Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course all of the schools will be closed tomorrow.

Our students will continue to experience lack of educational continuity and academic disruption, and continue to fall ever-so-slowly behind their school counterparts in regions where snow days are few - either because those regions invest in the equipment, resources, and workforce to deal with an inhospitable winter climate (MN, WI), or because they have great weather (CA).

By the way, our regional failure to develop the resources, invest in the equipment, and hire the personnel necessary to deal with a winter climate, has the potential to depress economic growth in the region.

Please run for something. If this was the entirety of your platform, I'd happily be your campaign manager. The annual DMV snowpocalypse isn't funny anymore. It's embarrassing and hugely damaging.

It is just a few days, people. The county builds in 4 snow days, as do most private schools who choose to follow MoCo. We are going to run 2-3 over this year in MoCo - FCPS is still under. Private schools in MoCo I believe have to hold 170 days of school, and they will add more in if we fall short. We have many school years where we do not use all of our snow days, and we don't see any major educational boon to our students. It does not make sense to invest the economics into more weather clearing equipment until we hit a point when we consistently see this many snow days EVERY year. Frankly, it is more cost effective for us to build in more snow days.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course all of the schools will be closed tomorrow.

Our students will continue to experience lack of educational continuity and academic disruption, and continue to fall ever-so-slowly behind their school counterparts in regions where snow days are few - either because those regions invest in the equipment, resources, and workforce to deal with an inhospitable winter climate (MN, WI), or because they have great weather (CA).

By the way, our regional failure to develop the resources, invest in the equipment, and hire the personnel necessary to deal with a winter climate, has the potential to depress economic growth in the region.

Please run for something. If this was the entirety of your platform, I'd happily be your campaign manager. The annual DMV snowpocalypse isn't funny anymore. It's embarrassing and hugely damaging.

Yes, PLEASE RUN! I will come and videotape your stump speech and post on YouTube, after setting your words to auto-tune, and get rich off the ad revenues.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course all of the schools will be closed tomorrow.

Our students will continue to experience lack of educational continuity and academic disruption, and continue to fall ever-so-slowly behind their school counterparts in regions where snow days are few - either because those regions invest in the equipment, resources, and workforce to deal with an inhospitable winter climate (MN, WI), or because they have great weather (CA).

By the way, our regional failure to develop the resources, invest in the equipment, and hire the personnel necessary to deal with a winter climate, has the potential to depress economic growth in the region.

I can't tell if this is satirical or just garden variety nutty. Six snow days a year (last year) and four this year just isn't going to make a major difference. If you care this much about disruption, send your child to school in England -- it's the long summer vacation that is the problem, and that's the same in all fifty states, regardless of their temperate climate or tempered steel snowplow blades.

Our 1st and 4th grade teachers sent out homework via email for today. I am thrilled. I think we'll be closed tomorrow. It's still snowing!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course all of the schools will be closed tomorrow.

Our students will continue to experience lack of educational continuity and academic disruption, and continue to fall ever-so-slowly behind their school counterparts in regions where snow days are few - either because those regions invest in the equipment, resources, and workforce to deal with an inhospitable winter climate (MN, WI), or because they have great weather (CA).

By the way, our regional failure to develop the resources, invest in the equipment, and hire the personnel necessary to deal with a winter climate, has the potential to depress economic growth in the region.

Please run for something. If this was the entirety of your platform, I'd happily be your campaign manager. The annual DMV snowpocalypse isn't funny anymore. It's embarrassing and hugely damaging.

+1 million

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS will. It closes for just about anything and everything, and it still has snow days to burn!

You are in the private / independent schools forum. We have completely different considerations.

Not if your private follows FCPS or another public school system, which many of them do. No reason to be so nasty.

Anonymous wrote:FCPS will. It closes for just about anything and everything, and it still has snow days to burn!

You are in the private / independent schools forum. We have completely different considerations.

Anonymous wrote:Please name school if possible. Trying to get a sense of what people think. Thanks!

I'm curious why you are trying to get a sense of whether people predict that schools will close tomorrow. What could possibly be of interest in a handful of people offering predictions about this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course all of the schools will be closed tomorrow.

Our students will continue to experience lack of educational continuity and academic disruption, and continue to fall ever-so-slowly behind their school counterparts in regions where snow days are few - either because those regions invest in the equipment, resources, and workforce to deal with an inhospitable winter climate (MN, WI), or because they have great weather (CA).

By the way, our regional failure to develop the resources, invest in the equipment, and hire the personnel necessary to deal with a winter climate, has the potential to depress economic growth in the region.

Please run for something. If this was the entirety of your platform, I'd happily be your campaign manager. The annual DMV snowpocalypse isn't funny anymore. It's embarrassing and hugely damaging.

Wow. You guys are... dramatic. I remember getting weeks off of school near Pittsburgh for the occasional blizzard. It REALLY didn't affect anything.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course all of the schools will be closed tomorrow.

Our students will continue to experience lack of educational continuity and academic disruption, and continue to fall ever-so-slowly behind their school counterparts in regions where snow days are few - either because those regions invest in the equipment, resources, and workforce to deal with an inhospitable winter climate (MN, WI), or because they have great weather (CA).

By the way, our regional failure to develop the resources, invest in the equipment, and hire the personnel necessary to deal with a winter climate, has the potential to depress economic growth in the region.

Please run for something. If this was the entirety of your platform, I'd happily be your campaign manager. The annual DMV snowpocalypse isn't funny anymore. It's embarrassing and hugely damaging.

It depends for us - even if MCPS is closed, if the main roads are in decent shape, and the building parking lot is clear, we'll have school. If the road conditions are dangerous, then they will cancel. I think they'll wait until tomorrow morning to hear the road predictions.

Yes, of course all of the schools will be closed tomorrow.

Our students will continue to experience lack of educational continuity and academic disruption, and continue to fall ever-so-slowly behind their school counterparts in regions where snow days are few - either because those regions invest in the equipment, resources, and workforce to deal with an inhospitable winter climate (MN, WI), or because they have great weather (CA).

By the way, our regional failure to develop the resources, invest in the equipment, and hire the personnel necessary to deal with a winter climate, has the potential to depress economic growth in the region.

Our private follows FCPS and as PP just stated, it will probably close so we will probably close and then my head explodes.

FCPS will. It closes for just about anything and everything, and it still has snow days to burn!

Please name school if possible. Trying to get a sense of what people think. Thanks!