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[quote=Anonymous]Procedures are procedures until they aren't. I was in MCPS HS on 9/11/01 and I remember them announcing during lunch, which was about 45 minutes after the "deadline," that we would be closing 1.5 hours early. A 1.5-hour early dismissal was not even a thing. It was 2.5 or nothing. Until that day it was. We've had a couple of 2-hour delays in recent years when they suddenly decided at the last second to close, after some buses had already picked up students and had to turn around. But then the rest of the day was filled with stories of school buses in VA that hadn't closed sliding into ditches and having accidents. Their #1 responsibility is safety. If they get new information at the last second that makes them genuinely think they will be putting students at more risk by not acting than by acting, they have to act, even if it's 20 minutes "too late" and inconvenient. Expecting perfection and clairvoyance isn't fair. [/quote]
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