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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's dumb, but at least they're not closing.

Are the buildings at least staying open for child care?[/quote]

It’s a school system, not a child-care provider. The goal is getting kids home before the severe weather hits.[/quote]

Get over yourself. Our aftercare provider is staying open.[/quote]

Your aftercare staying open isn’t the flex you think it is. Managing a handful of kids indoors isn’t the same as getting an entire district home safely. 
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Keeping kids (and staff) inside a school building is safe and reasonable in the conditions expected. Much better than being on a bus or walking around outdoors, which is what we are trying to avoid with early dismissal.[/quote]

Right, let’s just keep thousands of kids trapped in classrooms until normal dismissal while a Level 4 storm hits outside. Totally reasonable.[/quote]

You don't seem to understand what level 4 means here.[/quote]

Well, the level 4 level means we will have a good chance to see tornadoes in our area tomorrow afternoon and we will most likely be put under a tornado warning by 1pm tomorrow. According to Doug Kammerer, the storms will move through between 2-6pm and into the metro area between 3-5pm. Damaging winds are likely to occur and you don’t want to get caught outside when the storms roll through.

All of this supports the early dismissal that MCPS (and multiple other counties) has announced. [/quote]

It's a 10-15% chance of tornadoes. That's certainty not "most likely."

Yes, we'll be under a tornado watch, but that doesn't mean much. They don't call a warning until they see one visually or on radar.[/quote]

We're not even under a tornado watch yet which at this point I find a bit strange- there are a lot of "warnings" about the weather but we are under no actual weather advisory from NWS.  Not even a wind advsiory which is in effect in other parts of MD.[/quote]

Why would we be under a watch now? The conditions aren't currently right for tornadoes. Later they will be, but not now.[/quote]

Sorry my bad, I always thought watches were typically issued hours in advance- like I could swear in the summer we'd often get heads-up early in the day from the summer swim team if there was potential for disruption of vening meets if there was a severe thunderstorm watch.

My mom in SW PA is under a wind advisory.  I would be glad if we don't get the bad winds here I was just surprised this area was left out.[/quote]

Not PP but the bad stuff is really not scheduled to hit until later.  I understand why MCPS called for an early release but cancelling afterschool activities might have been sufficient.[/quote]

It would have, but then they wouldn't have gotten to take the afternoon off (paid).[/quote]

Teacher here. I got through most of my content today, so learning definitely happened at school. I’m now at home grading, like I am every single weeknight. The main difference is I’ll grade for a couple more hours than usual because I have more time.

Want to tell me more about taking afternoons off?[/quote]

That's work you would have had to do at another time, so yes, it is equivalent to paid time off.[/quote]

You're a moron. Salaried workers can normally leave work whenever we are done with are work. Source: myself. I leave work around noon every day because my employer knows they don't have to babysit me because I'm an adult. This goes for the rest of the employees at my Fortune 500 company. Sounds like your boss just doesn't trust you to do your job, or you have a bad job. Either way, leave teachers alone. [/quote]

The point is, by closing school early, there was less work.  This isn't a case of working efficiently and finished hours early.  [/quote]

How was there less work?

The teachers still had to plan. In fact, they had to alter plans to fit the new bell schedule. So they planned twice.

Teachers still had to teach. In fact, they had to teach students who were more anxious because of the weather (and the hype about the weather, which is not the teachers’ fault).

Teachers still had to perform extra duties as assigned. In fact, many had to cover for their colleagues who didn’t make it in.

Teachers still had to collect formative data. And teachers still have to evaluate and record it.

Today was just as much work as any other day, even if it was crammed into fewer hours. And teachers still head home to get ready for the next day, doing hours of unpaid work at home. [/quote]

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