What do we think will happen on Monday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Then they should take the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

This. My kids are not participating in the sham of virtual learning. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Then they should take the bus.

Problem solve. Figure it out. Drop them or don’t. Arrange a carpool or don’t. Put them on a bus or don’t. Or don’t do anything at all and let your kid sit home until the ice mounds melt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

This. My kids are not participating in the sham of virtual learning. No thanks.

I'm fine with the sham because they won't be learning on the added snow days at the end of the year either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

This. My kids are not participating in the sham of virtual learning. No thanks.

It’s a moot point. It’s not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

American education is a joke! If people take it with one ounce of seriousness, they would push the school to do their job - teach! The mention of “trolling” is so ironic that the whole discussion for 23 pages nobody talked about using technology. I just want to say, if your job is replaced by AI, you deserve it.

[Anonymous]

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?

I am from a midwest state that gets this kind of ice storm nearly every year, sometimes twice.

We havs a lot of rednecks with pick up trucks who live for these storms.

They go out as volunteers and clear just about all the back roads in a couple of days.

People here are thinkiers, not doers, and other than the neighborhoods with lots of military and red state transplants, they cannot seem to accomplish much of anything that requires grit, hard work and ingenuity.

People are lazy and soft here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

American education is a joke! If people take it with one ounce of seriousness, they would push the school to do their job - teach! The mention of “trolling” is so ironic that the whole discussion for 23 pages nobody talked about using technology. I just want to say, if your job is replaced by AI, you deserve it.

Another teacher hater - the other kind of troll. Why do DCUM threads always devolve like this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Then they should take the bus.

Our high school busses are 3 to a seat, without all the hundreds of drivers.

We will need to add a dozen busses to get the juniors and seniors who usually park on the street.

[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?

I am from a midwest state that gets this kind of ice storm nearly every year, sometimes twice.

We havs a lot of rednecks with pick up trucks who live for these storms.

They go out as volunteers and clear just about all the back roads in a couple of days.

People here are thinkiers, not doers, and other than the neighborhoods with lots of military and red state transplants, they cannot seem to accomplish much of anything that requires grit, hard work and ingenuity.

People are lazy and soft here.

I’m thinking maybe you need to move back to the Midwest if we’re all too soft and lazy for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Then they should take the bus.

Problem solve. Figure it out. Drop them or don’t. Arrange a carpool or don’t. Put them on a bus or don’t. Or don’t do anything at all and let your kid sit home until the ice mounds melt.

The high school busses are already over capacity.

Fcps does not have enough busses to drive these studdnts who normally drive themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Not that it matters but the sidewalk is not on our side of the street. We don’t have a sidewalk adjacent to our house, just the street. There is a wall of ice on the street where the second lane would have been.

[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?

I am from a midwest state that gets this kind of ice storm nearly every year, sometimes twice.

We havs a lot of rednecks with pick up trucks who live for these storms.

They go out as volunteers and clear just about all the back roads in a couple of days.

People here are thinkiers, not doers, and other than the neighborhoods with lots of military and red state transplants, they cannot seem to accomplish much of anything that requires grit, hard work and ingenuity.

People are lazy and soft here.

I’m thinking maybe you need to move back to the Midwest if we’re all too soft and lazy for you.

Just making an honest observation.

It is the same reason why contractors can charge you all so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

I am from a midwest state that gets this kind of ice storm nearly every year, sometimes twice.

We havs a lot of rednecks with pick up trucks who live for these storms.

They go out as volunteers and clear just about all the back roads in a couple of days.

People here are thinkiers, not doers, and other than the neighborhoods with lots of military and red state transplants, they cannot seem to accomplish much of anything that requires grit, hard work and ingenuity.

People are lazy and soft here.

I’m thinking maybe you need to move back to the Midwest if we’re all too soft and lazy for you.

Just making an honest observation.

It is the same reason why contractors can charge you all so much.

No, you’re being judgmental, and it’s not helpful at all. Just rude and condescending. Have a super day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Then they should take the bus.

Problem solve. Figure it out. Drop them or don’t. Arrange a carpool or don’t. Put them on a bus or don’t. Or don’t do anything at all and let your kid sit home until the ice mounds melt.

The high school busses are already over capacity.

Fcps does not have enough busses to drive these studdnts who normally drive themselves.

1. Kids must first get to the bus stop and have a place to stand. My guess is that half will not be standable. Many Fairfax areas do not have sidewalks.
2. Buses must start. Electric buses? Have you read the posts online about electric cars and this storm?

I've seen lots of praises for the road clearing in Fairfax County. Much of my neighborhood is great--but not ,my street.