1st weather delay of the season this Thursday?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need any more virtual instruction. Are you people nuts?
Virtual does not work. The only time MCPS should consider using it is one of those crazy blizzards when schools are closed for a week.

+1.

+2. I shudder at both virtual instruction and a week long closure due to snow in some remote part of the county.

+1

Why do they still do things by county? It feels like we are set back 100 years.

[Anonymous]

CWG brought back SchoolCast, looks like 60% chance of delay for MoCo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree they are definitely going to delay tomorrow.

The bigger question is this: what’s the plan for snow days? Are they snow days? Are they virtual days? Are they asynchronous? I am highly engaged with all MCPS communications and they have not communicated how this all works. It’s mid December. Every year we have weather closures. Why isn’t there a clear plan or procedure and why can’t they tell us what it is?

My understanding (and I may be completely wrong about this) is that we would have snow days until the allotted weather days run out, and maybe then they would make a plan for virtual in case more happen later in the winter? Or something like that.

I appreciate the response, although obviously from how you wrote it, there’s not a lot of certainty. They were even asking, in their poorly worded calendar survey, what people would want. But the question was so garbled up and the response options so similar that I don’t even know if they have good data. So MCPS, if you are reading: people want regular snow days but if we use those up and have no other options, we’d rather have a little virtual than add days to the year. Asynchronous is horrible for parents and students so when we say virtual we mean synchronous.

I would prefer days added to the end than any virtual days.
So you don’t speak for everyone. And if the days added at the end conflict with vacation, we will just skip the additional days.
This is why it is difficult for MCPS to come up with a plan - because there is no obvious consensus among parents

I mean, if you’re willing to just skip days added at the end so you can go on your vacation, you could just as easily skip any synchronous virtual days. Let the rest of us who want our kids to learn the material get direct instruction from a teacher if the only two choices are virtual or add days in June.

[Anonymous]

Doing the delayed weather dance ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree they are definitely going to delay tomorrow.

The bigger question is this: what’s the plan for snow days? Are they snow days? Are they virtual days? Are they asynchronous? I am highly engaged with all MCPS communications and they have not communicated how this all works. It’s mid December. Every year we have weather closures. Why isn’t there a clear plan or procedure and why can’t they tell us what it is?

My understanding (and I may be completely wrong about this) is that we would have snow days until the allotted weather days run out, and maybe then they would make a plan for virtual in case more happen later in the winter? Or something like that.

I appreciate the response, although obviously from how you wrote it, there’s not a lot of certainty. They were even asking, in their poorly worded calendar survey, what people would want. But the question was so garbled up and the response options so similar that I don’t even know if they have good data. So MCPS, if you are reading: people want regular snow days but if we use those up and have no other options, we’d rather have a little virtual than add days to the year. Asynchronous is horrible for parents and students so when we say virtual we mean synchronous.

I would prefer days added to the end than any virtual days.
So you don’t speak for everyone. And if the days added at the end conflict with vacation, we will just skip the additional days.
This is why it is difficult for MCPS to come up with a plan - because there is no obvious consensus among parents

We have a camp that starts the last day of school. I'm not taking extra days when MCPS refuses to do virtual because of selfish parents who cannot be bothered with their kids doing virtual school for a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree they are definitely going to delay tomorrow.

The bigger question is this: what’s the plan for snow days? Are they snow days? Are they virtual days? Are they asynchronous? I am highly engaged with all MCPS communications and they have not communicated how this all works. It’s mid December. Every year we have weather closures. Why isn’t there a clear plan or procedure and why can’t they tell us what it is?

My understanding (and I may be completely wrong about this) is that we would have snow days until the allotted weather days run out, and maybe then they would make a plan for virtual in case more happen later in the winter? Or something like that.

I appreciate the response, although obviously from how you wrote it, there’s not a lot of certainty. They were even asking, in their poorly worded calendar survey, what people would want. But the question was so garbled up and the response options so similar that I don’t even know if they have good data. So MCPS, if you are reading: people want regular snow days but if we use those up and have no other options, we’d rather have a little virtual than add days to the year. Asynchronous is horrible for parents and students so when we say virtual we mean synchronous.

I would prefer days added to the end than any virtual days.
So you don’t speak for everyone. And if the days added at the end conflict with vacation, we will just skip the additional days.
This is why it is difficult for MCPS to come up with a plan - because there is no obvious consensus among parents

We have a camp that starts the last day of school. I'm not taking extra days when MCPS refuses to do virtual because of selfish parents who cannot be bothered with their kids doing virtual school for a day.

This is ridiculous. You are aware that they don’t really do anything the last day of school, right? So they’re going to do virtual school too…. what, watch a movie? Who’s being selfish (and obtuse) here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree they are definitely going to delay tomorrow.

The bigger question is this: what’s the plan for snow days? Are they snow days? Are they virtual days? Are they asynchronous? I am highly engaged with all MCPS communications and they have not communicated how this all works. It’s mid December. Every year we have weather closures. Why isn’t there a clear plan or procedure and why can’t they tell us what it is?

