Will DCPS be closed on Tuesday?

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice.

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

My kid walked a mile by 4.

Tee hee. I can tell you don't have an elementary kiddo walking a mile today.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

My kid walked a mile by 4.

Tee hee. I can tell you don't have an elementary kiddo walking a mile today.

It’s 25 degrees not -25 degrees. A kid can walk for 20 minutes today.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice.

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

Stop. You're being mean for nothing. The city must make decisions for the average public, not just individuals who are experienced and prepared. The kids will be back in school before all the snow and ice clears, so yes, they will have to walk in it, but at a reasonably safe level. The goal is to reduced the risks, not eliminate them.

Everything depends on the plowing today and tomorrow, people. Be patient.

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As of 10am there were only 4 Metro Bus routes running.

https://www.wmata.com/about/news/

There are many students that live more than a mile from their school and rely on WMATA to get to school. Based on previous years closings they don't open schools until almost all routes are running at least a modified route. I'd watch the updates, but if the routes that are operating stay this low we'll for sure be closed.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice.

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

Why would anyone? Do you enjoy broken bones?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

My kid walked a mile by 4.

Tee hee. I can tell you don't have an elementary kiddo walking a mile today.

It’s 25 degrees not -25 degrees. A kid can walk for 20 minutes today.

It's not a temp issue. We walked on unplowed streets yesterday while walking the dog, and our normal walk was exhausting, because the snowpack is horribly heavy. It's not reasonable to expect small children to walk on unplowed sidewalks or streets with this texture of sleetpack. It IS reasonable to expect them to slide over a few remaining patches of ice and climb over mounds of hardened snow if the majority of the sideswalks and streets are cleared.

I'd say we need to clear stuff to 90% and we're good to go.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice.

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

Stop. You're being mean for nothing. The city must make decisions for the average public, not just individuals who are experienced and prepared. The kids will be back in school before all the snow and ice clears, so yes, they will have to walk in it, but at a reasonably safe level. The goal is to reduced the risks, not eliminate them.

Everything depends on the plowing today and tomorrow, people. Be patient.

Lowest common denominator did not used to drive the provision of basic services to kids (like education) but yes, post covid it does. So people who cannot figure out how to walk will mean that kids are deprived of school longer than they should be.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

My kid walked a mile by 4.

Tee hee. I can tell you don't have an elementary kiddo walking a mile today.

It’s 25 degrees not -25 degrees. A kid can walk for 20 minutes today.

It's not a temp issue. We walked on unplowed streets yesterday while walking the dog, and our normal walk was exhausting, because the snowpack is horribly heavy. It's not reasonable to expect small children to walk on unplowed sidewalks or streets with this texture of sleetpack. It IS reasonable to expect them to slide over a few remaining patches of ice and climb over mounds of hardened snow if the majority of the sideswalks and streets are cleared.

I'd say we need to clear stuff to 90% and we're good to go.

Oh noes, you got a little tired!

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice. :roll:

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

Why would anyone? Do you enjoy broken bones?

This is just covid redux. Do you think nurses and truck drivers and restaurant workers have superior walking ability to you? Or do you think you deserve to be coddled.

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Last time I was in DC for a big snow, the issue that lasted the longest was the wall of snow pushed up by snow plows.

If there isn't a shoveled path through it at every corner, you're asking young children to climb something slippery, that's half their height, with moving cars on the other side.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice. :roll:

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

Why would anyone? Do you enjoy broken bones?

This is just covid redux. Do you think nurses and truck drivers and restaurant workers have superior walking ability to you? Or do you think you deserve to be coddled.

DP here,

I think that nurses and truck drivers and restaurant workers have superior walking ability to preschoolers, and students with physical disabilities.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice. :roll:

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

Why would anyone? Do you enjoy broken bones?

This is just covid redux. Do you think nurses and truck drivers and restaurant workers have superior walking ability to you? Or do you think you deserve to be coddled.

DP here,

I think that nurses and truck drivers and restaurant workers have superior walking ability to preschoolers, and students with physical disabilities.

So all of school has to be cancelled? Just stop.

If you feel your preschooler is too delicate to get to school you can keep them home.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice. :roll:

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

Why would anyone? Do you enjoy broken bones?

This is just covid redux. Do you think nurses and truck drivers and restaurant workers have superior walking ability to you? Or do you think you deserve to be coddled.

Teacher here, and yes, I hope they do. I sustained a grievous back injury 18 months ago, spent 4 months in rehab, and really don't relish walking on sheets of ice. But you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:We live across the street from a DCPS elementary reasonably close to center city. As of this morning, none of the roads around us are plowed. Closest plowed street is three blocks from the school. There is a bus line that runs past the school, it is obviously not running. School is not accessible via metro (closest stop about a mile away).

I'll watch throughout the day, but given the temps, I'd be a little surprised if schools were open tomorrow.

FYI, a mile walk is metro accessible. But given that people in suburbs or even off arterials in DC won’t be able to drive, I think schools will be closed tomorrow.

A mile walk on unplowed sidewalks by elemenrary school students should not be considered accessible

PP here and this. I considered our home reasonably metro accessible and do take metro regularly. But I could not take metro today because I could not safely walk to the metro.

I also only consider the school metro accessible for kids when buses are running. Walking a mile with a child under age 8 is not really realistic. I guess PK kids could ride in a stroller. But a K or 1st grader? As a daily school commute? Without the bus connect, no.

You can’t walk over a snow drift?

Yes, but not a sheet of ice. :roll:

Yes you can actually walk on ice. You just don’t want to.

Why would anyone? Do you enjoy broken bones?

This is just covid redux. Do you think nurses and truck drivers and restaurant workers have superior walking ability to you? Or do you think you deserve to be coddled.

We know you have to entertain your kids today, and the prospect of doing it tomorrow has turned you into a snarling harpie. Calm down. Yeesh.