What about Monday?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids should just suck it up and go to school. Oh but the sidewalks are slick! Too bad. Get to school. They should protest this by showing up and demanding an education. These same kids are sledding and running around outside.

Kids will be fine, it is their nasty parents who will sue at the drop of a hat that MCPS is afraid of. If they sled and hurt themselves its on them but if they hurt themselves trying to get to school, the same Karens who want school to open will be calling the media.

So YOU are so sure the school buses will "safely" get students to and from school next Monday? most of the roads including rural ones and narrow streets where school buses pass are not ready for buses AND regular commute traffic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Closed Monday and Tuesday. They can’t open if community sidewalks aren’t cleared, even if they clear the school.

Yep. With a delay Wed. Most of this isn't going to melt until maybe Thursday.

This county is ridiculous. You can walk on snow. Lots of people are doing it.

+1 In my country we used to sled to school when there was ice. MoCo is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You know what they do in Eastern Europe? They wait for spring to melt the snow. Let's do like them.

Jokes aside, situation around school here is bad. No sidewalks cleaned, no parking lot. Super hard for cars to pass on a two lane road. Don't see how this is going to get done. Pressure is on MCPS but if they open and we have ton of kids with broken limbs on Monday, it will be a bigger scandal.

+100, cue the Bethesda crowd on the news upset because their snowflake was forced to go to school on time. It's now MCPS fault and they want the BOE involved.

Good point about the board where the he are they?

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher in DCPS (live in MoCo..kids go to MoCo schools) and today was a disaster. Parents, staff, admin-everyone is ANGRY. I work in SE and our attendance was at 20% for students. Other schools in SE reported even lower. Sidewalks weren't cleared all over DC, 5 schools reported no heat, some drop off/pick ups were a mess, buses didn't show up at stops...as much as you might want your kids back in school, school systems need to be prepared for reopening. MCPS is no where near ready (after driving by many schools on my own commute today). Staff at my school have already called out for tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A two hour delay on Monday would represent a complete failure of leadership. Taylor should lose his job if that comes to pass.

No it should be a full closure.

I love how you're trolling the other PP.

Personally, I'm sure MCPS is doing the best they can, and I refuse to raise my blood pressure for such petty details are which day kids are going to return to school... even though I'd rather it be sooner than later.

Sorry to ruin your fun, but not trolling. After having seen many schools in the area, the condition of the community sidewalks, snow banks, right lanes with snowbanks so basically one lane in each direction, people walking on that same lane because the right lane is housing the freezing rain banks, students who can not afford snow gear (no not everyone passes around their old snow gear ), bus stops not cleared, people in DC area not knowing how to drive, bus drivers unwilling to take a risk with Mr lawyer's kids, temps not rising to melt, and a few other things, the district is not ready as of Thurs eve and it will be a miracle if they get the resources (workers, equipment) to get it ready by Monday delayed opening or a Tuesday delayed opening. Out of an abundance of caution, Wednesday. Btw, DC public schools opened today a few schools didn't have heat and the students and parents who walk to school were in ma y parts climbing snow banks and walking on unshoveled sidewalks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is happening to other places hit by the same storm? Like is this real? Can someone call Bubba and Jethro to make a blow torch ice melting machine so we can get back to normal? This is not brain surgery!

Fern leaving a havoc. But only through Montgomery County.

Not only through MoCo. Even snowy counties are struggling. Do you really no no one who lives elsewhere in the state of Maryland?

People in other places had virtual. Did YOU know that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A two hour delay on Monday would represent a complete failure of leadership. Taylor should lose his job if that comes to pass.

No it should be a full closure.

I love how you're trolling the other PP.

Personally, I'm sure MCPS is doing the best they can, and I refuse to raise my blood pressure for such petty details are which day kids are going to return to school... even though I'd rather it be sooner than later.

Sorry to ruin your fun, but not trolling. After having seen many schools in the area, the condition of the community sidewalks, snow banks, right lanes with snowbanks so basically one lane in each direction, people walking on that same lane because the right lane is housing the freezing rain banks, students who can not afford snow gear (no not everyone passes around their old snow gear ), bus stops not cleared, people in DC area not knowing how to drive, bus drivers unwilling to take a risk with Mr lawyer's kids, temps not rising to melt, and a few other things, the district is not ready as of Thurs eve and it will be a miracle if they get the resources (workers, equipment) to get it ready by Monday delayed opening or a Tuesday delayed opening. Out of an abundance of caution, Wednesday. Btw, DC public schools opened today a few schools didn't have heat and the students and parents who walk to school were in ma y parts climbing snow banks and walking on unshoveled sidewalks.

Troll on a different subject. It's been a long week. This post isn't even particularly funny, just ridiculous. But you may have had some people going until you suggested people needed snow gear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What have these people been up to all week? I get that this snowcrete is hard to clear but every shopping center and office building in the county has managed to do it!!

Wrong - sidewalks in the shopping center near my home have a nice block of ice but the parking lot is clear though. I had a medical appointment and I had to walk on the snow/ice since there was no sidewalk. I was anxious since I already have a bad hip and holding onto the parking meter till and was relieved when I got to the walk path beyond the sidewalk.

It made me sad when I thought about people less fortunate than I am who rely on public transportation like buses. Near the Ride on bus stop someone cleared a narrow path on the mound of snow, and the sidewalk just on either side of the stop was clear.

