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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Loudoun teacher and the day was “fine” in the sense we had no storm damage but it was a bad day generally and not worth all the stress. Tons of absent kids and staff, kids being dismissed all day by parent pickup, we spent 45 minutes in the hall for a tornado warning which disrupted all the kids taking the writing SOL and led to testing discrepancies. Some kids were freaking out about a tornado, nobody could focus afterward. [b]It was a really bad really stressful day that instructionally was worthless[/b]. And that was after navigating major multiple plans for my kids about how they’d get home in the event of a regular dismissal or emergency early dismissal. I’m wiped getting home from that day. I can’t see how it was better than just having an early release and being able to plan for that and not start testing that got interrupted . [/quote]

LCPS parents in my workplace were thrilled with the call. Hopefully they are in touch with leadership to express their appreciation.[/quote]

Ok? [/quote]

My point is LCPS obviously takes into account more stakeholders than just upset teachers who wanted to be in their yoga pants. And so far as any students were “freaking out” it was probably because their teachers were telling them it was too dangerous to be in school.[/quote]

No my students were freaking out about pets at home alone, their younger siblings and nieces and nephews at daycare, etc. They thought a tornado was imminently touching down outside the school because they don’t really get how tornado warnings work and we were sitting in a windowless hall for 45 minutes.

That being said, the superintendent sent out an email that said basically [b]all the models they saw showed storms hitting 11-2 which fell right when everyone would get out and be on the road if they did early dismissal so that’s why they kept us in school.[/b] It was a frustrating day AT school but I appreciate him explaining because the rationale makes sense even though during the day itself it felt like being the ONLY ones who didn’t have early release was us trying to prove something about not closing. [/quote
Yes this was the same information available to FCPS so insofar as there was something to “prove” LCPS proved it made it’s call on the safety of students, and should be applauded for it.

If kids genuinely were “freaking out” (and I am only hearing about this here) then teachers needed to calmly explain that school is safer than home in a tornado, and that schools are commonly used as shelters during even bigger storms because they keep the people in them safe. Maybe doesn’t help with the pets concern. My 5 y/o grasps the concept no problem.[/quote]

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