Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wondering if the mayor spoke to WMATA at all. The buses are scheduled to be on a moderate snow plan tomorrow, meaning many of the buses students take won’t be running or will only be running partial routes. A delay could help deal with that.

For my route, moderate snow plan means almost no buses outside of rush hour, so a delay would make things much worse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if the mayor spoke to WMATA at all. The buses are scheduled to be on a moderate snow plan tomorrow, meaning many of the buses students take won’t be running or will only be running partial routes. A delay could help deal with that.

For my route, moderate snow plan means almost no buses outside of rush hour, so a delay would make things much worse.

In that case, they should be closed then because students don't get out at rush hour. They'll be waiting at stops in the freezing cold for longer than usual.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look y’all need to chill. I’ve lived in a middle state for over a 2 decades, and now here for the last 12. Every city, state, county, district struggles to clear snow and cancels/delays school. My middle state friends are going on snow day 3 tomorrow and their city is much more prepared for the 9” they got on SUNDAY.

Anyone who acts like “we walked in 6’ of snow when we were your age” is believing a false narrative. Kids will be okay missing another day of school. We have so many resources at our fingertips for instruction if that’s your worry (IXL….the INTERNET). If you have young ones and you need to work, you darn well should have thunk about contingency plans when having kids because LIFE.

We're not worried about all of what you're blathering about. We just want to know earlier is all. Mayor Bowser and her team know the conditions. Just announce for pete's sake.

You may be not be, but many, many people in these threads are indeed shrieking about exactly “what PP is blathering about.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a joke. There is clearly no concern for student or staff safety. They just want to provide food to say they can (that the students just throw away anyway). Just...WOW.

Ok teacher. Talk to WTU. The roads have all been plowed. Isnt on the Mayor to shovel private homeowners sidewalks.

There is literally no downside to delaying opening. Students will trickle in all morning, some won't show up. Many teachers with kids outside of DC will call out. In most schools it will be a day of daycare. And that's ok if it's important to you.

Parents don’t care if their kids learn tomorrow. They want babysitting. Because that’s what school will be tomorrow.

+1,000. And no, I’m a parent,not a teacher or school employee.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a joke. There is clearly no concern for student or staff safety. They just want to provide food to say they can (that the students just throw away anyway). Just...WOW.

Ok teacher. Talk to WTU. The roads have all been plowed. Isnt on the Mayor to shovel private homeowners sidewalks.

There is literally no downside to delaying opening. Students will trickle in all morning, some won't show up. Many teachers with kids outside of DC will call out. In most schools it will be a day of daycare. And that's ok if it's important to you.

Parents don’t care if their kids learn tomorrow. They want babysitting. Because that’s what school will be tomorrow.

Parents want their kids to learn but also parents have to work too. For all the MoCo and PG teachers won't be able to leave their kids, lots of DCPS parents are working hourly jobs or can't afford days off. It's an incredibly tough balancing act. I promise there are more parents in DCPS than just the white upper middle class folks that populate DCUM.

And yet the privileged DCUM contingent have been the ones screeching since Sunday night. The other less-privileged parents you mention were just getting on with it, as they don’t have the expectation that everything in life will be ordered for their convenience and comfort.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents have had to work these last two days. Teachers have not.

You chose to have kids. Deal with them.

Wouldn't this also be true of teachers who have kids?

They are. By staying home tomorrow and sending subs — oops, I mean “babysitters” — to deal with your kids tomorrow. If they’re lucky, and a sub can even be found. If not, they’ll just cram them into double sized “classes” where no one learns anything. But hey, they’ll be out of your hair, and really, that’s what’s important.

[Anonymous]

I mean, DCPS makes decisions based on DC, not surrounding districts and who may/may not be impacted by other districts’ choices. So yeah, what’s important is that DCPS opens schools when it’s appropriate for them to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, DCPS makes decisions based on DC, not surrounding districts and who may/may not be impacted by other districts’ choices. So yeah, what’s important is that DCPS opens schools when it’s appropriate for them to do so.

DC is unique in which more than 50% of employees live in surrounding counties, in every direction. They should absolutely take this into consideration because schools cannot function properly without staff. Everyone but you seems to understand this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, DCPS makes decisions based on DC, not surrounding districts and who may/may not be impacted by other districts’ choices. So yeah, what’s important is that DCPS opens schools when it’s appropriate for them to do so.

DC is unique in which more than 50% of employees live in surrounding counties, in every direction. They should absolutely take this into consideration because schools cannot function properly without staff. Everyone but you seems to understand this.

Well no, not everyone but me, since the mayor decided to open schools and several PP’s here seem to agree with the decision. But ok.

Your child’s school will still function. Yes, there may be some teachers out, and there may be less learning than on a regular day. But most kids at school will still learn more than if they stayed home.

