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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Closing schools is a VERY difficult decision that I'm certain NONE of you would want to make. NONE of you have the information that Dr. Reid and the decision makers have.  You have a small perspective and agenda.

Please consider that there are many many children who need to be in school today. Perhaps they have a disability or mental health condition and school is critical. Perhaps they have no food or heat at home, and school food and heat is critical.  FCPS just spend a million hours, resources and dollars on "compensatory"- which only FOUR School systems in the country were subjected to. FCPS was subjected to this in large part because of "advocates." That is the nature of this county. Please have some perspective. Appreciate that not everyone agrees. What is important for you, might not be important for others.

I appreciate that some roads are icy, some busses had trouble, some people were injured. Also realize that if FCPS closed schools today, some people would really suffer. I believe that Dr. Reid has good intent with the decisions she makes.

No decision would make everybody happy. It is alose-lose scenario.  The comments, trolls, disrespect, and rudeness on DCUM (and facebook) is just truy appalling.  [/quote]
So, according to you, [b]what do kids who depend on schools for food and shelter during the week do on weekends and holidays to meet those needs?[/b] And, how about kids who can’t afford a decent warm coat - or any coat - and have to walk to school in these weather conditions, or have to freeze as they wait for the delayed buses? Should their safety matter to us, or in your myopic virtual signaling charade these students don’t matter? [/quote]

We send them home with bags of staples.  My students go home with shopping bags filled with rice, beans, cereal, etc. every Friday.  We have a whole tiny classroom on campus that has been turned into a food pantry and the students the social worker has identified as the neediest take home weekend food packs each week.  Before school break they take home backpacks full of food to help keep them sustained.  I am grateful our school community helps fill the pantry.

We also provide them coats, access to dental care, help finding apartments and filling out applications, etc.  The schools do a LOT for families beyond educate their kids.[/quote]
You still haven’t addressed why the safety of such students - along with others who don’t depend on the school system to meet their needs for food and shelter - should be disregarded during weather inclement days, by not treating such days the way they already do on weekends, holidays, and so on.  The generous school community of Fairfax cares not only about the security of such students, but also about their safety, along with the safety of all students and school personnel. [/quote]

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