2 hour delay, Monday 12/11

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Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS

So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.

Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄

NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.


I hold McKnight accountable for this and pretty much everything!

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I just dropped my kid off at a private in the Potomac area. At 8am there was lots of frozen slush and icy mess around and on the roads River, Persimmon, etc.) and the Clara Barton/MacArthur area had similar. By 9:30 it will be a memory, but at 7:45 is was real.

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270N at Falls Rd. was closed for an accident. There was frozen stuff this morning. Why is everyone saying MCPS screwed up! This was the right call. Better safe than sorry.

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Two hours was the perfect amount of time.

The kids got enough time to play without getting bored. MCPS got enough of a window to clear roads and let snow melt. Everyone is safe and kids still go to school. Great call.

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Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS

So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.

Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄

NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.

Find a daycare that doesn’t follow the school weather policy. Easy and simple. You sign up for something and then complain about following the policies. You knew exactly what you were signing onto. And plenty of day cares don’t follow the school Weather policy.

Is the bolded true? My kids are older now, but when they were in daycare, I could not find any daycares nearby where they didn't follow public school delays and closings. Maybe things are better now.

My kids have been out of daycare for five years but ours followed the federal government weather delays rather than MCPS.

It’s true. Many follow OPM. Fewer follow their own policies but they are out there.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a doctor appointment at 10:15, but I can’t get my kid to school now until 10:45… BS! It’s been above freezing the whole time! Lazy

It’s for safety for everyone else. Look at the news…. Most counties are on a 2 hour delay. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your schedule. Deal with it.

Here kid can take *gasp* a bus.

Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS

When people say """school""" I tend to think of a school and not a daycare.

Actually, many daycares can be officially called nursery schools…

If it's preschool then it would have been helpful if she had called it that rather than """school""" then daycare.

Who cares. Unless she is a widow she really has no issues.

Wow. Someone really needs a weather delay or a full snow day.

Wow what? Her H just needs to take the kids to school and she goes to the dr.

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Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS

So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.

Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄

NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.

Find a daycare that doesn’t follow the school weather policy. Easy and simple. You sign up for something and then complain about following the policies. You knew exactly what you were signing onto. And plenty of day cares don’t follow the school Weather policy.

Is the bolded true? My kids are older now, but when they were in daycare, I could not find any daycares nearby where they didn't follow public school delays and closings. Maybe things are better now.

My kids have been out of daycare for five years but ours followed the federal government weather delays rather than MCPS.

MCPS's own announcement said child care programs located in MCPS buildings could open on time. Ours opened at 6:30am.today.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a doctor appointment at 10:15, but I can’t get my kid to school now until 10:45… BS! It’s been above freezing the whole time! Lazy

It’s for safety for everyone else. Look at the news…. Most counties are on a 2 hour delay. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your schedule. Deal with it.

Here kid can take *gasp* a bus.

Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS

When people say """school""" I tend to think of a school and not a daycare.

Actually, many daycares can be officially called nursery schools…

If it's preschool then it would have been helpful if she had called it that rather than """school""" then daycare.

Who cares. Unless she is a widow she really has no issues.

Wow. Someone really needs a weather delay or a full snow day.

Wow what? Her H just needs to take the kids to school and she goes to the dr.

Spouse had a work meeting scheduled same time

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who used to live 2 blocks from the DC border and now lives up near Travilah, I am feeling the difference between down county and up county weather and I am sorry for all the mean things I said about delays and closures in the past!

Travilah area was perfectly fine this morning when I took my kids to school at 8:30. There was a large tree branch down on Turkey Foot, but i drove around it.

