Friday's "snow?"

[Anonymous]

MCPS does not put safety first. That is a lie because they would have called for a delay like every other sensible school district in the area. One teacher at my school was in a car accident while driving to work this morning. Another teacher lost control on an untreated road and needed to be towed out of ditch. They never made it to work. Don’t think they will be coming in on any future snow days no matter what mcps decides. Oh and if your kid goes to a certain hs, they sat in a chaotic gym waiting for teachers to arrive. Many of whom didn’t get there until second period. So teachers came in “delayed” anyway, but at least you had someone to babysit your kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Im bethesda chevy chase area it has already snowed at least an inch and is still snowing

That is a lie. I am there and there is maybe 1/4 inch at 8.40.

Are you Taylor's mom? I just typed bethesda into weather dot gov snow total map and it says .7 inches in bethesda.

Maybe on the grass. Roads and sidewalks are clear

+1. Just walked my ES kid in Bethesda 10 minutes to school. Maybe a half inch on the grass, nothing on the roads. Traffic fine-seemed like fewer cars on the road but driving more slowly.

MS kid arrived on time to school by bus. I’m happy MCPS opened today.

Absolutely not clear. I’m in Rockville. All of the neighborhood roads have some kind of snow cover somewhere on them. It is especially bad at some of the intersections at small neighborhood roads like where they go into the schools. In addition, many of the highways ramps have full coverage of snow. That’s starting to go away now that the cars are actually traveling on it.

Just drove from Shady Grove Road to Grovsner Metro. It is bad on the roads.

Because you idiots complained the other day someone will get hurt.

If you don't want to take care of your own kids stop having them.

The main reason people complained on Tuesday is because Taylor opened high schools at 9:45 but did not allow morning childcare to open meaning teachers could not get to work on time. He (sort of) apologized for that.

I would absolutely complain again about that psychotic decision. And him choosing to open schools today is on him. A closure with offices and child care open would have been completely fine with me.

Because all you care about is your convenience. Wow. Just f wow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS does not put safety first. That is a lie because they would have called for a delay like every other sensible school district in the area. One teacher at my school was in a car accident while driving to work this morning. Another teacher lost control on an untreated road and needed to be towed out of ditch. They never made it to work. Don’t think they will be coming in on any future snow days no matter what mcps decides. Oh and if your kid goes to a certain hs, they sat in a chaotic gym waiting for teachers to arrive. Many of whom didn’t get there until second period. So teachers came in “delayed” anyway, but at least you had someone to babysit your kid.

Anyone who doesn't come in on a snow day should be fired. Don't talk to me about a "shortage" if you're unwilling to work.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we get McQueen back?

She must really be enjoying this thread

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Anonymous wrote:My kid at Rosa Parks MS said two buses from the school had accidents.

MCPS really blew it. They should always err on the side of caution and issue a delay. You know how many lawsuits will be filed as a result of today’s mistake?

Anyone can file a lawsuit. Doesn’t mean anything will come of it.

Sigh.

Anytime anyone files a lawsuit—even a frivolous one—mcps must respond…and there’s a real cost to secure outside counsel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS does not put safety first. That is a lie because they would have called for a delay like every other sensible school district in the area. One teacher at my school was in a car accident while driving to work this morning. Another teacher lost control on an untreated road and needed to be towed out of ditch. They never made it to work. Don’t think they will be coming in on any future snow days no matter what mcps decides. Oh and if your kid goes to a certain hs, they sat in a chaotic gym waiting for teachers to arrive. Many of whom didn’t get there until second period. So teachers came in “delayed” anyway, but at least you had someone to babysit your kid.

Accidents can happen any day.

And while it sucks that some students had teachers who didn't plan for a longer commute, ultimately missing out on an hour or so of class, I don't see why that's reason to make 159,000 other kids needlessly miss class.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid at Rosa Parks MS said two buses from the school had accidents.

MCPS really blew it. They should always err on the side of caution and issue a delay. You know how many lawsuits will be filed as a result of today’s mistake?

Anyone can file a lawsuit. Doesn’t mean anything will come of it.

Sigh.

Anytime anyone files a lawsuit—even a frivolous one—mcps must respond…and there’s a real cost to secure outside counsel.

There would have to be both negligence attributable to MCPS and damages to recover. Bus incidents didn't leave recoverable damages. And your inability to drive isn't negligence on the part of MCPS.

