What do we think will happen on Monday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

[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

??? Absolutely they would this is goofy to claim

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

I can drive my kids to school and would prefer school be open.

I can still acknowledge it isn’t safe for kids and buses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

I can drive my kids to school and would prefer school be open.

I can still acknowledge it isn’t safe for kids and buses.

It is what it is. Things aren’t changing for weeks. Canceling school tomorrow would be irrelevant to a longer term solution.

[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.

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.

How is that going to change in the next week? It won’t.

[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

??? Absolutely they would this is goofy to claim

lol ok

[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

??? Absolutely they would this is goofy to claim

Sure. It’s the same post every year. Keep schools closed or parents will sue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

I can drive my kids to school and would prefer school be open.

I can still acknowledge it isn’t safe for kids and buses.

It is what it is. Things aren’t changing for weeks. Canceling school tomorrow would be irrelevant to a longer term solution.

I don’t think a bus could make a turn on our street with the mountain of ice. Add in cars on opposite sides.

I hope school opens but if they do, there will definitely be some bad bus outcomes.

[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.

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.

How is that going to change in the next week? It won’t.

It’s not going to change in February.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

I can drive my kids to school and would prefer school be open.

I can still acknowledge it isn’t safe for kids and buses.

It is what it is. Things aren’t changing for weeks. Canceling school tomorrow would be irrelevant to a longer term solution.

I don’t think a bus could make a turn on our street with the mountain of ice. Add in cars on opposite sides.

I hope school opens but if they do, there will definitely be some bad bus outcomes.

Then they need to figure out alternatives. Mountains of ice will take absolutely the longest to clear. You’re looking at March.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

I can drive my kids to school and would prefer school be open.

I can still acknowledge it isn’t safe for kids and buses.

It is what it is. Things aren’t changing for weeks. Canceling school tomorrow would be irrelevant to a longer term solution.

I don’t think a bus could make a turn on our street with the mountain of ice. Add in cars on opposite sides.

I hope school opens but if they do, there will definitely be some bad bus outcomes.

Then they need to figure out alternatives. Mountains of ice will take absolutely the longest to clear. You’re looking at March.

I already said I can and will drive my kids to school.

My oldest is in high school. A decade ago, we had a huge snow event and school was closed for two weeks. Our street was cleared by day 2. Fcps said roads out in western fcps weren’t cleared.

This time, our street still is in very poor condition. Can’t imagine how bad all those other streets out there where parents probably aren’t on dcum are.

[Anonymous]

In a post-Covid environment where there is evidence we are failing kids in public school and more kids than ever have attendance issues and need the free meals, they are going to close school for weeks on end?

I don’t see it.

Nobody has mentioned one thing on here that will be any better in a week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

I can drive my kids to school and would prefer school be open.

I can still acknowledge it isn’t safe for kids and buses.

It is what it is. Things aren’t changing for weeks. Canceling school tomorrow would be irrelevant to a longer term solution.

I don’t think a bus could make a turn on our street with the mountain of ice. Add in cars on opposite sides.

I hope school opens but if they do, there will definitely be some bad bus outcomes.

Then they need to figure out alternatives. Mountains of ice will take absolutely the longest to clear. You’re looking at March.

I already said I can and will drive my kids to school.

My oldest is in high school. A decade ago, we had a huge snow event and school was closed for two weeks. Our street was cleared by day 2. Fcps said roads out in western fcps weren’t cleared.

This time, our street still is in very poor condition. Can’t imagine how bad all those other streets out there where parents probably aren’t on dcum are.

I said they, not you. You have a solution. Aside, a huge snow event is clearable when they get around to it. This is not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

I can drive my kids to school and would prefer school be open.

I can still acknowledge it isn’t safe for kids and buses.

It is what it is. Things aren’t changing for weeks. Canceling school tomorrow would be irrelevant to a longer term solution.

I don’t think a bus could make a turn on our street with the mountain of ice. Add in cars on opposite sides.

I hope school opens but if they do, there will definitely be some bad bus outcomes.

Then they need to figure out alternatives. Mountains of ice will take absolutely the longest to clear. You’re looking at March.

I already said I can and will drive my kids to school.

My oldest is in high school. A decade ago, we had a huge snow event and school was closed for two weeks. Our street was cleared by day 2. Fcps said roads out in western fcps weren’t cleared.

This time, our street still is in very poor condition. Can’t imagine how bad all those other streets out there where parents probably aren’t on dcum are.

I'm in western fcps. Roads have been clear for several days now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Plows are ineffective at this point. You’d need heavy construction equipment to break through. If people still think school should be closed tomorrow, they’re effectively saying it should be closed for the next several weeks.

I can drive my kids to school and would prefer school be open.

I can still acknowledge it isn’t safe for kids and buses.

It is what it is. Things aren’t changing for weeks. Canceling school tomorrow would be irrelevant to a longer term solution.

I don’t think a bus could make a turn on our street with the mountain of ice. Add in cars on opposite sides.

I hope school opens but if they do, there will definitely be some bad bus outcomes.

Then they need to figure out alternatives. Mountains of ice will take absolutely the longest to clear. You’re looking at March.

I already said I can and will drive my kids to school.

My oldest is in high school. A decade ago, we had a huge snow event and school was closed for two weeks. Our street was cleared by day 2. Fcps said roads out in western fcps weren’t cleared.

This time, our street still is in very poor condition. Can’t imagine how bad all those other streets out there where parents probably aren’t on dcum are.

I'm in western fcps. Roads have been clear for several days now.

Me too. I mean I can’t speak for all the various neighborhoods obviously, but western Fairfax was very drivable last Monday. The roads are less congested in the first place.