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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and had about 5 students in class today. I ended up not being able to do any new material anyway. One teacher slipped and fell on the ice going down some outside stairs, and our parking lot is on a steep hill and was not treated, so that was fun. The situation today was miserable and unsafe on many levels, but the Gatehouse crew are all warm and comfy and don't care about anything until they actually get sued. And a lot of parents are just selfishly hoping for free childcare and don't care about who else might get hurt in the process.[/quote]

No, not every parent is hoping for free child care. [b]I am so tired of that argument.[/b]  My kids are in HS and it's been very challenging getting them in an education flow this fall.  There are far too many disruptions.  It isn't healthy from an academic perspective. They don't need these breaks. If anything they need to feel the burn for a bit.

In addition, my kids do sports and hate not having that outlet.  So constantly closing school isn't socio-emotionally healthy either.

Not everything is "oh you just want free childcare".

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DP. I spent a small part of this morning reading the reams of garbage logic put up by people who thought that FCPS made a "great call."  I can certainly empathize with being tired of hearing empty arguments.

You claim too many disruptions this year but I'm not sure where that's coming from. If we had 10 times as many snow days as we've had so far, we'd still have exactly the same number as we've had so far - zero.  If zero unplanned disruptions are a threat to our children's health, then your appeal to our sense of children's health doesn't make sense.

I'd agree that - to the best of my knowledge - everything turned out ok this morning when the roads were mildly-to-moderately slippery at the time that middle school kids were on their way to school.  I'd also agree that for years, there were no incidents at DCA airport despite running military training flights in the same space that civilian aircraft were landing. Not everyone is comfortable waiting for something bad to happen before deciding that there's something to worry about.

On the bright side, I [b]do know some parents who told me they were happy to get their free childcare today[/b].
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Given their free childcare requires them to live in an incredibly expensive area, take hilarious amounts of PTO (if they have it) to support an insane schedule and not even receive particularly good childcare for the bargain I would say FCPS has sure showed them. [/quote]

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