School Cancellation Predictions Tues/Wed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of the Walls teachers have left and there are just tons of kids in Commons sitting around. I can pick up my kid, but I wish they would just release her and she can metro home

How do you know that? I am a Walls teacher and lots of teachers were there the entire day.

From my kid who was one of the classes crammed into commons - complete with pic. Several of your colleagues left after lunch apparently

[Anonymous]

Feds two hours to get to office tmrw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feds two hours to get to office tmrw

Im surprised they called 2hrs this early. I figured if it was this early it would be for closure - 2 hrs always feels like a morning call for me

[Anonymous]

Elon won’t go for a closure for weather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elon won’t go for a closure for weather.

He didn't. It's just a suggestion so doesn't actually change anything. Although you're allowed to telework if you're agency hasn't nixed that yet.

[Anonymous]

So is DC the last hold out? Everyone else closed tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

There is still telework allowed ??

[Anonymous]

When would DCPS announce if they delay/close?

It’s getting late

[Anonymous]

In the past they would do to it as late as 5 AM

[Anonymous]

They've got to be closed. This is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Being that snow will stop in a couple of hours, likely DCPS just has a delay

[Anonymous]

There is snow all over FFS

[Anonymous]

I hope DCPS is just a delay. I don’t want school to go any farther into June.

[Anonymous]

Delay seems appropriate. Forecast is known. Time for DCPS to announce so families can plan.

[Anonymous]

Teaching is a great job—fun, rewarding, delightful. But it is also a lot of work.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the good part is that a lot of feds I know are contemplating becoming teachers once the layoffs get more extensive. So that's good for all of the teaching jobs that I guess are unfilled in DCPS all of the time.

I’m loving this idea. If they need a job, we need teachers.

But this will only work if they come emotionally prepared. You don’t really know how hard teaching is until you do it. It’s not easy, like so many on this site believe. It’s long, inflexible hours and very overstimulating. But you do get summers “off” (as you go to trainings and do unpaid prep for the following year).

oh, no doubt teaching is an awful, awful profession. Certainly sounds like it from this board. But being destitute is worse.