What do we think will happen on Monday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of kids lugging laptops to and from school? Just have them study from home. Learning isn’t a place, it’s a state of mind. Also the lanes aren’t wide enough for 2 lanes of traffic in some spots which can cause accidents. Kids walking in the streets with maniacs trying to get to work is a bad combination. Not to mention the buses are late or don’t come frequently and kids don’t even wear coats because they don’t have lockers. So either cancel, delay, or turn in school work from home.

Our ES students leave them at school.

[Anonymous]

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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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

[Anonymous]

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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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

No one is still stuck at home. That is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

There is nowhere that is so severely impacted by snow that an adult can't leave their home. Main roads and highways are fine.

[Anonymous]

What’s the reasoning behind not letting us know what’s happening with schools tomorrow?
Surely they’ve already come to a decision.
there’s no pending weather event that makes this a wait and see situation.

Are they still debating what to do?

[Anonymous]

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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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

There is nowhere that is so severely impacted by snow that an adult can't leave their home. Main roads and highways are fine.

Not accurate. The socials are inundated with photos of communities that still haven’t been cleared.

[Anonymous]

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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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

There is nowhere that is so severely impacted by snow that an adult can't leave their home. Main roads and highways are fine.

Not accurate. The socials are inundated with photos of communities that still haven’t been cleared.

I don't believe it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

There is nowhere that is so severely impacted by snow that an adult can't leave their home. Main roads and highways are fine.

Trust me. They wouldn’t close for teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the reasoning behind not letting us know what’s happening with schools tomorrow?
Surely they’ve already come to a decision.
there’s no pending weather event that makes this a wait and see situation.

Are they still debating what to do?

Apparently some buses are out test driving right now. That seems to be what they’re waiting on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

There is nowhere that is so severely impacted by snow that an adult can't leave their home. Main roads and highways are fine.

West Virginia, where two of my coworkers live, and Spotsylvania, where two other coworkers live, are still a mess.

[Anonymous]

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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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

There is nowhere that is so severely impacted by snow that an adult can't leave their home. Main roads and highways are fine.

Not accurate. The socials are inundated with photos of communities that still haven’t been cleared.

I don't believe it.

And even if one or two communities haven't been cleared, how many teachers live in those communities? All FCPS teachers????

Y'all are ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools will be open Monday. This is not a value judgement on whether they should or shouldn’t be, but if they felt Thursday & Friday were fine for 12-month staff to report on time, they’re not staying closed Monday.

Actually they didn’t. I’d be happy to show you the emails where supervisors/principals were told to offer telework and virtual prof development for Thursday. And for Friday, it was a teacher workday where they already had the option to work in an alternate location. All administrators and office staff had the option to telework on Friday due to safety concerns about getting to school/office.

In short, no FCPS staff were directed to show up in person on Thursday or Friday because of safety concerns with commuting.

That’s crazy. Most non-fcps people went to work W, Th, and F. Fairfax County wasn’t closed. Staff commuting is totally different than schools being open for students. Staff should work. Transporting 178,000 kids is a whole different situation.

There was a lot of WFH last week. Even the federal government offered unscheduled telework, which is no different than what FCPS did.

[Anonymous]

Bus drivers have been out yesterday and today testing their routes. So I’m guessing we will go in some capacity unless they let the bus drivers make the decision based on the lack of stop access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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??

Because teachers come from all over the county to work in a given school. Those teachers may live in areas that are impacted by the snow.

There is nowhere that is so severely impacted by snow that an adult can't leave their home. Main roads and highways are fine.

West Virginia, where two of my coworkers live, and Spotsylvania, where two other coworkers live, are still a mess.

Then by all means, let’s not educate almost 200,000 students because of West Virginia.

[Anonymous]

They have to drive around the bus routes and then make a determination. Give them time today.