Friday's "snow?"

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Taylor's call resulted in dozens of MCPS bus accidents today. Yikes.

SOURCE: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/05/dozen-collisions-vehicles-mcps-buses-snow-ice/

Icy and snowy road conditions Friday morning resulted in dozens of collisions before 9 a.m. involving cars, public buses and school buses across Montgomery County, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) spokesperson Pete Piringer.

Piringer told Bethesda Today that MCFRS crews and county police were “very busy” responding to collisions across the county during the early morning hours. But by about 9 a.m., collision reports appeared to slow down.

Piringer said he had seen a “variety of road conditions” while driving around the county Friday morning, ranging from low visibility due to heavy snowfall and slick conditions caused by snow sticking to roadways because of low temperatures.

“Temperatures were cold and any precipitation that fell, stuck,” Piringer said. “The road conditions were bad. It was pretty intense there for a while.”

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.

That doesn’t say dozens of accidents involving MCPS busses.

Ok. Correction: Dozens of accidents, some of which involved MCPS buses.

So now what?

NP. That's fine? Accidents are normal, none of these were serious. School buses are incredibly safe in an accident. It was the right call.

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.

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.

Zero negative consequences unless you count the accidents, injuries and children left in the cold.

I don't count whatever minor bumps you're thinking of, no. And if your kid was left in the cold that's on you. Buy them a coat and some gloves. Don't lecture about safety if you're not willing to do that. No school system can make you a good parent.

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Anonymous wrote:What we need is better preparedness and infrastructure. NY, New England, MN and WI are all laughing at us right now. This is a nothingburger.

They spend a LOT of money on that, because they need it a LOT. We dont.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid slipped and fell trying to get from the main building to a portable. Kid’s hip hurts, but it doesn’t sound like any medical care is warranted. We’d be filing paperwork with MCPS if it was.

Good grief! Keep your snowflake at home. You guys are nuts!

Keep your snowflakes off my kids

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Anonymous wrote:My kid slipped and fell trying to get from the main building to a portable. Kid’s hip hurts, but it doesn’t sound like any medical care is warranted. We’d be filing paperwork with MCPS if it was.

Good grief! Keep your snowflake at home. You guys are nuts!

This wasn’t first period. School had already started. They didn’t adequately salt and sand. If my kid is injured on school property due to the condition of their pavement, they should know about it. Relax, I’m not filing a lawsuit.

The problem there is the portables, forcing kids to walk around without snow gear.

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If you think both the 2hr delay on Tuesday and the on time opening today were the right call, you are the only person in the county.

I think today should have been a delay because many roads were not treated until well after high school and middle school students had to leave. Our road was snow covered until after 8. We are walkers so my kids were fine. We don’t mind walking in snow. But I heard our principal putting out an all alert over the announcement system about coverage because so many teachers were late that they didn’t know what class rooms were staffed (my kid is a 5th grade patrol so this was before most kids arrived). I saw at least one bus pulling in quite late as I was leaving for work, don’t know how it was for the others but we are a small neighborhood school so if we had delays I suspect it was worse for others. Hardly the end of the world but really stupid to cause this hassle because they screwed up earlier in the week (and I 100 percent believe that were it not for Tuesday they would have called the delay).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Taylor's call resulted in dozens of MCPS bus accidents today. Yikes.

SOURCE: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/05/dozen-collisions-vehicles-mcps-buses-snow-ice/

Icy and snowy road conditions Friday morning resulted in dozens of collisions before 9 a.m. involving cars, public buses and school buses across Montgomery County, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) spokesperson Pete Piringer.

Piringer told Bethesda Today that MCFRS crews and county police were “very busy” responding to collisions across the county during the early morning hours. But by about 9 a.m., collision reports appeared to slow down.

Piringer said he had seen a “variety of road conditions” while driving around the county Friday morning, ranging from low visibility due to heavy snowfall and slick conditions caused by snow sticking to roadways because of low temperatures.

