What do we think will happen on Monday?

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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?

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 not a laborer. DH shoveled our driveway and has gone to work all week. He is a surgeon.

The streets are ice. I can drive my kids to school. We have that luxury. Not everyone can.

Ok not everyone has the luxury of their kids missing another week of learning and not getting free breakfast/lunch.

Look someone is on the crap end of any call. The who is more burdened Olympics in an attempt to bolster the outcome any of us wants is not that productive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My niece and nephew go to DCPS which opened Thursday/Friday and it was a hot mess. No learning was done because half of their class couldn’t even make it to school. I agree the kids need to get back in school so parents can return to work, but let’s not pretend this is about their education…

I think many people understand that for many kids it’s about more than education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My niece and nephew go to DCPS which opened Thursday/Friday and it was a hot mess. No learning was done because half of their class couldn’t even make it to school. I agree the kids need to get back in school so parents can return to work, but let’s not pretend this is about their education…

I think many people understand that for many kids it’s about more than education.

It’s education AND.
Education AND healthcare. Education AND supervision. Education AND food. Education AND heat and electricity. Education AND socialization. Education AND is the whole point of school- it’s never been just education. School is a community resource that serves many needs. Always has.

-teacher

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“Every man for himself” is pretty much the opposite of FCPS’s philosophy, so while I don’t disagree with those who are saying “toughen up and adapt,” I wouldn’t bet big money on gatehouse following that strategy. Reid is a different superintendent, so one might conjecture that she could guide the ship on a very different path, but the email she sent yesterday didn’t suggest she was doing that.

Personally, I hate this uncertainty. It’s making me very anxious.

Guys: it’s school. It’s a foundational pillar of society. OF COURSE its ethos is not “every man for himself,” that literally defies the spirit of an institution that serves the public, particularly the most vulnerable members of the public (children).

I agree, but its ethos runs counter to how the rest of American society currently operates. It’s a discrepancy which makes solving these community conundrums so difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My niece and nephew go to DCPS which opened Thursday/Friday and it was a hot mess. No learning was done because half of their class couldn’t even make it to school. I agree the kids need to get back in school so parents can return to work, but let’s not pretend this is about their education…

+1

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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?

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 not a laborer. DH shoveled our driveway and has gone to work all week. He is a surgeon.

The streets are ice. I can drive my kids to school. We have that luxury. Not everyone can.

Ok not everyone has the luxury of their kids missing another week of learning and not getting free breakfast/lunch.

Look someone is on the crap end of any call. The who is more burdened Olympics in an attempt to bolster the outcome any of us wants is not that productive.

I was just responding to that guy who was calling us lazy for not shoveling ice.

I don’t care one way or another if school is open or not. My kids are fine if they go to school or not.

Road conditions seem poor and in our neighborhood, I’m not sure a bus could turn in and out. Our school is surrounded by narrow streets that are crowded in good conditions. Not all the streets even have sidewalks so kids will be walking on the street with cars. Parents also park on the street to walk the kids so no idea where they can park with all this ice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My niece and nephew go to DCPS which opened Thursday/Friday and it was a hot mess. No learning was done because half of their class couldn’t even make it to school. I agree the kids need to get back in school so parents can return to work, but let’s not pretend this is about their education…

I think many people understand that for many kids it’s about more than education.

It’s education AND.
Education AND healthcare. Education AND supervision. Education AND food. Education AND heat and electricity. Education AND socialization. Education AND is the whole point of school- it’s never been just education. School is a community resource that serves many needs. Always has.

-teacher

And that’s a problem - school can’t be the only institution doing everything to hold up every aspect of community infrastructure. That’s why the schools who have supportive parents — ones who help the school community and help teachers further the education of their children — function much better than the ones that don’t.

-another teacher

[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?

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 not a laborer. DH shoveled our driveway and has gone to work all week. He is a surgeon.

The streets are ice. I can drive my kids to school. We have that luxury. Not everyone can.

Ok not everyone has the luxury of their kids missing another week of learning and not getting free breakfast/lunch.

Look someone is on the crap end of any call. The who is more burdened Olympics in an attempt to bolster the outcome any of us wants is not that productive.

I was just responding to that guy who was calling us lazy for not shoveling ice.

I don’t care one way or another if school is open or not. My kids are fine if they go to school or not.

Road conditions seem poor and in our neighborhood, I’m not sure a bus could turn in and out. Our school is surrounded by narrow streets that are crowded in good conditions. Not all the streets even have sidewalks so kids will be walking on the street with cars. Parents also park on the street to walk the kids so no idea where they can park with all this ice.

Why?

[Anonymous]

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

Yep.

Nope. Grew up in FCPS and we had many snow days.

[Anonymous]

Conditions aren’t going to be perfect but there’s no reason to completely cancel school at this point. I hate to pull this card but I’ve lived in places that get 100+ inches of snow a year. They have huge snow piles on the curbs, taking up the bus stops and some of the parking spaces, and people just deal with it as best they can. Walk carefully on ice and snow, or you can send your little kids to school in snow boots with their sneakers in their backpacks to change into at school.

Sometimes the buses are late or have to use an alternative pick up and drop off location. I lived on a long dead end street but close to the main road. We were supposed to have two bus stops, one at the corner and one further back into the neighborhood. But when there was a lot of snow piled up, it wasn’t always safe for the bus to go all the way back into the neighborhood and turn around at the cul-de-sac, so then everyone had to get picked up and dropped off at the corner. And not everyone shoveled their sidewalks either so kids walked in the street or on a lawn if needed. People just have to be a little hardy and adaptable or else no one is going to school until March.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NBC 4 is not hopeful for schools opening:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DULJ5d4kTqr/?igsh=aDZsdHZzNG00a3c2

Why in the world did I watch this but I did.

This is your smoking gun schools will be closed next week?

+1 she sounded hopeful to me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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?

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 not a laborer. DH shoveled our driveway and has gone to work all week. He is a surgeon.

The streets are ice. I can drive my kids to school. We have that luxury. Not everyone can.

Ok not everyone has the luxury of their kids missing another week of learning and not getting free breakfast/lunch.

Look someone is on the crap end of any call. The who is more burdened Olympics in an attempt to bolster the outcome any of us wants is not that productive.

I was just responding to that guy who was calling us lazy for not shoveling ice.

I don’t care one way or another if school is open or not. My kids are fine if they go to school or not.

Road conditions seem poor and in our neighborhood, I’m not sure a bus could turn in and out. Our school is surrounded by narrow streets that are crowded in good conditions. Not all the streets even have sidewalks so kids will be walking on the street with cars. Parents also park on the street to walk the kids so no idea where they can park with all this ice.

I imagine you’re still working yourself up to your point

[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.

With your pickup and plow, you must be making bank this past week.

[Anonymous]

How would the USA take Greenland and Canada and rule them if it could - You people can't even clear a foot of snow on your drive way or remove it from your school bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. Several of my kids go to a private k-12 that requires kids to take the bus. They had a 2 hour delay today and are on time tomorrow. The bus rides are for the most part longer and kids have commutes to get to the bus stops. The teachers also commute from all over. My public school kid would also like to be back. Get your kids who are at home out there to shovel and break up the ice.

Your private school has teeny weeny number of kids and can afford to open. Whereas closing the county public schools frees up the roads. Your welcome!