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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, this issue really gets people going!

My 2 cents:  I am a teacher at a DC private and live relatively far out in Montgomery County.  I got up early and made it in, but there were some white knuckle moments for sure and I questioned my own judgment a few times along the way in.  I will say that, had I notified the school that I would be late because the driving was unsafe from my location at that time (early and with very low temps and a fair amount of untreated roads), they would have been supportive of my decision.

I did see quite a few accidents and traffic jams caused by cars that could not make it up icy hills or had slid across the lines into other cars, as well as a couple of Montgomery County schoolbuses that seemed to have pulled over or been involved in (fortunately) relatively minor accidents.

On balance, this is a day on which I wish they had invoked the 2-hour delay.  However, it is not an easy decision; it is a thankless task to make that decision; and even a two-hour delay can be fairly disruptive (for example, if the school runs all classes on a shortened schedule, you can't give a test that was formatted for the longer time period).

Lastly, I get why people are referencing NE or Michigan roots -- it's a way of saying "I'm not just a Southern person scared of cold precipitation falling from the sky."

Anyway, everybody's here, temps have risen, all is well.  Hope temps on DCUM cool. :)[/quote]

Oooh, I can't wait for the posts like "If you are a teacher, then why are you on DCUM in the middle of the school day?" etc.  I, for one, am thrilled to know that private school teachers actually read this forum -- even if it is during the school day.  Please, tell us where you teach so we can know who is keeping up with our vitriol. Oh, and if you can, please tell me whether my snowflake is getting accepted this week and when I will hear and whether it will be by mail, email, phone or singing telegram.[/quote]

They let us out to exercise in the yard after morning lockdown, and I traded my cigarettes from the canteen for some time on a contraband computer so I could post a message on DCUM.  Shhhhhhh . . . don't tell the warden.[/quote]

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