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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I've been so disappointed in my broader neighborhood.  There are so many houses with pristine, cleared driveways and untouched sidewalks.  The worst are the corner lots, where people just decided that it was too much work to break up the ice.

As part of this, a big problem has been the lack of help for the older folks.  But I understand it. It is normally a 10-15 minute job to shovel someone's sidewalk in a normal 1/4 acre residential neighborhood.  In these conditions it ends up being an hour-plus.

There's nothing that FCPS can do to make this better.  They just have to decide what is the tipping point where the kids have missed enough school that it is ok to send them out in potentially dangerous conditions.[/quote]

Everyone here is disappointed.....disappointed in neighbors(maybe they were sick or injured and couldn't help)....disappointed in school systems....no one seems to want to say that this is not a normal storm and VA does not have the resources to clean up they way up north does. Kids safety matters-all kids not just yours. Everyone will have to be disappointed-we have the snow days and we never use them all. This was a big and intense storm. It is what it is~stop with the teacher hate they don't make the calls.[/quote]

Our neighborhood had people posting that they were available to help if people needed help and then did so when people reached out. My neighbor who cleared their driveway and din’t touch their sidewalk didn’t need help to do that, they just didn’t want to so they didn’t. Pretty much everyone in my neighborhood has clear drive ways, half didn’t touch their sidewalks. That is a choice they made that we all pay for.

I don’t care about using snow days, although they are not actual snow days but hours that are counted. That includes things that have nothing to do with being in class, like passing periods and lunch time, so these are not actual instructional minutes and not really snow days. FCPS plans for hte legally required 180 days, it doesn’t build in snow days. It switches to hours after the first snow days. This notion that there are 10 built in snow days is BS. [/quote]

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