Snow day

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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!!!!!!!!!

LOL. Sure, Jan.

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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: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.

Yes because busses were told not to go down icy roads and instead the county moved stops-some were far away. that does not make sense for 4 hours just admit you don't care and move on.

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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.

Parenting's hard, amirite?

Those of you howling about your kids being home for the past four days would know better about that.

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Anonymous wrote:So how did it go? Some schools must have started by now. We have a late start elementary and don't start till 11:20!

It was fine. Some kids walked on the road adjacent to the school at the dropoff area. A couple kids walked on the crunchy sidewalk. In all, it was remarkable to see them face and defeat what some posters here considered impossible odds. They came, they saw, they conquered some ice on a Friday.

Way to go kids!

You’re so absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:One bus for Bren Mar Park Elementary was 45 minutes late

Well in that case, all schools in the district should just throw up their hands and cancel school for the month

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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.

Why do you think SAHMs want the kids home. Most SAHMs I know want the kids in school, myself included. Obviously not in the beginning, but by Thursday for sure it was time to go back.

The SAHMs and the people working from home have been the biggest screamers desperate to get rid of their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:One bus for Bren Mar Park Elementary was 45 minutes late

Well in that case, all schools in the district should just throw up their hands and cancel school for the month

DRAMA MAMA is here!

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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.

You complain teachers aren’t respected, then you call yourself a babysitter. Ironic.

I refuse to believe you’re all actually this stupid, so clearly you’re just being disingenuous. She doesn’t believe she is a babysitter. She knows you, and other lazy parents, demand she function as one.

Glad we could clear that up.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Sorry but LA Unified is CLOSED again.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/all-l-a-unified-schools-to-be-closed-friday

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The bus drama/no shows/accidents today will lead to unnecessary closures in the future.

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Looking for all the reports of injuries from kids who slipped on the ice or got frostbite walking to school.

*crickets*

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Sorry but LA Unified is CLOSED again.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/all-l-a-unified-schools-to-be-closed-friday

From the article

“ Across the school system on Wednesday, student attendance was about 68% and staff attendance about 80%, according to the district tally.

The proximity to fire danger influenced the numbers.

Schools in Southeast L.A. County — far from the fires and high winds — had lower than normal but substantial attendance: Maywood Academy Senior High at 85%; South Gate Middle School at 87%.”

Schools were closed after they saw attendance numbers down and staffing issues, they were open on Wednesday. I would bet that the schools away from the fires will open on Monday. The article also mentions that the school district is posting work packets and options for kids to do this week.

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HS DD taking all Honors and AP says attendance has been bad, and there have been no lessons. She has a test to make up since she missed a test day before the break due to being out for a field trip, so she'll get something done, I suppose.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Sorry but LA Unified is CLOSED again.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/all-l-a-unified-schools-to-be-closed-friday

Shut down all California schools. It's not fair to the AP kids.