Friday's "snow?"

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Strongly disagree. This was the right move, and next time people will have more sense to drive with caution, reducing the minor accidents we saw this time. People need to get used to this.

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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.

This. My DD class is in the portables..

Is this a joke? You think "snow gear" was necessary to walk a short distance outside in these conditions?

This wasn't A Day After Tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

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.

Minnesotan here. Yes, I'm laughing, but over how people are reacting to this. In most places I saw, they did reasonably well at clearing snow. Oddly, 270 was a mess, which is more an indication of mismanagement than a lack of resources. They also should be willing to lay salt, not just brine.

[Anonymous]

I sent an email complaining about the decision made today by Taylor. I was not happy about it. MCPS has to learn to be reasonable, not overcompensating and undercompensating when it comes to weather.

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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.

This. My DD class is in the portables..

Is this a joke? You think "snow gear" was necessary to walk a short distance outside in these conditions?

This wasn't A Day After Tomorrow.

Get off the computer for a few minutes every day. It will help

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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).

Read the earlier messages in this thread. Teachers were late because they through a temper tantrum, refusing to leave their homes early like any responsible professional. Sometimes your commutes will take longer.

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Anonymous wrote:Taylor is being petty bc so many people complained about Tuesday’s delay. This is his way of giving them the finger.

Eh I think it was a genuinely tough call as a delay would still have been unsafe. So it was either open on time or not at all.

That being said it is certainly possible he is trying to "show" everyone what happens when you open schools on time on a cold day with a little snow. I wouldn't put it past him to be this petty.

So what happens? Some buses will be late or get stuck, some cars will slip, because folks here are terrible drivers on a normal day and worse in the snow. And thousands of kids are in school and learning today. I personally think that's the right balance. You can't cancel school every time conditions aren't perfect. People have to be careful in these conditions but life doesn't have to stop. School should be canceled when roads are not passable, not when they require a little extra caution.

Agree. Unclear if delay really would have helped given the snow started late, and closure would be an overkill. Opening on time was also disruptive. Of the three imperfect choices, I think this one was the best.

Delays are put in place to allow clearing and to make calls when bad weather continues.
None of this makes any sense.

Delays are sometimes necessary when shared resources- like plows- need to go around to the schools. This was a case where each school's building staff could handle what needed to be done. It is entirely reasonable to expect the school to handle that without a delay. Our school did great.

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I cannot believe the whiners on here. There were some snowflakes--not very many. School should be open in these situations. If you feel it's unsafe, then by all means keep your kids home -- but MCPS needs to be open to let kids learn.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent an email complaining about the decision made today by Taylor. I was not happy about it. MCPS has to learn to be reasonable, not overcompensating and undercompensating when it comes to weather.

I hadn’t thought to do that but will send Taylor a message that I appreciated that school stayed open a full day today. My kids went to school and returned with no problems at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent an email complaining about the decision made today by Taylor. I was not happy about it. MCPS has to learn to be reasonable, not overcompensating and undercompensating when it comes to weather.

I hadn’t thought to do that but will send Taylor a message that I appreciated that school stayed open a full day today. My kids went to school and returned with no problems at all.

So glad to hear of your good fortune, Katie.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent an email complaining about the decision made today by Taylor. I was not happy about it. MCPS has to learn to be reasonable, not overcompensating and undercompensating when it comes to weather.

I hadn’t thought to do that but will send Taylor a message that I appreciated that school stayed open a full day today. My kids went to school and returned with no problems at all.

Good for you. My kids were stranded on their bus for two hours.

Shame on you for only caring about yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent an email complaining about the decision made today by Taylor. I was not happy about it. MCPS has to learn to be reasonable, not overcompensating and undercompensating when it comes to weather.

I hadn’t thought to do that but will send Taylor a message that I appreciated that school stayed open a full day today. My kids went to school and returned with no problems at all.

So glad to hear of your good fortune, Katie.

Thanks, Karen.

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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?

This right here. I’ll give you a hint. They’re fine with many many incidents as long as it’s other people’s kids and they don’t need to care for their kids for two extra hours in the am.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent an email complaining about the decision made today by Taylor. I was not happy about it. MCPS has to learn to be reasonable, not overcompensating and undercompensating when it comes to weather.

I hadn’t thought to do that but will send Taylor a message that I appreciated that school stayed open a full day today. My kids went to school and returned with no problems at all.

Good for you. My kids were stranded on their bus for two hours.

Shame on you for only caring about yourself.

I'm sorry you don't care enough about your kids to either bring them to school or let them back in the house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I sent an email complaining about the decision made today by Taylor. I was not happy about it. MCPS has to learn to be reasonable, not overcompensating and undercompensating when it comes to weather.

I hadn’t thought to do that but will send Taylor a message that I appreciated that school stayed open a full day today. My kids went to school and returned with no problems at all.

I will send him a message with advice to just flip a coin next time this happens. The odds are just as high about getting it right or wrong and he won’t waste time agonising over the decision and pouring over questionable data