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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weird how MCPS, along with districts across the state, all decided to ‘hate working parents’ on the same icy roads. Almost like weather is involved.

I assume you missed that most districts across Maryland are also closed because ice is notoriously difficult to remove. But sure, it’s probably a coordinated anti-parent agenda.

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Nobody (well, almost nobody) is complaining about school being closed.  We are complaining about the MCPS ban that keeps any school-based child care program from being allowed to open once their lot is plowed/safe and they have enough staff able to come in.  And it appears to just be happening because school-based childcare only is allowed to open when MCPS offices iron and Taylor has decided to give all central office staff snow days pretty much every day that school staff have off, the impact on childcare and working parents being treated as irrelevant. That's the anti-working parent part of it.
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Tbf I started seeing this trend under McKnight. We have been using MCPS based childcare since 2019 and when we started we were told they rarely ever forced them to close because they rarely closed administrative offices. But now it seems they always close administrative offices if schools are closed.

That being said the whole thing where they delay schools such that high schools open by 9 but won't let beforecare open at all (so high schools can open at 9 but child care can't) is all Thomas Taylor. That part is new and special.[/quote]

Looking through my emails I see 3 snow closures in January 2024-- two which allowed childcares to open if they felt they could (and included central office open with a delayed opening) and one with offices and childcare closed.[/quote]

I also see 4 weather closures in January 2022, three which allowed childcare to open and one which required childcare to close.  They were not called Code Orange/Red then, but seem to follow the same pattern where childcare programs were allowed to open on days that MCPS offices opened, and when offices were closed, childcare was closed.

Meanwhile I don't see a single snow day where childcare or offices were open since Taylor took over, unless I'm missing something.

So is this really all about Taylor wanting to give Central Office staff extra snowdays (for morale reasons maybe?), and rather than find a way to split that off from the childcare decision, he just figures that the childcare providers being closed is acceptable collateral damage?[/quote]

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