Also, just like those DCPS teachers who need to use a day off today to take care of their children who attend other districts, you can choose to keep your student at home if you think it’s not appropriate to send them to school today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, DCPS makes decisions based on DC, not surrounding districts and who may/may not be impacted by other districts’ choices. So yeah, what’s important is that DCPS opens schools when it’s appropriate for them to do so.

NP and I agree with you on this. Perhaps my next comment is more appropriate in a different forum but I just wish DC had actually plowed all of their streets by this morning. They’ve had over 24 hours to do so, and yet the buses can’t run because some streets are dangerous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a joke. There is clearly no concern for student or staff safety. They just want to provide food to say they can (that the students just throw away anyway). Just...WOW.

Ok teacher. Talk to WTU. The roads have all been plowed. Isnt on the Mayor to shovel private homeowners sidewalks.

There is literally no downside to delaying opening. Students will trickle in all morning, some won't show up. Many teachers with kids outside of DC will call out. In most schools it will be a day of daycare. And that's ok if it's important to you.

Parents don’t care if their kids learn tomorrow. They want babysitting. Because that’s what school will be tomorrow.

Parents want their kids to learn but also parents have to work too. For all the MoCo and PG teachers won't be able to leave their kids, lots of DCPS parents are working hourly jobs or can't afford days off. It's an incredibly tough balancing act. I promise there are more parents in DCPS than just the white upper middle class folks that populate DCUM.

It's most DCPS parents. It's such a weird feature of this board that people get this perception that DCPS is populated by a bunch of rich, privileged families. In reality, the rich and privileged families in DC mostly reject DPS in favor of privates or charters.

But the truth undermines PP's bizarre narrative about how school is just childcare for wealthy people? So I guess we aren't supposed to say that here.

I don’t think poor people spend their work from home time crying on the internet.

[Anonymous]

The Metrobuses that directly serve Deal and JR (D31-D34 and the M4) will not be running today. How are those kids -- none of whom live near Metro stations -- supposed to get to school? Not all of them have parents with cars, and we shouldn't be forcing more cars onto the roads today (or any day, really).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, DCPS makes decisions based on DC, not surrounding districts and who may/may not be impacted by other districts’ choices. So yeah, what’s important is that DCPS opens schools when it’s appropriate for them to do so.

DC is unique in which more than 50% of employees live in surrounding counties, in every direction. They should absolutely take this into consideration because schools cannot function properly without staff. Everyone but you seems to understand this.

Well no, not everyone but me, since the mayor decided to open schools and several PP’s here seem to agree with the decision. But ok.

Your child’s school will still function. Yes, there may be some teachers out, and there may be less learning than on a regular day. But most kids at school will still learn more than if they stayed home.

Also, just like those DCPS teachers who need to use a day off today to take care of their children who attend other districts, you can choose to keep your student at home if you think it’s not appropriate to send them to school today.

lol I’d hardly use bowsers judgment as my measuring stick but that’s because I have a functioning brain. Good luck in your long road to the middle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, DCPS makes decisions based on DC, not surrounding districts and who may/may not be impacted by other districts’ choices. So yeah, what’s important is that DCPS opens schools when it’s appropriate for them to do so.

DC is unique in which more than 50% of employees live in surrounding counties, in every direction. They should absolutely take this into consideration because schools cannot function properly without staff. Everyone but you seems to understand this.

Well no, not everyone but me, since the mayor decided to open schools and several PP’s here seem to agree with the decision. But ok.

Your child’s school will still function. Yes, there may be some teachers out, and there may be less learning than on a regular day. But most kids at school will still learn more than if they stayed home.

Also, just like those DCPS teachers who need to use a day off today to take care of their children who attend other districts, you can choose to keep your student at home if you think it’s not appropriate to send them to school today.

lol I’d hardly use bowsers judgment as my measuring stick but that’s because I have a functioning brain. Good luck in your long road to the middle.

Just curious then, whose judgment would you use? It seems like most private schools in DC are also open today. Are those decisions wrong too?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, DCPS makes decisions based on DC, not surrounding districts and who may/may not be impacted by other districts’ choices. So yeah, what’s important is that DCPS opens schools when it’s appropriate for them to do so.

DC is unique in which more than 50% of employees live in surrounding counties, in every direction. They should absolutely take this into consideration because schools cannot function properly without staff. Everyone but you seems to understand this.

Well no, not everyone but me, since the mayor decided to open schools and several PP’s here seem to agree with the decision. But ok.

Your child’s school will still function. Yes, there may be some teachers out, and there may be less learning than on a regular day. But most kids at school will still learn more than if they stayed home.

Also, just like those DCPS teachers who need to use a day off today to take care of their children who attend other districts, you can choose to keep your student at home if you think it’s not appropriate to send them to school today.

lol I’d hardly use bowsers judgment as my measuring stick but that’s because I have a functioning brain. Good luck in your long road to the middle.

Just curious then, whose judgment would you use? It seems like most private schools in DC are also open today. Are those decisions wrong too?

Literally everything is open. This notion that schools should be closed when the *public library* is open is ludicrous.