Schools closed for students Monday Feb 2

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a jerk who lives next to our elementary school who NEVER shovels his sidewalk. Not once in the 5 years we have gone to this school. Is there some way to report him or something if this is what is keeping schools from opening? He’s also the type who definitely has a gun and would be mad if someone came and shoveled his driveway for him.

lol it's probably better to not go on people's private property if you know they'll have issues with it (their driveway, not the sidewalk)

And it's better to just let the county handle it and you can call 311 about it:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/safesidewalks/faq.html

Who do I call if I want to report sidewalks in my neighborhood that have not been cleared?

Call 311 or 240-777-0311 to report an un-shoveled sidewalk. Due to property ownership verification procedures that can only be conducted by a Customer Service Representative at MC311, a service request cannot be created online for this service.

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Anonymous wrote:This county is a joke

Blame your lazy, selfish neighbors for not shoveling their sidewalks.

I blame the parents who seem to think kids can walk in the snow to play, but can't walk in the snow to school.

Some of our kids were not playing, they’ve been shoveling.

Sounds like they've also done ok in the snow, then.

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't go through all of the pages and on the DCPS pages. Why did we not have school but they did? The streets are similar or worse there?

Putting aside the discussion of walker conditions, the buses are an issue for MCPS.

Most schools are open today. Most of these districts also have school buses, but somehow they managed it. Some have virtual learning, which MCPS didn't bother to get permission to make a plan to do. MCPS is being a special snowflake.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026...virginia-snow-storm/
Alexandria City Public Schools: Virtual learning
Anne Arundel County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday.
Arlington County Public Schools: Closed; two-hour delay Tuesday
Calvert County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Charles County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Culpeper County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
D.C. Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fairfax County Public Schools: Closed
Falls Church City Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fauquier County Public Schools: Closed
Howard County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday
Loudoun County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Montgomery County Public Schools: Closed
Pr. George’s County Public Schools: Two-hour delay; Code Orange
Prince William County Public Schools: Closed
Spotsylvania County Public Schools: Remote learning Monday and Tuesday; 12-month employees to report on time.
Stafford County Public Schools: Closed
https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-scho...CGZARVMWHPUHLYH5SYI/

Anne Arundel County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Baltimore County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Caroline County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Cecil County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Charles County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Howard County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Kent County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Montgomery County Public Schools will be closed Monday. Offices will open on time, and staff should report as on a regular noninstructional day
Prince George’s County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday. .
Queen Anne’s County Public Schools will open 90 minutes late Monday.

PG pivoted to a closure this morning. I don’t think this whole list needs to be related every time someone asks about dcps specifically and someone makes the point that they do not have to worry about bus clearance.

The point is a whole lot of schools are open today. Some were open last week. It isn't just DCPS which has metro. Some schools have virtual learning. Many schools have buses running even though the snow hasn't melted.

People keep insisting that MCPS is special. That it can't open, that it can't do virtual learning. That its just TOO HARD. But these these other schools can't.

Or maybe parents who find it so hard to be with their kids for a few days in unprecedented weather days shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Plan better.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a jerk who lives next to our elementary school who NEVER shovels his sidewalk. Not once in the 5 years we have gone to this school. Is there some way to report him or something if this is what is keeping schools from opening? He’s also the type who definitely has a gun and would be mad if someone came and shoveled his driveway for him.

For us the jerk next door that never shovels their sidewalk IS the MCPS school

This is why no one takes y'all trolls seriously.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't go through all of the pages and on the DCPS pages. Why did we not have school but they did? The streets are similar or worse there?

Putting aside the discussion of walker conditions, the buses are an issue for MCPS.

