows are moving since it's packed ice, not snow. So anyway, yeah I guess?

In any event, they can't wait for the county to entirely unfreeze and clear. They can wait a couple more days or even a week. But not for the county to clear.

No message has told you school cannot open until the entire county is clear. It’s been made obvious that the opening hinges simply on a majority of the bus/walking routes being safe enough to navigate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has come back to meaningfully address what will be different mid week or when they think schools can re open.

The point is that communities need more time. Everyone in my neighborhood is shoveling but our cars keep getting re-buried by plows and the work of breaking through this ice is frankly exhausting and a multi-day endeavor. I appreciate Reid’s email about communities coming together but the work she’s asking people to do is not feasible in 2 days. The ice isn’t going anywhere but we can at least wait until more progress is made on clearing roads and sidewalks.

You are still seeing plows? Are you just off a main road? We were plowed once on Sunday and at this point I’m fine with that. There are just piles of ice blocks now along the side of the road from people digging out and if a plow came by at this point…😡

Pretty sure the PP was hyperbolic fiction.

Nope I live near a high school so they keep sending plows down our road and burying us in

Not sure what the plows are moving since it's packed ice, not snow. So anyway, yeah I guess?

In any event, they can't wait for the county to entirely unfreeze and clear. They can wait a couple more days or even a week. But not for the county to clear.

No message has told you school cannot open until the entire county is clear. It’s been made obvious that the opening hinges simply on a majority of the bus/walking routes being safe enough to navigate.

Sure, it does. And that's where equity comes in. Be ready to go back sooner than later. Use this weekend to workshop your own solution.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has come back to meaningfully address what will be different mid week or when they think schools can re open.

The point is that communities need more time. Everyone in my neighborhood is shoveling but our cars keep getting re-buried by plows and the work of breaking through this ice is frankly exhausting and a multi-day endeavor. I appreciate Reid’s email about communities coming together but the work she’s asking people to do is not feasible in 2 days. The ice isn’t going anywhere but we can at least wait until more progress is made on clearing roads and sidewalks.

You are still seeing plows? Are you just off a main road? We were plowed once on Sunday and at this point I’m fine with that. There are just piles of ice blocks now along the side of the road from people digging out and if a plow came by at this point…😡

Pretty sure the PP was hyperbolic fiction.

Nope I live near a high school so they keep sending plows down our road and burying us in

Not sure what the plows are moving since it's packed ice, not snow. So anyway, yeah I guess?

In any event, they can't wait for the county to entirely unfreeze and clear. They can wait a couple more days or even a week. But not for the county to clear.

No message has told you school cannot open until the entire county is clear. It’s been made obvious that the opening hinges simply on a majority of the bus/walking routes being safe enough to navigate.

Sure, it does. And that's where equity comes in. Be ready to go back sooner than later. Use this weekend to workshop your own solution.

Yeah, we just plan on driving my kids if the bus stop is obscured still. Some kids won’t make it to school if their parents can’t do that and I guess that will be something we figure out later but I do think school will be open Monday, imperfectly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

God no. Please!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone saying there’s “no way” we’re not sending the kids back clearly didn’t have school age kids during Snowmageddon… we were out 2 weeks for conditions frankly better than this.

Yeah there’s a lot of people here who didn’t have school aged kids in 2010 AND in 2026. That’s a 16 year difference , of course most of us didn’t have school aged kids then AND now 😵‍💫

My oldest was in preschool then and is in college now, went all the way through FCPS without seeing a storm like this. Temps rise just enough next week to soften the ice and get the roads and sidewalks clear. Lucky seniors who don't have to make up the lost time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

I don’t foresee FCPS trying to do online instruction. That would have to be prepped for ahead of the storm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

I don’t foresee FCPS trying to do online instruction. That would have to be prepped for ahead of the storm.

Have them all do book reports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

God no. Please!

Not like that. Just asynchronous work we post that kids can independently complete (or not do at all). As someone who taught when we were virtual I can assure you it’s not possible to get that kind of instruction up and functional for a stray couple days of snow cancellations. No kid under 5th grade has ever done it at all and would be starting from square one, let alone the number of new teachers since then who wouldn’t know how to do it either. It will not be live google meet instruction like 2020.