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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have they always been in synch in the past? Is that a norm or standard?[/quote]

Some local school systems would follow OPM in the past. So like if OPM announced a fed government closure, it should influence DCPS and some of the close in districts to close as well. It was an easier call to make if the government was closing because you figure a lot of parents are employed by the feds, and also the feds are using similar metrics regarding commutes and safety.

I can't think of any situation where schools announced delays or closures and then OPM followed suit. There have definitely been times when schools had a 2 hour delay and I still had to work (and used leave or had to make arrangements with my spouse or a fellow family). But before Trump2, it was easier to flex to a different schedule or get permission to work from home that day even if not already scheduled.

I think a lot of people have forgotten how things worked prior to Covid. The swing from Covid (everyone teleworking all the time, lots of deference to agencies and individual teams to figure out what works) to Trump2 (no telework at all and no leeway and just general hostility towards all feds) has been so dramatic that people don't remember the middle ground we used to have that was actually pretty reasonable.[/quote]

I've been a fed for a long time and had kids pre-covid.  OPM used to be way more flexible, pre-covid, about situational telework on bad weather days. Even before my agency offered telework at all and in-office full time was mandatory (until about 2012), we would have had a 2-hour delayed opening for this kind of extreme cold. So, what we are dealing with now seems unprecedented to me.[/quote]

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