Wed no school or 2hr delay?

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Anonymous wrote:Cold weather isn’t a reason not to hold school. If you feel it is we should cancel quite a bit of summer vacation so we can start school in early August like they do in the Deep South and you can add a dozen snow/weather days to the calendar.

+1. And then your special snowflake child won’t have to set foot in the ice and cold and can hibernate like a bear in the wintertime.

Then offer our kids bus service as 2 miles in the cold, ice, snow is a bit much.

There is no kid in MCPS who is required to walk to school 2 miles without bus service. Are you posting from another state?

The MCPS high school walk zone is 2 miles.

More concerning: for ES kids, it's 1 mile.

Most ES students aren't walking alone.

That's the problem. She doesn't want to feel cold!

I wouldn't want my kids cold, why would you want your kids cold or risk being hit by a car or slipping?

They went outside today. Why wouldn't they be able to get to school later this week? I really don't understand your perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:Cold weather isn’t a reason not to hold school. If you feel it is we should cancel quite a bit of summer vacation so we can start school in early August like they do in the Deep South and you can add a dozen snow/weather days to the calendar.

+1. And then your special snowflake child won’t have to set foot in the ice and cold and can hibernate like a bear in the wintertime.

Then offer our kids bus service as 2 miles in the cold, ice, snow is a bit much.

There is no kid in MCPS who is required to walk to school 2 miles without bus service. Are you posting from another state?

The MCPS high school walk zone is 2 miles.

More concerning: for ES kids, it's 1 mile.

Most ES students aren't walking alone.

That's the problem. She doesn't want to feel cold!

I wouldn't want my kids cold, why would you want your kids cold or risk being hit by a car or slipping?

They went outside today. Why wouldn't they be able to get to school later this week? I really don't understand your perspective.

Because the roads are one lane, no sidewalks and we only have one car that's awd and needed to get to work. Mine will just skip school as there is no other good option.

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Anonymous wrote:Cold weather isn’t a reason not to hold school. If you feel it is we should cancel quite a bit of summer vacation so we can start school in early August like they do in the Deep South and you can add a dozen snow/weather days to the calendar.

+1. And then your special snowflake child won’t have to set foot in the ice and cold and can hibernate like a bear in the wintertime.

Then offer our kids bus service as 2 miles in the cold, ice, snow is a bit much.

There is no kid in MCPS who is required to walk to school 2 miles without bus service. Are you posting from another state?

The MCPS high school walk zone is 2 miles.

More concerning: for ES kids, it's 1 mile.

Most ES students aren't walking alone.

That's the problem. She doesn't want to feel cold!

I wouldn't want my kids cold, why would you want your kids cold or risk being hit by a car or slipping?

They went outside today. Why wouldn't they be able to get to school later this week? I really don't understand your perspective.

Because the roads are one lane, no sidewalks and we only have one car that's awd and needed to get to work. Mine will just skip school as there is no other good option.

And that's fine- with a county this big there will not be a decision that works for everyone 100%. Keep your kids home until YOU think it's safe enough for them to go outside.

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Anonymous wrote:Won't the snow and ice all cleaned and treated by the end of Tuesday since snow has stopped already? Why prediction of closing for a week....

It depends if we get more snow and it turns into ice. We have had multiple plows and we’ve dug out several times and right now all of it looks like no one has touched it. It’s bad.

Where are you located? We are in Wheaton. We are in an HOA and the contractors came once right after the sleet/freezing rain stopped. Sidewalks and street are completely clear.

I am in Kensington. Streets are not plowed and we are responsible for our own sidewalks. We shoveled 4 times yesterday but still have a coating of icy snow. I predict neighborhood sidewalks are going to be the big problem.

These snow days are a great opportunity for everyone to go out and practice walking on slippery surfaces.

