There will be no school all week - Here is why.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't parents drive kids if they can't walk?? It seems my options are to either take off an entire day of work and stay home with my kids, or drive them to school. I think all working parents will choose #2.

I get that school isn't childcare, but schools need to understand that parents have to work.

Longfellow Middle School has almost 1600 kids. Not possible for 1600 cars to be dropping off kids. Now, imagine ALL the schools doing that... Also, not all parents have cars. Fairfax is 405 square miles.

Sure they could. They could stagger the times. That everyone throws their hands up in the air and refuses to educate kids is awful.

You must not have any concept of common sense. Post a schedule of how 1600 students can be dropped off at a school that can barely even handle the NORMAL drop off rate on a regular day?

I'll give you a probable answer. If it takes just 30 seconds for each car to pull in and drop off their kid and the cars were perfectly lined up with no downtime it would take 13 hours.

You think each car has to do it one at a time? Ha ha. This area is so clownish.

You clearly have NEVER dropped off a kid at Kiss and Ride - NEVER. So, you should stop commenting on what you have no clue about. Me giving 30 seconds per car is being nice.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't parents drive kids if they can't walk?? It seems my options are to either take off an entire day of work and stay home with my kids, or drive them to school. I think all working parents will choose #2.

I get that school isn't childcare, but schools need to understand that parents have to work.

Longfellow Middle School has almost 1600 kids. Not possible for 1600 cars to be dropping off kids. Now, imagine ALL the schools doing that... Also, not all parents have cars. Fairfax is 405 square miles.

Sure they could. They could stagger the times. That everyone throws their hands up in the air and refuses to educate kids is awful.

You must not have any concept of common sense. Post a schedule of how 1600 students can be dropped off at a school that can barely even handle the NORMAL drop off rate on a regular day?

I'll give you a probable answer. If it takes just 30 seconds for each car to pull in and drop off their kid and the cars were perfectly lined up with no downtime it would take 13 hours.

You think each car has to do it one at a time? Ha ha. This area is so clownish.

You clearly have NEVER dropped off a kid at Kiss and Ride - NEVER. So, you should stop commenting on what you have no clue about. Me giving 30 seconds per car is being nice.

I drop my kids off every day. You are being ridiculous. 180,000 kids not being educated because people act like you do.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't parents drive kids if they can't walk?? It seems my options are to either take off an entire day of work and stay home with my kids, or drive them to school. I think all working parents will choose #2.

I get that school isn't childcare, but schools need to understand that parents have to work.

Longfellow Middle School has almost 1600 kids. Not possible for 1600 cars to be dropping off kids. Now, imagine ALL the schools doing that... Also, not all parents have cars. Fairfax is 405 square miles.

Sure they could. They could stagger the times. That everyone throws their hands up in the air and refuses to educate kids is awful.

You must not have any concept of common sense. Post a schedule of how 1600 students can be dropped off at a school that can barely even handle the NORMAL drop off rate on a regular day?

I'll give you a probable answer. If it takes just 30 seconds for each car to pull in and drop off their kid and the cars were perfectly lined up with no downtime it would take 13 hours.

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Longfellow can hardly manage the volume of our K+R as is…

Exactly. Longfellow school emails parents all the time telling them NOT to drop off their kids. The streets are all backed up, cars can't turn into the school, the Kiss and Ride area is backed up. And these idiots think...."Hey, just drop off 1600 kids!!!"

LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't parents drive kids if they can't walk?? It seems my options are to either take off an entire day of work and stay home with my kids, or drive them to school. I think all working parents will choose #2.

I get that school isn't childcare, but schools need to understand that parents have to work.

Longfellow Middle School has almost 1600 kids. Not possible for 1600 cars to be dropping off kids. Now, imagine ALL the schools doing that... Also, not all parents have cars. Fairfax is 405 square miles.

Sure they could. They could stagger the times. That everyone throws their hands up in the air and refuses to educate kids is awful.

You must not have any concept of common sense. Post a schedule of how 1600 students can be dropped off at a school that can barely even handle the NORMAL drop off rate on a regular day?

I'll give you a probable answer. If it takes just 30 seconds for each car to pull in and drop off their kid and the cars were perfectly lined up with no downtime it would take 13 hours.

You think each car has to do it one at a time? Ha ha. This area is so clownish.

You clearly have NEVER dropped off a kid at Kiss and Ride - NEVER. So, you should stop commenting on what you have no clue about. Me giving 30 seconds per car is being nice.

I drop my kids off every day. You are being ridiculous. 180,000 kids not being educated because people act like you do.

Bullshit. Because if you did you would know it's a pain in the butt and you would know it's not possible to drop off 1,600 kids at a school.

