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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you look at that, Howard county is delayed but Montgomery county is not. I’m glad I did not have to use my contingency plans. But I would not have been caught off guard if we would have had a delay.

I really hope some of you get your act together so that next time that way you won’t get caught off guard with your shocked Pikachu faces.[/quote]

This actually runs counter to your point that MCPS always follows the lead of other counties and that if the others make a move, MCPS will follow suit. If we'd followed your logic, we would have ASSUMED MCPS would follow suit with HoCo, only to be surprised they didn't. Which goes back to the earlier point made that the only school district you should be relying on to know if school will or won't be closed is the one your kids actually attend. [/quote]

Nobody said that Montgomery county [i]always [/i] follows the lead of other counties and nobody said you should [i]assume[/i] they will automatically close. You have a really bad take on all this.
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Yes, but you and other posters insisted that BECAUSE other schools closed that anyone who was annoyed MCPS decided to NOT follow suit at first, only to pivot after school had started, was foolish because it was obvious based on the patterns.

You can't have it both ways: Either neighboring districts are or aren't a reliable predictor of MCPS's decisions. This example proves that's not always the case and it's best to worry about what MCPS says and does and not other school districts, since MCPS can and does make different decisions from its neighbors.[/quote]

Even reliable predictors are not 100%. Does MCPS usually do the same as the other districts? Yes. Does MCPS always do exactly the same as the other districts? No.[/quote]

Great, agreed that reliable predictors are not 100%. So then maybe you can stop berating other posters for being upset or caught off guard that MCPS pivoted on its decision after school started? You and your ilk instead insisted that posters who were annoyed/caught off guard/frustrated were just ignorant for not realizing it was [i]inevitable[/i] since other school districts had made the move to close early (much earlier than MCPS did btw). [/quote]

I don't remember anybody saying INEVITABLE.

If you want to ignore the other school districts' decisions, go right ahead. [b]If you want to ignore the weather forecast[/b], go right ahead. You're in charge of the information you use to make your plans.
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I never once said to ignore the forecasts. On the contrary, I was complaining about MCPS's late-game decision because the forecasts [b]had not changed[/b] by the time MCPS made its decision and in fact was the basis on why its neighboring districts made the early closure decisions earlier than MCPS. So given that the forecast were concerning enough for MCPS to close early and that those forecasts didn't change, MCPS could and should have made that call late Monday night like its neighbors, or at 5 am on Tuesday morning before people left their homes for the school day.

You're flailing wildly and making things up to prove a point that I never made.[/quote]

You can do whatever you want to do. Complain about MCPS deciding too late? Go ahead. Complain about MCPS deciding too early? Go ahead. Complain about MCPS making the same decision as neighboring school districts? Go ahead. Complain about MCPS making a different decision from neighboring school districts? Go ahead. It seems like a waste of time to me, but it's your time, so it's your decision.[/quote]

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