Wed no school or 2hr delay?

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Anonymous wrote:State of Maryland is opening late tomorrow and liberal leave is allowed in all countries and Baltimore City. Seems conditions are not good anywhere.

So other institutions are opening tomorrow. MCPS should be able to get their act together to open on Wednesday, probably with a delay.

Typical "if I have to go to work, everyone should have to!" mindset in this forum. Some of us actually care about the safety of kids-in ALL areas of the county no less, not just our own.

MCPS has a whole extra day to get their act together. I'm not saying they're going to open tomorrow. We already know they won't. But they can absolutely open Wednesday.

It’s not just mcps, the county has to plow and many of us don’t get buses and our kids have to walk a mile or two to school and parts of the walk are dangerous roads, some with no sidewalks. And, our streets are either not plowed or sheets of ice.

Most streets will be plowed today, and the remaining will be plowed tomorrow. Plenty of time to open on Wednesday.

If your kids have to walk through snow, put them in boots. Though, likely sidewalks will already be either shoveled or packed down.

I really don't understand you people. Why does snow scare you so much?

No plows at all have come through my neighborhood in close-in Bethesda. Wisconsin is plowed. That's it. No way to get into or out of the neighborhood. I've seen multiple cars get stuck trying - even the slightest incline and they can't make it. And it's a hilly neighborhood. No way can a bus get through here. If they manage to clear it all tomorrow then great, but I highly doubt that will happen. I can't see them going back before Thursday, probably Friday if even then.

Unlikely. The county website and traffic cameras tell another story. I think you're just mad the roads aren't perfectly clear. They're not going to be, but you can still drive on them. Speed limits are supposed to be maximums, not minimums.

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Anonymous wrote:Rec centers are open tomorrow. They can definitely open child care by Wednesday

Are you volunteering to work at the child care centers? Many of the workers are paid minimum wage and may not be able to get there.

Let the providers decide. You don't know any of these workers and are pretending you can speak for them which is completely gross and disgusting.

Many workers don't get a choice. Clearly you've never worked in child care. Why don't you offer to go pick them up and drive them home if you think its so safe. Your entitlement to risk others' lives is gross and disgusting. You can find another family and rotate child care or find a way to make it work.

You're the one who doesn't want to give them a choice.

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MCPS does not give one single f$ck about child care workers, gmafb. They just wave their dicks around and watch people complain and then be snarky about it during their snow day parties

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Anonymous wrote:If the school is closed then one of the parents just has to take a day off.

You people complain about EVERYTHING.

I'm glad that your family can easily absorb having a parent take 3 to 5 days off work in a row, without pay for many of us (myself included.). Maybe realize we're not all as lucky as you are and have a little compassion?

We will be unpaid too. I'd rather my spouse be alive than risk driving in this. We were unpaid during the shutdown as well. You think you are the only one. My spouse gets zero PTO. We plan our finances around it. Why don't you?

The people scared of snow can take time off. Everyone with common sense can go to work and school.

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Anonymous wrote:Closed for the week. 50/50 new system comes through on Saturday. Make your plans now.

I don't have a nanny on retainer and my parents are old and can't watch our kid multiple days in a row.

Lady, it is your responsibility to problem solve. You have one school aged kid. You can hire a teacher who is off or a teen who is off to babysit in your home or theirs. You can take time off or if your child has another parent they can take time off. You can set up play dates with other neighbor kids where you split up the day and childcare responsibilities among the parent group. You can give your kid a tv or an iPad and pack them a lunch and plop them at your workplace or in their room if you can wfh. You can post on your neighborhood listserv or fb group with the job need. You can call a nanny agency that provides on call coverage. This is what they mean when they say prepare. Many of us with older kids needed to cobble together coverage for a YEAR six years ago. You can do this.

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Anonymous wrote:State of Maryland is opening late tomorrow and liberal leave is allowed in all countries and Baltimore City. Seems conditions are not good anywhere.

So other institutions are opening tomorrow. MCPS should be able to get their act together to open on Wednesday, probably with a delay.

No, schools are typically a full day (at least) behind everyone else. And everyone else includes the liberal leave people not coming in tomorrow.

Still not plowed at all here in our SS neighborhood!

They could definitely open child care tomorrow and certainly on Wednesday if they wanted to. They just don't want to because they dgaf about child care.

I don’t know about tomorrow, and I don’t know if the parking lots near us are cleared (questionable given the rest of our neighborhood). But I agree that reopening child care should be a priority.

The closures/delays are self-perpetuating. MCPS didn't bother trying to prepare schools today because they already closed tomorrow. So now if things don't go smoothly tomorrow, they'll need to close Wednesday, despite it being entirely avoidable.

Wednesday will be closed. I hope they let childcare open. I am skeptical.

If Taylor has building services work tomorrow, a delayed opening on Wednesday is completely possible.

I guess anything is possible, but I’ve never seen a district in this area open in these conditions and the county isn’t even projecting having all residential streets passed through at least once until tomorrow afternoon.

Even if they don't get to all neighborhoods until tomorrow afternoon, that still means Wednesday should be fine.

