What about this Friday?

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Anonymous wrote:I think MCPS should be open. Maybe a two-hour delay but not sure why school should remain closed by Friday.

No one will be there to teach them.

The county needs to start calling subs to see who wants to risk their hips to come in on Friday.

I saw plenty of people out and about today in the county. Most main roads are cleared.

Why should schools remain closed while everything else is open?

Right! Target was clear and dry and they were ready for the money I dropped. The need to be ready for these kids I need to drop. My mental sanity cannot take much more of this.

You can't handle having your kids at home? Why did you have them? Seriously.

Well Mr. Or Mrs. Bethesda, I actually have to work to pay bills and I begged to work from home to keep from leaving my 9 yo home with my 2 and 5 year-old. They agreed but I am trying to work all day setting appointments for my doctor while trying to keep three kids quit! So sorry us poor don’t have a nanny, au pair or retired parents to help.GFY!!

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS had asynchronous learning today Wednesday and is back tomorrow Thursday with a 2 hour delay.

I doubt MCPS will be back Friday and it’s embarrassing.

DCPS is never a good barometer for the suburban districts, it's a different kettle of fish there. MCPS is more comparable to PG and Howard.

Why? MCPS has more central office staff and should be far better prepared to plan and deploy virtual learning. It has a far wealthier student body than DCPS does and more parents that can assist with virtual learning.

I get that DCPS can open physically early because of the lack of school buses and easier commutes to school but there’s no excuse for such poor performance on planning for a storm and virtual learning. McPS is just badly managed.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ice, not snow. Have you tried moving what’s outside yourself? If the lots aren’t safe, schools don’t open. This isn’t hard.

Other MD counties just closed through Friday, but sure — MCPS is the problem 🙄

Between my husband and I, we cleared out the front and back of our house, as well as a few parking spots. We had a shovel.

You do realize a parking lot is orders of magnitude bigger than your driveway.

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I think it will be closed. Our school does not appear to have been touched yet. No way buses could get in. A lot would have to happen tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:They’ll be back Tuesday. Try to stay calm y’all.

If they're not back Monday everyone in office should be voted out. That is a total collapse of the bare minimum government services

This is also a once in a decade storm. Once in a lifetime pandemic. What's next oh?

And Monday will be over a week since the storm ended. That is a colossal failure if they can't get schools back open in a week.

You would have had a stroke in 2009.

2009, 2016, 2020, 2026

Schools were closed for 2 straight weeks in 2009. Everyone still graduated high school and got into colleges. My kid being one of them. Its not a big deal.

In 2009 (aka the olden days) there wasn’t MCPS capacity to do virtual learning. There is now and we don’t need to be like you and be happy that our kids missed school for 2 weeks when they could have been actually learning at home.

Lol I love how parents are always change the goal posts to fit their immediate needs. Before it was "virtual school isn't school!" Now, it's good enough? Come on...

No one is saying virtual is an ideal permanent solution. But if schools are going to be closed for two weeks and virtual learning can be done, why isn't it being utilized? It is not 1970 why are schools operating like it is the 20th century??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think MCPS should be open. Maybe a two-hour delay but not sure why school should remain closed by Friday.

No one will be there to teach them.

The county needs to start calling subs to see who wants to risk their hips to come in on Friday.

I saw plenty of people out and about today in the county. Most main roads are cleared.

Why should schools remain closed while everything else is open?

Right! Target was clear and dry and they were ready for the money I dropped. The need to be ready for these kids I need to drop. My mental sanity cannot take much more of this.

You went to Target to deal with your mental problems. That's on you!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think MCPS should be open. Maybe a two-hour delay but not sure why school should remain closed by Friday.

No one will be there to teach them.

The county needs to start calling subs to see who wants to risk their hips to come in on Friday.

I saw plenty of people out and about today in the county. Most main roads are cleared.

Why should schools remain closed while everything else is open?

Right! Target was clear and dry and they were ready for the money I dropped. The need to be ready for these kids I need to drop. My mental sanity cannot take much more of this.

You can't handle having your kids at home? Why did you have them? Seriously.

Well Mr. Or Mrs. Bethesda, I actually have to work to pay bills and I begged to work from home to keep from leaving my 9 yo home with my 2 and 5 year-old. They agreed but I am trying to work all day setting appointments for my doctor while trying to keep three kids quit! So sorry us poor don’t have a nanny, au pair or retired parents to help.GFY!!

Many of us don't live in Bethesda and you aren't that poor if you have three kids and you have child care for the 2 and 5 year old, so this makes no sense. You can use your PTO.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not safe for the HS kids walking in the street for 2 miles in the dark because people havent shoveled their sidewalks, nor MS and ES kids walking in the street. Teachers, who don't usually live near their schools may not be able to get out, nor support staff, who may live even farther away. So while I get you were anxious to go to Target, others were not.

My money is on closure, although I could also see a delayed opening. No chance for on time opening

No way. If temps in Thurs were going to reach above freezing and sunny, the snow and ice could start melting. Its going to be in negative digits tomorrow. It's not getting above freezing until sometime next week. Can see Monday being closed too, esp if they don't clean over the weekend. #onesnowdayonthecalendarforthewin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not safe for the HS kids walking in the street for 2 miles in the dark because people havent shoveled their sidewalks, nor MS and ES kids walking in the street. Teachers, who don't usually live near their schools may not be able to get out, nor support staff, who may live even farther away. So while I get you were anxious to go to Target, others were not.