My understanding (and I may be completely wrong about this) is that we would have snow days until the allotted weather days run out, and maybe then they would make a plan for virtual in case more happen later in the winter? Or something like that.

I appreciate the response, although obviously from how you wrote it, there’s not a lot of certainty. They were even asking, in their poorly worded calendar survey, what people would want. But the question was so garbled up and the response options so similar that I don’t even know if they have good data. So MCPS, if you are reading: people want regular snow days but if we use those up and have no other options, we’d rather have a little virtual than add days to the year. Asynchronous is horrible for parents and students so when we say virtual we mean synchronous.

I would prefer days added to the end than any virtual days.
So you don’t speak for everyone. And if the days added at the end conflict with vacation, we will just skip the additional days.
This is why it is difficult for MCPS to come up with a plan - because there is no obvious consensus among parents

We have a camp that starts the last day of school. I'm not taking extra days when MCPS refuses to do virtual because of selfish parents who cannot be bothered with their kids doing virtual school for a day.

This is ridiculous. You are aware that they don’t really do anything the last day of school, right? So they’re going to do virtual school too…. what, watch a movie? Who’s being selfish (and obtuse) here?

You are. We planned based off the MCPS calendar and they should honor it. My kids have never had movies. And, they have been in virtual all year so why should they be forced to extend the school year because selfish parents like you cannot handle their kids in virtual for a day or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree they are definitely going to delay tomorrow.

The bigger question is this: what’s the plan for snow days? Are they snow days? Are they virtual days? Are they asynchronous? I am highly engaged with all MCPS communications and they have not communicated how this all works. It’s mid December. Every year we have weather closures. Why isn’t there a clear plan or procedure and why can’t they tell us what it is?

My understanding (and I may be completely wrong about this) is that we would have snow days until the allotted weather days run out, and maybe then they would make a plan for virtual in case more happen later in the winter? Or something like that.

I appreciate the response, although obviously from how you wrote it, there’s not a lot of certainty. They were even asking, in their poorly worded calendar survey, what people would want. But the question was so garbled up and the response options so similar that I don’t even know if they have good data. So MCPS, if you are reading: people want regular snow days but if we use those up and have no other options, we’d rather have a little virtual than add days to the year. Asynchronous is horrible for parents and students so when we say virtual we mean synchronous.

I would prefer days added to the end than any virtual days.
So you don’t speak for everyone. And if the days added at the end conflict with vacation, we will just skip the additional days.
This is why it is difficult for MCPS to come up with a plan - because there is no obvious consensus among parents

We have a camp that starts the last day of school. I'm not taking extra days when MCPS refuses to do virtual because of selfish parents who cannot be bothered with their kids doing virtual school for a day.

This is ridiculous. You are aware that they don’t really do anything the last day of school, right? So they’re going to do virtual school too…. what, watch a movie? Who’s being selfish (and obtuse) here?

They don’t do anything the last MONTH of school.

[Anonymous]

Oh I do hope they cancel school..I want to take my daughter to the mall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh I do hope they cancel school..I want to take my daughter to the mall.

If it's the ice they predict, I will be staying HOME.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree they are definitely going to delay tomorrow.

The bigger question is this: what’s the plan for snow days? Are they snow days? Are they virtual days? Are they asynchronous? I am highly engaged with all MCPS communications and they have not communicated how this all works. It’s mid December. Every year we have weather closures. Why isn’t there a clear plan or procedure and why can’t they tell us what it is?

My understanding (and I may be completely wrong about this) is that we would have snow days until the allotted weather days run out, and maybe then they would make a plan for virtual in case more happen later in the winter? Or something like that.

I appreciate the response, although obviously from how you wrote it, there’s not a lot of certainty. They were even asking, in their poorly worded calendar survey, what people would want. But the question was so garbled up and the response options so similar that I don’t even know if they have good data. So MCPS, if you are reading: people want regular snow days but if we use those up and have no other options, we’d rather have a little virtual than add days to the year. Asynchronous is horrible for parents and students so when we say virtual we mean synchronous.

I would prefer days added to the end than any virtual days.
So you don’t speak for everyone. And if the days added at the end conflict with vacation, we will just skip the additional days.
This is why it is difficult for MCPS to come up with a plan - because there is no obvious consensus among parents

We have a camp that starts the last day of school. I'm not taking extra days when MCPS refuses to do virtual because of selfish parents who cannot be bothered with their kids doing virtual school for a day.

lol, I love how you pin MCPS’ lack of preparedness and a plan in “selfish parents” rather than their incompetence…..

[Anonymous]

Tomorrow it'll just be a delay -- no need for virtual or asynthronous since they still get credit for a day under a delayed opening.

[Anonymous]

2 hour delay official!

[Anonymous]

already called a delay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 hour delay official!

Why have a delay when they can go virtual!