What do we think will happen on Monday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t VDOT salt the neighborhoods? This would help start edging away the one lane margins and improve the one-lane so that we could see the black top.

It doesn’t really work in these temps.

[Anonymous]

Our side streets are fine but half the neighborhood has not touched their sidewalks. Some folks were out yesterday trying to take care of the sidewalks and it was hard, my neighbor was at it for hours when I talked to him and was barely half way done.

The County needs to get people out to the bus stops and clear the mess there. I don't know how they communicate that to the County officials responsible for clearing.

[Anonymous]

I feel like its a parents responsibility to get their kid to school.

[Anonymous]

Teachers will want anohter week off
they will be closed

[Anonymous]

DON'T YOU DARE TELLL ME YOU LOVE TEACHIING

WHEN YOU WANT YET ANOTHER WEEK OFF


QUIT YOUR JOB
SOME KIDS WANT TO GET AN EDUCATION LET THEM

[Anonymous]

5 SNOW DAYS ALREDALY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. All of the schools have been cleared. There is no way that school will be canceled on Monday. Prepare yourselves.

And to the PP who said that their street still has not been plowed... It is very hard to believe your claim. If, by some chance, you speak the truth, why in the world did you not call VDOT on Tuesday to report the mistake?

There are streets in the Kingstowne area that have not been plowed yet. VDOT has been contacted several times.
Love your confidence, though!

Please do tell us which streets have not been plowed. So they we may go and marvel at your truthfulness.

And why not open schools and if parents don’t think safe or certain bus route not possible, those kids stay home excused? Why keep 179,000 other kids out of school because couple hundred kids can’t make it? Why do we close until every friggin square inch of the biggest county in area is clear??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. All of the schools have been cleared. There is no way that school will be canceled on Monday. Prepare yourselves.

And to the PP who said that their street still has not been plowed... It is very hard to believe your claim. If, by some chance, you speak the truth, why in the world did you not call VDOT on Tuesday to report the mistake?

There are streets in the Kingstowne area that have not been plowed yet. VDOT has been contacted several times.
Love your confidence, though!

Please do tell us which streets have not been plowed. So they we may go and marvel at your truthfulness.

And why not open schools and if parents don’t think safe or certain bus route not possible, those kids stay home excused? Why keep 179,000 other kids out of school because couple hundred kids can’t make it? Why do we close until every friggin square inch of the biggest county in area is clear??

That is not a philosophy we have anymore.

We round down now, not up.

[Anonymous]

I drove around alot, this is what I see.
- Interstate, Highway, freeway is clear
- Main road are clear, some with reduce lanes
- Most side road are clear, some is mix with mess.
- Some small neighborhoods road / apartment complex access is still untouched
- Side walks is nonexistent, mostly buried and some that has been plowed now layers with new ice
- Mountain of ice as height of 7 foot
- Thousands cars park on the side street still burried on ice
- Some people’s yards are literally ice skating rink. It is indeed very beautiful view at night.

[Anonymous]

Most of our high school divers park on the streets surrounding the high school. Those spots are now all covered with huge mounds of ice from the snowplows.

I am sure it is similar at all the high schools.

I wonder if FCPS is prepared for all of the thousands of extra high school students that are going to be on the bus this week until the parking spots are cleared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I drove around alot, this is what I see.
- Interstate, Highway, freeway is clear
- Main road are clear, some with reduce lanes
- Most side road are clear, some is mix with mess.
- Some small neighborhoods road / apartment complex access is still untouched
- Side walks is nonexistent, mostly buried and some that has been plowed now layers with new ice
- Mountain of ice as height of 7 foot
- Thousands cars park on the side street still burried on ice
- Some people’s yards are literally ice skating rink. It is indeed very beautiful view at night.

Traffic will be a huge issue next week with the reduced lanes in some places. And high school kids relay on street parking if they don’t have a parking pass so they are stuck now with no parking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I drove around alot, this is what I see.
- Interstate, Highway, freeway is clear
- Main road are clear, some with reduce lanes
- Most side road are clear, some is mix with mess.
- Some small neighborhoods road / apartment complex access is still untouched
- Side walks is nonexistent, mostly buried and some that has been plowed now layers with new ice
- Mountain of ice as height of 7 foot
- Thousands cars park on the side street still burried on ice
- Some people’s yards are literally ice skating rink. It is indeed very beautiful view at night.

Traffic will be a huge issue next week with the reduced lanes in some places. And high school kids relay on street parking if they don’t have a parking pass so they are stuck now with no parking.

They can ride the big cheese

[Anonymous]

It’s hard to imagine a scenario where the buildings are open, indoor sports are happening, and community groups are allowed to use the buildings, but school is closed for learning. People are just going to need to figure out a way to get their kids to school… or not and they will be marked absent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5 SNOW DAYS ALREDALY

It was three days. Thursday and Friday were already days off due to the end of the second quarter.

And please stop screaming, there is no need. I get being frustrated with kids being home and not at school but the storm dropped snow and ice that were not cleared by Wednesday. Thursday and Friday were scheduled off days.

Admittedly, our families attitude toward these days shifted when one or both of us started being able to tele work so we are not juggling schedules to make child care happen. Not every family has that option and these days are harder on families that cannot afford to be missing days from work and don’t have child care options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Montgomery County Public Schools website provides a message about school
Closure/ openings that is informative and transparent. It also encourages families to shovel their sidewalks and call snow plows for service. Why can’t we be more like them? I hate Reid.

Thanks for sharing this. I like how MCPS has presented this. I shared this with the communications director.

—an FCPS principal

Thank you! I do regret the “I hate Reid” comment - it was unnecessary and immature. I find the decisions and “doings” of Gatehouse frustratingly enigmatic and I was venting a bit. I still work for FCPS, though, because I love my colleagues, I love my students, and I absolutely adore our principal: she is helpful, compassionate, strong, and she gives her life blood to the school community. I imagine you are like her.