Early dismissal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DCPS ever do early dismissal for weather? Monday afternoon is looking rough.

Because of rain?

No because of a dangerous storm outbreak between mid-afternoon and early evening with violent wind gusts, hail and tornadoes in addition to torrential rain and lightning. Hopefully, it turns out to be just rain, but with alerts escalating, schools need to prepare.

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DCPS ever do early dismissal for weather? Monday afternoon is looking rough.

Because of rain?

No because of a dangerous storm outbreak between mid-afternoon and early evening with violent wind gusts, hail and tornadoes in addition to torrential rain and lightning. Hopefully, it turns out to be just rain, but with alerts escalating, schools need to prepare.

lol

+1

Once again, DCPS badly overreacts and kids miss even more school.

[Anonymous]

The Capital Weather Gang is defensively sending mea culpas on its complete miss on this and noting that it doesn't talk to schools/they have their own process.

What a ridiculous nothing burger. The tornado warnings were active when kids were doing early release, but over by the time normal release happened. You almost can't make it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y'all are not from the midwest and it shows. Weather forecasts are showing the worst of the weather to be from 2-6pm. School systems do not want to mess around with kids getting stuck across the city in tornado conditions. It looks like most of the other major ones are closing early. I hope DCPS follows suit.

I grew up in the heart of tornado alley. Lots of tornado drills but we never had early dismissal for weather.

+1

No one even cares until someone sees an actual tornado forming....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DCPS ever do early dismissal for weather? Monday afternoon is looking rough.

Because of rain?

No because of a dangerous storm outbreak between mid-afternoon and early evening with violent wind gusts, hail and tornadoes in addition to torrential rain and lightning. Hopefully, it turns out to be just rain, but with alerts escalating, schools need to prepare.

lol

+1

Once again, DCPS badly overreacts and kids miss even more school.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DCPS ever do early dismissal for weather? Monday afternoon is looking rough.

Because of rain?

No because of a dangerous storm outbreak between mid-afternoon and early evening with violent wind gusts, hail and tornadoes in addition to torrential rain and lightning. Hopefully, it turns out to be just rain, but with alerts escalating, schools need to prepare.

lol

+1

Once again, DCPS badly overreacts and kids miss even more school.

I mean, even OPM closed all federal offices at 2pm. I don't think anyone can blame DCPS for this call.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DCPS ever do early dismissal for weather? Monday afternoon is looking rough.

Because of rain?

No because of a dangerous storm outbreak between mid-afternoon and early evening with violent wind gusts, hail and tornadoes in addition to torrential rain and lightning. Hopefully, it turns out to be just rain, but with alerts escalating, schools need to prepare.

lol

+1

Once again, DCPS badly overreacts and kids miss even more school.

Our school district cancelled completely. An entire day of school lost because of rain and some wind. I wish we have DCPS-level of overreaction. But they cancel for everything and everything here. It's insane.

[Anonymous]

It turned out it was smart they announced the early closure as early as they did. Our school changed the school day schedule to compress core classes and skip homeroom and recess. They also shortened lunch and except for a couple grades who always take lunch early, everyone else did lunch in classrooms just before pickup to minimize transition time and maximize class time. So there really wasn't much actual class time lost.

Yes the storm was mostly a bust, but they did see wind gusts of near 70 mph at National, and there was some rotation in cloud formations near DC. It's not like they just made it up. Weather is unpredictable and 2 hours is really not that big of a deal to miss. It was inconvenient but I don't think kids really suffered. My kid came home and read books during the time she would have been in school, so really nothing lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It turned out it was smart they announced the early closure as early as they did. Our school changed the school day schedule to compress core classes and skip homeroom and recess. They also shortened lunch and except for a couple grades who always take lunch early, everyone else did lunch in classrooms just before pickup to minimize transition time and maximize class time. So there really wasn't much actual class time lost.

Yes the storm was mostly a bust, but they did see wind gusts of near 70 mph at National, and there was some rotation in cloud formations near DC. It's not like they just made it up. Weather is unpredictable and 2 hours is really not that big of a deal to miss. It was inconvenient but I don't think kids really suffered. My kid came home and read books during the time she would have been in school, so really nothing lost.

Seems like it would have been smarter if class hadn't been cancelled at all...

[Anonymous]

The Capital Weather Gang apologizes:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/03/17/storm-forecast-tornado-review-dc/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DCPS ever do early dismissal for weather? Monday afternoon is looking rough.

Because of rain?

No because of a dangerous storm outbreak between mid-afternoon and early evening with violent wind gusts, hail and tornadoes in addition to torrential rain and lightning. Hopefully, it turns out to be just rain, but with alerts escalating, schools need to prepare.

lol

+1

Once again, DCPS badly overreacts and kids miss even more school.

Literally every school district in the DMV and all the private schools had at least early dismissal...and some canceled the entire day.

Why is DCPS taking all the blame?

[Anonymous]

I dont understand why schools are cancelling the day before weather happens. Just wait until the morning of the day in question. Announce it at 5am, when you have more up to date information. No one needs to know the night before. By then, it's too late to make alternative arrangements anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont understand why schools are cancelling the day before weather happens. Just wait until the morning of the day in question. Announce it at 5am, when you have more up to date information. No one needs to know the night before. By then, it's too late to make alternative arrangements anyway.

It didn't matter in this instance...they had the same forecasts at 5am as they did the day before.