Everyone is super risk adverse in this day and age.

Also, no one thinks outside the box anymore and community ties are nonexistent. Without buses all privates should have figured out a way to open by Thurs. I would have been happy to double back and pick up kids whose neighborhoods weren't plowed. Announce that tardies won't be tracked due to road conditions. The schools could have done staggered drop-offs based on last names to ease congestion on one lane roads. Allow for uniform modifications so kids can dress more warmly, exc.

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Anonymous wrote:The Arlington diocese doesn’t allow virtual learning - our Arlington school was all closed all week.

That said none of the streets in Arlington or Alexandria can probably handle carpool or street who park on streets. None of the schools want to be closed and extend the school year this was a massive ice storm

Nonsense. Prince William was open Thursday and Friday. As were dc schools. And they’re free. Schools that charge tuition should be opened at least as much as public schools. Poor decision on st Mary’s part.

Just send your kids to public. Seriously.

Such a stupid cop out. So parents have to accept and suck up every idiotic decision by their school, or they should just go to public?

Why don’t you try defending the substantive decision (bc you can’t)?

We follow FCPS and have been closed all week. The school made its own decision for Thurs and Fri since FCPS was off.

They cited the cold weather and not having enough staff as the reason for the closure.

Our Catholic school was closed as well. No virtual learning.

Guess the better questions was any Catholic school in the area open and/or did any have virtual learning this week?

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Anonymous wrote:St Mary’s does NOT follow ACPS or any other school district — and hasn’t done so since covid.

It made its own decision to shut down for 5 days while various other school districts opened or at least had virtual (while charging parents tuition).

It would make no sense for st Mary’s to follow ACPS since ACPS often does virtual (and thus is more prone to close in edge cases) while st Mary’s doesn’t do virtual. This week is a perfect example of that. Acps could have opened — the streets were fine — but opted to do virtual bc it was easier.

St Mary’s should have opened with a 2 hour delay on Thursday and on Friday.

I’d question that. There are still streets with ice. Our school had families not plowed out as late as Wednesday night. Main roads are okay but smaller streets still have problems.

There are arguments to be made both ways on opening for the last couple of days, but it certainly wasn’t a slam dunk decision to open and I can understand why they’d stay closed through today.

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Anonymous wrote:The Arlington diocese doesn’t allow virtual learning - our Arlington school was all closed all week.

That said none of the streets in Arlington or Alexandria can probably handle carpool or street who park on streets. None of the schools want to be closed and extend the school year this was a massive ice storm

Nonsense. Prince William was open Thursday and Friday. As were dc schools. And they’re free. Schools that charge tuition should be opened at least as much as public schools. Poor decision on st Mary’s part.

Just send your kids to public. Seriously.

Anonymous wrote:The Arlington diocese doesn’t allow virtual learning - our Arlington school was all closed all week.

That said none of the streets in Arlington or Alexandria can probably handle carpool or street who park on streets. None of the schools want to be closed and extend the school year this was a massive ice storm

That doesn’t make sense. BI is doing virtual two days this week and practices it regularly every year. Our K-8 has done it in the past, during the worst of Covid and as recently as 2022 when Fairfax did extended closures.

Anonymous wrote:The Arlington diocese doesn’t allow virtual learning - our Arlington school was all closed all week.

That said none of the streets in Arlington or Alexandria can probably handle carpool or street who park on streets. None of the schools want to be closed and extend the school year this was a massive ice storm

Nonsense. Prince William was open Thursday and Friday. As were dc schools. And they’re free. Schools that charge tuition should be opened at least as much as public schools. Poor decision on st Mary’s part.

Ours follows Fairfax so it was closed M, Tu, and Wed. Since Fairfax was scheduled to be closed yesterday and today, they had to make their own decision. Yesterday was closed, today is a two-hour delay.

The Arlington diocese doesn’t allow virtual learning - our Arlington school was all closed all week.

That said none of the streets in Arlington or Alexandria can probably handle carpool or street who park on streets. None of the schools want to be closed and extend the school year this was a massive ice storm

Anonymous wrote:St Mary’s does NOT follow ACPS or any other school district — and hasn’t done so since covid.

It made its own decision to shut down for 5 days while various other school districts opened or at least had virtual (while charging parents tuition).

It would make no sense for st Mary’s to follow ACPS since ACPS often does virtual (and thus is more prone to close in edge cases) while st Mary’s doesn’t do virtual. This week is a perfect example of that. Acps could have opened — the streets were fine — but opted to do virtual bc it was easier.

St Mary’s should have opened with a 2 hour delay on Thursday and on Friday.

St Mary’s does NOT follow ACPS or any other school district — and hasn’t done so since covid.

It made its own decision to shut down for 5 days while various other school districts opened or at least had virtual (while charging parents tuition).

O’Connell doesn’t follow APS? BI follows Fairfax, but they were already scheduled to be closed Th and F. So three snow days and two virtual days.

Each Catholic School in the Diocese aligns with a public school system.

O'Connell follows Fairfax. St. Ann follows APS. I assume St. Mary's follows Alexandria City.

Or just st Mary’s in alexandria?