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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of people who work in Central Office in operations, IT, etc. whose job it is to figure out how to pull off a pivot to virtual (either synchronous or asynchronous) if the school system is in a weather situation where it needs to be considered. Alternatively, these people can do the hard work and research to determine that there are barriers that cannot be overcome and that code purple cannot and will not ever be on the table. But pretending winter doesn’t exist and just covering your eyes and kicking the can is not doing their jobs. It is amazing to me how many MCPS employees, particularly at the highest levels, just shrug and don’t do their jobs and find solutions to problems. [/quote]

There's already a solution. There are already days **in the 2023-3024 calendar** intended to be used as make-up days. There's no great challenge to solve. We just need to pick the day. We should probably decide what will be the second day, given we'll almost certainly have another snow day and we don't want to go through this again.[/quote]

Ok. So someone in leadership should decide to tell the operations people to remove code purple from the menu of watercolors and should tell the calendar people to decide the order in which we will use the make-up days and re-iterate that that’s the plan now. This is not hard. What’s hard is that no one is leading and also they don’t want to do virtual OR use the make up days so they just stand there paralyzed and make no decisions and cause entirely unnecessary scrambling and anxiety for school staff and families. [/quote]

We don't need to completely get rid of Purple. But we should double-down on Brian Hull's message from Friday that it should only be considered in Snowmageddon-like situations.[/quote]

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