Mcps no school wed and thursday

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Anonymous wrote:I’m nervous about my high school kids losing a week before APs since they are already really far behind. Wish those teachers could email out the assignments so kids could get ahead. It’s going to be brutal when they get back.

I agree that MCPS teachers should send out homework at least. Seems like they have been instructed not to do any work though.

Why aren’t more people talking about this? One DC is at W HS and the other is at private. Private school kid was given a freebie snow day on Monday, but had work Tuesday and will again today—it amounted to roughly four hours of wreading, writing, prepping for an upcoming lab, and problem sets. I get that it’s the start of the new term and many students have a new teacher even but that shouldn’t impact teachers’ ability to assign work. Not blaming the teachers as I am aware this is an mcps issue vs individual issue, but frankly it’s pathetic.

I understand the upset about childcare for those with younger kids but why aren’t families with MS/HS students more upset that there kids aren’t being asked to do anything academic?

So you want more free labor from teachers.

That’s ridiculous. Teachers are still getting paid, even with the snow day. And sending out a few assignments is hardly a crushing work load.

[Anonymous]

Interesting thing would be if they did hand out assignments, would they be graded? We were informed we were not allowed to grade any of the summer based reading assignments because we had no way of knowing who actually could do them over the summer. Ended up just being a week of ungraded work the first week of the year that we never even looked at.

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Meanwhile the county still hasn't plowed my road and the website lied and said it was plowed

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What is the chance of this Friday closed, open on time or 2 hours delay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the chance of this Friday closed, open on time or 2 hours delay?

I'd say best case scenario is a delay although i don't see what 2 extra hours will accomplish. It would be more about not making the HS and MS kids stand out at bus stops or walk in the dark with these conditions.

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Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.

Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care

None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.

Mine wasn't clear this morning, but once they started working on it they were done in a couple hours.

We went to our kids school to sled and saw two stuck plows(one skidsteer one county truck). They had to bring in another big truck and a bunch of shovels to dig out the wheels and tow it out of the drift. That set them back three hours and so they only got half the parking lots done that day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the county still hasn't plowed my road and the website lied and said it was plowed

More likely they did plow it but you're not happy with how much pavement you can see.

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Anonymous wrote:Btw Montgomery County Government isn't even on liberal leave today. Everyone is just expected to go to work. Preposterous they won't open MCPS offices

Right? CO should be taken to task on this, they just like to give themselves extra days off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.

Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care

None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.

Mine wasn't clear this morning, but once they started working on it they were done in a couple hours.

We went to our kids school to sled and saw two stuck plows(one skidsteer one county truck). They had to bring in another big truck and a bunch of shovels to dig out the wheels and tow it out of the drift. That set them back three hours and so they only got half the parking lots done that day.

That's a good reason not to wait to get started on clearing schools. Why didn't they start on monday?

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I'm about to go drive around and see which areas in Gaithersburg/Montgomery Village need the most attention. Will start doing ice removal and clearing of those areas at 10 AM if anyone is interested in joining me. Again, I'll pay for lunch for anyone who comes. Shoot me a call or message at [phone]‬.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the county still hasn't plowed my road and the website lied and said it was plowed

More likely they did plow it but you're not happy with how much pavement you can see.

Why are you like this? Our road is clear finally but a lot of roads are unplowed or insufficiently plowed. The first pass is often packing people’s cars in with more ice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.

Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care

None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.

Mine wasn't clear this morning, but once they started working on it they were done in a couple hours.

We went to our kids school to sled and saw two stuck plows(one skidsteer one county truck). They had to bring in another big truck and a bunch of shovels to dig out the wheels and tow it out of the drift. That set them back three hours and so they only got half the parking lots done that day.

That's a good reason not to wait to get started on clearing schools. Why didn't they start on monday?

Because the roads were impassable

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the county still hasn't plowed my road and the website lied and said it was plowed

More likely they did plow it but you're not happy with how much pavement you can see.

Why are you like this? Our road is clear finally but a lot of roads are unplowed or insufficiently plowed. The first pass is often packing people’s cars in with more ice.

DP. So you dig your car out. A few neighbors and I dug out a dozen cars that were packed in by snow plows yesterday. Why is there such helplessness around this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the county still hasn't plowed my road and the website lied and said it was plowed

More likely they did plow it but you're not happy with how much pavement you can see.

Why are you like this? Our road is clear finally but a lot of roads are unplowed or insufficiently plowed. The first pass is often packing people’s cars in with more ice.

DP. So you dig your car out. A few neighbors and I dug out a dozen cars that were packed in by snow plows yesterday. Why is there such helplessness around this?

You want a cookie for your heroism? Ice is heavy!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the county still hasn't plowed my road and the website lied and said it was plowed

More likely they did plow it but you're not happy with how much pavement you can see.

Why are you like this? Our road is clear finally but a lot of roads are unplowed or insufficiently plowed. The first pass is often packing people’s cars in with more ice.

DP. So you dig your car out. A few neighbors and I dug out a dozen cars that were packed in by snow plows yesterday. Why is there such helplessness around this?

We are fine, and didn’t need to rush out. The plow came again 12 hours later and spared a bunch of backs. My point is that this is very tough snow and it is a tough job.