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Friday's "snow?"
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Anonymous
There one was crash into a mailbox and the others were incidents where buses couldn't get up a hill. They have more accidents on a normal day than today. |
Anonymous
OK, in Bethesda, it is a dusting. |
Anonymous
NP. Seriously? MCFRS does not normally have to respond to multiple MCPS bus accidents in a day. Tying up extra fire department and police resources dealing with buses full of scared kids who probably shouldn't have been out on the roads, and wouldn't have been if Tuesday hadn't happened and the superintendent wasn't a weak leader and a reactionary moron, is not OK just because none of the kids died. It ties up important resources that then aren't available for the rest of the community's emergencies. I 100% believe that they would have done a 2-hour delay if it weren't for Tuesday. They contradicted their own apology email with this decision. And that is indicative of really, really stupid leadership. Develop the best process you can and stick to it. Don't weave wildly back and forth based on whoever screamed the loudest and the latest. |
Anonymous
They probably would have done a delay except for Tuesday, but fortunately their reaction ended up in the right call. It's okay for kids to be a little scared sometimes and the fire department was overwhelmed. We stayed open and there were zero negative consequences. That's the lesson from today. It's actually possible to have a functioning school system in the winter. |
Anonymous
Their apology on Tuesday was about child care. Nothing to do with today. Even if they had closed schools today they should have opened offices and child care. Now Taylor will nonsensically point to today every time he shuts down child care for rain. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+2 I have had kids in MCPS for a decade. I cannot recall a single time a weather decision was made that left half a dozen MCPS busses get in accidents in a single morning, not to mention the dozens that were late or didn’t show. Taylor is darn lucky none of those accidents resulted in a serious injury this time. It is unacceptable that we make choices that put our students and bus drivers in a position where they are likely to get in a collision because if we continue to take that risk, we are very likely to have a serious injury. |
Anonymous
| for pickup, there’s been no snow for hours and roads look great. It was the right call to open as normal this morning |
Anonymous
Two hour delay probably would have been better, and I planned for that because as I can understand what is likely to happen based on temperatures and conditions. That said, I'm not upset the went on time. Snow has long since stopped and roads are fine. Meteorology is a field where people can consistently be wrong because there is a lot of estimation/guesstimation involved, combined with a lot of science. |
Anonymous
You must be in "Bethesda wink wink" |
Anonymous
+1 There was truly nothing awful about the decision based on the information available at the time it was made. They knew it might be slippery so they told families to be careful. That is very reasonable. Sometimes, conditions are worse than expected and that can cause accidents. I'd rather they recognize they can't predict the future or prevent every accident, than close down everything at the slightest chance of slippery roads. Tuesday, on the other hand, was ridiculous. They knew that a 2 hour delay means high schools start at 9:45 and elementary schools start at 11:00 or later. They know many high school and middle school teachers have younger kids. They prevented their own employees from getting to work at the time they dictated by intentionally prohibiting child care providers from opening for before care. The bad outcome wasn't just predictable, it was a certainty. And it truly felt malicious. |
Anonymous
We've been in mcps for 15 years and I agree. Taylor just lost the confidence of half of the parents. I cant imagine being this inept or flatly uncaring about the welfare of children His time is ticking. |
Anonymous
Zero negative consequences unless you count the accidents, injuries and children left in the cold. |
Anonymous
It seems that you had too many snow days when you were in school because you never learned to read. "According to Piringer, about a half dozen incidents Friday morning involved school buses. No serious injuries were reported, Piringer said. He noted that many of those incidents involved school buses stuck at the bottom of a hill or that had slid on a road." The real news is that Exec Erlich should have canceed RTO for all employers! "Piringer said many of Friday morning’s collisions occurred along the county’s I-270 corridor from Montrose Road to Shady Grove Road. More than a dozen collisions occurred on that span of the corridor, with many involving multiple vehicles. One incident involved about eight or nine vehicles, Piringer said." |
Anonymous
Its 32 degrees, it's not that cold. If they don't have a coat, then what are we supposed to do, there seem to be plenty of free coats available out there for families who can't afford a coat. We can still have school. |