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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Safety comes first, angry parents.[/quote]

The safest spot is (maybe) enclosed in a bubble in your house.  We take risks every time we do anything.  The question is always whether the risk is worth the reward.   The reward in this case is keeping your kids learning consistent.  I think it's worth going to school, even when it isn't 70 degrees and sunny outside.[/quote]

+100  There wouldn't be such a preponderance of angry parents if the policy or these decisions made sense.   I have had kids in FCPS for 12 years.  The only years where the weather-based decisions have made me crazy have been the last two.

Part of it, despite all the "policy" and "condition 1-9 blather, is that I think the decisions seem very reactive.  For example, after they failed to cancel school on a day when it snowed during the commute, the next time there was even a whiff of snow in the forecast, they reflexively cancelled. A school board can't be in the people pleasing business and all this nonsense about "safety first",  poor kids without coats is just excuses after the fact.  The board and this area needs to man up.[/quote]

+1   We are in our 13th year and the past two have been over the top ridiculous.  [/quote]

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