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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans. [/quote]

Yup.  She's not worried about her kids' routine.  She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.[/quote]

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home. [/quote]

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C. [/quote]

Or get a new job. People act like they can't leave their job. It's a choice, they just don't like the other choices. [/quote]

Do you realize how rare full time jobs with benefits are if you are under 30?  And it’s worse if you are a blue collar worker.[/quote]

But there ARE other jobs, are there not? So it remains a choice. You choose salary and benefits over something else. I'm not saying that's the wrong choice, just that parents who complain that they can't handle a school closing because their job isn't flexible makes their choice someone else's problem. They choose to stay in that job, they choose the inconvenience. The argument they make is just annoying, that's all. [/quote]

Parents are complaining because, unlike with a snow day or a sick kid, this would be a totally optional closing that mostly just results in inconvenience — even for people with flexible jobs, it still costs either time, or money, or energy to deal with a change in the usual routine. And for what purpose? Do you think kids born in 2000 or later would be spending their day off meaningfully reflecting on the service President Bush gave to the nation?

Complaining on an anonymous website about how it's a pain in the ass to arrange unexpected, not usually needed childcare doesn't mean people don't have a backup plan in place, it means they wish they didn't have to use it.[/quote]

Moan in the right place then, it's Trump who called this not DCPS  :roll: [/quote]

No, Trump (or any president) doesn’t make the decision to close DCPS. I’m sure no one is complaining that their federal office is closed.[/quote]

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