School delayed and no sports or activities for 3 days straight just for cold weather?!?

[Anonymous]

I am no defender of MCPS, but I think the reasoning was that they needed parking lots clear earlier in the evening to start working on salting/breaking up the ice. The delay must be for the same reason. They probably don’t have enough plows/trucks/workers because usually we don’t have prolonged ice/snow.

Don’t come at me. Just trying to see their reasoning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got a note that before care is opening 2 hours late tomorrow again. Did MCPS prohibit child care providers form opening on time, or is that just our provider’s choice? (They are not great about coverage so could be either.) TIA.

All childcare is delayed 2 hours too. Terrible decision

+1 I think parents should organize for legislation that requires MCPS to pay for parents' childcare costs when they require childcare providers to close and everything else (county, city, federal government) is open.

So create a middleman (MoCo govt)? You realize that any services MCPS provides is essentially paid for by parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all wish you could still blame “Monifa.”

Seriously. There is a profound problem with MCPS as a whole. We are paying this new superintendent $360,000 per year to make stupid decisions like this one. The cultural rot at MCPS runs very deep.

Voters, we are the problem. He's obviously not a serious man but the issue goes much deeper than him

Is Essie McGuire the problem? She's the constant here and she seems like she's manipulating Dr. Taylor quite a bit with her insider knowledge having worked for both MCPS and the County Council.

What do you mean "the constant"? She hasn't actually been at MCPS constantly. She left and then came back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got a note that before care is opening 2 hours late tomorrow again. Did MCPS prohibit child care providers form opening on time, or is that just our provider’s choice? (They are not great about coverage so could be either.) TIA.

All childcare is delayed 2 hours too. Terrible decision

+1 I think parents should organize for legislation that requires MCPS to pay for parents' childcare costs when they require childcare providers to close and everything else (county, city, federal government) is open.

So create a middleman (MoCo govt)? You realize that any services MCPS provides is essentially paid for by parents?

Whoa are you being charged tuition? That's a scam, girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am no defender of MCPS, but I think the reasoning was that they needed parking lots clear earlier in the evening to start working on salting/breaking up the ice. The delay must be for the same reason. They probably don’t have enough plows/trucks/workers because usually we don’t have prolonged ice/snow.

Don’t come at me. Just trying to see their reasoning.

I would get this if there was new snow or rain, but that’s not the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got a note that before care is opening 2 hours late tomorrow again. Did MCPS prohibit child care providers form opening on time, or is that just our provider’s choice? (They are not great about coverage so could be either.) TIA.

All childcare is delayed 2 hours too. Terrible decision

+1 I think parents should organize for legislation that requires MCPS to pay for parents' childcare costs when they require childcare providers to close and everything else (county, city, federal government) is open.

So create a middleman (MoCo govt)? You realize that any services MCPS provides is essentially paid for by parents?

Whoa are you being charged tuition? That's a scam, girl.

Taxes are tuition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all wish you could still blame “Monifa.”

Seriously. There is a profound problem with MCPS as a whole. We are paying this new superintendent $360,000 per year to make stupid decisions like this one. The cultural rot at MCPS runs very deep.

Voters, we are the problem. He's obviously not a serious man but the issue goes much deeper than him

Is Essie McGuire the problem? She's the constant here and she seems like she's manipulating Dr. Taylor quite a bit with her insider knowledge having worked for both MCPS and the County Council.

Nailed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am no defender of MCPS, but I think the reasoning was that they needed parking lots clear earlier in the evening to start working on salting/breaking up the ice. The delay must be for the same reason. They probably don’t have enough plows/trucks/workers because usually we don’t have prolonged ice/snow.

Don’t come at me. Just trying to see their reasoning.

You're correct. The BCC parking lot was all clear, but I hear the Walter Johnson parking lot was a mess this morning, and they obviously can't work on it if the cars are there.

So while my kids can get to BCC safely and everything is clear in downtown Bethesda, I imagine a few schools still have some issues.

And that's OK. Unlike some really angry and unstable posters, I expect closures and delays and understand that it's on parents to organize themselves for work and childcare. We've been doing this since my kids were in Kindergarten.

It's just amazing that every single year, there's the same insanity on this board from parents who clearly can't manage their emotions and can't seem to remember it was always like this.

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of whiners. It happens rarely. Just deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New arrivals and people with short memories don't know how the local community operates.

I remember MCPS closing for cold years ago. But apparently a lot of people don't.

I do! This is not a new thing. However, parents back then weren't a bunch of entitled brats who complained about EVERYTHING.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am no defender of MCPS, but I think the reasoning was that they needed parking lots clear earlier in the evening to start working on salting/breaking up the ice. The delay must be for the same reason. They probably don’t have enough plows/trucks/workers because usually we don’t have prolonged ice/snow.

Don’t come at me. Just trying to see their reasoning.

Lmao I will believe this if I see any evidence of salting or work this evening. I highly doubt it when there is no new snow / precipitation forecasted. Places that were clear like roads are remaining so, and places that the county declined to salt on Sat are ice. Nothing thawed and refroze - it's been too cold for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all wish you could still blame “Monifa.”

Seriously. There is a profound problem with MCPS as a whole. We are paying this new superintendent $360,000 per year to make stupid decisions like this one. The cultural rot at MCPS runs very deep.

Voters, we are the problem. He's obviously not a serious man but the issue goes much deeper than him

Is Essie McGuire the problem? She's the constant here and she seems like she's manipulating Dr. Taylor quite a bit with her insider knowledge having worked for both MCPS and the County Council.

What do you mean "the constant"? She hasn't actually been at MCPS constantly. She left and then came back.

I meant the constant from a local government perspective. Dr. Taylor, coming from Stafford County, is the outsider when it comes to MoCo, but Essie is not. She knows the game, the players and where all of the bodies are buried on both the MCPS and County Council side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got a note that before care is opening 2 hours late tomorrow again. Did MCPS prohibit child care providers form opening on time, or is that just our provider’s choice? (They are not great about coverage so could be either.) TIA.

Our provider was clear that it is an MCPS decision and they are not allowed to start the program earlier.

MCPS really is making no sense. I should not be surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all wish you could still blame “Monifa.”

Seriously. There is a profound problem with MCPS as a whole. We are paying this new superintendent $360,000 per year to make stupid decisions like this one. The cultural rot at MCPS runs very deep.

Voters, we are the problem. He's obviously not a serious man but the issue goes much deeper than him

Is Essie McGuire the problem? She's the constant here and she seems like she's manipulating Dr. Taylor quite a bit with her insider knowledge having worked for both MCPS and the County Council.

She’s at least part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got a note that before care is opening 2 hours late tomorrow again. Did MCPS prohibit child care providers form opening on time, or is that just our provider’s choice? (They are not great about coverage so could be either.) TIA.

All childcare is delayed 2 hours too. Terrible decision

+1 I think parents should organize for legislation that requires MCPS to pay for parents' childcare costs when they require childcare providers to close and everything else (county, city, federal government) is open.

So create a middleman (MoCo govt)? You realize that any services MCPS provides is essentially paid for by parents?

Whoa are you being charged tuition? That's a scam, girl.

Yes, people have to pay for before care and aftercare. Do you think it is free? -DP