They’re saying they’ll get to all neighborhoods at least once, which typically is insufficient as a back to school metric.

It's absolutely sufficient. At least, it should be.

I don't understand why you're so willing to accept incompetence in decision-making.

I liked snow days as a kid and my kids like them now, so I’ll admit that’s how I lean. I do hope they open childcare for people who need it. But I also know that plowing side streets only once when it’s this icy can lead to some pretty dangerous conditions. We tend to have a higher bar for student safety than we do for other businesses opening. I’m okay with that.

I don't get it- what do you think plowing another time accomplishes? We haven't been getting more snow.

One pass doesn’t usually mean totally clearing the road.

It certainly makes it safe to drive on. Isn't that the point?

Probably if you have a decent car and don’t live on a hill and depending on ice. Again, higher standard usually for schools and students.

Which is what?

Closing doesn't help bad drivers. They'll be bad drivers every other day, too. And they're more likely to kill themselves and others when they're driving 50+mph on a snowless day.

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Where are you guys getting information on what percentage of your service area has been plowed from?

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Anonymous wrote:Closed for the week. 50/50 new system comes through on Saturday. Make your plans now.

I don't have a nanny on retainer and my parents are old and can't watch our kid multiple days in a row.

Lady, it is your responsibility to problem solve. You have one school aged kid. You can hire a teacher who is off or a teen who is off to babysit in your home or theirs. You can take time off or if your child has another parent they can take time off. You can set up play dates with other neighbor kids where you split up the day and childcare responsibilities among the parent group. You can give your kid a tv or an iPad and pack them a lunch and plop them at your workplace or in their room if you can wfh. You can post on your neighborhood listserv or fb group with the job need. You can call a nanny agency that provides on call coverage. This is what they mean when they say prepare. Many of us with older kids needed to cobble together coverage for a YEAR six years ago. You can do this.

You're just stating the obvious here..most of us take time off.

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Anonymous wrote:If the school is closed then one of the parents just has to take a day off.

You people complain about EVERYTHING.

I'm glad that your family can easily absorb having a parent take 3 to 5 days off work in a row, without pay for many of us (myself included.). Maybe realize we're not all as lucky as you are and have a little compassion?

We will be unpaid too. I'd rather my spouse be alive than risk driving in this. We were unpaid during the shutdown as well. You think you are the only one. My spouse gets zero PTO. We plan our finances around it. Why don't you?

"In this"? The roads look near-perfect near us. If they're unsafe near you then you shouldn't drive. It's that simple.

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Anonymous wrote:If the school is closed then one of the parents just has to take a day off.

You people complain about EVERYTHING.

I'm glad that your family can easily absorb having a parent take 3 to 5 days off work in a row, without pay for many of us (myself included.). Maybe realize we're not all as lucky as you are and have a little compassion?

We will be unpaid too. I'd rather my spouse be alive than risk driving in this. We were unpaid during the shutdown as well. You think you are the only one. My spouse gets zero PTO. We plan our finances around it. Why don't you?

"In this"? The roads look near-perfect near us. If they're unsafe near you then you shouldn't drive. It's that simple.

+1 so many bad attempts at gaslighting lol

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Anonymous wrote:I think no school all week.

Doug called it!

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Anonymous wrote:Rec centers are open tomorrow. They can definitely open child care by Wednesday

Are you volunteering to work at the child care centers? Many of the workers are paid minimum wage and may not be able to get there.

Let the providers decide. You don't know any of these workers and are pretending you can speak for them which is completely gross and disgusting.

Many workers don't get a choice. Clearly you've never worked in child care. Why don't you offer to go pick them up and drive them home if you think its so safe. Your entitlement to risk others' lives is gross and disgusting. You can find another family and rotate child care or find a way to make it work.

You're the one who doesn't want to give them a choice.

Not only not give them a choice, but talk about how little they get paid and then insist that they miss another day of work. Absolutely ghoulish.

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I love how the answer is always "plan ahead" by hiring an individual nanny to travel on the allegedly dangerous roads to watch your kids and maybe a couple of others if you can get someone to go in on the nanny with you (essentially an unlicensed daycare) as an argument against letting vetted providers watch 10 times as many kids with fewer workers (who likely live nearby) in a licensed space

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Anonymous wrote:Rec centers are open tomorrow. They can definitely open child care by Wednesday

Are you volunteering to work at the child care centers? Many of the workers are paid minimum wage and may not be able to get there.

Let the providers decide. You don't know any of these workers and are pretending you can speak for them which is completely gross and disgusting.

Many workers don't get a choice. Clearly you've never worked in child care. Why don't you offer to go pick them up and drive them home if you think its so safe. Your entitlement to risk others' lives is gross and disgusting. You can find another family and rotate child care or find a way to make it work.

You're the one who doesn't want to give them a choice.

Not only not give them a choice, but talk about how little they get paid and then insist that they miss another day of work. Absolutely ghoulish.

All so the overpaid central office staffers in Potomac can party it up

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you guys getting information on what percentage of your service area has been plowed from?

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/snow/snow-status.html

This shows that service areas all over the county have a long way to go.