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Anonymous wrote:The bus drivers are in a terrible position. So many routes are ICE. Not snow-ICE. The fedex truck got stuck on my street this afternoon in Burke on the ice. It’s going to be a mess. I can’t even think of the walkers who have to walk on a busy road to get to school. It’s so dangerous. Completely unsafe. I’m horrified FCPS made this decision. Any parent or decision maker who isn’t worried about the kids is not thinking clearly. The risk is way too high here.

Then stay home. Your horror solved.

I can’t. I’m a teacher who will babysit your kids tomorrow. And my teenager will now miss new content and be behind if I don’t send them. Think much? Jerk.

So it is the teachers who are upset that they have to work!!!!! No surprise.

It's not. There's an unhinged SAHM and another who is upset that their Friday workday has been upended because they have to parent their kids to school.

How about adding me? Kiss and ride road is a sheet of ice. The sidewalk that the students have to use to walk to school hasn’t been cleared and kids will need to walk along a busy road to avoid the sidewalk.

Okay, you're added. Sheets of ice!!! Stay home if it's not going to work for you. The district isn't staying shut because some households didn't clean their sidewalks. It's not VDOT's responsibility.

Our house is great. The school has a kiss and ride sheet of ice and the sidewalk for walkers in front of the school hasn’t been cleared, leaving students to walk on a busy street. Can you address that part?

Sure, email the principal. Stay home. Volunteer your time to help clear the sidewalk. Lots of things you could be doing beyond whining.

Funny since you have been whining since Monday about having to parent your kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks Reid for again not thinking about working parents. The sidewalks were absolutely not safe for walkers and bus riders and parents had to drive. All for what? Less than 5 hours on a Friday?

Working parent here, very grateful my kid is at school!

When did we all become so addicted to being outraged by trivial nonsense?

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks Reid for again not thinking about working parents. The sidewalks were absolutely not safe for walkers and bus riders and parents had to drive. All for what? Less than 5 hours on a Friday?

Working parent here, very grateful my kid is at school!

When did we all become so addicted to being outraged by trivial nonsense?

Since social media gave a platform to every nobody with an irrelevant opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah. Not in bed. I have to take off of work entirely in order to manage the two hour delay and all the drop offs. My kids are walkers and it’s not safe. My sophomore has 4 AP classes and I have no doubt they will PILE on the work. They were already supposed to have a midnight assignment for Friday (also the Friday night through Sunday night assignments are gross and need to stop).

Your high schooler (who takes 4 AP classes) cannot manage to navigate to school by himself because of some icy sidewalks? Have you bubble-wrapped them all like this? It's embarrassing how some of you treat your kids...

What's embarrassing is how you disregard safety so you can send your kids to school for four hours. You have probably been on here all week spewing your hatred for FCPS, VDOT, Mother Nature and anyone else you could think of.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah. Not in bed. I have to take off of work entirely in order to manage the two hour delay and all the drop offs. My kids are walkers and it’s not safe. My sophomore has 4 AP classes and I have no doubt they will PILE on the work. They were already supposed to have a midnight assignment for Friday (also the Friday night through Sunday night assignments are gross and need to stop).

Your high schooler (who takes 4 AP classes) cannot manage to navigate to school by himself because of some icy sidewalks? Have you bubble-wrapped them all like this? It's embarrassing how some of you treat your kids...

What's embarrassing is how you disregard safety so you can send your kids to school for four hours. You have probably been on here all week spewing your hatred for FCPS, VDOT, Mother Nature and anyone else you could think of.

+1 one more day would have been perfect. Temps are warming up this weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks Reid for again not thinking about working parents. The sidewalks were absolutely not safe for walkers and bus riders and parents had to drive. All for what? Less than 5 hours on a Friday?

This. No one is learning-they are sitting worrying about lunch schedules...for what a bunch of stay at home moms crying and whining that they had to parent. This morning was a mess for a half day. End of story.

Ahhh, did you have to be a parent and get your kid to school today? Good on you.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah. Not in bed. I have to take off of work entirely in order to manage the two hour delay and all the drop offs. My kids are walkers and it’s not safe. My sophomore has 4 AP classes and I have no doubt they will PILE on the work. They were already supposed to have a midnight assignment for Friday (also the Friday night through Sunday night assignments are gross and need to stop).

Your high schooler (who takes 4 AP classes) cannot manage to navigate to school by himself because of some icy sidewalks? Have you bubble-wrapped them all like this? It's embarrassing how some of you treat your kids...

What's embarrassing is how you disregard safety so you can send your kids to school for four hours. You have probably been on here all week spewing your hatred for FCPS, VDOT, Mother Nature and anyone else you could think of.

+1 one more day would have been perfect. Temps are warming up this weekend.

And that "one more day" was a choice available to you.

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55 buses experienced delays and complications this morning.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks Reid for again not thinking about working parents. The sidewalks were absolutely not safe for walkers and bus riders and parents had to drive. All for what? Less than 5 hours on a Friday?