I spent a few winters in an area where they were very good about plowing the main roads but not so much the side streets, and sidewalk clearing was widely variable. We didn't even get a ton of snow but it was COLD so when we did get it it would hang around for weeks. There would be stretches of sidewalks that were downright trecherous but you just had to adapt and carry on. Obviously everyone who can should be out there clearing or hiring someone to do so but things are gonna be slippery for a while.

What is your address so I know where to send the bill for my kid’s broken wrist from all of this “practice” they should be doing

lol. This area never ceases to amaze me.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how these threads always turn into some form of “Back where I grew up we got real snow” arguments. Well you chose to leave your arctic shithole and move here and we don’t care about however it was done wherever that was.

On the flip side, it seems like some of you are from Florida or Arizona and expect everything to be prisitine before you or your kids dare venture outside. If you don't want to deal with any snow or ice then move back south. If you're goig to live here where we occasionally get winter weather you need to buck up a little.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is cleaning the 13k or so bus stops??

If you have one on your street, get together with a couple neighbors and shovel it after the plow goes through? There's no magocal crew going around to each bus stop. Or if y'all can't do that then just have your kids climb over it.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is cleaning the 13k or so bus stops??

If you have one on your street, get together with a couple neighbors and shovel it after the plow goes through? There's no magocal crew going around to each bus stop. Or if y'all can't do that then just have your kids climb over it.

Did you shovel your bus stop?

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Anonymous wrote:Who is cleaning the 13k or so bus stops??

If you have one on your street, get together with a couple neighbors and shovel it after the plow goes through? There's no magocal crew going around to each bus stop. Or if y'all can't do that then just have your kids climb over it.

Did you shovel your bus stop?

I was simply responding to PP's question because they seemed unsure what to do.

We're in a walking zone and have no stop on our block, so no. But as a kid we lived on a corner where there was a bus stop and yeah it was just part of our snow clearing routine.

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This site is called DCum?

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I can't see MCPS opening tomorrow or Thursday. Even the Feds are still closed today and the schools are usually closed a day or two beyond that.

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As of Tuesday morning 60% of county roads have had “one pass.”

They came through my neighborhood yesterday. That one pass left 1-2 inches of compacted snow that is now solid ice. I can’t imagine a bus going up our hilly roads in these conditions.

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Anonymous wrote:Cold weather isn’t a reason not to hold school. If you feel it is we should cancel quite a bit of summer vacation so we can start school in early August like they do in the Deep South and you can add a dozen snow/weather days to the calendar.

+1. And then your special snowflake child won’t have to set foot in the ice and cold and can hibernate like a bear in the wintertime.

Then offer our kids bus service as 2 miles in the cold, ice, snow is a bit much.

There is no kid in MCPS who is required to walk to school 2 miles without bus service. Are you posting from another state?

Maybe you are? This is from mcps https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/transportation/rules/riding#:~:text=Who%20rides%20the%20bus?,EEA%2DRA%2C%20Student%20Transportation.:

Elementary school students living more than 1 mile of walking distance from school.*
Middle school students living more than 1.5 miles of walking distance from school.*
High school students living more than 2.0 miles of walking distance from school.*

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Our street is a major MCPS bus route, and we haven’t seen a plow yet. I don’t see MCPS opening until Friday, at the earliest.

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Anonymous wrote:As of Tuesday morning 60% of county roads have had “one pass.”

They came through my neighborhood yesterday. That one pass left 1-2 inches of compacted snow that is now solid ice. I can’t imagine a bus going up our hilly roads in these conditions.

Agreed. The problem is that ice will not be going away anytime soon, so I don't know when on earth it will be feasible to reopen.

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Our street is on the neighborhood bus route. It was plowed once but the leftovers are now ice. DS’s friends neighborhood was completely untouched as of Monday evening. The main roads near us are narrowly plowed but in reasonably decent shape. The neighborhoods have a long way to go and I don’t think there’s anyway they can be ready to open Wednesday. Thursday is a distant maybe. Friday is more likely but probably a delay. When are they announcing decision for Wednesday?