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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in NY, which gets much more snow than Maryland, and we road buses to school, and there wasn't this type of chaos around a tiny bit of snow.  [b]We had school districts within the county[/b], and the district made the decision to close.   It's been said before, but it's just too bad that these decisions can't be decentralized from MoCo to a sub-county level (ex: clusters).  I know there are magnet schools and special ed programs county wide, but maybe MoCo could make those decisions to close for those schools, while decisions to close for local schools could be made at the cluster level.

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But in Maryland, the school districts are the county.

MCPS has looked at the possibility of only closing part of the district for weather and concluded that the headaches outweigh the benefits. I do not necessarily believe everything that MCPS tells me, but I do believe them on this.[/quote]

Yes, which is why I pointed out that you could have a sub-county decision mechanism (ex: by clusters).  My NY friends can't believe that my kid's school keeps closing when there's less than an inch of snow of the ground.  [/quote]

Well my Michigan (where I grew up) friends tease me about it all the time and we remember (not so fondly) waiting for the bus in sub-zero weather with 2 feet of snow on the ground.  But what we all recognize is that this area is not built for that - the structure is not in place that you see in a Buffalo or a Chicago.  Honestly, we do not get that this type of weather enough to justify that costs.  [/quote]

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