What about Tuesday?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If DCPS can open why not MCPS?

How will they get these days back?

DCPS regularly is open when MCPS is closed. Lots of differences, once of which is that they don’t have buses.

But one of the excuses that MCPS is making is sidewalks. The sidewalks in DC are not all clear either. All of the other MD districts are open with a delay. Conditions are unlikely to improve today and it's ridiculous to just wait until the snow and ice melt.

Overall, this region has had a tough time responding to this storm. It's not just MCPS. But I agree with PPs in other threads that MCPS really needs a superintendent from the northeast or midwest that has more experience with weather events and more importantly has more of a can-do attitude. It's not just that schools are still closed a week after the storm, since Taylor has been superintendent MCPS admin offices (and consequently childcare) have closed on days that they previously would have been open.

Some of us don’t have sidewalks so kids walk in the street.

SOunds like a good day to drive your kids. When you purchase in a house in a neighborhood without sidewalks, you need a backup plan for days it's too dangerous to walk in the streets. You surely cannot expect a school district to stay shut until all the ice melts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably a 2 hour delay. People do not understand that the busses need to be able to access streets and many many streets are still very much one lane only. Not to mention the students with disabilities that need to be able to roll down the street and into busses. MCPS runs a ton of disability programs and must provide service to those students. This is probably them covering their backsides since they were just in litigation a summer or two ago regarding students with disabilities.

I haven’t seen a county snowplow since last Tuesday, so how is that going to change anytime this week? We’re going to get a couple days in the 30s today and tomorrow where it will soften up a bit, but I guarantee they won’t be plowing anything. Then it’s back into the 20s for several more days. I guess we’re just not doing school for a couple weeks until this melts off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With tonight's parent backlash, MCPS and FCPS and the others will open Tuesday 2 hrs late, and ignore all the stuff they said today about wanting shoveled sidewalks, re-plowed side streets and needing the special ed buses to be able to access students exactly at their doorstep (I have a kid who rode one of those and he got picked up on the main street, not my tiny side street, for 3 years!).

Huh? MCPS didn’t say that. They said they will *likely* open Tuesday. Just like last Friday MCPS said it would likely open tomorrow Monday with a 2 hour delay.

Yet MCPS is fully closed tomorrow Monday.

From the MCPS website:

“Why We Can’t Open Tomorrow:

Many neighborhood streets are too narrow and too icy for buses to travel safely. Many neighborhood streets are barely passable for a car and school buses are much wider.
Many sidewalks are impassable, forcing walkers to use busy roads instead of safe sidewalks. Approximately 20% of our students walk to school and do not have access to bus transportation.
Many of our students with disabilities require door-to-door transportation (as part of their legally mandated individualized education plan), which in some areas will not be possible due to some neighborhood street conditions.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With tonight's parent backlash, MCPS and FCPS and the others will open Tuesday 2 hrs late, and ignore all the stuff they said today about wanting shoveled sidewalks, re-plowed side streets and needing the special ed buses to be able to access students exactly at their doorstep (I have a kid who rode one of those and he got picked up on the main street, not my tiny side street, for 3 years!).

Huh? MCPS didn’t say that. They said they will *likely* open Tuesday. Just like last Friday MCPS said it would likely open tomorrow Monday with a 2 hour delay.

Yet MCPS is fully closed tomorrow Monday.

From the MCPS website:

“Why We Can’t Open Tomorrow:

Many neighborhood streets are too narrow and too icy for buses to travel safely. Many neighborhood streets are barely passable for a car and school buses are much wider.
Many sidewalks are impassable, forcing walkers to use busy roads instead of safe sidewalks. Approximately 20% of our students walk to school and do not have access to bus transportation.
Many of our students with disabilities require door-to-door transportation (as part of their legally mandated individualized education plan), which in some areas will not be possible due to some neighborhood street conditions.”

The morons put out too much detail. The conditions they describe won't change until late February at best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was not expecting a closure for Monday, and I think it's a mistake to close, given that people who did not shovel their sidewalks won't shovel them anytime soon, I don't think plows will go another round in side streets, so the same problems will remain.

MCPS gives perfectly rational reasons for closing, but the problem is, none of the reasons will be resolved this week.

I had a kid with disabilities who needed door-to-door transportation (now in college), so I get the concerns!!! But frankly, we can't close an entire system for the needs of the few.

Given it's not rational to close for Monday, I have no idea what MCPS is going to do for Tuesday.

So you would have been completely fine with your child sitting at home for four days while their siblings and classmates went to school?

[Anonymous]

I think things will be phased in this week.

Monday, offices reopen.

Tuesday, teachers return and grades are finalized.

Wednesday, two hour delay.

Thursday, two hour delay.

Friday, “normal”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think things will be phased in this week.

Monday, offices reopen.

Tuesday, teachers return and grades are finalized.

Wednesday, two hour delay.

Thursday, two hour delay.

Friday, “normal”.

I thought teachers only wasn’t possible per the update for today?

[Anonymous]

I live near an elementary school. There were at least 4 bulldozers going through and widening the roads that buses use. One was working at midnight last night. The main roads near us are also much better. While I’m glad to have a glimmer of hope you really have to ask why we waited over a week after the storm was over to do all of this. So pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think things will be phased in this week.

Monday, offices reopen.

Tuesday, teachers return and grades are finalized.

Wednesday, two hour delay.

Thursday, two hour delay.

Friday, “normal”.

I thought teachers only wasn’t possible per the update for today?

Teachers can be in buildings without students. It just requires moving the professional day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was not expecting a closure for Monday, and I think it's a mistake to close, given that people who did not shovel their sidewalks won't shovel them anytime soon, I don't think plows will go another round in side streets, so the same problems will remain.

MCPS gives perfectly rational reasons for closing, but the problem is, none of the reasons will be resolved this week.

I had a kid with disabilities who needed door-to-door transportation (now in college), so I get the concerns!!! But frankly, we can't close an entire system for the needs of the few.

Given it's not rational to close for Monday, I have no idea what MCPS is going to do for Tuesday.

So you would have been completely fine with your child sitting at home for four days while their siblings and classmates went to school?

PP you replied to. No, I would have driven them to school. Which I had to do many times, because the special ed bus was not reliable ANYWAY.

I can guarantee you that parents who have children with disabilities know the limitations of MCPS and have learned to be resourceful.

I find it offensive that MCPS is exploiting the special needs population as an excuse not to open schools!

[Anonymous]

I drive my kids to school every day even though we have a school bus stop. I will take 2 hours delay tomorrow Tuesday if they could open.

[Anonymous]

I will shave my ball sack with a straight edge if they have school tomorrow

[Anonymous]

I bet they will open tomorrow with a 2 hour delay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will shave my ball sack with a straight edge if they have school tomorrow

Ow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will shave my ball sack with a straight edge if they have school tomorrow

Not liking MCPS as an employer, huh?