What do we think will happen on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:I just went to APS forum to see what they are saying.

Zero debate on this topic and dead thread.

Try Moco County or MD School Forum or Other VA School Forum and they too are struggling.
Or you can just stick to what you want to see.

Sure but Maryland has a different set of conditions than we do. We’ve got a 40+ page active thread full of hand wringing and APS is relatively quiet.

If you read Other VA Schools, you'd see LCPS (and PWC) are struggling too.

I wouldn't blankly say there's "zero debate" among surrounding counties

I didn’t say surrounding counties. I said APS, our neighboring county who we are often in lock step with on these kind of calls. Yes they are much smaller.

Just an observation.

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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.

So just forge ahead and to hell with the kids who get injured or died? We aren't capable of coming up with solutions or organizing help for bus riders and walkers?

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Calm down. You said “no other profession” enjoyed the snow days so I just pointed out that some of the highest paid professions in the area let you work from home. It’s bonkers to try to dunk on teachers as some privileged class in Fairfax County.

When it comes to wanting schools closed, teachers are a privileged class. They get to stay home and get paid for doing nothing!

If you feel they re so privileged and that they get paid to do nothing, why don't you apply to be a teacher? You clearly think they have a cushy job. Go join them.

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Calm down. You said “no other profession” enjoyed the snow days so I just pointed out that some of the highest paid professions in the area let you work from home. It’s bonkers to try to dunk on teachers as some privileged class in Fairfax County.

When it comes to wanting schools closed, teachers are a privileged class. They get to stay home and get paid for doing nothing!

They’re not being paid to stay home. Think of it this way: you buy tickets for a concert. The concert is postponed. You get to see the concert another time. The musicians are only paid for one concert. It’s the same with school. Teachers will have to make up the days, and they will not be paid twice.

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Calm down. You said “no other profession” enjoyed the snow days so I just pointed out that some of the highest paid professions in the area let you work from home. It’s bonkers to try to dunk on teachers as some privileged class in Fairfax County.

When it comes to wanting schools closed, teachers are a privileged class. They get to stay home and get paid for doing nothing!

I’m a teacher. I’ve worked every single day since the snow and ice started falling, including weekends. I’m taking a break from work now just to write this!
PLEASE follow me around for a day. Any day. Then tell me I do nothing.

I know mocking and insulting teachers is a sport on this site, but I’m tired of it. Find something better to do with your time. Go shovel out a narrow street. Then maybe we can get schools open and you can stop complaining about lazy teachers. Heck, this lazy teacher will even join you once I complete my plans for tomorrow.

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Calm down. You said “no other profession” enjoyed the snow days so I just pointed out that some of the highest paid professions in the area let you work from home. It’s bonkers to try to dunk on teachers as some privileged class in Fairfax County.

When it comes to wanting schools closed, teachers are a privileged class. They get to stay home and get paid for doing nothing!

They’re not being paid to stay home. Think of it this way: you buy tickets for a concert. The concert is postponed. You get to see the concert another time. The musicians are only paid for one concert. It’s the same with school. Teachers will have to make up the days, and they will not be paid twice.

They will not make up these days. 10 are in the calendar. Teachers see these as an entitlement.

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Anonymous wrote:At least with a 2hr delay the traffic will be a bit more staggered. The current roads can't handle the normal heavy rush hour with disappearing merge lanes, 1/2 cleared turn lanes, no shoulders, and pedestrians forced to walk in streets.

Has nobody ever heard of leaving early if you expect delays?

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

Federal workers get paid when the government is closed due to weather. Contractors don’t but the Fed do, they lve it. Plenty of people in our area enjoy snow days when things are officially closed.

The government closed for two days, and any Fed with the ability was required to telework. Your information is about 10 years out of date.

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Anonymous wrote:I just went to APS forum to see what they are saying.

Zero debate on this topic and dead thread.

That thread about APS was last updated yesterday afternoon. I’d hardly call that “zero debate.”

This kind of incident is horrible and increases in likelihood with the current one lane road situations.

April 28, 2005 ARLINGTON, Va. — Law agencies and transportation safety officials have begun investigations into the cause of an accident between a school bus and a trash hauler that left two students dead and injured 15 others last Monday.

According to The Washington Post, investigators closed the intersection where the accident took place for nearly four hours while trying to determine how the two vehicles were positioned at the time of the collision.

Police said sifting through the evidence and analyzing the results of the reenactment could take weeks or longer.

The collision killed 9-year-old Lilibeth Gomez, a third-grader at Hoffman-Boston Elementary School, instantly. Harrison Orosco, 7, died Wednesday at a local hospital from a severe head injury. The drivers of the two vehicles survived but required surgery for wounds they suffered in the collision.

There aren’t great solutions but hopefully everyone will be kinder to each other than they are on here tomorrow as the kiss and rides will be HORRIBLE!

Really? An article from 2005 about a dead child. A new low.

History is a warning - always. Be a better person and show some compassion. This may have happened 20 years ago, but it is still heartbreaking.

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Calm down. You said “no other profession” enjoyed the snow days so I just pointed out that some of the highest paid professions in the area let you work from home. It’s bonkers to try to dunk on teachers as some privileged class in Fairfax County.

When it comes to wanting schools closed, teachers are a privileged class. They get to stay home and get paid for doing nothing!

I’m a teacher. I’ve worked every single day since the snow and ice started falling, including weekends. I’m taking a break from work now just to write this!
PLEASE follow me around for a day. Any day. Then tell me I do nothing.

