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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't sound like MCPS and MCDOT have been coordinating at all beyond MCPS's request on Sunday afternoon for MCDOT to clear some extra areas. Basically the same time that MCPS bashed MCDOT in its message to the public.

In other words MCPS bureaucrats gave themselves 5 days off and did not talk at all with MCDOT, then bashed them publicly to excuse not opening today. Meanwhile MCDOT staff were literally working all week last week, certainly not perfectly. But at least they were working.

[quote]In an update sent Sunday afternoon, officials wrote that “all schools are ready.”

That wasn’t enough to bring kids back, they determined, because the county’s sprawling network of roads needed more work.

On Monday morning, Rockville High School’s parking lot was clear, and salt was sprinkled across the sidewalks bordering the campus. But that didn’t mean a clear walk to school.

While some sidewalks in the surrounding neighborhoods were shoveled, many others remained miniature ice rinks, marked by deep divots and reminders of Rockville’s pets.

Montgomery County paused enforcement of sidewalk clearing requirements, telling residents that they wouldn’t issue violation notices until Monday.

Near Meadow Hall Elementary, a bright yellow sign signaled to drivers that children would be using a crosswalk to get to school. The path to that crosswalk, however, remained buried under thick, slippery ice.

Emily DeTitta, spokeswoman for the county Department of Transportation, said the agency cleared roads surrounding county schools on Sunday night.

[b]“We just received a request from MCPS for some additional areas late yesterday and are either assisting directly or asking the state when they are on state roads to address them,”[/b] she said.

Crews are also working to widen neighborhood roads and help clear sidewalks.[/quote]

https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/montgomery-county-schools-snow-ice-removal-VMOAICYWFBDHNAGT4PIG5OMDPM/[/quote]

As if the Dept of Transportation would admit if MCPS asked and wasn't given help. [/quote]

I mean MCPS can respond and say "we asked them at x y and z times and they didn't do it" but they haven't. MCDOT went on the record with a reporter. If MCPS wants to complain about MCDOT they should give specifics about what they didn't do that they are supposed to do. If MCPS wants MCDOT to do more than they are supposed to do they should pay for it. Also, CENTRAL OFFICE SHOULD HAVE BEEN OPEN TUESDAY TO FRIDAY LAST WEEK. I have zero sympathy for a bunch of bureaucrats that gave themselves a vacation while the school system was in crisis. They could have at a minimum been teleworking if not out in field managing the response.[/quote]

Are you serious? No one in McPS central office was working last week? Shoudn’t they have been trying to ensure that schools opened? I pictured them monitoring the snow clearing effort, organizing the plan for makeup days and trying to belatedly write the virtual learning snow day proposal for MSDE that they should have done in 2024.

This is why parents call MCPS lazy.  They throw shade at everyone including parents for not shoveling and meanwhile they take the whole week off.  [/quote]

Some DCUM posters have reported receiving emails from CO staff members, so I am sure some of them were working. I know there are certain legally required things that have to be sent by a certain date. However, yes, MCPS was in Code Red all week last week which means offices were closed. Nobody except essential workers were required to work at all. Montgomery County Government, on the other hand, was only fully closed on Monday. On Tuesday it was liberal leave. By Wednesday, it was just open, no liberal leave. Folks were just expected to go to work like normal and like everyone else in the county except for MCPS and MC.[/quote]

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