Go back into your hole, troll - LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't parents drive kids if they can't walk?? It seems my options are to either take off an entire day of work and stay home with my kids, or drive them to school. I think all working parents will choose #2.

I get that school isn't childcare, but schools need to understand that parents have to work.

Longfellow Middle School has almost 1600 kids. Not possible for 1600 cars to be dropping off kids. Now, imagine ALL the schools doing that... Also, not all parents have cars. Fairfax is 405 square miles.

Sure they could. They could stagger the times. That everyone throws their hands up in the air and refuses to educate kids is awful.

You must not have any concept of common sense. Post a schedule of how 1600 students can be dropped off at a school that can barely even handle the NORMAL drop off rate on a regular day?

I'll give you a probable answer. If it takes just 30 seconds for each car to pull in and drop off their kid and the cars were perfectly lined up with no downtime it would take 13 hours.

You think each car has to do it one at a time? Ha ha. This area is so clownish.

You clearly have NEVER dropped off a kid at Kiss and Ride - NEVER. So, you should stop commenting on what you have no clue about. Me giving 30 seconds per car is being nice.

I drop my kids off every day. You are being ridiculous. 180,000 kids not being educated because people act like you do.

Bullshit. Because if you did you would know it's a pain in the butt and you would know it's not possible to drop off 1,600 kids at a school.

Go back into your hole, troll - LOL.

If parents are dropping their kids off at K&R's and not nearby side streets, they're morons. Why wait in those lines...

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't parents drive kids if they can't walk?? It seems my options are to either take off an entire day of work and stay home with my kids, or drive them to school. I think all working parents will choose #2.

I get that school isn't childcare, but schools need to understand that parents have to work.

Longfellow Middle School has almost 1600 kids. Not possible for 1600 cars to be dropping off kids. Now, imagine ALL the schools doing that... Also, not all parents have cars. Fairfax is 405 square miles.

Sure they could. They could stagger the times. That everyone throws their hands up in the air and refuses to educate kids is awful.

You must not have any concept of common sense. Post a schedule of how 1600 students can be dropped off at a school that can barely even handle the NORMAL drop off rate on a regular day?

I'll give you a probable answer. If it takes just 30 seconds for each car to pull in and drop off their kid and the cars were perfectly lined up with no downtime it would take 13 hours.

You think each car has to do it one at a time? Ha ha. This area is so clownish.

You clearly have NEVER dropped off a kid at Kiss and Ride - NEVER. So, you should stop commenting on what you have no clue about. Me giving 30 seconds per car is being nice.

I drop my kids off every day. You are being ridiculous. 180,000 kids not being educated because people act like you do.

Bullshit. Because if you did you would know it's a pain in the butt and you would know it's not possible to drop off 1,600 kids at a school.

Go back into your hole, troll - LOL.

1600 kids does not equal 1600 cars!!!! There may be a lot, but the number is lower because so many families land up carpooling in these situations.

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Anonymous wrote:Just keep in mind that every private school in the DMV has been open since last Thursday. And yes most of them have buses too.

Short buses.

And pick up and drop off are in large parking lots.

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I just saw a digger clearing a turn lane on West Ox to get into Penderbrook. Progress. Hopefully they will go across the street to fix the other turn lane.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw a digger clearing a turn lane on West Ox to get into Penderbrook. Progress. Hopefully they will go across the street to fix the other turn lane.

Isn't West Ox & Penderbrook right near the VDOT HQ (across from Costco)?

Hmmmmm....

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Anonymous wrote:Just keep in mind that every private school in the DMV has been open since last Thursday. And yes most of them have buses too.

Short buses.

And pick up and drop off are in large parking lots.

And no private school is juggling walkers, bus riders strewn across 450 miles of Ffx Co., and the general 180k students including SN and handicapped.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't parents drive kids if they can't walk?? It seems my options are to either take off an entire day of work and stay home with my kids, or drive them to school. I think all working parents will choose #2.

I get that school isn't childcare, but schools need to understand that parents have to work.

Longfellow Middle School has almost 1600 kids. Not possible for 1600 cars to be dropping off kids. Now, imagine ALL the schools doing that... Also, not all parents have cars. Fairfax is 405 square miles.

Sure they could. They could stagger the times. That everyone throws their hands up in the air and refuses to educate kids is awful.

You must not have any concept of common sense. Post a schedule of how 1600 students can be dropped off at a school that can barely even handle the NORMAL drop off rate on a regular day?

I'll give you a probable answer. If it takes just 30 seconds for each car to pull in and drop off their kid and the cars were perfectly lined up with no downtime it would take 13 hours.

