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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is my imagination or did we go to school in snow back in the 80s and 90s? [/quote]

There are kind of a couple of things things with it.

When I was younger I remember hearing we got some new superintendent who came from Buffalo and they were never going to close schools for snow.  And I vividly remember walking to school in the snow during that time with that in my mind.  Looking it up now, it must have been either Vance or Pitt but I don't see anything in their bios about being from Buffalo or New York.  So it might have been rumors but it was spreading on why we were going to school when we expected snow days back then.

Even with this past Monday, the better call would have been to see what the conditions were like that morning.  I know people complain about not having time to make plans or preparations but it's going to have to be one way or the other.  Should MCPS try to stay on the side of keeping schools open and try to make the call as late as possible when they know for sure a two hour delay won't work.  Or should they try to account for familys that need to plan for their kids to unexpectedly be at home?  One of the reasons why I say MCPS should've been more conservative with the snow day this past Monday is because they already have issues with running out of snow days and extending the calendar.

Then the sprawl didn't go so far out back then.  Like back then, King Farm was literally farm land.  It might've just been because I was in my own little world but we hardly went past exit 8 on 270 back then.  So any potentially affected populations weren't as big back then.  Now you have that whole development in Clarksburg that constantly has crowded elementary schools and redrawing of their boundaries due to it.

And to my knowledge, back then you didn't have so much bussing back then due to special programs or crazy islands or boundaries.  So it wasn't as big of an effort to get kids to their schools close by.[/quote]

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