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

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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!

But I’m not ranting. If you actually care so much, you would show up at the next meeting and call them POSs to their faces. But you don’t so you won’t. You will continue to wave your little fists in the air on DCUM rather actually doing anything. And nothing will change. Rinse and repeat the next time it snows.

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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!

But I’m not ranting. If you actually care so much, you would show up at the next meeting and call them POSs to their faces. But you don’t so you won’t. You will continue to wave your little fists in the air on DCUM rather actually doing anything. And nothing will change. Rinse and repeat the next time it snows.

Did writing this make you feel better about your pathetic life? I'm glad you have something to make you feel superior to other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When MCPS doesn't allow childcare providers to operate, parents lose access to childcare they have already paid for and providers lose revenue from kids that drop in. MCPS should pay that money back since the decision is their fault. These decisions are a huge middle finger to working parents.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but nobody cares. Working parents need to take up their egregious lack of leave, livable wages, work/life imbalance with their bosses and stop relying on school as childcare.

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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?

Did you take it up with your boss, though? Why is your work so inflexible that a delay at your kid's school causes this level of grief?

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Anonymous wrote:When MCPS doesn't allow childcare providers to operate, parents lose access to childcare they have already paid for and providers lose revenue from kids that drop in. MCPS should pay that money back since the decision is their fault. These decisions are a huge middle finger to working parents.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but nobody cares. Working parents need to take up their egregious lack of leave, livable wages, work/life imbalance with their bosses and stop relying on school as childcare.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. If people don't work, tax revenues go down and MCPS gets less money. Attitudes like the above are a big part of why the local economy is completely stagnant.

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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?

Did you take it up with your boss, though? Why is your work so inflexible that a delay at your kid's school causes this level of grief?

DP here. My job is flexible but the workload doesn't decrease when I have less time do it. I know, I know, you don't care.

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Anonymous wrote:When MCPS doesn't allow childcare providers to operate, parents lose access to childcare they have already paid for and providers lose revenue from kids that drop in. MCPS should pay that money back since the decision is their fault. These decisions are a huge middle finger to working parents.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but nobody cares. Working parents need to take up their egregious lack of leave, livable wages, work/life imbalance with their bosses and stop relying on school as childcare.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. If people don't work, tax revenues go down and MCPS gets less money. Attitudes like the above are a big part of why the local economy is completely stagnant.

I didn't say "quit your job". I said "talk to your boss".

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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?

Did you take it up with your boss, though? Why is your work so inflexible that a delay at your kid's school causes this level of grief?

DP here. My job is flexible but the workload doesn't decrease when I have less time do it. I know, I know, you don't care.

What do you do that a 2-hour delay is going to leave you with a crushing backlog?

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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?

Did you take it up with your boss, though? Why is your work so inflexible that a delay at your kid's school causes this level of grief?

DP here. My job is flexible but the workload doesn't decrease when I have less time do it. I know, I know, you don't care.

What do you do that a 2-hour delay is going to leave you with a crushing backlog?

lol of course you want to know who I am

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Anonymous wrote:When MCPS doesn't allow childcare providers to operate, parents lose access to childcare they have already paid for and providers lose revenue from kids that drop in. MCPS should pay that money back since the decision is their fault. These decisions are a huge middle finger to working parents.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but nobody cares. Working parents need to take up their egregious lack of leave, livable wages, work/life imbalance with their bosses and stop relying on school as childcare.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. If people don't work, tax revenues go down and MCPS gets less money. Attitudes like the above are a big part of why the local economy is completely stagnant.

I didn't say "quit your job". I said "talk to your boss".

Are you so divorced from reality that you don't understand that when lots of people can't work (not quit their jobs, I mean not work when they can't work), that impacts the economy?

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Unless you work in ER (and I suppose operating the much needed snow plow trucks), no one will care.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless you work in ER (and I suppose operating the much needed snow plow trucks), no one will care.

I know, I know, you work for MCPS and believe everyone else just has money that appears magically and they should just give all of it to you.

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Oh good lord, did they just cancel the delay? That's great but now time to reshuffle. Again.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh good lord, did they just cancel the delay? That's great but now time to reshuffle. Again.

So odd. Odd they they called a delay two days ahead of time with no weather event and odd to undo it. But kudos that they at least realized it’s the wrong call…

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Wait. Is the delay cancelled now? This is a logistical nightmare.

Honestly they should have just sent a message saying that conditions have improved and kids can arrive for care early (classrooms for elementary, gyms and cafeterias and libraries and stuff for older kids).

What a *#*$&show that parents all over the county have had to sheepishly re-schedule things. I'm a college professor and didn't move my class but thought about it. Doing so would have made me look nuts to my students and I am sure thousands of parents now look chaotic to their bosses, none of whom will truly get it if they don't have kids in MCPS.