Wed no school or 2hr delay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

You can’t melt the ice when it’s below freezing for a week.

How do Minneapolis, Boston and Chicago make it happen?

Better dedicated equipment and funding. It snows there all the time. We would be in an uproar if we set aside that kind of funding annually and it didn't get used.

[Anonymous]

Do they keep childcare open if they have to close schools Wed.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was out today and this is what I saw.

Main roads are plowed, but sometimes a lane will just end randomly because the snow plow operator pushed all the snow into the right lane.

Right turn lanes are not plowed well and I saw a ride on bus who tried to make a right turn and got stuck in the snow.

Clearly a school bus full of ES students will fare much better. /s

[Anonymous]

When will they announce?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do they keep childcare open if they have to close schools Wed.?

So many school lots unplowed. I think childcare will be closed.

Not saying this is the way to make decisions for the whole county. I just think it will be closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

You can’t melt the ice when it’s below freezing for a week.

How do Minneapolis, Boston and Chicago make it happen?

Better dedicated equipment and funding. It snows there all the time. We would be in an uproar if we set aside that kind of funding annually and it didn't get used.

Boston Public Schools are closed today.

We got around the same amount of precipitation, but ours was icier.

This was not a "modest snow event" - that's preposterous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they keep childcare open if they have to close schools Wed.?

So many school lots unplowed. I think childcare will be closed.

Not saying this is the way to make decisions for the whole county. I just think it will be closed.

+1 they really should try to let individual schools and providers work out if they can open, but they won't let them decide.

[Anonymous]

Frederick is closed tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Montgomery College just posted that they are closed Wednesday. They have a much stronger push to open (semester doesn't extend). If they are closed, county conditions for buses is poor. No way MCPS will open.

[Anonymous]

Given the water issue too now, no way they will open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they keep childcare open if they have to close schools Wed.?

So many school lots unplowed. I think childcare will be closed.

Not saying this is the way to make decisions for the whole county. I just think it will be closed.

+1 they really should try to let individual schools and providers work out if they can open, but they won't let them decide.

If teachers could live near their schools that might work.

Only one teacher lives near our school. Half the staff live an hour or more away. There aren’t enough subs in the entire district to handle many schools opening with even 20% of their staff out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they keep childcare open if they have to close schools Wed.?

So many school lots unplowed. I think childcare will be closed.

Not saying this is the way to make decisions for the whole county. I just think it will be closed.

I pay 600$/month for aftercare so i have backup care for weeks like this. My ES is plowed out. It's not worth paying that much for backup care if it's not actually open to provide care when i need it.

[Anonymous]

I think Thomas really wants to open if at all possible. This is why he is delaying his decision

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been saying for years that MD needs to count schools hours rather than days, like VA. They never seem to have the melodrama over making up snow days like we do.
My prediction for the rest of the week is closures are very likely.
Best case (if you want school to open) is a delay on Friday, but that seems overly optimistic and potentially dangerous.

Virginia starts earlier in August than we do and have actual snow days built into the calendar. MCPS has ONE snow day built into the calendar which is pure idiocy. It's basically saying "we have no intention of teaching 180 days per year and don't even want to try."

[Anonymous]

The streets near me still haven’t been plowed, and when I get to the main roads, the sidewalks are still untouched.

It would be irresponsible to have school tomorrow or probably even Thursday. Maybe a two hour delay on Friday. Children would have to walk in the street to get to schools. They would never make that call.