There won't be lawsuits. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Let's not have any more word-salad apologies or self-righteous justifications and just get on with life. Otherwise it will be a long, long winter.

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A bus en route to RPMS wound up in a ditch.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think both the 2hr delay on Tuesday and the on time opening today were the right call, you are the only person in the county.

I think today should have been a delay because many roads were not treated until well after high school and middle school students had to leave. Our road was snow covered until after 8. We are walkers so my kids were fine. We don’t mind walking in snow. But I heard our principal putting out an all alert over the announcement system about coverage because so many teachers were late that they didn’t know what class rooms were staffed (my kid is a 5th grade patrol so this was before most kids arrived). I saw at least one bus pulling in quite late as I was leaving for work, don’t know how it was for the others but we are a small neighborhood school so if we had delays I suspect it was worse for others. Hardly the end of the world but really stupid to cause this hassle because they screwed up earlier in the week (and I 100 percent believe that were it not for Tuesday they would have called the delay).

Read the earlier messages in this thread. Teachers were late because they through a temper tantrum, refusing to leave their homes early like any responsible professional. Sometimes your commutes will take longer.

My fair at all. 9 of our teachers were late as they commute from places like Poolesville, Jefferson, Middletown, Westminster, Hagerstown, Point of Rocks and Randallstown. They all left between 6:30-7a except the Poolesville teacher who left at 7:15. Their commutes were awful with some having to find another source for daycare as their daycare was closed or they could not get to their child’s daycare. 28 was a hot mess and it took Poolesville teacher a little over 2 hours to get to work. It is not these teacher’s fault that they have to live in affordable areas far from central Gaithersburg where they work. That is what they can afford. Stop bashing teachers for everything.

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Anonymous wrote:A bus en route to RPMS wound up in a ditch.

It was Rocky Hill and and the accident was on Clarksburg Rd. Which is treacherous and a salt truck broke down on that to add to the crazy. That road has huge potholes, crazy turns and very steep inclines and drops. I don’t know why the bus did not just take Burnt Hill Rd. It is more gentle and completely empty. I took this road to get to my job and it was easy and though snow-covered my AWD suv made it through without one swerve.

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It’s crazy to me that a thread about an inch of snow on the ground has turned into 50 pages while a loaded gun incident inside a school is only 3 pages. Talk about misplaced priorities

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Anonymous wrote:Hust got back from taking my two students to high school. Witnessed an accident and several near misses. What is the reason behind this dangerous decision by mcps this morning?

Made by people who don't seem to understand ice and snow. places with crazy snow even know better than to mess with icy conditions tho they have the equipment to clear quickly. They close for cold before they close for snow. But not here. MCPS: my way or the...

There weren't icy conditions. There was a small amount of snow. Did you even go outside this morning? This absolutely would have been a normal school day anywhere with real winters. Kids wouldn't have even bothered to hope for a snow day.

Still trolling. Neighborhood roads in Rockville were not treated, causing loss of traction for vehicles. Only after 9am did a salt truck appear in our neighborhood after schools had started for the day...

[Anonymous]

This guy needs to go.
What mcps has needed above all since the pandemic is a leader who can rebuild good will between schools and the community. This guy seems hell bent on doing the opposite.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS does not put safety first. That is a lie because they would have called for a delay like every other sensible school district in the area. One teacher at my school was in a car accident while driving to work this morning. Another teacher lost control on an untreated road and needed to be towed out of ditch. They never made it to work. Don’t think they will be coming in on any future snow days no matter what mcps decides. Oh and if your kid goes to a certain hs, they sat in a chaotic gym waiting for teachers to arrive. Many of whom didn’t get there until second period. So teachers came in “delayed” anyway, but at least you had someone to babysit your kid.

Accidents can happen any day.

And while it sucks that some students had teachers who didn't plan for a longer commute, ultimately missing out on an hour or so of class, I don't see why that's reason to make 159,000 other
kids needlessly miss class.

Can you not read or comprehend or are you just another arsehat who needs to be erased from this earth? The teachers got in accidents! It is not that they did not plan to leave earlier. They either lost control of their vehicle due to unsafe conditions OR they were struck by another driver. It is not all about if your child has childcare and does not miss an hour or two of instruction. If the teacher is injured then she cannot fulfill her duty at work. Duh!