Code yellow (2 hr delay) for Monday 2/23

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Has anyone counted the number of actual school days since Dec? It feels like 10. All the rest holidays and snow days

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a lot of these parents are just angry they didn't become teachers for the sweet snow day benefits.

Applications are open for next year.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why they are proactively prohibiting child care providers from operating at all tomorrow. The phrase "out of an abundance of caution" should not be used in a message closing child care for thousands of families. This decision could be made school by school.

Yup, especially when they are specifically referring to conditions up county, which should not be a reason to close childcare downcounty. But it's also just about what I expected from these jerks at this point...

Conditions uncounty shouldn't close anything downcounty, but apparently we're in some snow suicide pact together

Even if a child-care provider wants to open, they often depend on access to locked facilities, building heat and utilities, custodial snow removal, security or emergency protocols, right?

When MCPS closes, that infrastructure shuts down too.

No, MCPS closing does not shut off heat and utilities to buildings.

Essential workers are supposed to report. No reason why they shouldn't be at schools tomorrow getting them ready to open on Tuesday.

MCPS just wants to give their office workers the day off because they are the most entitled laziest people in the country and they are also bizarrely insecure so they need to wave their dicks around and show they can f&CK with every else's day whenever they choose.

The issue isn’t whether the furnace is on. It’s that once the district declares roads and conditions unsafe for systemwide operations, they’re not going to selectively open school facilities to a subset of kids under a different program. That’s a liability and logistics decision, not a “let’s mess with working parents” conspiracy.

You can argue MCPS is too cautious about snow. Fine. But the idea that this is about “office workers being lazy” is unserious. Closing a 200+ school district affects transportation, food service, custodial crews, security, and building access. It’s not a vibe-based call so someone downtown can sleep in.

Criticize the threshold if you want. The name-calling just makes the argument weaker.

No one asked you to be the voice of reason. We are venting and complaining here. Gotta blame someone!

If by reasonable you mean pretending that something that literally just occurred weeks ago is impossible then sure...

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS can absolutely let child care providers decide if they can open. They did it for years and have stopped because the current MCPS leadership DGAF, they just want to do the bare minimum. They are even trying to change the law so they can shorten the school year by 14 days. It's disgusting

What if a parent walking kid into the school slips and falls? If they decide to sue, won’t they sue MCPS not the child care provider? And if a child care worker parks their car and then slips and falls in the school parking lot, I assume they can also sue MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a lot of these parents are just angry they didn't become teachers for the sweet snow day benefits.

Applications are open for next year.

I love how you all think this is some clever gotcha instead of a tone deaf assumption that parents can't possibly have their own jobs that are important to the functioning of society.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS can absolutely let child care providers decide if they can open. They did it for years and have stopped because the current MCPS leadership DGAF, they just want to do the bare minimum. They are even trying to change the law so they can shorten the school year by 14 days. It's disgusting

What if a parent walking kid into the school slips and falls? If they decide to sue, won’t they sue MCPS not the child care provider? And if a child care worker parks their car and then slips and falls in the school parking lot, I assume they can also sue MCPS.

By that standard they should never open schools when it rains, as somebody might slip and sue

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a lot of these parents are just angry they didn't become teachers for the sweet snow day benefits.

Applications are open for next year.

I love how you all think this is some clever gotcha instead of a tone deaf assumption that parents can't possibly have their own jobs that are important to the functioning of society.

Many teachers are parents too.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a lot of these parents are just angry they didn't become teachers for the sweet snow day benefits.

Applications are open for next year.

I love how you all think this is some clever gotcha instead of a tone deaf assumption that parents can't possibly have their own jobs that are important to the functioning of society.

Many teachers are parents too.

Yes, teacher jobs are important, but this is a discussion about parents that aren't teachers allegedly being jealous of teacher snow days

[Anonymous]

Private schools are having asynchronous learning. Is that what people want?

Are we sending home hotspots and chromebooks home with every student that expresses a need at the beginning of every December and what happens when they aren’t returned. We can’t force FARMS families to pay. Next option is to send home work packets but then those quickly become irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s really coming down now and heavy wet snow. Hopefully no power outages!

There are a lot of power outages in the Damascus area and up into Frederick County.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are having asynchronous learning. Is that what people want?

Are we sending home hotspots and chromebooks home with every student that expresses a need at the beginning of every December and what happens when they aren’t returned. We can’t force FARMS families to pay. Next option is to send home work packets but then those quickly become irrelevant.

My school already sent out an email that we are not allowed to print class sets of assignments anymore. We have to use Copy Plus which has been taking forever.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a lot of these parents are just angry they didn't become teachers for the sweet snow day benefits.

Applications are open for next year.

I love how you all think this is some clever gotcha instead of a tone deaf assumption that parents can't possibly have their own jobs that are important to the functioning of society.

I'm not that poster, but a lot of the posts suggest that teachers have some easy-street gig. Considering we live in a capitalist society where people can easily change jobs, if it was really such an easy-street job, they would be flooded with applications. But they aren't. Which suggests that there are other reason why people don't view it as a desirable job, despite the snow days -- either the pay/benefits, dealing with kids/parents/ the bureacracy, etc. Personally, I don't think I could deal with being at work consistently by 8 a.m. each day -- that's my big reason for not applying for a teaching job. My kids also say I would be bad at the discipline and kids would walk all over me, which might be true.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a lot of these parents are just angry they didn't become teachers for the sweet snow day benefits.

Applications are open for next year.

I love how you all think this is some clever gotcha instead of a tone deaf assumption that parents can't possibly have their own jobs that are important to the functioning of society.

I'm not that poster, but a lot of the posts suggest that teachers have some easy-street gig. Considering we live in a capitalist society where people can easily change jobs, if it was really such an easy-street job, they would be flooded with applications. But they aren't. Which suggests that there are other reason why people don't view it as a desirable job, despite the snow days -- either the pay/benefits, dealing with kids/parents/ the bureacracy, etc. Personally, I don't think I could deal with being at work consistently by 8 a.m. each day -- that's my big reason for not applying for a teaching job. My kids also say I would be bad at the discipline and kids would walk all over me, which might be true.

Folks should respond to the posts they are referring to. I see a lot of posts about child care which has literally nothing to do with perceptions about teacher jobs

[Anonymous]

How is it looking upcountry? By me down county it is sticking, but it's more like slush and it will likely melt tomorrow. But decision re Tuesday will rest on upcountry impact.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a lot of these parents are just angry they didn't become teachers for the sweet snow day benefits.

Applications are open for next year.

I love how you all think this is some clever gotcha instead of a tone deaf assumption that parents can't possibly have their own jobs that are important to the functioning of society.

I'm not that poster, but a lot of the posts suggest that teachers have some easy-street gig. Considering we live in a capitalist society where people can easily change jobs, if it was really such an easy-street job, they would be flooded with applications. But they aren't. Which suggests that there are other reason why people don't view it as a desirable job, despite the snow days -- either the pay/benefits, dealing with kids/parents/ the bureacracy, etc. Personally, I don't think I could deal with being at work consistently by 8 a.m. each day -- that's my big reason for not applying for a teaching job. My kids also say I would be bad at the discipline and kids would walk all over me, which might be true.

MCPS elementary school teacher here...
Our contract hours are 8:45 to 4:15
Just sayin! Maybe you should apply.