MCPS closed tomorrow 1/3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The forecast for tomorrow does not look great and I think this was going to happen regardless. Not doing it at 4:57 am is out of character, but I think it would have been the same call anyway.

But they must have been so desperate for this in central office. to postpone the chaos and complaints one more day. Kicking the can. I think schools should stay open but MCPS's messaging and planning has been completely awful and the non-existent testing and "honor system" garbage are total nonsense. The staffing shortages will be massive and they seem to have no plan or even acknowledgement of it.

Doing it at 4:57 AM is following the established MCPS procedures and protocols.

They say they generally make the decision by 5 am; they don’t say they will wait until at least 5 am. They’ve canceled after 7 am before, one time they already had kids on buses by the time they made the call. This is preferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should jsut close it for the entire month and do the zoom classes. Everything will settle down in a month. Omicron will spread and then die down.

In order for it to peak and crash a certain number of people need to be infected. It’s not a bad thing for those people to be vaccinated kids and the vaccinated and boosted adults in their lives. Who else should fill that quota? We need a lot of people to get it for the peak to come down. Who should it be? It has to be somebody.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The forecast for tomorrow does not look great and I think this was going to happen regardless. Not doing it at 4:57 am is out of character, but I think it would have been the same call anyway.

But they must have been so desperate for this in central office. to postpone the chaos and complaints one more day. Kicking the can. I think schools should stay open but MCPS's messaging and planning has been completely awful and the non-existent testing and "honor system" garbage are total nonsense. The staffing shortages will be massive and they seem to have no plan or even acknowledgement of it.

Doing it at 4:57 AM is following the established MCPS procedures and protocols.

I like not having to set my alarm that early!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This “severe weather” closure defies existing protocols and procedures for weather based delays and closures.

The credibility of MCPS is fully gone at this point. This is the epitome of of poorly run school systems and it starts from the top.

How has it defied existing protocols and procedures? Honest question.

They explain their procedures in the video at the link. Normal procedure of for a determination of delay or closure only after they have evaluated road conditions all over the county that morning.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/emergency/weather.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This “severe weather” closure defies existing protocols and procedures for weather based delays and closures.

The credibility of MCPS is fully gone at this point. This is the epitome of of poorly run school systems and it starts from the top.

How has it defied existing protocols and procedures? Honest question.

They explain their procedures in the video at the link. Normal procedure of for a determination of delay or closure only after they have evaluated road conditions all over the county that morning.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/emergency/weather.aspx

They have frequently made the decision the night before.

MCPS is already scrambling to figure out how to open with short staffing tomorrow. Poor weather will make that harder. Recognizing that they can't open safely with the combination of factors, even if there's an outside possibility that they would be able to open if it was just one factor doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous]

In defense of MCPS, they called it after Fairfax and other jurisdictions closed. Obviously no one wants to deal with the on coming poopshow though.

[Anonymous]

MCPS made the right call. Now they should just go virtual the rest of this week. I’m not interested in sending my kids to a Covid factory. People have been traveling. Let them develop symptoms so they can decide to stay home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no reason for closure.

What they should do is have all students log in for
A virtual day due to snow. There should never be a snow day
Ever again. Everyone has a chrome book at home with them.

MCPS is a joke. And honestly their should never be a closure due to snow. It’s going to snow, then report to work 2 hours early to be ready. Get the busses on the road an hour early. To be waiting at the stops.

Northern states have this down to a science, no reason this county can’t too.

Chill out man!

[Anonymous]

I want schools to be open as much as anyone, but MCPS would have closed tomorrow even preCovid. The forecasters seem pretty confident about this forecast

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Inclement weather would have made staffing for tomorrow an even bigger nightmare. We already didn’t have enough subs when we the weather was fine; we never could have gotten enough people with poor road conditions. I’m glad the writing was on the wall so I didn’t have to wake up early to check. If you’re able to, sleep in tomorrow. If you’re not, sorry about the inconvenience.

Ooh, good point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All these people cheering on a fake snow day are the same ones 6 months ago crying about “learning loss”.

If you don’t want your kids to lean then don’t cry when they don’t learn anything.

This is a valid point.

People on the one hand complain about “prepping” and privilege and then on the other don’t understand that it’s the margins that make the difference.

Tomorrow, I will have my kid read a book cover to cover. Not Tolstoy but at least 250 pages of whatever they want. If your kid is playing video games all day, maybe that might explain the “achievement gap”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Teen and I are both ready for school again.

And Covid too I assume

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should jsut close it for the entire month and do the zoom classes. Everything will settle down in a month. Omicron will spread and then die down.

In order for it to peak and crash a certain number of people need to be infected. It’s not a bad thing for those people to be vaccinated kids and the vaccinated and boosted adults in their lives. Who else should fill that quota? We need a lot of people to get it for the peak to come down. Who should it be? It has to be somebody.

And what is that number, pray tell? Do you really think we won't hit it anytime soon with schools in virtual?

Or let's say the number is 40%. Do you think 60% is better? All at once?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS made the right call. Now they should just go virtual the rest of this week. I’m not interested in sending my kids to a Covid factory. People have been traveling. Let them develop symptoms so they can decide to stay home

Yep. We’ve avoided Covid fir one more day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should jsut close it for the entire month and do the zoom classes. Everything will settle down in a month. Omicron will spread and then die down.

I don't know why anybody thinks they know what's going to happen in the future at this point.