Will schools be open next week?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So it seems like FCPS made the right call yesterday (along with many other area school districts). Good job. I am glad that we seem to be moving in a more reasonable direction with school cancellations/delays.

+1 I appreciate the correct response as well. Hopefully, they will use the same measured approach when deciding what to do for this Friday.

I am sure the bus drivers who were in accidents with a bus full of kids, the kids that had to transfer buses in the middle of traffic, the neighborhoods where buses were unable to pick anyone up, and the poor bus driver who was hurt falling on black ice all agree that it was reasonable and measured.

Yes, accidents happen. Plenty of people not affiliated with FCPS slipped on the snow/ice this past week. Surely you did not expect FCPS to cancel school today, right? Because there is still a ton of slippery ice out there. Or who knows... maybe you want FCPS to cancel school whenever there is any visible ice and snow?

If you're going to make an argument, maybe don't go to the silly extreme to make it. Because that is not what the PP, and others, are saying. But I'm sure you already know that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it seems like FCPS made the right call yesterday (along with many other area school districts). Good job. I am glad that we seem to be moving in a more reasonable direction with school cancellations/delays.

+1 I appreciate the correct response as well. Hopefully, they will use the same measured approach when deciding what to do for this Friday.

I am sure the bus drivers who were in accidents with a bus full of kids, the kids that had to transfer buses in the middle of traffic, the neighborhoods where buses were unable to pick anyone up, and the poor bus driver who was hurt falling on black ice all agree that it was reasonable and measured.

Yes, accidents happen. Plenty of people not affiliated with FCPS slipped on the snow/ice this past week. Surely you did not expect FCPS to cancel school today, right? Because there is still a ton of slippery ice out there. Or who knows... maybe you want FCPS to cancel school whenever there is any visible ice and snow?

If you're going to make an argument, maybe don't go to the silly extreme to make it. Because that is not what the PP, and others, are saying. But I'm sure you already know that.

I don't know that. There is not much difference in terms of the ice on neighborhood sidewalks and side streets today versus yesterday. People (luckily, only a small minority) were shouting that FCPS should have canceled school yesterday. Same issues exist today (piles of snow at bus stops, ice on sidewalks, very cold, etc), but no one seems to be shouting about FCPS making a mistake for having a normal school day today. What gives?

[Anonymous]

Snow models ticking back up for tomorrow. I predict closed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only people that hate days off from snow days are the people that hate their kids

This is beyond tired at this point. By your logic, anyone who doesn’t homeschool hates their kids. If they really loved their kids they’d want to be home together all the time.

Did it ever occur to you that some people hate the scrambling that occurs when last minute changes are made? We don’t all have jobs where we can just work from home or call out when school is delayed or closed. We all adapt, but that doesn’t make it not stressful. Not everyone has a grandparent or neighbor who can just watch our kids on short notice.

Being stressed is valid! But so are people arguing that it’s unsafe for busses full of kids to drive on icy roads.

I don’t disagree and haven’t weighed in on that particular argument. I am just responding to the PP who loves to say that people who dislike unexpected days off must hate their kids. They do it in multiple threads about weather, Covid, and more. It is beyond absurd.

[Anonymous]

It’s honestly a similar question to Covid. Is the benefits of attending school in person worth the risk of even one preventable student or adult death?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many snow days have we used in the pass 5 years?
2019-2020 NOT SURE
2020-2021 1 (ONLINE SCHOOL)
2021-22022 5
2022-2023 0
2023-2024 3 AND COUNTING

There have been 3 for the 2023-2024 school year?

counting on Friday and Election day in March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s honestly a similar question to Covid. Is the benefits of attending school in person worth the risk of even one preventable student or adult death?

Keeping kids out of school for a whole year turned into a pretty bad idea. So I don’t think you can compare them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many snow days have we used in the pass 5 years?
2019-2020 NOT SURE
2020-2021 1 (ONLINE SCHOOL)
2021-22022 5
2022-2023 0
2023-2024 3 AND COUNTING

There have been 3 for the 2023-2024 school year?

counting on Friday and Election day in March.

Election day in March? Are you seriously counting that as a snow day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many snow days have we used in the pass 5 years?
2019-2020 NOT SURE
2020-2021 1 (ONLINE SCHOOL)
2021-22022 5
2022-2023 0
2023-2024 3 AND COUNTING

There have been 3 for the 2023-2024 school year?

counting on Friday and Election day in March.

Election day in March? Are you seriously counting that as a snow day?

This person is delusional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s honestly a similar question to Covid. Is the benefits of attending school in person worth the risk of even one preventable student or adult death?

Yes it was and yes it will be...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s honestly a similar question to Covid. Is the benefits of attending school in person worth the risk of even one preventable student or adult death?

Covid was unprecedented and snow days have always existed. Comparing the two is preposterous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s honestly a similar question to Covid. Is the benefits of attending school in person worth the risk of even one preventable student or adult death?

Covid was unprecedented and snow days have always existed. Comparing the two is preposterous.

we should go back like the 1990s go to school when its a snow a little bit..

[Anonymous]

no one in the office remembers having so many snow days back then, when ever we had a few we had to make them up.

[Anonymous]

Can we simply stick to snow days? I predict delay and then closed for Friday. Others?

[Anonymous]

Feel like an ammouncement is coming at 6;02 pm...... this is why we chose a private school like langley