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

Not much higher than any normal day. Glad to hear it!

Exactly. Here's the list. Most of the delays were in the 10-15 minute range, which is pretty common: https://busdelay.fcps.edu/

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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.

Only down about 5-10%, compared to mothers who work in the 2020s

I all the kids so happy to be back. they were cheering!!!!!!!!!

Bullsh*t. The kids absolutely didn’t want to go. The SAH parents and WFH parents were the ones cheering.

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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.

No, he took the bus (which was totally fine). A lot easier than having to work with him home all week.

There you go. My kid couldn’t take the bus as the sidewalks were icy and unplowed. Try to see things from a different point of view. Of course you loved it - your kid was able to smoothly take the bus and you really weren’t impacted.

My kid had to walk on ice and wait in the cold for his bus. Your kid could have done the same. Sheesh.

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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.

Kids have to stay home for illnesses, miss school because of appointments, etc. You guys are absurd. Just own it.

It feels like people with better road conditions are determined to not try to walk a mile in the shoes of families in other parts of the county that aren’t as safe as they should be. At the same time, I have high schoolers who are not perfect, but generally a joy to hang out with. And they’ve always been this way. I need to try to walk a mile in the shoes of parents who are frustrated and overwhelmed with their kids at home this long. Safety will always come first for me, but it will help me understand how someone can use the word “absurd” for what seems to me, a perfectly reasonable desire for FCPS to have waited for a Monday opening.

The solution is simple but people will complain about it, close the schools with unsafe roads and send everyone else. But then you get your “My kid is in the Academy” or “My kid is bussed to a special school that would be closed” and now the entire County is forced to close for a small percentage of the population. It may be that the answer is that the kids in special programs that are bussed, all for justifiable and good reasons, might miss an extra day or two of school. And yes that sucks but it is better than everyone missing 2-3 days of school because a small percentage of schools have poor conditions.

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

Not much higher than any normal day. Glad to hear it!

Exactly. Here's the list. Most of the delays were in the 10-15 minute range, which is pretty common: https://busdelay.fcps.edu/

I see a lot of 20-40 min delays for weather conditions.

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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.

Kids have to stay home for illnesses, miss school because of appointments, etc. You guys are absurd. Just own it.

It feels like people with better road conditions are determined to not try to walk a mile in the shoes of families in other parts of the county that aren’t as safe as they should be. At the same time, I have high schoolers who are not perfect, but generally a joy to hang out with. And they’ve always been this way. I need to try to walk a mile in the shoes of parents who are frustrated and overwhelmed with their kids at home this long. Safety will always come first for me, but it will help me understand how someone can use the word “absurd” for what seems to me, a perfectly reasonable desire for FCPS to have waited for a Monday opening.

You can have the desire for a Monday re-opening, but it's absurd to have that expectation.

This. We're nearing the end of the quarter. Kids need to be in class at some point. We're not getting much of a warming this weekend and we might get more snow. VDOT failed and FCPS can't close indefinately

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How are you people making the jump that wanting Friday off means we wants 2-3+ more days off next week. Most people want to return Monday. The iced over sidewalks are clear not the only slippery slopes happening lol

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Anonymous wrote:It seems people are only looking outside at their dry roads and cannot possibly comprehend why a parent would be nervous to put a child on a bus when their street is coated in ice. It’s not like anyone is asking for school to be out the entire month of January. Being so smug and condescending about your child’s ability to attend 5 hours of school on Friday doesn’t make any sense

Then don't go. You have that choice.

Tell me you don’t have a high schooler without telling me you don’t have a high schooler.

You’re not getting it - it’s not really a choice for them bc of workload. So STFU.

You're a complete clown. Kids miss time from high school for any other number of reasons. Life goes on. So yeah, STFU...

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

Not much higher than any normal day. Glad to hear it!

Exactly. Here's the list. Most of the delays were in the 10-15 minute range, which is pretty common: https://busdelay.fcps.edu/

I see a lot of 20-40 min delays for weather conditions.

Yeah these are not normal numbers

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This is just the way it is when the school system is too big. Some people will be upset when schools are open because the roads in their particular location are not good. Other people will be upset when schools are closed because the roads in their particular location are fine. It’s a frustration we all just have to deal with as a result of living here. No one should expect the school system to make the exact decision that they would prefer at all times.

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Anonymous wrote:How are you people making the jump that wanting Friday off means we wants 2-3+ more days off next week. Most people want to return Monday. The iced over sidewalks are clear not the only slippery slopes happening lol

And they can return on Monday.

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Anonymous wrote:This is just the way it is when the school system is too big. Some people will be upset when schools are open because the roads in their particular location are not good. Other people will be upset when schools are closed because the roads in their particular location are fine. It’s a frustration we all just have to deal with as a result of living here. No one should expect the school system to make the exact decision that they would prefer at all times.

Big yes, but a bigger issue is all the students receiving services / instruction at a school that isn’t their base school. AAP in ES/MS and academy classes in HS are just two examples.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems people are only looking outside at their dry roads and cannot possibly comprehend why a parent would be nervous to put a child on a bus when their street is coated in ice. It’s not like anyone is asking for school to be out the entire month of January. Being so smug and condescending about your child’s ability to attend 5 hours of school on Friday doesn’t make any sense

Then don't go. You have that choice.

Tell me you don’t have a high schooler without telling me you don’t have a high schooler.

You’re not getting it - it’s not really a choice for them bc of workload. So STFU.

You're a complete clown. Kids miss time from high school for any other number of reasons. Life goes on. So yeah, STFU...

Not if they don’t absolutely have to. Kids in honors or AP do not just miss classes for stuff all the time or they would be very behind. You must bot have kids in higher level classes. You don’t know sh*t.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems people are only looking outside at their dry roads and cannot possibly comprehend why a parent would be nervous to put a child on a bus when their street is coated in ice. It’s not like anyone is asking for school to be out the entire month of January. Being so smug and condescending about your child’s ability to attend 5 hours of school on Friday doesn’t make any sense

Then don't go. You have that choice.

Tell me you don’t have a high schooler without telling me you don’t have a high schooler.

You’re not getting it - it’s not really a choice for them bc of workload. So STFU.

And that workload would be different if they returned on Monday? The teachers have to get through it all by end of term.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems people are only looking outside at their dry roads and cannot possibly comprehend why a parent would be nervous to put a child on a bus when their street is coated in ice. It’s not like anyone is asking for school to be out the entire month of January. Being so smug and condescending about your child’s ability to attend 5 hours of school on Friday doesn’t make any sense

Then don't go. You have that choice.

Tell me you don’t have a high schooler without telling me you don’t have a high schooler.

You’re not getting it - it’s not really a choice for them bc of workload. So STFU.

You're a complete clown. Kids miss time from high school for any other number of reasons. Life goes on. So yeah, STFU...

DP: “You’re a complete clown?” “STFU?” In response to someone saying their high school student couldn’t afford to miss class? Attending class is a huge deal to my HS kid as well. Calm down.