Snow forecast

[Anonymous]

Just watched Doug Kammerer live on Facebook. He predicts the school will be close tomorrow and will have a delay start on Tuesday due to the icy conditions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:2-6" is not much snow. Just wake up earlier, leave earlier, drive slower. MCPS should make sure everyone knows to do this. It is not a big deal. I'm from Chicago and it would be a joke to shut down schools and panic over a few inches.

Hahahahahahahahaha

When I lived in Dallas they shut schools for a sprinkling of snow. I remember a very slight snow completely crippled Atlanta a few years back.

Where you are 100% matters when it comes to snow.

And we’re in Montgomery county, which has plenty of equipment to salt streets and clear snow.

[Anonymous]

Wow. All of the typical Fox News moms twitter feeds almost read as satire at this point. “Thoughts and prayers!” …pretending to care about minorities…. Pretending their “normalcy” is more important than the fact their kids probably won’t have teachers this week….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2-6" is not much snow. Just wake up earlier, leave earlier, drive slower. MCPS should make sure everyone knows to do this. It is not a big deal. I'm from Chicago and it would be a joke to shut down schools and panic over a few inches.

Hahahahahahahahaha

When I lived in Dallas they shut schools for a sprinkling of snow. I remember a very slight snow completely crippled Atlanta a few years back.

Where you are 100% matters when it comes to snow.

And we’re in Montgomery county, which has plenty of equipment to salt streets and clear snow.

But do we have staff? In Rockville, they've had to cut back on garbage pick-ups due to the lack of staff. These are the same workers who plow the snow. If we get anything that sticks, it may be a while before they get the roads clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2-6" is not much snow. Just wake up earlier, leave earlier, drive slower. MCPS should make sure everyone knows to do this. It is not a big deal. I'm from Chicago and it would be a joke to shut down schools and panic over a few inches.

Hahahahahahahahaha

When I lived in Dallas they shut schools for a sprinkling of snow. I remember a very slight snow completely crippled Atlanta a few years back.

Where you are 100% matters when it comes to snow.

And we’re in Montgomery county, which has plenty of equipment to salt streets and clear snow.

But do we have staff? In Rockville, they've had to cut back on garbage pick-ups due to the lack of staff. These are the same workers who plow the snow. If we get anything that sticks, it may be a while before they get the roads clear.

DC metro is the epicenter for omicron so not a surprise if the roads don't get plowed given what is going on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2-6" is not much snow. Just wake up earlier, leave earlier, drive slower. MCPS should make sure everyone knows to do this. It is not a big deal. I'm from Chicago and it would be a joke to shut down schools and panic over a few inches.

Hahahahahahahahaha

When I lived in Dallas they shut schools for a sprinkling of snow. I remember a very slight snow completely crippled Atlanta a few years back.

Where you are 100% matters when it comes to snow.

And we’re in Montgomery county, which has plenty of equipment to salt streets and clear snow.

It seems to be a standard practice here too. I mean they usually shut it down the night before when there's just a prediction of a light dusting ever since that bus slammed into a tree a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2-6" is not much snow. Just wake up earlier, leave earlier, drive slower. MCPS should make sure everyone knows to do this. It is not a big deal. I'm from Chicago and it would be a joke to shut down schools and panic over a few inches.

Chicago gets enough snow to invest significantly in snow management. This area doesn’t. Chicago is urban. Parts of Montgomery County are rural.

Anyone else remember that snow storm from 2011 where it snowed right at evening rush hour? I eventually got off the bus and walked home but I stayed 9n thr bus for hours because so many cars were sliding sideways down the street and I didn't want to risk getting hit.

I'd literally just moved here from Chicago.

omg, yes, I remember. Your post needed a trigger warning

That sounds terrible. People leaving their cars literally in the street so everyone else to drive around while skidding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2-6" is not much snow. Just wake up earlier, leave earlier, drive slower. MCPS should make sure everyone knows to do this. It is not a big deal. I'm from Chicago and it would be a joke to shut down schools and panic over a few inches.

Chicago gets enough snow to invest significantly in snow management. This area doesn’t. Chicago is urban. Parts of Montgomery County are rural.

Anyone else remember that snow storm from 2011 where it snowed right at evening rush hour? I eventually got off the bus and walked home but I stayed 9n thr bus for hours because so many cars were sliding sideways down the street and I didn't want to risk getting hit.

I'd literally just moved here from Chicago.

omg, yes, I remember. Your post needed a trigger warning

That sounds terrible. People leaving their cars literally in the street so everyone else to drive around while skidding.