My money is on closure, although I could also see a delayed opening. No chance for on time opening

Some of us don't have sidewalks so they will be walking over the mounds of snow or in the middle of the street. Target? People are complaining they cannot work but yet they can go to target...

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Anonymous wrote:They’ll be back Tuesday. Try to stay calm y’all.

If they're not back Monday everyone in office should be voted out. That is a total collapse of the bare minimum government services

This is also a once in a decade storm. Once in a lifetime pandemic. What's next oh?

And Monday will be over a week since the storm ended. That is a colossal failure if they can't get schools back open in a week.

You would have had a stroke in 2009.

2009, 2016, 2020, 2026

Schools were closed for 2 straight weeks in 2009. Everyone still graduated high school and got into colleges. My kid being one of them. Its not a big deal.

In 2009 (aka the olden days) there wasn’t MCPS capacity to do virtual learning. There is now and we don’t need to be like you and be happy that our kids missed school for 2 weeks when they could have been actually learning at home.

Lol I love how parents are always change the goal posts to fit their immediate needs. Before it was "virtual school isn't school!" Now, it's good enough? Come on...

No one is saying virtual is an ideal permanent solution. But if schools are going to be closed for two weeks and virtual learning can be done, why isn't it being utilized? It is not 1970 why are schools operating like it is the 20th century??

Educational outcomes have gone downhill since the advent of edtech.

Also we all know if we give school systems an inch on virtual they will take a mile. No thank you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think MCPS should be open. Maybe a two-hour delay but not sure why school should remain closed by Friday.

No one will be there to teach them.

The county needs to start calling subs to see who wants to risk their hips to come in on Friday.

I saw plenty of people out and about today in the county. Most main roads are cleared.

Why should schools remain closed while everything else is open?

Right! Target was clear and dry and they were ready for the money I dropped. The need to be ready for these kids I need to drop. My mental sanity cannot take much more of this.

You can't handle having your kids at home? Why did you have them? Seriously.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think MCPS should be open. Maybe a two-hour delay but not sure why school should remain closed by Friday.

No one will be there to teach them.

The county needs to start calling subs to see who wants to risk their hips to come in on Friday.

I saw plenty of people out and about today in the county. Most main roads are cleared.

Why should schools remain closed while everything else is open?

Right! Target was clear and dry and they were ready for the money I dropped. The need to be ready for these kids I need to drop. My mental sanity cannot take much more of this.

You can't handle having your kids at home? Why did you have them? Seriously.

Well Mr. Or Mrs. Bethesda, I actually have to work to pay bills and I begged to work from home to keep from leaving my 9 yo home with my 2 and 5 year-old. They agreed but I am trying to work all day setting appointments for my doctor while trying to keep three kids quit! So sorry us poor don’t have a nanny, au pair or retired parents to help.GFY!!

DP. What do you do when one of your kids not feeling well? Send them to school??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think MCPS should be open. Maybe a two-hour delay but not sure why school should remain closed by Friday.

No one will be there to teach them.

The county needs to start calling subs to see who wants to risk their hips to come in on Friday.

I saw plenty of people out and about today in the county. Most main roads are cleared.

Why should schools remain closed while everything else is open?

Right! Target was clear and dry and they were ready for the money I dropped. The need to be ready for these kids I need to drop. My mental sanity cannot take much more of this.

You can't handle having your kids at home? Why did you have them? Seriously.

Well Mr. Or Mrs. Bethesda, I actually have to work to pay bills and I begged to work from home to keep from leaving my 9 yo home with my 2 and 5 year-old. They agreed but I am trying to work all day setting appointments for my doctor while trying to keep three kids quit! So sorry us poor don’t have a nanny, au pair or retired parents to help.GFY!!

I know it's hard financially, but working parents need to stop doing that. Take the day off and make the clinic cancel patients. The problem is the rich are insulated from the effects of this. Make that change.

[Anonymous]

MoCo has deemed my roads clear enough to announce trash pickup Friday.

Trash is a higher priority than school buses I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think MCPS should be open. Maybe a two-hour delay but not sure why school should remain closed by Friday.

No one will be there to teach them.

The county needs to start calling subs to see who wants to risk their hips to come in on Friday.

I saw plenty of people out and about today in the county. Most main roads are cleared.

Why should schools remain closed while everything else is open?

Right! Target was clear and dry and they were ready for the money I dropped. The need to be ready for these kids I need to drop. My mental sanity cannot take much more of this.

You can't handle having your kids at home? Why did you have them? Seriously.

Well Mr. Or Mrs. Bethesda, I actually have to work to pay bills and I begged to work from home to keep from leaving my 9 yo home with my 2 and 5 year-old. They agreed but I am trying to work all day setting appointments for my doctor while trying to keep three kids quit! So sorry us poor don’t have a nanny, au pair or retired parents to help.GFY!!

DP. What do you do when one of your kids not feeling well? Send them to school??

Yes, exactly. <gasp> Just like everyone else. Grow up and get out of your SAHM bubble.