Mcps no school wed and thursday
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Anonymous
Nobody is saying it is the end of the world. We are saying we are missing work and income so Thomas Taylor can curry favor with a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats. |
Anonymous
Again, we're not complaining about the schools being closed, we're complaining about the backup childcare we purchased from private childcare companies being banned from opening by MCPS central office staff because they want paid snowdays so they pretend it's still too dangerous for people to travel on the roads to get to work. |
Anonymous
If most schools are closed in the DMV how can you blame or single out Taylor and MCPS? |
Anonymous
| Many of us are still snowed in, child care pp. How are the child care workers supposed to get there, teleport? |
Anonymous
How are you still snowed in? The county has cleared all streets with a minimum first pass. If you haven't had the plows out, contact the county immediately. |
Anonymous
| I just drove through my neighborhood and while the roads are fine, most of the sidewalks remain unshoveled in a school walking zone for both elementary and middle school. |
Anonymous
The childcare workers call off from work like everyone else does if they're unplowed. And if too many call off, the child care providers close or limit their enrollment, like they always used to do. It's very simple and worked perfectly in the past. Also, this is an issue for a fairly limited number of people today and will be for far fewer (maybe none) by tomorrow. And again, it's not MCPS's job to figure out staffing for child care providers, it's the private companies' job. It's just their job to lift the ban on opening once there are a few schools plowed and roads are safe to travel on. |
Anonymous
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My area has not yet been cleared. We have put in multiple 311s this morning and now there are plows driving around. They mostly aren't plowing, just driving around with the plows up and maybe salting. We did see one plow get stuck and have to get shoveled out.
I really need to take my child to a medical appointment this afternoon so I really hope they get their crap together asap. Been pretty frustrated about their performance this time. |
Anonymous
| Some people will be happy to know that my child's 10th grade English teacher just gave them assignments to work on |
Anonymous
+1. |
Anonymous
Pretty much everything is open today except for schools. You live in a bubble. The vast majority of people can get out. Yes, they might have to drive on some snow until they get off their side street. The demographics of Dcum give people a warped view of reality. Most people don't live on massive estates in rural parts of the county, or in the million dollar SFHs on the narrow side streets inside the beltway. |
Anonymous
They're upset they don't see pavement. Unless they're on an HOA managed street, they almost certainly have been plowed enough to get out. I'm sure there are exceptions, just as exceptional localized circumstances come up separate from snow. |
Anonymous
What have you done to get yourself out? Does no one in your house need to go to work or anywhere else this week? Plenty of people had to get out of their neighbohoods to get to work, appointments, etc. today. Just because you don't have any urgency doesn't mean everyone else is sitting at home. |
Anonymous
| our neighborhood has been plowed, but because of the idiots who decided to park on the street instead of on their driveway (yes... everyone has a driveway), it is a narrow 1 lane road that requires one car to go forward before another car can pass by the other direction. Good luck to the school buses on Friday! Oh, and we don't have sidewalks here..... |
Anonymous
That's how my neighborhood is but everyone parked what they could in the driveway. The bigger issue is that the driveways fit only 2 cars and the average house on our street has 3-4 cars per household. |