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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with this decision is that in the future people may wonder if they will reverse course again. I have never seen them change a delay to an open on time until today. Will they in the future change an already announced closure to a delay or open on time?[/quote]

This is my biggest worry. Whether the decision was right or wrong, at least we could rely on it. Things might get upgraded (delay to closure) but never downgraded. If suddenly we have to plan for additional contingencies and them changing their minds after they've already made an announcement, that way lies chaos.

I am trying to be patient with this new superintendent and give him the benefit of the doubt. There are things he has done that I have liked. But this was an "underprepared small district superintendent" move. Once they made the decision, they needed to stick to it. MCPS is not Stafford County. Daily operations are like parallel parking the Titanic. There were a lot of cascading effects of this reversal that are really problematic. As one example, swaths of interpreters for IEP meetings got canceled because supervisors rightly relied on these decisions never being reversed once they're made and there's a fee for cancellations within 24 hours.  Now they can't be re-engaged on such short notice so the time is wasted and the meeting has to be rebooked anyway, for example. Cutesy messages about "confusion" and "joy" show an ignorance of the domino effect this caused and were tone deaf.[/quote]

What you described doesn't seem to be a problem. If they were going to cancel due to a closure, cancelling due to losing the interpreter isn't any *worse.*

The parents already had to take off work during that time.  If the meeting could go forward, great. If not, then again it's no worse than cancelling due to weather.[/quote]

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