“Temperatures were cold and any precipitation that fell, stuck,” Piringer said. “The road conditions were bad. It was pretty intense there for a while.”

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.

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."

What's the number of school bus incidents that would have made you feel Taylor made the wrong call?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid slipped and fell trying to get from the main building to a portable. Kid’s hip hurts, but it doesn’t sound like any medical care is warranted. We’d be filing paperwork with MCPS if it was.

Good grief! Keep your snowflake at home. You guys are nuts!

This wasn’t first period. School had already started. They didn’t adequately salt and sand. If my kid is injured on school property due to the condition of their pavement, they should know about it. Relax, I’m not filing a lawsuit.

The problem there is the portables, forcing kids to walk around without snow gear.

This. My DD class is in the portables..

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So many teachers didn't arrive on time at my school that we had to put the students in the gym / apr until there was enough coverage.

[Anonymous]

Tuesday should have been open. Today should have been 2hr delay, to stagger commutes and give everyone time to arrive.

Maybe next time MCPS will get it right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Taylor's call resulted in dozens of MCPS bus accidents today. Yikes.

SOURCE: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/05/dozen-collisions-vehicles-mcps-buses-snow-ice/

Icy and snowy road conditions Friday morning resulted in dozens of collisions before 9 a.m. involving cars, public buses and school buses across Montgomery County, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) spokesperson Pete Piringer.

Piringer told Bethesda Today that MCFRS crews and county police were “very busy” responding to collisions across the county during the early morning hours. But by about 9 a.m., collision reports appeared to slow down.

Piringer said he had seen a “variety of road conditions” while driving around the county Friday morning, ranging from low visibility due to heavy snowfall and slick conditions caused by snow sticking to roadways because of low temperatures.

“Temperatures were cold and any precipitation that fell, stuck,” Piringer said. “The road conditions were bad. It was pretty intense there for a while.”

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.

That doesn’t say dozens of accidents involving MCPS busses.

Ok. Correction: Dozens of accidents, some of which involved MCPS buses.

So now what?

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.

University at 495 is neither a mailbox nor up a hill, so...

[Anonymous]

University was a little slick between Dennis and Colesville this AM, but unless you were driving like a maniac, it was fine. It was clear east of Colesville. Sounds like a skill issue.

[Anonymous]

There were also a lot of substitute call-offs, who weren't willing to risk life and limb.

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So between that and teachers unable to get to school and bus accidents and students slipping and falling it was all around a bad decision not to call a delay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Taylor's call resulted in dozens of MCPS bus accidents today. Yikes.

SOURCE: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/05/dozen-collisions-vehicles-mcps-buses-snow-ice/

Icy and snowy road conditions Friday morning resulted in dozens of collisions before 9 a.m. involving cars, public buses and school buses across Montgomery County, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) spokesperson Pete Piringer.

Piringer told Bethesda Today that MCFRS crews and county police were “very busy” responding to collisions across the county during the early morning hours. But by about 9 a.m., collision reports appeared to slow down.

Piringer said he had seen a “variety of road conditions” while driving around the county Friday morning, ranging from low visibility due to heavy snowfall and slick conditions caused by snow sticking to roadways because of low temperatures.

“Temperatures were cold and any precipitation that fell, stuck,” Piringer said. “The road conditions were bad. It was pretty intense there for a while.”

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.

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."

What's the number of school bus incidents that would have made you feel Taylor made the wrong call?

It's more the severity of the incidents than the number. These were all minor.

[Anonymous]

Bethesda Today article on reactions to MCPS
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/05/mcps-concerns-friday/

Note that it incorrectly states:
"For many parents, the decision to open schools on time was a mistake – one that followed anger over the timing of an MCPS decision Tuesday morning to delay the start of classes because of inclement weather. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor Tuesday night sent a community apology regarding the timing of that decision as well as incorrect information that morning child care had been cancelled. "

They canceled beforecare on Tuesday. They didn't disseminate incorrect information about childcare. They made an intentional choice to prevent child care providers from operating and when providers called to confirm, they told them clearly they could not operate.