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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The approach to weather decisions at SSSAS sums up the weak leadership at the school. They send an update yesterday saying they’ll make a call later, leaving families wondering and putting working parents in limbo. They just sent an email canceling after school activities but then leave the door open for another update by 11:00 AM. They leave parents waiting and unable to plan while they wait until the last minute to make a final call. [/quote]
They are closing at 1.

I don’t mind how they communicated about it. They made the best decisions they could with the info they had each time, with the caveat that it’s a developing situation and things might change.

If you weren’t aware last night even before the first notice went out that you should be preparing to potentially pick up your child between noon and 1, you weren’t paying attention. [/quote]

Who said parents weren't aware? It wasn't like I was shocked to hear about the weather event. They always wait and wait and wait. They can never just make a call and stick with it. They are going to have annoyed parents no matter what they do so I know it's not an ideal position but have some courage to make a call so people can plan their work schedules.[/quote]
You said you were waiting and unable to plan. My point was you perfectly well could have been planning, knowing there was a chance of an early closure.

If you mean you couldn’t formally notify your office, sure. But all the businesses in this area are aware of the situation too. If you had a meeting conflict, you could have proactively given a heads-up or even gone ahead and rescheduled. It’s not hard to plan for 2 or 3 contingencies. [/quote]

Thanks for telling me how to function as a working adult. Next time I'll just clear my entire afternoon waiting around to find out if there is going to be an early pick-up and when exactly pick-up is going to be. You probably work at the school so that's why you think everything is so great.[/quote]

OMG, you NEED that input bc you clearly can’t manage flexibility. You probably work in a paper pushing agency where agility isn’t a pre-requisite.

Nope don’t work at the school. Just a working parent like who who has managed this smoothly. [/quote]
Um, hi, thanks for answering for me but I’m not sure why you’d pretend to be a previous poster when you’re not.

But no, to the person I was actually in conversation with, I don’t work at any school. I’m literally a paper pusher government contractor. It’s still not hard to let coworkers know I’ll need a little flexibility because school might let out at 3 or it might let out at 1.

As it turned out, the government branch I work for closed its building at 2 and required all onsite employees to leave by then.

Everyone knew this was happening. You did not need to clutch your pearls about the school not making an immediate decision in order to handle this. [/quote]

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