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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS covers such a wide area, it isn't fair to areas where nothing prevents them from opening. I say each school principal should make the call. Our area got dusting, not even a half inch of snow. Meanwhile, I'm paying for extra childcare costs, because I can't take leave last minute like that with all my afternoon meetings. [/quote]

+1.  Our daycare nominally follows FCPS for closures but so often, the roads are perfectly fine in our area while FCPS closes because it's crap out in Sterling or wherever so daycare will send out a notice saying they're still opening.

DH was shocked that FCPS doesn't split the county into zones for closures.  Back home (in the great white north) closures are called on a town by town or school by school basis since the county is so large, weather varies widely from one end of the county to the other.  [/quote]

FCPS alumna and native here.  This has been a suggestion since, well, 1976. The answer always has been and still is that precisely because of the sheer size and expanse of the county, this is not a viable solution.  Consider now that fewer schools are neighborhood-only schools/serve as SACC/Head Start preschool sites, are center/magnet schools/serve free-and-reduced price breakfast and lunches, are staffed with commuters. You'd have base schools open but AAP kids unable to safely be transported, or some siblings home and others at school.  Logistical nightmare for all adults involved.

Maybe, possibly a grid or area plan would have worked circa pre-1975, in the dark ages when most FCPS kids walked to school and/or could run home or climb a fence at lunch or recess to grab a forgotten lunchbox!  [/quote]

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