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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us. [/quote]

But this isn't new, DCPS closes when there's mere mention of snow, let alone actual snow.[/quote]

This isn't really typically the case. But under the specific circumstances, it's not that shocking. Lots of teachers don't live in D.C., but in suburbs where there may be more snow. There's still snow around in some spots from Monday. Snow removal is slower than it would usually be, because of DPW employees out with covid. Metrobus is running on a Saturday schedule, because of drivers and maintenance workers out with covid. Metrorail is running on some crazy schedule because they had to take half the train cars out of service lest they kill riders. They've already had a problem getting substitutes all year, so it was pretty likely that any teachers calling out because they couldn't commute into work due to snow would be tough to replace -- and because of covid, they're already short-staffed at a lot of schools.

I think it's too pat to say "this isn't really because of snow, it's because of covid" -- they released the data just last night that showed positivity rates were not completely out of hand at most schools, and it seems unlikely that would have changed wildly in the one day of school we had this week. But it's a confluence of factors, with covid influencing many of them. Oh well. Let's hope for a warm front next week.[/quote]

Thank you[/quote]

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