MCPS delayed Thursday?

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Anonymous wrote:Olney Elementary School barely plowed, parking for maybe half the cars, and has 1-2 inches of ice where it is plowed. and more snow on walkways.

Are you sure???? Why would they make the two hour delay with an unfinished parking lot?

Lots of time for the county trucks to come back.

County trucks don't plow school parking lots/bus loops.

County trucks haven't even reached some areas for the first time. These areas are walking routes for school students to get to their bus stop!

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Anonymous wrote:There going to call it in as a closure at 5 a.m, leaving us parents scrambling for childcare. They've done it many times.

Yep. They prob wanted to call closed already but knew parents' reactions. They may be waiting until morning to decide whether to call Code Red or Code Orange latter being childcare in school buildings may be open.

If schools aren't open for child care providers, I'm bringing my kids to Carver. Or Taylor's house.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is clearly trying to reopen schools. Give them a break. I doubt that Taylor is going to get much sleep tonight. It is a huge responsibility

If PG and FFX called it, he should have no shame in doing so as well

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Anonymous wrote:Any teachers?
What do you think?

Until midday, I was hopeful we would open, but now I think the delay will turn into a closure. I teach in the DCC. My school has a lot of walkers who would need to contend with both uncleared sidewalks and sub freezing temps. We also have a high percentage of low income kids and many of them don’t attend school when it rains because they don’t have the right attire.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many pictures and reports of bus loops/school parking lots not being clear on the Mocosnow Facebook page. Go there and see!

https://www.facebook.com/Mocosnow/

Where are the pictures? The comments in posts from today don't have any of schools. At least, I don't see any. What post are you looking under there?

Right! Because the pictures aren’t there it just mean all schools are plowed

There are lots of pictures posted under the thread, "How are the schools near you looking?"

Scroll thru, there are lots of pictures, all from this afternoon/evening.

Thanks. Oddly I needed to sign in on a desktop browser to get that post to come up.

One interesting thing about that thread is that there are several pictures showing obviously-plowed lots where the poster is just upset there's still snow showing.

e.g., Greenwoods ES, Beverly Farms ES, College Gardens ES, Brooke Grove ES, Argyle MS, Clarksburg HS, Kennedy HS, Damascus HS are all cases where the poster was ostensibly claiming the school was bad, but then posted a picture of a plowed lot! Wacky.

Ones like Silver Creek MS were quite bad, but subsequent posts said they were cleared.

I don't think people know what plowed snow looks like. If you don't use salt, and we generally don't, there's going to be a layer of snow. That's what you're seeing in most cases. Don't let the color scare you. You can drive and walk on it.

Okay, well, I disagree. Most of those pictures of bus loops don't look safe for a bus to drive on, and I personally looked at Oakland Terrace's about an hour ago and it looks bad too.

You clearly have no idea what is safe to drive on. Notice how the road outside your house has tire tracks on it? You can drive through snow.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is clearly trying to reopen schools. Give them a break. I doubt that Taylor is going to get much sleep tonight. It is a huge responsibility

If PG and FFX called it, he should have no shame in doing so as well

He should and he would, because of all the effort that went into getting the schools ready here.

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Anonymous wrote:Olney Elementary School barely plowed, parking for maybe half the cars, and has 1-2 inches of ice where it is plowed. and more snow on walkways.

Are you sure???? Why would they make the two hour delay with an unfinished parking lot?

Lots of time for the county trucks to come back.

County trucks don't plow school parking lots/bus loops.

County trucks haven't even reached some areas for the first time. These areas are walking routes for school students to get to their bus stop!

The county claims otherwise. People don't know what plowed roads look like.

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Anonymous wrote:There going to call it in as a closure at 5 a.m, leaving us parents scrambling for childcare. They've done it many times.

Yep. They prob wanted to call closed already but knew parents' reactions. They may be waiting until morning to decide whether to call Code Red or Code Orange latter being childcare in school buildings may be open.

If schools aren't open for child care providers, I'm bringing my kids to Carver. Or Taylor's house.

And then what? You can’t go inside. Even if you got in, you can’t leave them there and go to work. You’d just be inconveniencing yourself and subjecting your kids to the cold.

