What do we think will happen on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:2 hour delay is almost certain for Monday, probably Tuesday as well. I doubt FCPS will be closed b/c of the PR problem, though I do worry about people getting hurt as the volume of people trying to navigate the snowcrete increases and more students (including youngkids walking/waiting for buses in the streets AND teen drivers) are out in the mix. Would be safest to stay closed Mon, delay opening Tues, and hope the increased temps make things safe from then on.

The ice out there will be here until March. One or two days with a high above freezing while the lows are still well below won't even phase it. What some of you are advocating for schools to be closed for a month. Insanity. It won't look any different on Monday morning than it will on Tuesday, or a week from now. Some of you will just have to be inconvenienced and drive your kids to school - maybe even carpool like was asked of you. It isn't that hard.

All right DCUM, help me figure this out.
How many sidewalks of the elderly/lazy have you shoveled?

Personally, I just did ours and 1 others. I drew the line at doing the military families sidewalks. In all 3 houses, their male HOH/military members who llive within sight on my streetsdidn’t bother shoveling, so I didn’t think I should do it for them. Now, are they still okay because the families are military? They didn’t have community spirit and made shoveling seem hard by not doing it. I’m not sure which sacrifice should be in front of which…

How many kids are you bringing from the neighborhood to school each day?

How will your boss feel when you run late? (Or do you not work which makes it REALLY easy to say this isn’t hard to do)

How will you feel when it is your child’s teacher turn to play school bus and they are late?

Interesting. Military family here. We helped shovel neighbors out up and down our street. I’m not sure what you’re saying about community spirit, but I feel we have plenty to spare.

I have a neighbor who didn’t help at all. Should I disparage his entire profession? Or should I have neighborly spirit and recognize I don’t know his circumstances, so maybe I shouldn’t judge. Hmm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our principal has sent an email outlining plans for staff and students for Monday. It explains which paths are clear, where staff can park, encourages car pooling (even for staff) and notes that tardiness will not be marked for the first 10 (probably 20) minutes. They are planning for Monday.

I don’t know how many times this can be explained but teachers and principals have no info one way or the other. Obviously they are sending this information out in case we open Monday so it doesn’t end up being a 10pm email Sunday night. But stop using teachers and principals as a smoking gun for Reid’s decision, which has not been made.

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Yes there is NO info. I as a teacher am being sent meeting invites etc for IF we have school Monday but every communication comes with the caveat they/we do not yet know and won’t until after 4 pm today. Like anyone would, the school is making plans for if we’re back tomorrow because if we go stuff needs to get done, but not a single email you’re getting about devices, assignments, meetings, parking directly state that we are 100% back tomorrow. No matter when we go back there will be adjustments to everything so I think we are in for a couple of abnormal days no matter what.

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Moreover - in all my years on this site, FCPS parents have shown themselves to be the most self-important and aggrieved about school closures, often demanding openings when NO other district does and griping at length about legitimate closures. Yet this majority of this thread is commentary of people saying their streets aren’t passable, sidewalks are blocked, how will people drive in reduced lanes, etc etc. If THAT is the tenor of the postings here, those concerns are almost certainly broadly shared by the people who are liable for school transportation-related injuries or accidents and are in charge of determining when/if it’s safe to open.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many buses have been checked out and started this week? Do you really think that has happened?
Have they all been cleared of ice?
Have you seen the idiots driving on the road with ice on top of their cars?

I saw someone try to drive on three foot wall of ice on the side of the road rather than break down the ice on the side. If there had not been someone driving behind me, I would have stopped to see what happened. I was afraid she was going to tip over.

Monday opening would be a mistake.

On the note of driving on those ice mounds, unlike with snow banks, if you hit those ice banks with your tire at just the wrong angle and speed, it will launch your car up and off the road. If it happens on a bridge it could launch your car into the river below. It happened in a neighboring town where I grew up following an ice storm like this, where a family car clipped the ice bank, shot over the guardrail, and one of their kids drowned.

Don't drive up on these ice banks. It might not end well.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moreover - in all my years on this site, FCPS parents have shown themselves to be the most self-important and aggrieved about school closures, often demanding openings when NO other district does and griping at length about legitimate closures. Yet this majority of this thread is commentary of people saying their streets aren’t passable, sidewalks are blocked, how will people drive in reduced lanes, etc etc. If THAT is the tenor of the postings here, those concerns are almost certainly broadly shared by the people who are liable for school transportation-related injuries or accidents and are in charge of determining when/if it’s safe to open.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moreover - in all my years on this site, FCPS parents have shown themselves to be the most self-important and aggrieved about school closures, often demanding openings when NO other district does and griping at length about legitimate closures. Yet this majority of this thread is commentary of people saying their streets aren’t passable, sidewalks are blocked, how will people drive in reduced lanes, etc etc. If THAT is the tenor of the postings here, those concerns are almost certainly broadly shared by the people who are liable for school transportation-related injuries or accidents and are in charge of determining when/if it’s safe to open.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moreover - in all my years on this site, FCPS parents have shown themselves to be the most self-important and aggrieved about school closures, often demanding openings when NO other district does and griping at length about legitimate closures. Yet this majority of this thread is commentary of people saying their streets aren’t passable, sidewalks are blocked, how will people drive in reduced lanes, etc etc. If THAT is the tenor of the postings here, those concerns are almost certainly broadly shared by the people who are liable for school transportation-related injuries or accidents and are in charge of determining when/if it’s safe to open.