Most schools are open today. Most of these districts also have school buses, but somehow they managed it. Some have virtual learning, which MCPS didn't bother to get permission to make a plan to do. MCPS is being a special snowflake.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026...virginia-snow-storm/
Alexandria City Public Schools: Virtual learning
Anne Arundel County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday.
Arlington County Public Schools: Closed; two-hour delay Tuesday
Calvert County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Charles County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Culpeper County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
D.C. Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fairfax County Public Schools: Closed
Falls Church City Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fauquier County Public Schools: Closed
Howard County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday
Loudoun County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Montgomery County Public Schools: Closed
Pr. George’s County Public Schools: Two-hour delay; Code Orange
Prince William County Public Schools: Closed
Spotsylvania County Public Schools: Remote learning Monday and Tuesday; 12-month employees to report on time.
Stafford County Public Schools: Closed
https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-scho...CGZARVMWHPUHLYH5SYI/

Anne Arundel County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Baltimore County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Caroline County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Cecil County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Charles County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Howard County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Kent County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Montgomery County Public Schools will be closed Monday. Offices will open on time, and staff should report as on a regular noninstructional day
Prince George’s County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday. .
Queen Anne’s County Public Schools will open 90 minutes late Monday.

PG pivoted to a closure this morning. I don’t think this whole list needs to be related every time someone asks about dcps specifically and someone makes the point that they do not have to worry about bus clearance.

The point is a whole lot of schools are open today. Some were open last week. It isn't just DCPS which has metro. Some schools have virtual learning. Many schools have buses running even though the snow hasn't melted.

People keep insisting that MCPS is special. That it can't open, that it can't do virtual learning. That its just TOO HARD. But these these other schools can't.

Or maybe parents who find it so hard to be with their kids for a few days in unprecedented weather days shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Plan better.

Please. We don't want our kids to have an education because we dislike them.

And Frederick, which is geographically large and north of MCPS, is fully open. Just saying.

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

They didnt predict this TYPE of snow. Despite warnings of a snowy winter. They should have had a backup plan. A few hours with peers and teacher online just to check in, talk about what they did during snow days, current affairs, teacher check in to make sure kids are ok (you never know if a family is struggling) can do wonders. It's not only to get the academic stuff assigned. That can be posted on whatever platform they use nowadays and kids can work on those assignments independently with check in hours or synchronously. There was a way to make some type of virtual format happen.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't go through all of the pages and on the DCPS pages. Why did we not have school but they did? The streets are similar or worse there?

Putting aside the discussion of walker conditions, the buses are an issue for MCPS.

Most schools are open today. Most of these districts also have school buses, but somehow they managed it. Some have virtual learning, which MCPS didn't bother to get permission to make a plan to do. MCPS is being a special snowflake.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026...virginia-snow-storm/
Alexandria City Public Schools: Virtual learning
Anne Arundel County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday.
Arlington County Public Schools: Closed; two-hour delay Tuesday
Calvert County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Charles County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Culpeper County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
D.C. Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fairfax County Public Schools: Closed
Falls Church City Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fauquier County Public Schools: Closed
Howard County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday
Loudoun County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Montgomery County Public Schools: Closed
Pr. George’s County Public Schools: Two-hour delay; Code Orange
Prince William County Public Schools: Closed
Spotsylvania County Public Schools: Remote learning Monday and Tuesday; 12-month employees to report on time.
Stafford County Public Schools: Closed
https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-scho...CGZARVMWHPUHLYH5SYI/

Anne Arundel County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Baltimore County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Caroline County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Cecil County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Charles County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Howard County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Kent County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Montgomery County Public Schools will be closed Monday. Offices will open on time, and staff should report as on a regular noninstructional day
Prince George’s County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday. .
Queen Anne’s County Public Schools will open 90 minutes late Monday.

PG pivoted to a closure this morning. I don’t think this whole list needs to be related every time someone asks about dcps specifically and someone makes the point that they do not have to worry about bus clearance.

The point is a whole lot of schools are open today. Some were open last week. It isn't just DCPS which has metro. Some schools have virtual learning. Many schools have buses running even though the snow hasn't melted.

People keep insisting that MCPS is special. That it can't open, that it can't do virtual learning. That its just TOO HARD. But these these other schools can't.

Or maybe parents who find it so hard to be with their kids for a few days in unprecedented weather days shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Plan better.

Please. We don't want our kids to have an education because we dislike them.

And Frederick, which is geographically large and north of MCPS, is fully open. Just saying.

And just saying Frederick is not the largest county in MD and also just saying Frederick didn't get the same amount of whatever snow this is. And just saying because it's a smaller county they may have fewer special needs kids to think about. Just saying.