You think each car has to do it one at a time? Ha ha. This area is so clownish.

You clearly have NEVER dropped off a kid at Kiss and Ride - NEVER. So, you should stop commenting on what you have no clue about. Me giving 30 seconds per car is being nice.

I drop my kids off every day. You are being ridiculous. 180,000 kids not being educated because people act like you do.

Bullshit. Because if you did you would know it's a pain in the butt and you would know it's not possible to drop off 1,600 kids at a school.

Go back into your hole, troll - LOL.

1600 kids does not equal 1600 cars!!!! There may be a lot, but the number is lower because so many families land up carpooling in these situations.

Point 1, there are only 1200 students enrolled at Longfellow. Point 2, PP suggested parents of walkers should drive their kids to school. Not all students. Non walkers will have congestion near their bus stops where parents will idle in their vehicles until the bus comes. Kiss and Ride will see higher volume, but 180,000 kids won’t be individually dropped off in separate vehicles, let’s be real.

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Anonymous wrote:Why isn’t virtual learning an option. Lots of districts went that route. FCPS collects data at the beginning of every school year regarding WiFi access and laptop availability for each student. Every school should have planned accordingly and encouraged students and staff to take laptops home (like during Covid era). They also could have planned to provide internet as they did during COVID. FCPS does not know how to organize and execute anything at any level.

If you don't know the reason why virtual learning isn't happening, it must be because you are new to FCPS.

The more people complain about snow days and the calendar, the more likely virtual learning will occur.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a neighbor is out of town, or is sick, dealing with cancer, doesn't have a shovel to chop the ice, or elderly (Principal admits it's a sheet of ice), etc. The comment "chose" heavily implies that the neighbors had a choice to clear but didn't because they don't feel like it.

Our neighbor chose to shovel his driveway but not the sidewalk that houses the bus stop. It was a choice. It’s ok to acknowledge that some people are a%*holes.

THIS! There isnt a single house with the sidewalks not shoveled that also doesnt have a driveway shoveled. Not a single one.

Probably because those people need their driveway and don’t need their sidewalk. It’s not realistic to rely on residents for this. You can say how it should be all you want but it’s just not realistic.

I chose not to shovel my sidewalk and my neighbors did the same. Everyone is just walking on top of the snow without issue. We don't need sidewalks cleared.

What I also chose to do last night was submit a complaint with VDOT about the entrance to my neighborhood because there's no way a school bus could turn right without the merge lane being plowed. Right now the plow tracker shows a VDOT plow at that same spot I complained about.

We need to submit targeted complaints about the issues in our own neighborhoods so VDOT can prioritize it. There are a lot of plows in the southern part of the state right now and not very many in NOVA. Get online and tell them what's preventing the buses from getting into your respective neighborhoods.

No way are you walking on the sidewalks then. About half my neighbors haven’t bothered to shovel at all (some for good reason, some not). Even with crampons, I fell once, and I’m a fit 32 year old.

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Anonymous wrote:In the North, you'd be walking on a snow covered sidewalk. Sometimes you fall. You wear the proper attire and you tough it out.

The sidewalks are not SNOW covered, they are ICE covered. I don't thikn we can assume all kids have ice skates.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't parents drive kids if they can't walk?? It seems my options are to either take off an entire day of work and stay home with my kids, or drive them to school. I think all working parents will choose #2.

I get that school isn't childcare, but schools need to understand that parents have to work.

Longfellow Middle School has almost 1600 kids. Not possible for 1600 cars to be dropping off kids. Now, imagine ALL the schools doing that... Also, not all parents have cars. Fairfax is 405 square miles.

Sure they could. They could stagger the times. That everyone throws their hands up in the air and refuses to educate kids is awful.

You must not have any concept of common sense. Post a schedule of how 1600 students can be dropped off at a school that can barely even handle the NORMAL drop off rate on a regular day?

I'll give you a probable answer. If it takes just 30 seconds for each car to pull in and drop off their kid and the cars were perfectly lined up with no downtime it would take 13 hours.

You think each car has to do it one at a time? Ha ha. This area is so clownish.

You clearly have NEVER dropped off a kid at Kiss and Ride - NEVER. So, you should stop commenting on what you have no clue about. Me giving 30 seconds per car is being nice.

I drop my kids off every day. You are being ridiculous. 180,000 kids not being educated because people act like you do.

Bullshit. Because if you did you would know it's a pain in the butt and you would know it's not possible to drop off 1,600 kids at a school.

Go back into your hole, troll - LOL.

1600 kids does not equal 1600 cars!!!! There may be a lot, but the number is lower because so many families land up carpooling in these situations.

Even 400 cars would result in hours of drop-off.