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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]

What do you mean, they can't believe it?  They think you're not telling them the truth?

A school district has to make decisions based on what's appropriate for that school district, not on what different school districts elsewhere, with different relevant characteristics, may decide is appropriate for those school districts. The MCPS decision should be appropriate for characteristics and conditions in Montgomery County, not a school district in New York or Boston or North Dakota or Nizhny Novgorod.[/quote]

Translation:  Just because another school system has a more efficient way to make decisions, we will not ever consider adopting that mechanism.[/quote]

Translation: [School district] in [location] only closes for [weather conditions], therefore MCPS's decision today was wrong![/quote]

So you're saying: if [School district] in [location] has a decentralized way of making decisions on [weather conditions] that parents and teachers are happy with, MCPS would never consider that.[/quote]

Can someone link to this mythical large school system that makes this decision in a decentralized way?  It's not in NY or New England, since their school systems are by town and not by county.  [/quote]

All of Nassau and Suffolk County in Long Island make closing decisions at the district level.  Wouldn't make sense to close schools in a centralized way in an island that takes 3 hours to drive across.  [/quote]

But Nassau and Suffolk Counties in Long Island have many different school districts - it is organized by town. So the above poster's statement is correct - in NY and New England, the school districts are organized by town and not by county.  [/quote]

Right...I do not understand how people do not get that MCPS is one school district - so the decision WAS made at the district level.  The same was one in PG and HoCo.  Made on district level. [/quote]

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