MCPS closing/delaying on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

The physical federal offices are closed, but anyone with a telework agreement in place is working as usual.

Which at our agency is basically everyone.

[Anonymous]

Why did MCPS set makeup days that are untenable for teachers? Seems like a dumb game.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

And teachers will take the blame for that, even though they have absolutely no control over school closures.

And my roads aren’t fine. We had a plow come through midday yesterday, and now it is a packed sea of snow and ice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

I'll be shocked if school opens thursday.

Agree MCPS needs to build in more snow days to begin with. Seems like they try to have it both ways- say they don't have the resources/capability to clear parking lots, etc. but the schedule doesn't redlect that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

We are in lower MoCo and our roads are not fine. They haven't been touched and are impossible w/o 4wd.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

And teachers will take the blame for that, even though they have absolutely no control over school closures.

And my roads aren’t fine. We had a plow come through midday yesterday, and now it is a packed sea of snow and ice.

Really? I haven't seen the type of horrific cyberbullying there was during Covid. People understand teachers are not responsible for snow decisions. It's more of a safety measure because of snow removal delays, ice at school bus stops and transportation in general.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

And teachers will take the blame for that, even though they have absolutely no control over school closures.

And my roads aren’t fine. We had a plow come through midday yesterday, and now it is a packed sea of snow and ice.

So the abuse hasn't happened? You are just expecting it? What will that look like? Troll posts on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

I predict a 2h delay tomorrow

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

We are in lower MoCo and our roads are not fine. They haven't been touched and are impossible w/o 4wd.

We drove through our Silver Spring neighborhood streets yesterday in a fwd subcompact. It was slow going but fine otherwise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

And teachers will take the blame for that, even though they have absolutely no control over school closures.

And my roads aren’t fine. We had a plow come through midday yesterday, and now it is a packed sea of snow and ice.

So the abuse hasn't happened? You are just expecting it? What will that look like? Troll posts on DCUM?

This was just a couple pages ago:

“Or they could teach. Shut off the internet and have the principal and APs verifyiny there's no movie playing. Apparently we can't trust teachers to be professionals.”

Want me to keep digging? Because those sorts of comments are all over this thread. Let’s not play pretend. DCUM is very unfriendly toward teachers.

[Anonymous]

I remember my dad telling me many years ago about driving his civic during a snow storm. The SUVs around him were trying to go too fast, slipping and sliding. He was fine, just trudging along, no snow tires, no 4wd

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

And teachers will take the blame for that, even though they have absolutely no control over school closures.

And my roads aren’t fine. We had a plow come through midday yesterday, and now it is a packed sea of snow and ice.

So the abuse hasn't happened? You are just expecting it? What will that look like? Troll posts on DCUM?

This was just a couple pages ago:

“Or they could teach. Shut off the internet and have the principal and APs verifyiny there's no movie playing. Apparently we can't trust teachers to be professionals.”

Want me to keep digging? Because those sorts of comments are all over this thread. Let’s not play pretend. DCUM is very unfriendly toward teachers.

Seems more like a trickle, not a torrent. And DCUM is literally abusive to everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:What I am loving about this thread is that it shows MCPS cannot please everyone. We have people complaining that the school is closed, that there is not virtual option, and kids are missing a day of school work. And we have people complaining that teachers emails work assignments to students on a snow day—“contact the principal” someone suggested.

DCUM posters never fail to disappoint.

The consensus from parents seems to be that schools should quickly schedule a meaningful make-up day that occurs as soon as possible.

Really? OK, try getting a consensus on when the make up day should be. It is always the same. People complaining that the way things are being done is wrong, but so solutions offered.

We already picked the days. If people don't like them, take it up on next year's calendar. 1/29 is the obvious choice.

When is the final grading and report card stuff supposed to happen? Do you have an answer for that? MCPS knows that teachers do real work on 1/29. If they make it a school day, schools will probably house kids in the auditorium and show movies so teachers can get their shit done. That might be just fine with some folks who are looking for free babysitting

From a supervision standpoint, I don’t think middle schools will do that, but individual teachers may need to show movies in their classrooms. The fact that parents would rather have that on 1/29 than mid June is telling about priorities.

Neither day will be very meaningful, let's be real. MCPS could schedule more instructional days that everyone would plan for so that makeup days don't need to be used, but they chose not to. The need to do a makeup day is not because of parents. It is a legal obligation but MCPS could make it less onerous on everyone by not stubbornly fixating on doing the bare minimum.

They used to do that before Hogan added rules about when school had to begin and end. It was 184 days.
Parents complicated about that too. And

What? Those Hogan rules were reversed. And stop blaming "parents" for MCPS's poor decisionmaking. Last year's "asynchronous" day was a huge tell that MCPS DGAF about educating kids.

Chill out. It was one day. MCPS has lots of competing priorities and a majority of the budget is sucked up by special education. There is no perfect solution

Why are you making stuff up? This is just plain false. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given the reputation of MCPS these days.

I believe it is true for practically every school district. Especially when you include lawsuits and private placements

It's not true for MCPS nor is it true for any other school district. Go crawl back under your bridge.

Give the breakdown then! I get you don’t like what I’m saying but it’s true

You said "a majority of the budget is sucked up by special education." That's not even remotely true. It is 13%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did MCPS set makeup days that are untenable for teachers? Seems like a dumb game.

They're apparently not untenable for teachers, since MCEA didn't complain about them when the calendar was set. There's a handful of loud teachers here complaining.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The federal government is closed today. My doctors office was closed yesterday and also today. Yet, only MCPS is getting a torrent of abuse for being closed. Why such double standards?

I do not see a "torrent of abuse". I see out my window that the roads are fine right now, yet I expect there to be no school tomorrow.

And teachers will take the blame for that, even though they have absolutely no control over school closures.

And my roads aren’t fine. We had a plow come through midday yesterday, and now it is a packed sea of snow and ice.

Same here. It's like that for two blocks until we get to a road that goes out of the neighborhood. That road is plowed out to major roads.

It was fine. It was a slow 2 blocks, but drivable.

Why do you think you can't drive on snow?