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What do we think will happen on Monday?
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Anonymous
They could use sand instead, that is what we used at our house. It provides grit, which helps with traction and is not all that expensive. Some people use kitty litter. There are alternatives but I can see where that would be harder for the COunty because they probably stock up on one solution. |
Anonymous
| I really hope they don't open on Monday. We live near Marshall HS, the roads are barely plowed, there is no place to park, let alone walk. I don't know how those school buses will maneuver. Just driving towards route 7 is an adventure of its own. Seriously, FCPS, stay closed on Monday and possibly Tuesday. |
Anonymous
| My favorite is people complaining on Facebook about sidewalks not being shoveled and saying there’s no way the kids can go to school because of it. As if someone is going to just come along and do it for them. I get that plows made everything harder by piling up snow. They did it to us too, but you have to get out there and work on it or find someone who can help. It’s like there is no concept of personal responsibility anymore. Everyone just throws their hands up and says there’s no possible solution. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Marshall HS families just got a note from the Principal noting how bad the roads are near school and for everyone to take buses on Monday...I don't think that bodes well. |
Anonymous
No it's not. It was 3 days of snow (Mon-Wed) because those were instruction days. Thurs-Fri were teacher workdays anyways. Students didn't miss 5 days of instruction, only 3. |
Anonymous
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I finally got out and ran to my HS to pick up something I left. It’s still a mess- the front parking lot is mostly OK, but we’re down about 10 parking spots where ice is piled up. The side and rear parking haven’t really been touched. The sidewalks up against the building are mostly clear, but if you try to walk in from the neighborhood, like a lot of our kids do, you have to walk in the street. If school had been open today, I’d say 1/3 of staff would not have had a place to park and drop off would be gridlock.
Someone is going to have to hustle this weekend if this place is supposed to be 100% on Monday. |
Anonymous
Good to hear. There are many reasons to get school open and as a parent you can call your kid in absent if it just is too messy where you are. |
Anonymous
This is not true and it is not possible for you to have seen all schools lol. Many parking spots in our lot are full of plowed snow and ice. The neighborhood has no cleared sidewalks and teachers and families will be walking in the roads to try and get to the front of our school. I think you are a parent who is desperate to get her kids back and thats fine but let's not say that ALL streets are plowed and ALL schools are cleared and safe. Which is what you are implying. |
Anonymous
Some of the roads in Kingstowne are technically owned by Kingstowne and are thus not VDOT’s or Fairfax County’s responsibility. I personally have better things to do than drive to another neighborhood to try to score Internet points, but this person’s claim is entirely plausible. |
Anonymous
The problem is these people will say it's not fair if other kids go to school while theirs is absent. They want everyone else to stay home so their kid doesn't miss something. |
Anonymous
Hi “Teacher”, Just to remind you that FCPS involve 200 schools, 180.000 student, and 400 square miles area. And VDOT doesn’t have “Customers service free toll number” for your neighborhood streets. They don’t do that, they don’t. |
Anonymous
Someone posted on our town facebook page with a shout out to all the teen boys out there clearing sidewalks and driveways for their neighbors. She then asked if any of the girls or boys who are not shoveling would be available to help parents who have to work from home to watch their kids. She was immediately slammed by a bunch of women telling her that she was being sexist and misogynistic because girls can shovel snow too and she should have asked for the boys to babysit. It was such a crazy response and it was many people, not just one or two. Keep in mind, the girls aren't out shoveling. It is almost uniformly teen boys doing this back breaking work. I am sure there are a handful of girls shoveling, but I haven't seen a single one and I have been out in many neighborhoods, including neighborhoods with plenty of teen girls living in them. People are so crazy. It is not misogynistic to recognize boys for doing this laborious work that no one wants to do. The young men in our community do deserve recognition. Our neighborhood has a group of boys, 6th grade through college, who have spent the past few days tag teaming to clear eldery neighbors' driveways and sidewalks, often for free or for minimal money. For example, my teen cleared an elderly person's sidewalk, driveway, and path to the mailbox over 2 days, 7 hours total, for the $40.00 she insisted on paying him. She lived several streets away, but reached out to our neighborhood FB page. This is being repeated throughout our neighborhood and almost all of our senior citizen residents are now cleared. My other boy and his friends were helping empty nesters, for free, cleared neighbors who were out of town, for free, and helped a neighbor whose spouse injured his back attempting to shovel, for free. Boys are doing this all over the area, in far greater numbers than our daughters. The work is hard labor, which in spite of people calling it misogynistic and sexist, it is work that young men are just better at than young women. Teen boys get such a bad wrap, especially in this left wing area where boys are regularly disparaged as a group by schools and society. The teen boys REALLY stepped up to the plate during this storm. They deserve everyone's accolades for how much they stepped up for their neighbors and community, often unpaid or underpaid, without being asked. |
Anonymous
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Yes, the people volunteering their time and efforts to help their neighbors should be celebrated and that doesn’t have to be gender specific. Teen girls can help with shoveling and volunteer just like the boys but the messaging has been for boys to help with shoveling. Yes, girls could jump on the bandwagon but they are not being asked, which is sexist. I don’t think it is intentional but it is sexist.
Framing the ask for “Any able body volunteers who are available” gives more room for both genders to participate instead of asking only for boys. And yes, asking if there are girls who can help watch kids of working parents is also sexist. I am not sure why people struggle with the idea of just asking for help and not asking for gender specific help. Maybe more boys will show up but leaving it nuetral makes it easier for girls to show up. |
Anonymous
Parents need to take responsibility for getting their kids to school. I find it hard to believe there are residential streets that are completely unplowed. |