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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It snowed at the END of January. 1 big storm. One really  awlful cold spell that lasted 3 days. And 3-4 inches today mid February. Our winter will be over soon. I would not call it a horrible winter. [b]You can not spend tons of extra money for 2 months out of the year. Most of these Northeast and Northwest states experience 4-5 months of winter(double the amount of ours)[/quote]
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You can if you want to equip your kids to compete in the world.  Try talking to the teachers about all the backsliding that's happened since Christmas -- or better yet, any real momentum they've been able to build in new learning since then.

And I think you'll find that despite their winters the Northeast and the Northwest states have a lot fewer school closings.  So we can adapt to what appear to be changing winter weather conditions here, or continue to fall behind while our molly-coddled kids expect a break every time a few flakes fall.  [/quote]you do realize that if FCPS do not USE all of there 13.5 snow days they are actually in school longer than other school districts. This does not solve a disruption and I actually agree with you about the breaks since Christmas, but I think you missed the point. As im certainly not coddling my kids, they were out helping neighbors shovel and running around outside yesterday in the single digits, they spent time reading and doing math as well. Seems as you may have posted the same on another thread. It is what it is with 187,000 kids. so far this winter we have had about 2 total weeks of "harsh" winter effects. [b]The county is not going to make any huge changes.[/quote][/b]

No one said huge changes were necessary.  But the county is going to have to start dealing with the problem.    It's not 2 total weeks of harsh effects.   It's disrupted schooling for 6 weeks since the first week back to school in January. We're midway through February and kids haven't yet had a full week of school.  It's great that we can all send our kids out to help shovel the neighbor's driveway and have them do math and reading at home, but this isn't Little House on the Prairie and most of us are too busy with working to take on home schooling as well.  And good luck trying this with high school students.     [/quote]

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