After Monday

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS will use any excuse to delay or close because they don’t care about educating your kids.

No. You just want free childcare under the pretense of pretending to care about education.

My kid is perfectly happy watching tablet all day while I work from home. This isn't about child care. It's about the fact they're missing their education.

NP. That is concerning. How would you even know that if you haven’t allowed it?

Neglectful.

When MCPS closes child care, there isn't much of an alternative. Most us need to work and don't have a nanny.

There are baby sitters. Even a 12 year old mother’s helper is better than a tablet.

lol. You clearly haven't tried to get a babysitter these days. It is hard even when there isn't snow.

Not really. You just need to be willing to compensate people fairly.

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Anonymous wrote:Every 10 years or so allocate more $ for clearing after a storm.

Except that we exceeded all our MCPS snow days last year by 3 so it’s not an every 10 years or so thing.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS will use any excuse to delay or close because they don’t care about educating your kids.

No. You just want free childcare under the pretense of pretending to care about education.

My kid is perfectly happy watching tablet all day while I work from home. This isn't about child care. It's about the fact they're missing their education.

NP. That is concerning. How would you even know that if you haven’t allowed it?

Neglectful.

When MCPS closes child care, there isn't much of an alternative. Most us need to work and don't have a nanny.

There are baby sitters. Even a 12 year old mother’s helper is better than a tablet.

lol. You clearly haven't tried to get a babysitter these days. It is hard even when there isn't snow.

Not really. You just need to be willing to compensate people fairly.

Again, you obviously haven't tried. Kids won't babysit these days, no matter what you pay them. Response rate on care.com is well below 10%, and we don't have a great track record with that 10%. And that's on a normal day, not a snow day.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS will use any excuse to delay or close because they don’t care about educating your kids.

No. You just want free childcare under the pretense of pretending to care about education.

Nope. My kid doesn’t go to MCPS. I just pay property taxes into a system that’s too crappy for me to even want to send her to.

But as it happens, the general social arrangement is:

Adults work
Kids go to school

The former doesn’t work well without the latter. It’s not “free childcare.” It’s a working society.

+1 I don’t know why some nuts on this forum seem to attack anyone who wants their child educated as “someone who hates spending time with their children.” I can only conclude that these people are not very bright.

Be serious - if this one storm is enough to jeopardize your child’s entire education then you have problems a snowplow can’t solve.

Seriously. If Larlo can't make it to college because Monday is closed and possibly a few more days this week, it's on YOU

It’s not about Larlo not making it to college. It’s about MCPS systematically shortchanging students of all ages instructional hours by refusing to build in adequate snow day, refusing to even submit a plan for virtual learning instruction to the state the way other Maryland school districts did and preferring to add half days in the end of June that contain zero instructional value.

Ah so you want virtual learning and are going to hyper complain about street clearing to further the argument that we need to waste time and money on crappy ineffective virtual school. Got it

That virtual school is inferior to no school at all is your opinion, not a fact, a not a particularly well-reasoned opinion. My kids were part of the pandemic generation and are used to it and it’s certainly better than the alternative of several useless half days being added on to the calendar at the end of June.

Thousands of schools all over the country did virtual learning last week-my friends with kids in other states were surprised that we had nothing for a full week in MCPS.

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Tuesday closed.
Wednesday closed.
Just not ready.

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Closed for students Monday.
Temps about same Tuesday.
Warming in afternoon.
More snow Wednesday.

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If Monday is closed, it should be closed until Thursday. Temps about the same all week.

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Their justifications that its because of walkers and students with disabilities means that there's no way for them to justify opening for a very, very long time. We're not going to thaw for weeks...

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Anonymous wrote:Their justifications that its because of walkers and students with disabilities means that there's no way for them to justify opening for a very, very long time. We're not going to thaw for weeks...

Bingo.
There's a sliver of hope for Tues with temps going to upper 30s woo hoo.

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I can't keep up with these threads, but I wanted to share the best suggestion I've heard:

Open schools on a 2-hr delay for the remainder of the week, with a liberal excused absence policy if parents don't think it's safe for their kids to get to school. You could even stagger that, saying HS open 2 hr delay on Tuesday, HS & MS 2 hr delay on Wednesday, and ES, MS, HS 2 hr delay Thursday/Friday. The delay will mean morning buses are out of rush hour traffic and it is fully light out. The system needs to start running in order to identify the problem areas for busses and the county needs time to enforce sidewalk cleanup.

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Now if we just virtual...
Teachers are going in tomorrow. They coulda taught from the school building.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't keep up with these threads, but I wanted to share the best suggestion I've heard:

Open schools on a 2-hr delay for the remainder of the week, with a liberal excused absence policy if parents don't think it's safe for their kids to get to school. You could even stagger that, saying HS open 2 hr delay on Tuesday, HS & MS 2 hr delay on Wednesday, and ES, MS, HS 2 hr delay Thursday/Friday. The delay will mean morning buses are out of rush hour traffic and it is fully light out. The system needs to start running in order to identify the problem areas for busses and the county needs time to enforce sidewalk cleanup.

Too confusing. Open all or none is the usual approach.

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Honestly it sucks that school hasn't gone to a two hour delay tomorrow but I don't really want my kids staring at a screen all day on snow days. Too much blue light and I just don't think it's healthy. If there is virtual school, I would prefer it to be two hours max with the option to submit the classwork for elementary school and no penalties.

MS and HS I would defer to the teachers regarding that since testing and AP exams are higher stakes.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't keep up with these threads, but I wanted to share the best suggestion I've heard:

Open schools on a 2-hr delay for the remainder of the week, with a liberal excused absence policy if parents don't think it's safe for their kids to get to school. You could even stagger that, saying HS open 2 hr delay on Tuesday, HS & MS 2 hr delay on Wednesday, and ES, MS, HS 2 hr delay Thursday/Friday. The delay will mean morning buses are out of rush hour traffic and it is fully light out. The system needs to start running in order to identify the problem areas for busses and the county needs time to enforce sidewalk cleanup.

It's really not that dark even at 6:30am. 2 hr delays don't do anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly it sucks that school hasn't gone to a two hour delay tomorrow but I don't really want my kids staring at a screen all day on snow days. Too much blue light and I just don't think it's healthy. If there is virtual school, I would prefer it to be two hours max with the option to submit the classwork for elementary school and no penalties.

MS and HS I would defer to the teachers regarding that since testing and AP exams are higher stakes.

I don't necessary mind optional virtual activities, but they're not an alternative to make-up days.