Will schools close for "National Day of Mourning" for Bush's funeral?

DCPS undoubtedly will, and I would guess most DC privates will as well (for logistics/traffic as much as for anything else). Outside of the District, probably not.

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12/02/2018 04:46

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Anonymous wrote:lol

Of course not.

You’re going to feel pretty stupid pretty soon!

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12/02/2018 13:02

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All schools across the country closed when Ford passed in 2006, but not when Regan passed. Just fyi

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12/02/2018 13:03

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Anonymous wrote:All schools across the country closed when Ford passed in 2006, but not when Regan passed. Just fyi

I was teaching in a public school in 2006 and don’t recall that at all.

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12/02/2018 17:00

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I was teaching in a charter school in Petworth when Ford died. Our school was supposed to return from winter break on January 2nd, but they gave us the day off instead as soon as that day was declared a National Day of Mourning.

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12/02/2018 17:06

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Anonymous wrote:All schools across the country closed when Ford passed in 2006, but not when Regan passed. Just fyi

Not MCPS!

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12/02/2018 17:46

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Anonymous wrote:All schools across the country closed when Ford passed in 2006, but not when Regan passed. Just fyi

That is absolutely not true. I've been teaching a long time and we've never gotten a day off for the passing of any president.

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12/02/2018 21:29

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Hopefully not! I don’t want my annoying kids sitting at home all day!

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12/03/2018 06:26

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I was working in a DCPS charter school in 2007 when Ford passed away. We were to return from Winter Break in January 2 but schools were closed. I’m thinking that we will be in school on Wednesday since nothing has been mentioned yet.

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12/03/2018 08:01

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I teach in Delaware and we were closed for Ford but not Regan.

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12/03/2018 10:24

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Anonymous wrote:In DC they might. They were closed for Reagan's funeral.

I think that is because Reagan had a formal military parade which went through downtown and was a traffic nightmare. I don't think Bush is having the big parade.