Was terrible, not sounds terrible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean sure but I doubt civid will be gone by Tuesday when they get the roads clear

Have faith, we can mess up removal tomorrow. Hey remember that time it took MoCo schools were shut for 6 days because it took so long to clear the streets. 2016?

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Anonymous wrote:I mean sure but I doubt civid will be gone by Tuesday when they get the roads clear

Have faith, we can mess up removal tomorrow. Hey remember that time it took MoCo schools were shut for 6 days because it took so long to clear the streets. 2016?

That was a touch more then a few inches:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/photos-the-blizzard-of-2016-in-montgomery-county/

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Anonymous wrote:I work at a mid-size MCPS elementary school and we currently have 17 staff members out tomorrow. I hate snow but maybe it is divine intervention LOL.

Oh my! How in the world is this going to work? There will absolutely not be substitutes for all of these positions. If you get one or two subs, you’ll be lucky. What a mess!

It’s not going to work. I’m seriously not sure how the “if we close school, close everything” crowd doesn’t still grasp staff and sub shortages. Such a stupid group of people that also pretend education means in person. If there’s no one to teach the kids, no one is learning anything. Just be honest and call it what it is… daycare. “Single issue education voters…” yeah right. We see right through you.

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I work at a mid-size MCPS elementary school and we currently have 17 staff members out tomorrow. I hate snow but maybe it is divine intervention LOL.

Oh my! How in the world is this going to work? There will absolutely not be substitutes for all of these positions. If you get one or two subs, you’ll be lucky. What a mess!

It’s not going to work. I’m seriously not sure how the “if we close school, close everything” crowd doesn’t still grasp staff and sub shortages. Such a stupid group of people that also pretend education means in person. If there’s no one to teach the kids, no one is learning anything. Just be honest and call it what it is… daycare. “Single issue education voters…” yeah right. We see right through you.

I entirely understand staffing issues with the difficulty of finding subs. But that’s a terrible excuse to use to close schools when mcps hasn’t done anything to improve the situation. Double or triple sub pay for the rest of the year and see how bad the problem is after that.

Many of the substitutes in MCPS are retired teachers. They tend to sub for the same school(s) and the staff get to know them. They’re not substituting for the money. They enjoy working with the kids. They’re staying out of school for health reasons and avoiding unnecessary exposure from being around young people. Increasing the pay likely won’t lead to an increase in substitute availability among this crew of substitutes. It may catch the attention of very young 20 something age group. These are some of the people working in schools now as “moderators” or something like that. At our school, these are the people now supervising lunch/recess. They have little experience and poor behavior management skills. They are lovely people and the students adore them, but they don’t really know how to manage groups of children. Having them in charge all day in a classroom would not result in a productive day of learning.

Those are some gross generalizations. I hear what you’re saying about retirees, but they’re not the only group, and they’re not immune to interest in money. Paying more might not increase the pool, but will increase the likelihood that people will take jobs. And it would probably pull over subs that might otherwise sub in neighbor districts.

Other districts have done this and it has generally worked. I’d rather my kids have a 20-something in the classroom than the mess that is virtual, particularly when it comes to teachers that end up playing double duty by caring for their own kids during the day.

Yes, we know you would. You’ve made it repeatedly and abundantly clear. 20-something unqualified warm body subs who can pass a felony background check teaching nothing of value in buildings = good. Qualified teachers teaching virtually = bad.

It’s an idiotic stance, but yes, you’ve made it perfectly clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work at a mid-size MCPS elementary school and we currently have 17 staff members out tomorrow. I hate snow but maybe it is divine intervention LOL.

Oh my! How in the world is this going to work? There will absolutely not be substitutes for all of these positions. If you get one or two subs, you’ll be lucky. What a mess!

It’s not going to work. I’m seriously not sure how the “if we close school, close everything” crowd doesn’t still grasp staff and sub shortages. Such a stupid group of people that also pretend education means in person. If there’s no one to teach the kids, no one is learning anything. Just be honest and call it what it is… daycare. “Single issue education voters…” yeah right. We see right through you.

+1,000

Sure, teacher troll, sure. Get ‘em to feel guilty by telling them they want daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not surprised. A warm Christmas usually equals snow a week or two later.

Every 10 days shift from warm to cold until last week of January. Then it’s winter until March.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprised. A warm Christmas usually equals snow a week or two later.

I'd love to see that validated.

I've lived in Virginia a long time, it's not a scientific observation.

I’ve lived here a long long time. This is what it’s been for the last 12 years. Every 10-12 years we have maximum snow. That’s documented.