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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where I grew up you followed the city your school was in.  If your town was closed and your school's town was open and you couldn't get in, it was an excused absence.  It really wasn't a big deal and happened only rarely.

As for transportation, I like the idea of simply announcing no cross-zone transportation provided for closings.  (Of course the easiest solution is no cross-zone attendance to begin with which would mean restructuring a few magnets) [b]Parents could take their kids themselves, transport them to a central pickup in zone, or take the absence.[/b][/quote]

It sure is nice to be affluent and be able to assume that everybody is like you, isn't it?

And if some poor kids don't get to go to school, well, they're not your kids, so who cares?[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but what a ridiculous argument.  Only affluent people want their kids to go to school on these fake 'snow' days??

Lady, I only get paid when I work.  I don't have one of those 'cushy' jobs with liberal leave policies.  If I take the day off, I do not get paid - end of story.  So, these crazy excessive snow days have been a huge issue for my family.  I WANT my kid to go to school.  Please don't make assumptions that only the affluent have a problem with this system.[/quote]

Yes, I understand that the snow days have been a huge issue for your family. And if your kid can go to school on days when the sidewalks and roads are not bad in your part of the county, that is definitely a good solution for you.

But it's not a good solution for MCPS.

As for the affluence -- I wasn't assuming that only the affluent object to snow days when the sidewalks and roads are bad in parts of Montgomery County they don't live in. I was assuming that only the affluent assume that of course everybody has a car.[/quote]

You are arguing both side of the poors thing.  First you say they don't have cars, but then you say that unlike in DC they can't rely on public transportation because they are too rural.  So these people live in Damascus, send their kids to school in Rockville, and never leave their house? That's got to be such a small subset of the student body.[/quote]

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