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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if you're talking about Arlington (APS) or Alexandria (ACPS), but I just drove side roads in Alexandria and they seemed fine. That said, there will likely be a delay or closure tomorrow, since ACPS closes for anything and everything nowadays.[/quote]

I'm talking about APS but I live in Alexandria- so referenced the roads there.  I just got in from a run and the side roads in Del Ray are NOT fine.[/quote]

Are you a teacher or do you work for APS?[/quote]

No, just a random Alexandria resident wondering of the status of Arlington Public Schools.

Yes, I am a teacher in Arlington.[/quote]

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2 hr delay - 99% chance 
Closed - 66% chance [/quote]

Predicted to be 10* at 10am? 
Revising to 80% chance closed [/quote]

+1.  Fairfax’ll close, then APS will close.  I can only think of 1 time in the past 6 years when APS didn’t follow FCPS.[/quote]

Yeah sorry about that. It is because of teachers like me and lack of subs. I can’t afford Arlington so I take off when my FCPS kids have snow days. They can’t legally stay home alone. [/quote]

Serious question that I have always wanted to ask teachers.  Why is it a spouse can never stay home with the kids on snow days?  It's not even ever mentioned as a possibility.  It's a default that all the teachers have to stay home with their own kids.[/quote]

1. Not all teachers have spouses.
2. Some teachers have teacher spouses
3. Some teachers (me) have spouses with a much higher paying job that is very demanding and their job comes first. I have tons of paid leave. If my DH "takes off" to watch our kids, he will just be up until all hours of the night making up for it.  [/quote]

It's a weird default assumption that just further devalues the profession, in my opinion.

And of course we know all teachers don't have spouses but most of those, their children should have another parent somewhere.[/quote]

I'm not the one "devaluing" the profession. Its a mathematical fact that his salary is far more important to our bottom line than mine is. And families should THANK these breadwinner husbands because many teachers like me wouldn't be teachers if not for our higher earning spouses. But at the end of the day, he'd have tons of work to make up and I don't, so I take off. [/quote]

Facts are lots of similarly low paid professions don't behave this way.  Nurses and techs in the medical field as an example.  Library workers as  already mentioned by another person.  Really any municipal worker.  You think the people plowing the snow or picking up trash during this are making a lot of money?  They're not.

Teachers don't see themselves as essential and never have and I think that's just a societal view.  Also, teachers are more likely to be women and little kids are the women's problem.   Also zero chance there are any repercussions for teachers not showing up.  It's expected at this point and no blowback from their employer.[/quote]

I’m the teacher who just commented and I’m going to challenge you on this. We don’t see ourselves as essential? Seriously? Just because we feel (gasp) like we can use our leave when we need to? Are you telling me that librarians and nurses and medical techs all heroically refuse to use their leave?

This is nonsense. Frankly, all I see is the usual assumption that a teacher’s job is to put others first because somehow teachers are not doing their jobs if they attend to other facets of their own lives. That’s a privilege reserved for other professions, correct?[/quote]

I am the librarian and I am telling you that we get denied leave at times to cover open days around the holidays and days like today, people show up somehow and we're open without fail.  Call it nonsense if you want.

[b]There are many professions where people get denied leave all the time.[/b][/quote]

And I definitely wouldn't agree to work in one of those professions. Also, sick leave doesn't have to be approved. [/quote]

That's fine.  Feel appreciative that many people are willing to work in those professions and are working in a whole lot of jobs you don't even think twice about but make your life run or even just more pleasant when other people don't want to be working.

Not really true on sick leave but I won't bother to go into it.[/quote]

Never said I wasn't appreciative, but that just wouldn't work for me. And frankly many more places (like libraries and restaurants) could close for weather. I'm not sure why people put on this bravado. Very little, apart from urgent/emergency medicine, is essential. [/quote]

Bravado?  Meanwhile if you happened to be out and about  today (I was) everything was open and operating normally and everyone was driving around.

I don’t think people object to the big storms but these little piddly events that then drag on for days of school closures and delays are annoying.  No one is holed up at home.  Please.  [/quote]

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