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Anonymous wrote:There going to call it in as a closure at 5 a.m, leaving us parents scrambling for childcare. They've done it many times.

Yep. They prob wanted to call closed already but knew parents' reactions. They may be waiting until morning to decide whether to call Code Red or Code Orange latter being childcare in school buildings may be open.

If schools aren't open for child care providers, I'm bringing my kids to Carver. Or Taylor's house.

And then what? You can’t go inside. Even if you got in, you can’t leave them there and go to work. You’d just be inconveniencing yourself and subjecting your kids to the cold.

They yell/cry pretty loud. Someone will let them in if admin offices are open.

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Anonymous wrote:County trash pickup - running on delayed schedule
County ride on buses - running normally
Circuit Court - open after morning delay
Costco - hopping since yesterday
MCPS offices - closed

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none of the entities bolded are responsible for the safety of children.

So because central office staff (ADULTS) are allegedly "responsible for the safety of children", that's why they couldn't work yesterday or today?

don’t be obtuse.

Did you not see I was comparing those organizations to MCPS offices?

Yes which was dumb

Why? Why can't MCPS offices be open to manage the response and get kids back in school ASAP?

Most MCPS offices are not school front offices and can’t do anything to help.

What do those people do? Why do they get paid during the summer, for example?

We're to believe every local government in the area is open and providing services, but nobody is around to open schools for childcare providers?

They handle things that have to occur year round such as special ed paperwork compliance, buying supplies, overseeing construction…

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I think 5 am announcement will be schools are closed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There going to call it in as a closure at 5 a.m, leaving us parents scrambling for childcare. They've done it many times.

Yep. They prob wanted to call closed already but knew parents' reactions. They may be waiting until morning to decide whether to call Code Red or Code Orange latter being childcare in school buildings may be open.

If schools aren't open for child care providers, I'm bringing my kids to Carver. Or Taylor's house.

And then what? You can’t go inside. Even if you got in, you can’t leave them there and go to work. You’d just be inconveniencing yourself and subjecting your kids to the cold.

They yell/cry pretty loud. Someone will let them in if admin offices are open.

You won’t get further than the front lobby without an appointment. I work for MCPS and I can’t even use my ID to stroll into Carver to use the bathroom.

Once you’re in the lobby, what is your plan? Hopefully your kids are too young to be embarrassed when you are escorted out.

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I've only got a HS student left at this point, so it's easier to be less outraged about the closures. But I'm personally just baffled. It's not rocket science. Plow are all over the place (I saw one plowing Silver Creek MS yesterday, so not sure why someone upthread says it's not clear.)

Yes there will be some messy sidewalks still. Yes, the low income kids who don't come to school when it rains because they lack weather-proof clothing may not come to school when there is still snow on the ground. But most kids can get safely to most schools 3 days after an 8" snowfall. How is it possible that anyone thinks it's reasonable to keep them home another day? And what happens next week if there's more snow?

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Anonymous wrote:County trash pickup - running on delayed schedule
County ride on buses - running normally
Circuit Court - open after morning delay
Costco - hopping since yesterday
MCPS offices - closed

🤔

none of the entities bolded are responsible for the safety of children.

So because central office staff (ADULTS) are allegedly "responsible for the safety of children", that's why they couldn't work yesterday or today?

don’t be obtuse.

Did you not see I was comparing those organizations to MCPS offices?

Yes which was dumb

Why? Why can't MCPS offices be open to manage the response and get kids back in school ASAP?

Most MCPS offices are not school front offices and can’t do anything to help.

What do those people do? Why do they get paid during the summer, for example?

We're to believe every local government in the area is open and providing services, but nobody is around to open schools for childcare providers?

They handle things that have to occur year round such as special ed paperwork compliance, buying supplies, overseeing construction…

So they could have been working since Tuesday like literally everyone else, but instead got free days off.

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Anonymous wrote:Any teachers?
What do you think?

Until midday, I was hopeful we would open, but now I think the delay will turn into a closure. I teach in the DCC. My school has a lot of walkers who would need to contend with both uncleared sidewalks and sub freezing temps. We also have a high percentage of low income kids and many of them don’t attend school when it rains because they don’t have the right attire.

Ok so those kids aren’t coming but other kids can still get an education. This is ridiculous