The way the county treats low income housing residents is disgusting. Their apartment walkways have t been shoveled yet they can't get the residents help to have management do their damn job of clearing the walking areas

I'm genuinely curious - in apartments, are the residents supposed to clear anything besides their cars? The nurse at the doc office said she couldn't come to work the past few days because the steps and walk path to her car was not cleared.

Typically if no HOA the management or owner of the apartments is responsible for clearing or contracting out the cleaning of common areas such as walkways, parking lot, sidewalks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is happening to other places hit by the same storm? Like is this real? Can someone call Bubba and Jethro to make a blow torch ice melting machine so we can get back to normal? This is not brain surgery!

Fern leaving a havoc. But only through Montgomery County.

Not only through MoCo. Even snowy counties are struggling. Do you really no no one who lives elsewhere in the state of Maryland?

People in other places had virtual. Did YOU know that?

MCPS has its problems, but at least we're not that bad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed Monday and Tuesday. They can’t open if community sidewalks aren’t cleared, even if they clear the school.

Yep. With a delay Wed. Most of this isn't going to melt until maybe Thursday.

This county is ridiculous. You can walk on snow. Lots of people are doing it.

+1 In my country we used to sled to school when there was ice. MoCo is ridiculous.

This is US of A.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A two hour delay on Monday would represent a complete failure of leadership. Taylor should lose his job if that comes to pass.

No it should be a full closure.

I love how you're trolling the other PP.

Personally, I'm sure MCPS is doing the best they can, and I refuse to raise my blood pressure for such petty details are which day kids are going to return to school... even though I'd rather it be sooner than later.

Sorry to ruin your fun, but not trolling. After having seen many schools in the area, the condition of the community sidewalks, snow banks, right lanes with snowbanks so basically one lane in each direction, people walking on that same lane because the right lane is housing the freezing rain banks, students who can not afford snow gear (no not everyone passes around their old snow gear ), bus stops not cleared, people in DC area not knowing how to drive, bus drivers unwilling to take a risk with Mr lawyer's kids, temps not rising to melt, and a few other things, the district is not ready as of Thurs eve and it will be a miracle if they get the resources (workers, equipment) to get it ready by Monday delayed opening or a Tuesday delayed opening. Out of an abundance of caution, Wednesday. Btw, DC public schools opened today a few schools didn't have heat and the students and parents who walk to school were in ma y parts climbing snow banks and walking on unshoveled sidewalks.

All of this. I’ll be shocked if MCPS opens Monday and it’s not the fault of MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is happening to other places hit by the same storm? Like is this real? Can someone call Bubba and Jethro to make a blow torch ice melting machine so we can get back to normal? This is not brain surgery!

Fern leaving a havoc. But only through Montgomery County.

Not only through MoCo. Even snowy counties are struggling. Do you really no no one who lives elsewhere in the state of Maryland?

People in other places had virtual. Did YOU know that?

MCPS has its problems, but at least we're not that bad.

Why did virtual have to be all or nothing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What have these people been up to all week? I get that this snowcrete is hard to clear but every shopping center and office building in the county has managed to do it!!

They all probably paid top dollar to private contractors. The county, and more specifically the school system, cannot really do that without budget meetings and votes. I mean it's not the most effective way of doing things but it's how local government pretty much everywhere is set up to operate. I have heard all the rumors that private companies have reached out to MCPS to offer help and that MCPS has ignored them but I bet that probably has to do with the fact these local companies are probably charging 500% of what they normally would.

Our small elementary school already has a small utility tractor with a snow plow. While not very practical for the parking lots, it made quick work of the sidewalks. I don't know how common that is. Even if it's unusual, they only needed to use it for a couple of hours, and those are relatively easy to transport between sites.

School sidewalks seemed to be done pretty quickly in my trip around the Germantown/Gaithersburg/Montgomery Village area. Even schools that had untouched parking lots and bus loops had cleared sidewalks

That combo is still useless.

It is my understanding that building services does the sidewalks at each school and the county plows do the parking lots. Since we've heard many streets are cleared to two lanes, it sounds like there aren't many county plows available to help with the parking lots. It seems like the mcps building services crews have been working hard and most sidewalks by schools are clear... but not bus stops and parking lots. Not sure this is a failure of MCPS as much as the county council budgeting resources and ensuring homeowners and businesses are shoveling their sidewalks. (Also this was a TOUGH one to shovel and there are places it is solid ice and almost impossible to move.)

I don't know of a local district in the DMV that were open today (Thursday).
Looks like Frederick is opening 2 hours late tomorrow. Howard is closed with offices open. Fairfax and Arlington are closed tomorrow (but planned closures for teacher work days).

[Anonymous]

^ DC public was open. Attendance waaay down as expected.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is happening to other places hit by the same storm? Like is this real? Can someone call Bubba and Jethro to make a blow torch ice melting machine so we can get back to normal? This is not brain surgery!

Fern leaving a havoc. But only through Montgomery County.

Not only through MoCo. Even snowy counties are struggling. Do you really no no one who lives elsewhere in the state of Maryland?

People in other places had virtual. Did YOU know that?

MCPS has its problems, but at least we're not that bad.

Why did virtual have to be all or nothing?

I wouldn't necessarily go so far as at rule it out if there's an extended emergency that cannot be accommodated with calendar adjustments. But we certainly shouldn't be quick to jump to it without sufficient planning going into the necessary curriculum changes, and absolutely shouldn't use it when there are in-person days that could be used instead.