What do we think will happen on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:It is icier today for some reason

Partial melting and refreezing is what's making it so icy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just came back from the grocery store. There could certainly be more parking spaces. The turns into the center are a little tight--but doable if you take turns. Not sure I'd want my kid driving.

School should be closed. They won't be ready.

They're not going to be "ready" for weeks. That's not an answer.

It is an answer, just not the one most people on this forum want to hear. But yeah, we can’t just wait for this stuff to disappear. The local government needs to start bringing in sand, hire people to get out there with ice pics, maybe purchase some flame throwers… aren’t we one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S.?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At what point do they begin adding days at the end of the school year? I know we have more built into the calendar than MCPS but I don’t know the specifics.


I’d love this to be something future decision makers consider when they insist on calendars with an embarrassingly low number of five day weeks.

Yeah, but we have a 6-7 week summer. I’ve heard we have 10 snow days, and we have only taken 3 so far, but like you, I don’t want a longer school year.

Definitely don’t want a longer summer.

It baffles me how they have ten extra days built into this swiss cheese calendar but I hope you’re right!

[Anonymous]

I think it’s hilarious FCPS is asking the community to essentially provide free labor to shovel sidewalks and bus stops. WTF are our tax dollars going to? That will be a no from me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At what point do they begin adding days at the end of the school year? I know we have more built into the calendar than MCPS but I don’t know the specifics.


I’d love this to be something future decision makers consider when they insist on calendars with an embarrassingly low number of five day weeks.

Yeah, but we have a 6-7 week summer. I’ve heard we have 10 snow days, and we have only taken 3 so far, but like you, I don’t want a longer school year.

Definitely don’t want a longer summer.

It baffles me how they have ten extra days built into this swiss cheese calendar but I hope you’re right!

I meant longer school year, my bad! Snow brain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any possible way to pivot to virtual or do kids just stay home with no education until we can all figure out how to get them back to school? I guess PWCS has hinted at virtual, not sure about other districts. What is different between them and us that they can stand up virtual and we can't? I know people don't like it, but it's better than nothing for days on end. My kids bring their laptops home to charge, but I know it's not consistent across schools. Seems like they could have had kids bring home devices just in case knowing that the storm was coming and likely to be pretty disruptive. The inability to do virtual may be what gets FCPS to open sooner than other districts that have apparently figured out how to implement it.

I don’t think it’s possible to do true virtual, synchronous instruction at this point. Maybe some asynchronous work could be posted, but I don’t know how worthwhile that would be, particularly at the lowest grade levels. Our ES didn’t send home laptops. Even if students had their laptops, teachers aren’t prepared to do it. Some have never had to teach that way.

[Anonymous]

We go to Cunningham park. There is ABSOLUTELY no way the walkers living near the cedar park shopping center can make their way on park to get to a school on Monday. I don’t think those sidewalks are even covered by residential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious FCPS is asking the community to essentially provide free labor to shovel sidewalks and bus stops. WTF are our tax dollars going to? That will be a no from me.

What choice do they have? It’s not as if the county is doing its job cleaning the streets and bus stops. And FCPS does not control these areas. We pay so much in taxes and can’t have clean roads and sidewalks! Yes I get the storm was not a usual occurrence but still the county should have been prepared but it’s acting as if it was caught totally unaware.

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K-2 at my kids’ school never take their devices home. It’s too confusing and they don’t want little kids with laptops or iPads on the bus or at after care or wherever. Even the older grades generally have the option to leave their devices at school. I think kids did take them home last Friday, but again, that’s only 3-6. There’s no way to do virtual instruction for the younger grades.

They need to be either open (or on a morning delay) or closed. Virtual creates too many problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any possible way to pivot to virtual or do kids just stay home with no education until we can all figure out how to get them back to school? I guess PWCS has hinted at virtual, not sure about other districts. What is different between them and us that they can stand up virtual and we can't? I know people don't like it, but it's better than nothing for days on end. My kids bring their laptops home to charge, but I know it's not consistent across schools. Seems like they could have had kids bring home devices just in case knowing that the storm was coming and likely to be pretty disruptive. The inability to do virtual may be what gets FCPS to open sooner than other districts that have apparently figured out how to implement it.