I know mocking and insulting teachers is a sport on this site, but I’m tired of it. Find something better to do with your time. Go shovel out a narrow street. Then maybe we can get schools open and you can stop complaining about lazy teachers. Heck, this lazy teacher will even join you once I complete my plans for tomorrow.

Huh I’m not a teacher hater but confused. You had enough work to fill 3 8-hour days you would have been in school teaching? I presume you will say grading? If you are also working weekends, when would you have fit in all this grading if school had been open if you’re already working 7 days a week?

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Calm down. You said “no other profession” enjoyed the snow days so I just pointed out that some of the highest paid professions in the area let you work from home. It’s bonkers to try to dunk on teachers as some privileged class in Fairfax County.

When it comes to wanting schools closed, teachers are a privileged class. They get to stay home and get paid for doing nothing!

They’re not being paid to stay home. Think of it this way: you buy tickets for a concert. The concert is postponed. You get to see the concert another time. The musicians are only paid for one concert. It’s the same with school. Teachers will have to make up the days, and they will not be paid twice.

They will not make up these days. 10 are in the calendar. Teachers see these as an entitlement.

My God, you are such a malcontent! When those days dont get used, teachers still work at school. They don't think they are entitled to ten snow days. Get over yourself.

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Stop slinging the word privilege around. It’s old and tired. Get over your obstacles and find some resilience instead of finger pointing at someone because their obstacles and advantages are different from yours.

Privilege is the correct word here: people who will face no financial or professional consequences advocating for long term closures because it’s beneficial to themselves, while disregarding the impact on others.

I can easily get my kid to school. But not if gatehouse decides to privilege teachers over students again.

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Calm down. You said “no other profession” enjoyed the snow days so I just pointed out that some of the highest paid professions in the area let you work from home. It’s bonkers to try to dunk on teachers as some privileged class in Fairfax County.

When it comes to wanting schools closed, teachers are a privileged class. They get to stay home and get paid for doing nothing!

They’re not being paid to stay home. Think of it this way: you buy tickets for a concert. The concert is postponed. You get to see the concert another time. The musicians are only paid for one concert. It’s the same with school. Teachers will have to make up the days, and they will not be paid twice.

They will not make up these days. 10 are in the calendar. Teachers see these as an entitlement.

There are snow days in the calendar because we bank the extra time by having longer days than we need to, so I'm not sure how that's an entitlement. Calm down, we have used less than 3 snow days for this storm. Last Wednesday was a scheduled early release for the end of the second quarter, and Thursday & Friday were scheduled work days. Teachers worked on those days, so not paid to sit home and do nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:I just went to APS forum to see what they are saying.

Zero debate on this topic and dead thread.

That thread about APS was last updated yesterday afternoon. I’d hardly call that “zero debate.”

This kind of incident is horrible and increases in likelihood with the current one lane road situations.

April 28, 2005 ARLINGTON, Va. — Law agencies and transportation safety officials have begun investigations into the cause of an accident between a school bus and a trash hauler that left two students dead and injured 15 others last Monday.

According to The Washington Post, investigators closed the intersection where the accident took place for nearly four hours while trying to determine how the two vehicles were positioned at the time of the collision.

Police said sifting through the evidence and analyzing the results of the reenactment could take weeks or longer.

The collision killed 9-year-old Lilibeth Gomez, a third-grader at Hoffman-Boston Elementary School, instantly. Harrison Orosco, 7, died Wednesday at a local hospital from a severe head injury. The drivers of the two vehicles survived but required surgery for wounds they suffered in the collision.

There aren’t great solutions but hopefully everyone will be kinder to each other than they are on here tomorrow as the kiss and rides will be HORRIBLE!

Really? An article from 2005 about a dead child. A new low.

History is a warning - always. Be a better person and show some compassion. This may have happened 20 years ago, but it is still heartbreaking.

Nope I’m going to go with stop being a gruesome tragedy troll drumming up a 20 year old accident involving a child that NAMES A CHILD to try to sway a debate about school opening.

Gross.

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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.

You never know who is posting on here. Could be Gatehouse or teachers posing as parents who just want another day off.

Really, grow up. Teachers enjoy snow days like anyone else but most of us are also parents so we want our kids back in school as much as anyone else AND I don’t think any of us are enthused about the idea of closures and the cascade of issues that come from things that have to be shifted as a result continuing into another week. There’s federal and state testing going on, remediation and prep for state testing that is coming, school events that aren’t easily moved. It’s so dumb and juvenile to just pretend teachers sit on here pretending to be something they’re not.

No, teachers get unearned PTO and are not required to find childcare during snow days, or go to work regardless of the conditions. No other profession gets that. You don’t enjoy snow days “like anyone else” and so please check your privilege.

I’m a teacher in my 20s who lives with roommates who are all consultants who can work remote. My roommates worked less this snow week than I did lol.

So your roommates aren’t either of the referenced groups— parents responsible for finding childcare or people required to go to work. Check your privilege because you’re contributing to the narrative of entitlement.

Calm down. You said “no other profession” enjoyed the snow days so I just pointed out that some of the highest paid professions in the area let you work from home. It’s bonkers to try to dunk on teachers as some privileged class in Fairfax County.

When it comes to wanting schools closed, teachers are a privileged class. They get to stay home and get paid for doing nothing!

They’re not being paid to stay home. Think of it this way: you buy tickets for a concert. The concert is postponed. You get to see the concert another time. The musicians are only paid for one concert. It’s the same with school. Teachers will have to make up the days, and they will not be paid twice.

They will not make up these days. 10 are in the calendar. Teachers see these as an entitlement.

No, they are the reason we have a 7-week summer and start school before labor day. They aren’t a bonus.