What do we think will happen on Monday?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

Do you want to pay the taxes to have VDOT equipped to handle storms that happen once every 20 years?

They did multiple passes of one single lane. Now it’s a safety issue. Forget about school for a second, they needed to plow so at least two cars can pass side by side. We’ve had multiple cars get stuck in ice, trying to pull over for other cars and now garbage trucks on our street. I’m not having my kids attempt to walk down the street to the bus stop with that going on. -teacher poster

VDOT:

Priority System: High-volume interstates and primary roads are treated first, followed by secondary roads and subdivisions.

Initial Pass Goal: The goal is to create a single, 8-10 foot wide travel lane on secondary roads, even if the road is not cleared from curb to curb.

Safety Measures: In many areas, VDOT crews strive to make at least one pass on all paved routes, including residential streets, before temperatures drop to extreme lows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

Do you want to pay the taxes to have VDOT equipped to handle storms that happen once every 20 years?

There already was a plow on our street on Sunday and they did multiple rounds. They just decided to plow enough to make a single lane. I don’t understand what was preventing them from plowing the entire street.

Other streets to plow? Too many cars parked on the street?

[Anonymous]

Virtual learning is not a bad idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

Do you want to pay the taxes to have VDOT equipped to handle storms that happen once every 20 years?

There already was a plow on our street on Sunday and they did multiple rounds. They just decided to plow enough to make a single lane. I don’t understand what was preventing them from plowing the entire street.

Other streets to plow? Too many cars parked on the street?

Last plow on our street was Sunday a.m. before the ice. It is inches of ice. Driving is possible with the right car, walking? Not so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Virtual learning is not a bad idea.

What are you picturing for “virtual learning”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Virtual learning is not a bad idea.

Posts like this need a trigger warning. My sense is that you’re just trolling. Even so, a trigger warning is necessary.

[Anonymous]

I saw my kids elementary school only has 179 days this school year. With all these snow days, are they required to make up to meet the 180 days minimum?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Virtual learning is not a bad idea.

Posts like this need a trigger warning. My sense is that you’re just trolling. Even so, a trigger warning is necessary.

i can tell you their kids are k-5th and they weren’t around for distance learning because nobody who went through that actually thinks it’s a viable option for this situation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw my kids elementary school only has 179 days this school year. With all these snow days, are they required to make up to meet the 180 days minimum?

No. They will just file a waiver if needed. We haven’t hit our allotted number yet btw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how school will be open on Monday. School has closed for a lot better conditions. The ice hasn’t melted at all and side roads are a mess.

Our two lane street has one lane. Sidewalks haven’t been shoveled at all. I can drive my kids to school so our family would be ok but no way my kids could safely walk .7 miles to stand on a pile of ice to safely wait for the bus in 10 degrees.

Why didn't people in your neighborhood shovel the sidewalks Sunday and Monday like the rest of us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw my kids elementary school only has 179 days this school year. With all these snow days, are they required to make up to meet the 180 days minimum?

You must be new here. VIrginia schools have two options: 180 school days or 990 hours of school. FCPS chose the 990
hours minimum. That choice has enough time built in to allow for over 10 snow days and still meet the minimum 990 hours of instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should relax. We got an email from our principal (high school) explaining the plan for parking and arriving on Monday and throughout the week. They are planning to go ahead as long as nothing changes and making necessary adjustments. It will all be fine.

How is your school handling parking?

Hundreds of our high schoolers park on neighborhood streets that are now ice mounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:80s kid here. We would have been at school all but last Monday. Maybe Monday.

Yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw my kids elementary school only has 179 days this school year. With all these snow days, are they required to make up to meet the 180 days minimum?

Technically they are still above the 990 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:80s kid here. We would have been at school all but last Monday. Maybe Monday.

Let me translate: I’m 50 years old and can’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. But I can recall the exact weather conditions and school closings when I was 10.