Snow day

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I hope we get snow next week. It will feel lonely without all this bickering. 🙄

BTW Is there anywhere we can find attendance data for today?

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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.

The material is the material. The teachers have to get through it all, whether they start up today or Monday. Are you this whiny in all phases of your life? Do you pass down that whininess to your kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope we get snow next week. It will feel lonely without all this bickering. 🙄

BTW Is there anywhere we can find attendance data for today?

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FOIA REPORT next week.

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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.

Then don't drive your kid. They can walk/bike/bus like many others did today. Voila! You can then be in the office at 8am.

Bike on ice? Great idea!

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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.

The "world revolves around my kid" poster instigated it.

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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...

It is difficult to miss AP classes

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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...

When a fool speaks…

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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...

It is difficult to miss AP classes

+100 these kids cannot choose to just miss a day. If school is on and they aren’t sick, they must go. Even if icy conditions aren’t safe and school should have been cancelled. It’s not a choice for them at all.

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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!!!!!!!!!

Sure they were So much drama and exaggeration.

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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.

Yes it would be different. They wouldn’t be assigned work on Friday to complete over the weekend that they now have to catch up on if school had just resumed Monday. Seriously??

[Anonymous]

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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.

Then don't drive your kid. They can walk/bike/bus like many others did today. Voila! You can then be in the office at 8am.

Bike on ice? Great idea!

Let's be honest this is coming from a parent who needed her kid to go to school for 4.5....I don't think she cares and would probably send her kid on a unicycle today to have them gone.

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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...

Besides illness? Maybe your kids do but as a rule, highly motivated, academically strong kids who are taking honors and AP classes and want to go to a great college do not just miss school randomly.

[Anonymous]

You can bet that school is in session in LA Unified and the other school districts that have schools affected by the fires. The schools that are affected, due to smoke or the schools being in an evacuated area are closed. The schools not affected are open. No one is arguing that it is unfair that the kid who is in a special program whose school is closed is being treated unfairly by not being able to attend school while the kids in schools not in danger are attending schools.

The policy to open or close the entire county because a small percentage of kids would miss class is a poor policy.

AAP is an ES program, the MS program does not include the main class that might be impacted in MS, which is HS math classes. Trying to tell people that a kid missing a day or two of school at their ES Center is unfair is silly.

Academies might need to make plans to make up work or run a review or do something to accommodate the handful of students who cannot get there because of unsafe travel conditions.

Kids in SPED programs with special placements might miss some instruction.

Does that suck? Yes. But closing down the entire school district so a relatively small number of kids have the exact same number of days in school is ridiculous.

Close the schools with legitimate safety concerns, about half of the pictures I see on the FCPS Facebook page are not legitimate concerns, you can see the pavement on over half of the street. That way kids don’t miss school and get behind. Send the rest of the County. Set a threshold, if 1/3 of the schools in the County cannot open then we close the entire County. Fine. But shutting down the entire COunty for what is a handful of schools is ridiculous.

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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.

Then don't drive your kid. They can walk/bike/bus like many others did today. Voila! You can then be in the office at 8am.

Bike on ice? Great idea!

Let's be honest this is coming from a parent who needed her kid to go to school for 4.5....I don't think she cares and would probably send her kid on a unicycle today to have them gone.

+1

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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/

That list only includes buses with more than 15 minute delays.