Did ANYONE from DCPS apologize for the debacle today?

[Anonymous]

Anyone?

[Anonymous]

Are you listing to the news at all? Entire press conferences are held on this. Try WAMU instead of DCUM for a change. You might then also get the notion that neither DCPS, nor the Mayor, nor the Metrop. Transit Autority, nor OPM, nor various school districts up and down our mega-city's sprawling borders are making decisions in a vacuum, and least of all the Weather Channel.

[Anonymous]

What debacle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you listing to the news at all? Entire press conferences are held on this. Try WAMU instead of DCUM for a change. You might then also get the notion that neither DCPS, nor the Mayor, nor the Metrop. Transit Autority, nor OPM, nor various school districts up and down our mega-city's sprawling borders are making decisions in a vacuum, and least of all the Weather Channel.

I've been trying to monitor news all day and didn't see much of any coverage of response from city agencies at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you listing to the news at all? Entire press conferences are held on this. Try WAMU instead of DCUM for a change. You might then also get the notion that neither DCPS, nor the Mayor, nor the Metrop. Transit Autority, nor OPM, nor various school districts up and down our mega-city's sprawling borders are making decisions in a vacuum, and least of all the Weather Channel.

Actually, I have been following the news and see that only the VA school systems seem to have publicly apologized for the call they made this morning. Thanks though, for your rambling response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you listing to the news at all? Entire press conferences are held on this. Try WAMU instead of DCUM for a change. You might then also get the notion that neither DCPS, nor the Mayor, nor the Metrop. Transit Autority, nor OPM, nor various school districts up and down our mega-city's sprawling borders are making decisions in a vacuum, and least of all the Weather Channel.

I've been trying to monitor news all day and didn't see much of any coverage of response from city agencies at all.

This.

[Anonymous]

The apology needs to be about not clearing the roads. If they had done their jobs, the schools would have been fine.

[Anonymous]

Exactly. It was the not clearing the roads that was the issue.

[Anonymous]

What would DCPS possibly have to apologize for? Not sending the teachers out to clear the roads?

[Anonymous]

Shutting down tons of metro buses that many students use is also an issue.

[Anonymous]

What debacle?

[Anonymous]

I agree - it wasn't the school system's fault - it was that the roads were not at all cleared. Even by this afternoon the main road in front of my child's school had not been cleared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shutting down tons of metro buses that many students use is also an issue.

Sounds like some of these parents should have driven their previous snow flakes. I looked at the weather and determined on my own to take my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree - it wasn't the school system's fault - it was that the roads were not at all cleared. Even by this afternoon the main road in front of my child's school had not been cleared.

DC has never had the ability to actively clear the streets during a rush hour snowstorm. That isn't DCPS's fault, but it is DCPS's responsibility to take it into account when making decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree - it wasn't the school system's fault - it was that the roads were not at all cleared. Even by this afternoon the main road in front of my child's school had not been cleared.

DC has never had the ability to actively clear the streets during a rush hour snowstorm. That isn't DCPS's fault, but it is DCPS's responsibility to take it into account when making decisions.

How would DCPS know that at 5 a.m. plows hadn't been sent out? Blame DPW, not DCPS