School closed 1/20/22

[Anonymous]

Cannot blame MCPS for this weather mess. I blame them for a lot of things but not this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Change of plans - school is back on (with a 2-hour delay)!

Are you a Kindergarten parent? Early elementary parent? Do you really think MCPS would call for a day off school then an hour later switch it to a 2 hour delay? You don't realize that text was sent out by mistake?

I'm glad one of my HS DD's teacher emailed her students and said she will still hold a test for them today from 1-2.

This is also why I'm okay with MCPS calling snow days/delays at 5 am instead of the night before.

WTF? How is the teacher allowed to do that?

That sounds more like an opportunity. Some kids need the last assessments that were planned to improve their grades. Holding the test today allows some to not have multiple things in other classes all happening tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to have been some conflicting texts? Anyone else experience that? Heads must be rolling at mcps headquarters!

Not enough

(I got the conflicting texts, too. You're not crazy.)

[Anonymous]

Calm down people! Your kids will be fine. They are learning that life is unpredictable and that is a good lesson. Encourage them to curl up on the couch with a good book for at least a couple hours.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they will start considering having school on 2/1 now?

They should not count on a waiver, and it doesn´t help HS students at all to tack on a day at the end of June.

I think they would say it's too late to make that change now, but they should have considered it at the last board meeting when we already had two known days to make up (now we have three).

I agree they will say it’s too late, although it really isn’t. I also suspect they privately weighed whether to use it to make up a day and got pushback bc it’s Lunar New Year. At the board meeting for next year there was discussion of whether a day off was needed for Lunar New Year next year even though next year it is observed on a weekend day. They determined a day off was not needed in that case, but I bet there were stakeholder discussions about this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to their virtual BS in the beginning part of the month, and snow days, my son has been in school for a total of 2 days this month. This is awful. We will be looking elsewhere for schooling next year.

Wow. That is awful. I really think the original 11 fell into an unfortunate situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calm down people! Your kids will be fine. They are learning that life is unpredictable and that is a good lesson. Encourage them to curl up on the couch with a good book for at least a couple hours.

I agree. As much as it frustrates me since it's just raining, the forecast did call for accumulating snow right when the buses would be out running, kids walking and driving to school. The school systems can only rely on what the forecasters are calling for, and one kid in an accident is front page news.

Snow days are built into the calendar, and if they don't use them, they're out earlier in the summer. So they're going to be off one way or the other.

[Anonymous]

I don't think you can blame the school system for relying on weather reports. My HSer and MSers just finished their tests and papers for the end of the quarter so I am happy they got a little more sleep this morning. They'll spend the day relaxing, catching up with friends, reading and playing and I'm not upset about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you can blame the school system for relying on weather reports. My HSer and MSers just finished their tests and papers for the end of the quarter so I am happy they got a little more sleep this morning. They'll spend the day relaxing, catching up with friends, reading and playing and I'm not upset about it.

I agree. MCPS is in the education business, not weather forecasting. If the forecast played out as expected then a closure would be appropriate. The forecasters are the ones that screwed up today.

[Anonymous]

so how come private schools can open on time? Please explain to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so how come private schools can open on time? Please explain to me.

You do not understand the logistics of managing one or two campuses versus the logistics of managing 200 campuses?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Calm down people! Your kids will be fine. They are learning that life is unpredictable and that is a good lesson. Encourage them to curl up on the couch with a good book for at least a couple hours.

I agree. As much as it frustrates me since it's just raining, the forecast did call for accumulating snow right when the buses would be out running, kids walking and driving to school. The school systems can only rely on what the forecasters are calling for, and one kid in an accident is front page news.

Snow days are built into the calendar, and if they don't use them, they're out earlier in the summer. So they're going to be off one way or the other.

But we have already used the allotted snow days, so today will be taken from another day off or be an added day at the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:so how come private schools can open on time? Please explain to me.

You do not understand the logistics of managing one or two campuses versus the logistics of managing 200 campuses?

And that’s why her kids need private school with more individualized attention on the thought process...

[Anonymous]

BUS DRIVERS, people.

It's the same reason most of the schools that went virtual, did so.

MCPS has very few, many inexperienced, and they gambled on what looked like poor conditions.

But, please, take your ball and go home!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Calm down people! Your kids will be fine. They are learning that life is unpredictable and that is a good lesson. Encourage them to curl up on the couch with a good book for at least a couple hours.

I agree. As much as it frustrates me since it's just raining, the forecast did call for accumulating snow right when the buses would be out running, kids walking and driving to school. The school systems can only rely on what the forecasters are calling for, and one kid in an accident is front page news.

Snow days are built into the calendar, and if they don't use them, they're out earlier in the summer. So they're going to be off one way or the other.

You don’t understand how this works in MCPS. Extra days built into the calendar aren’t shaved off the end of the year if we didn’t have any snow days. We just have 182 days of school. And besides, before today we’d already used more snow days than were built into the calendar.