As an aside, our private "follows MCPS" and this morning we got a message saying they were not today and school was on time. I wonder if they will stop following MCPS? I found it interesting that the privates will no longer follow their closures.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be more delays and cancellations this winter. Best to make preparations now.
I have lived and worked in this county long enough to remember times when a delay wasn’t called and should have been. Or days when a delay should have turned into a cancellation and didn’t. I also know that the parents of the children who didn’t get to come home again because of those errors in mcps judgement would be happy to have their children back. Remember this the next time inclement weather effects the school day.

curious why you conclude that delays or cancellations “should have been called.” presumably there was no mass carnage on those days. so that actually seems to support NOT delaying/cancelling.

Huh? Did you forget about the school bus that slid off the road? It wasn't carnage but it wasn't good.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who used to live 2 blocks from the DC border and now lives up near Travilah, I am feeling the difference between down county and up county weather and I am sorry for all the mean things I said about delays and closures in the past!

Curious person in Rockville - is it really so different between DC and Travilah?

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I just dropped my kid off at a private in the Potomac area. At 8am there was lots of frozen slush and icy mess around and on the roads River, Persimmon, etc.) and the Clara Barton/MacArthur area had similar. By 9:30 it will be a memory, but at 7:45 is was real.

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270N at Falls Rd. was closed for an accident. There was frozen stuff this morning. Why is everyone saying MCPS screwed up! This was the right call. Better safe than sorry.

It was surprisingly bad in many places. We are in Potomac and even when we drove later to drop off first kid for the bus we skidded on black ice and we heard on the radio that there were accidents all over including the one at Falls Road but all the way to Silver Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS

So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.

Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄

NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.

Find a daycare that doesn’t follow the school weather policy. Easy and simple. You sign up for something and then complain about following the policies. You knew exactly what you were signing onto. And plenty of day cares don’t follow the school Weather policy.

Is the bolded true? My kids are older now, but when they were in daycare, I could not find any daycares nearby where they didn't follow public school delays and closings. Maybe things are better now.

My kids have been out of daycare for five years but ours followed the federal government weather delays rather than MCPS.

MCPS's own announcement said child care programs located in MCPS buildings could open on time. Ours opened at 6:30am.today.

The KAH program at our ES opened on time. Our daycare quasi-follows MCPS- if there is an MCPS delay, daycare opens 1 hr late (so 8am instead of 7am). IIRC when we were looking years ago, a lot of daycares followed either MCPS or the Feds when it came to weather policy. Many the teachers at our daycare commute from far away, just like the MCPS teachers. So if the MCPS teachers need more time to get to school safely, makes sense the daycare teachers do too.

Alas, my employer did not grant us any sort of weather delay, but because the roads were fine in our area and I was able to drop off the kids at the usual time, I was able to get to work on time anyway, probably because traffic was lighter around then. No one in our office seemed to have trouble getting in, even those commuting from Frederick, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is in private in moco and we follow mcps. No buses, but I think it’s because it’s simplifies things for everyone.

Here I thought private schools were supposed to be so much better than MCPS, and really they're just sheep!

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Anonymous wrote:I have a doctor appointment at 10:15, but I can’t get my kid to school now until 10:45… BS! It’s been above freezing the whole time! Lazy

It’s for safety for everyone else. Look at the news…. Most counties are on a 2 hour delay. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your schedule. Deal with it.

Here kid can take *gasp* a bus.

Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS

When people say """school""" I tend to think of a school and not a daycare.

Actually, many daycares can be officially called nursery schools…

If it's preschool then it would have been helpful if she had called it that rather than """school""" then daycare.

Who cares. Unless she is a widow she really has no issues.

Wow. Someone really needs a weather delay or a full snow day.

Wow what? Her H just needs to take the kids to school and she goes to the dr.

Bold assumption.

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Anonymous wrote:We got a couple of inches in Travilah! It’s drizzling and I think it will be gone before the kids wake up but it’s pretty. MCPS blows it again by not letting it be a school by school delay when our roads are warm from yesterdays nice temperatures and it’s not icy. But I’m happy, I love having my children home!!

Many kids go to schools that aren't their neighborhood school. Chaos would ensue.