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

Man, if only there were positions funded by taxes, staffed by people with degrees in education, to come up with these plans. But no, random parents in the county should definitely have to come up with virtual plans.

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

Man, if only there were positions funded by taxes, staffed by people with degrees in education, to come up with these plans. But no, random parents in the county should definitely have to come up with virtual plans.

Then let's see the plan before assuming it is adequate.

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

Man, if only there were positions funded by taxes, staffed by people with degrees in education, to come up with these plans. But no, random parents in the county should definitely have to come up with virtual plans.

Then let's see the plan before assuming it is adequate.

That's the problem. They didn't even want to put in the effort to get a plan in front of MSDE. For goodness sake, just copy Anne Arundel's homework.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

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Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

The best teaching job must be PE teachers on days like tomorrow and last week?

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

Man, if only there were positions funded by taxes, staffed by people with degrees in education, to come up with these plans. But no, random parents in the county should definitely have to come up with virtual plans.

+1 In what universe should it be the job of parents to come up with the virtual learning plan MCPS said it would prepare in 2024. It has a $3bn budget.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't go through all of the pages and on the DCPS pages. Why did we not have school but they did? The streets are similar or worse there?

Putting aside the discussion of walker conditions, the buses are an issue for MCPS.

Most schools are open today. Most of these districts also have school buses, but somehow they managed it. Some have virtual learning, which MCPS didn't bother to get permission to make a plan to do. MCPS is being a special snowflake.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026...virginia-snow-storm/
Alexandria City Public Schools: Virtual learning
Anne Arundel County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday.
Arlington County Public Schools: Closed; two-hour delay Tuesday
Calvert County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Charles County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Culpeper County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
D.C. Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fairfax County Public Schools: Closed
Falls Church City Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fauquier County Public Schools: Closed
Howard County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday
Loudoun County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Montgomery County Public Schools: Closed
Pr. George’s County Public Schools: Two-hour delay; Code Orange
Prince William County Public Schools: Closed
Spotsylvania County Public Schools: Remote learning Monday and Tuesday; 12-month employees to report on time.
Stafford County Public Schools: Closed
https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-scho...CGZARVMWHPUHLYH5SYI/

Anne Arundel County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Baltimore County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Caroline County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Cecil County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Charles County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Howard County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Kent County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Montgomery County Public Schools will be closed Monday. Offices will open on time, and staff should report as on a regular noninstructional day
Prince George’s County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday. .
Queen Anne’s County Public Schools will open 90 minutes late Monday.

PG pivoted to a closure this morning. I don’t think this whole list needs to be related every time someone asks about dcps specifically and someone makes the point that they do not have to worry about bus clearance.

The point is a whole lot of schools are open today. Some were open last week. It isn't just DCPS which has metro. Some schools have virtual learning. Many schools have buses running even though the snow hasn't melted.

People keep insisting that MCPS is special. That it can't open, that it can't do virtual learning. That its just TOO HARD. But these these other schools can't.

Or maybe parents who find it so hard to be with their kids for a few days in unprecedented weather days shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Plan better.

Please. We don't want our kids to have an education because we dislike them.

And Frederick, which is geographically large and north of MCPS, is fully open. Just saying.

I’m beginning to think that this is just one person repeating the “then you shouldn’t have kids!” over and over again on these threads. Very similar wording. We should just collectively ignore them rather than responding and derailing the thread.

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The only people that are pro-virtual are parents who have kids that can be independent learners and are fluent in English. They can’t see past their own little bubble of affluence. They could afford learning pods during COVID or sit with their children while teaching was going on. Not everyone has this luxury. Trying to teach my students while simultaneously teaching my child with learning disabilities was nothing short of awful. Add in our non-English speaking families and it was a struggle for them to help support learning in a language that they don’t understand.

On the flip side, find me a teacher that loved virtual learning and I’ll guarantee you that they taught a class where the kids wanted to be there and didn’t need extra support.

I will personally be happy if I never have to provide virtual instruction or parent a child with an IEP who is receiving virtual instruction ever again.