Working parent here, very grateful my kid is at school!

When did we all become so addicted to being outraged by trivial nonsense?

Did you have to drive your kid? It’s hard to drive your kid at 10 something if you have to be in an office at 8 am.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah. Not in bed. I have to take off of work entirely in order to manage the two hour delay and all the drop offs. My kids are walkers and it’s not safe. My sophomore has 4 AP classes and I have no doubt they will PILE on the work. They were already supposed to have a midnight assignment for Friday (also the Friday night through Sunday night assignments are gross and need to stop).

Your high schooler (who takes 4 AP classes) cannot manage to navigate to school by himself because of some icy sidewalks? Have you bubble-wrapped them all like this? It's embarrassing how some of you treat your kids...

What's embarrassing is how you disregard safety so you can send your kids to school for four hours. You have probably been on here all week spewing your hatred for FCPS, VDOT, Mother Nature and anyone else you could think of.

+1 one more day would have been perfect. Temps are warming up this weekend.

And that "one more day" was a choice available to you.

Not it wasn’t. HS doesn’t mess around. Kids can’t afford to miss even one day or they are woefully behind.

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Anonymous wrote:55 buses experienced delays and complications this morning.

Wow. Middle school or ES or HS or all?

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Anonymous wrote:Nah. Not in bed. I have to take off of work entirely in order to manage the two hour delay and all the drop offs. My kids are walkers and it’s not safe. My sophomore has 4 AP classes and I have no doubt they will PILE on the work. They were already supposed to have a midnight assignment for Friday (also the Friday night through Sunday night assignments are gross and need to stop).

Your high schooler (who takes 4 AP classes) cannot manage to navigate to school by himself because of some icy sidewalks? Have you bubble-wrapped them all like this? It's embarrassing how some of you treat your kids...

What's embarrassing is how you disregard safety so you can send your kids to school for four hours. You have probably been on here all week spewing your hatred for FCPS, VDOT, Mother Nature and anyone else you could think of.

+1 one more day would have been perfect. Temps are warming up this weekend.

And that "one more day" was a choice available to you.

Not it wasn’t. HS doesn’t mess around. Kids can’t afford to miss even one day or they are woefully behind.

Yeah you can’t have it both ways. You can’t say attendance is optional while also insisting that teachers are moving forward with content. Kids in school today - at least at the ES and MS level - are at an optional one-day camp. Feeling sorry for the high schoolers who have to make a tougher choice.

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Anonymous wrote:55 buses experienced delays and complications this morning.

Wow. Middle school or ES or HS or all?

Pretty sure just MS and HS. This was out to teachers before many ES start times.

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Anonymous wrote:That entire mess was a shitshow. I think the middle school lineup was a mile long. People dumping their kids out of the car in the middle of the street before reaching the intersection before the school. Otherwise, no walkers, would've been impossible, the sidewalks were absolute garbage. I barely got back in time to take high school kid. I had to take the entire day off because of this absolute bullshit. Told my kids to message me [middle school one emails the high school one, who can gchat or text me] if they aren't actually doing stuff. Oh and the high school parking lot had an entire lot not full at school start time.

which middle school?

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Anonymous wrote:You know, reading the 211 pages of this, I think of my own childhood. No social media. We got up, watched the tv screen like the nba draft board for our school to pop up. Or listen for 20 minutes to the radio to hear our district announced.

Sometimes they would open and my mom would say, wow, I can’t believe you’re going. Well, go get ready. Sometimes they would close and mom would say, “there’s nothing there! They just want a snow day!”

Either way, we moved on. I went or stayed home depending on the district’s decision. 10 minutes later, it was over, and just became a distant memory.

However, if mom knew there were so many crazy parents out there, I’m not sure I would have ever been allowed back in a school building.

Question- did social media create these crazy behaviors or were they always there with no where to let it all out? Or is this a post-covid consequence-nobody ever feels safe. Interested to hear how this went as a kid in your house!

I get it as I am old also and have the same memories. But, my mom, like nearly every other mother of my classmates, did not have a full time job until I was in middle/high school and didn't need supervision. Now I would guess that the vast majority of families have two working parents - this means that closures and delays do cause more logistical problems than they used to and the need to announce early is more critical for these families. Same goes for instructional time - we didn't take end of year tests in MCPS that the schools got evaluated on. So while I agree social media provides a forum for venting from either side, the times have changed in many ways.

I grew up in Reston and I attended Fairfax public schools from 1982 to 1992. My mom had a full-time job as did the moms of all of my friends. Again, your story is not representative of everybody else’s. Back then, our moms took PTO.

i grew up in reston and went to fcps in the 90s and most of our moms worked, too. but we all just stayed home alone lol. what 80s/90s parents were taking PTO bc their kids had snow days? we were latchkey kids, nobody cared.

this would never happen today. times are different. it’s okay to acknowledge that.

No most of the moms actually didn’t work in the 90s. Way more SAHM.

No, it was close to 70% who worked.