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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

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That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids [/quote]

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

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DCUM poor isn’t the issue. There are really poor people in the county. Including those who have never had to deal with snow and ice before.

I grew up really poor. We got laughed at for wearing plastic bags over our shoes to try to stay dry. Fine, we got to school in the rain rather than sitting at home. However, you can’t climb a 2 foot mound of ice with plastic bags tied over your shoes. [/quote]

I did, too. That's not how you do it. You put the plastic bags *inside* the shoes to keep your feet dry.

I find it hard to believe someone would actually do it the other way. Obviously that isn't going to work. The plastic would just tear.[/quote]

DP. Nah kids who needed this method did it both ways. [/quote]

I've seen plastic bags used many times. I've never seen someone try to put them outside the shoes. That isn't going to work. It will tear, and before it tears, you're going to fall. If you've seen people in Maryland do that, to maybe we do need to send a mass email out telling people what not to do.

I have seen plastic bags inside shoes. Then you just don't wear shoes at your desk, or, ideally, you bring a second set of old shoes.[/quote]

As a child, you didn’t wear shoes at your desk at school? Or , as a child, you brought the old shoes that were now a size too small to wear all day?

Or you have only seen adults do this and have no idea what it is like to be a child sitting in soaking wet shoes in school for six hours? [/quote]

Both would happen. We'd usually wear shoes, but sometimes not if they were soaked with water or mud.

In my elementary school, they actually encouraged us to keep a second set of shoes at school since they'd often be soaked after recess. I know MCPS doesn't do that, but they're much more reluctant to send kids outside for recess.[/quote]

HS kids don't have lockers so it would be hard to take and carry two pair of shoes.[/quote]

You would be amazed how many kids bring extra shoes to school.  Most of my students have everything except school supplies in their backpacks[/quote]

And many have their athletic bag too to keep their athletic gear.[/quote]

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