I mentioned virtual learning and people here labeled me “troll” and “teacher hater”. Their mindset is if it’s not a perfect solution for all, it’s not gonna be a solution for anyone. No way.

Seriously anyone claims “not ready” should be ashamed. This is not a pandemic, or war, or a meteor hitting the planet. How can you not be ready if this happens every year?

I am glad my youngest one is going to college soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any possible way to pivot to virtual or do kids just stay home with no education until we can all figure out how to get them back to school? I guess PWCS has hinted at virtual, not sure about other districts. What is different between them and us that they can stand up virtual and we can't? I know people don't like it, but it's better than nothing for days on end. My kids bring their laptops home to charge, but I know it's not consistent across schools. Seems like they could have had kids bring home devices just in case knowing that the storm was coming and likely to be pretty disruptive. The inability to do virtual may be what gets FCPS to open sooner than other districts that have apparently figured out how to implement it.

I mentioned virtual learning and people here labeled me “troll” and “teacher hater”. Their mindset is if it’s not a perfect solution for all, it’s not gonna be a solution for anyone. No way.

Seriously anyone claims “not ready” should be ashamed. This is not a pandemic, or war, or a meteor hitting the planet. How can you not be ready if this happens every year?

I am glad my youngest one is going to college soon.

We haven’t had non-melting snowcrete before. This is different. It’s so bad that it’s affecting trash removal and mail delivery. I just ordered a pickaxe because my regular snow shovel isn’t doing the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious FCPS is asking the community to essentially provide free labor to shovel sidewalks and bus stops. WTF are our tax dollars going to? That will be a no from me.

What choice do they have? It’s not as if the county is doing its job cleaning the streets and bus stops. And FCPS does not control these areas. We pay so much in taxes and can’t have clean roads and sidewalks! Yes I get the storm was not a usual occurrence but still the county should have been prepared but it’s acting as if it was caught totally unaware.

Doesn’t VDOT do most of the roads? All the small neighborhood streets in our neighborhood are “plowed” by VDOT contractors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious FCPS is asking the community to essentially provide free labor to shovel sidewalks and bus stops. WTF are our tax dollars going to? That will be a no from me.

You as a community member might have to invest in your community to partake in the community. That’s how communities work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any possible way to pivot to virtual or do kids just stay home with no education until we can all figure out how to get them back to school? I guess PWCS has hinted at virtual, not sure about other districts. What is different between them and us that they can stand up virtual and we can't? I know people don't like it, but it's better than nothing for days on end. My kids bring their laptops home to charge, but I know it's not consistent across schools. Seems like they could have had kids bring home devices just in case knowing that the storm was coming and likely to be pretty disruptive. The inability to do virtual may be what gets FCPS to open sooner than other districts that have apparently figured out how to implement it.

I mentioned virtual learning and people here labeled me “troll” and “teacher hater”. Their mindset is if it’s not a perfect solution for all, it’s not gonna be a solution for anyone. No way.

Seriously anyone claims “not ready” should be ashamed. This is not a pandemic, or war, or a meteor hitting the planet. How can you not be ready if this happens every year?

I am glad my youngest one is going to college soon.

We haven’t had non-melting snowcrete before. This is different. It’s so bad that it’s affecting trash removal and mail delivery. I just ordered a pickaxe because my regular snow shovel isn’t doing the job.

How are you gonna get that delivered to you then

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious FCPS is asking the community to essentially provide free labor to shovel sidewalks and bus stops. WTF are our tax dollars going to? That will be a no from me.

What choice do they have? It’s not as if the county is doing its job cleaning the streets and bus stops. And FCPS does not control these areas. We pay so much in taxes and can’t have clean roads and sidewalks! Yes I get the storm was not a usual occurrence but still the county should have been prepared but it’s acting as if it was caught totally unaware.

Doesn’t VDOT do most of the roads? All the small neighborhood streets in our neighborhood are “plowed” by VDOT contractors.

Yes, but they are plowing all that snowcrete onto the sidewalks and bus-stops.