“Liable for school transportation injuries”. This is the worst excuse that is always brought up as a reason to close schools by people who want to close schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The mail isn’t being delivered, the garbage isn’t being picked up (in my neck of the woods, anyway), so I am losing confidence that the busses will be able to safely pick up and deliver children to school next week.

This!!! If the county isn’t confident sending their mail and garbage trucks out, why would we send out our school buses?

Mail has been delivered since Tuesday.

So has Amazon and Fedex.

We have not gotten mail on our street yet but they can’t get near the boxes. The plows didn’t plow close on either side of the street and it is way too far for anyone to shovel.

Why didn't you shovel out your mailbox Sunday and Monday?

It was hard work, but nearly every house on our street shoveled a mail truck wide strip up to the mailboxes during the storm Sunday and in the initial aftermath on Monday. The teen boys helped neighbors who couldn't do it themselves.

Chiseling through the ice and plow mounds was hard, but our entire street has had Mail since Tuesday.

We were exhausted from the long driveways, our steps and walkways. We don’t have sidewalks but the other side of the street does and no one shoveled those. I understand why too. You wanted us to do 10+ more feet in the roads?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moreover - in all my years on this site, FCPS parents have shown themselves to be the most self-important and aggrieved about school closures, often demanding openings when NO other district does and griping at length about legitimate closures. Yet this majority of this thread is commentary of people saying their streets aren’t passable, sidewalks are blocked, how will people drive in reduced lanes, etc etc. If THAT is the tenor of the postings here, those concerns are almost certainly broadly shared by the people who are liable for school transportation-related injuries or accidents and are in charge of determining when/if it’s safe to open.

“Liable for school transportation injuries”. This is the worst excuse that is always brought up as a reason to close schools by people who want to close schools.

As I just said, I’m a teacher who would like us to be back. I’m also not the one who gets sued if a kid gets ploughed over by a speeding car at a bus stop because they weren’t visible behind a wall of snow and were standing in the street. So my calculations might differ because my risk pool is different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moreover - in all my years on this site, FCPS parents have shown themselves to be the most self-important and aggrieved about school closures, often demanding openings when NO other district does and griping at length about legitimate closures. Yet this majority of this thread is commentary of people saying their streets aren’t passable, sidewalks are blocked, how will people drive in reduced lanes, etc etc. If THAT is the tenor of the postings here, those concerns are almost certainly broadly shared by the people who are liable for school transportation-related injuries or accidents and are in charge of determining when/if it’s safe to open.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

I’m a teacher. Just because I work with children doesn’t mean I am a child. Don’t insult me.

Also, I don’t have enough time in my life to play games. Even if we stay home, I’m working. These snow days aren’t a break for me. This job takes considerably more hours than you may think. Day off? Ha.

[Anonymous]

DP. Not getting mail because road is a sheet of ice. Not because of unshoveled mailbox.

Just because your roads are good doesn't mean all are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moreover - in all my years on this site, FCPS parents have shown themselves to be the most self-important and aggrieved about school closures, often demanding openings when NO other district does and griping at length about legitimate closures. Yet this majority of this thread is commentary of people saying their streets aren’t passable, sidewalks are blocked, how will people drive in reduced lanes, etc etc. If THAT is the tenor of the postings here, those concerns are almost certainly broadly shared by the people who are liable for school transportation-related injuries or accidents and are in charge of determining when/if it’s safe to open.

Our street is a one lane road. A bus and car can’t possibly pass. Add pedestrians on this narrow one lane road since sidewalks are a pile of ice. I live on a fairly wide street too.

The streets by our school are super narrow. In the best conditions, it is tight for two cars to pass. I can’t imagine the back up for kiss and ride tomorrow and trying not to hit kids on the street.

[Anonymous]

Pp here. We haven’t seen a plow for days. The street next to ours is plowed much better than ours. We only have one lane cleared and the area where our bus stop is has 8 feet of ice. It is like all the snow got pushed to that corner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moreover - in all my years on this site, FCPS parents have shown themselves to be the most self-important and aggrieved about school closures, often demanding openings when NO other district does and griping at length about legitimate closures. Yet this majority of this thread is commentary of people saying their streets aren’t passable, sidewalks are blocked, how will people drive in reduced lanes, etc etc. If THAT is the tenor of the postings here, those concerns are almost certainly broadly shared by the people who are liable for school transportation-related injuries or accidents and are in charge of determining when/if it’s safe to open.

“Liable for school transportation injuries”. This is the worst excuse that is always brought up as a reason to close schools by people who want to close schools.

As I just said, I’m a teacher who would like us to be back. I’m also not the one who gets sued if a kid gets ploughed over by a speeding car at a bus stop because they weren’t visible behind a wall of snow and were standing in the street. So my calculations might differ because my risk pool is different.

FCPS wouldn’t get sued either. Stop it