Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:31
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
We stay and play at the playground a lot after school and I routinely see bus students leaving the school and boarding the bus when we finally leave.
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:29
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Kids from our immersion ES get home well over 3 hours from now, so we shall see.
They get home after 5:15?
Not the PP but yes.
My ES doesn’t walk in the door until 4:25pm from the bus stop at their home school.
Those buses for schools across the county tend to run about 45min later.
Wait, the magnet bus leaves the school at 4:25 when the late elementary school end time is 3:50? Is MCPS providing free aftercare somehow?
I don’t think that’s what PP meant/said but a lot of the magnet routes do plan for kids to be sitting there watching TV and they regularly pickup at the school after 4, before we even factor in a delay. So yes?
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:28
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Kids from our immersion ES get home well over 3 hours from now, so we shall see.
They get home after 5:15?
Not the PP but yes.
My ES doesn’t walk in the door until 4:25pm from the bus stop at their home school.
Those buses for schools across the county tend to run about 45min later.
Wait, the magnet bus leaves the school at 4:25 when the late elementary school end time is 3:50? Is MCPS providing free aftercare somehow?
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:27
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Kids from our immersion ES get home well over 3 hours from now, so we shall see.
They get home after 5:15?
Some of them — have you seen the magnet bus routes?
And then those bus drivers have to go park back at the bus depot in rush hour traffic and then drive to their own homes in rush hour traffic.
DC and rush hour with snow has never been a risk worth taking
It’s like people don’t get that there is more to this then actual school closing times.
Lots of people are working until 5 or 6 today like usual. The temps have been above freezing most of the day. It will take a while for it to stick.
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:26
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Rush hour already underway.
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:21
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Kids from our immersion ES get home well over 3 hours from now, so we shall see.
They get home after 5:15?
Some of them — have you seen the magnet bus routes?
And then those bus drivers have to go park back at the bus depot in rush hour traffic and then drive to their own homes in rush hour traffic.
DC and rush hour with snow has never been a risk worth taking
It’s like people don’t get that there is more to this then actual school closing times.
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:18
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Kids from our immersion ES get home well over 3 hours from now, so we shall see.
They get home after 5:15?
Not the PP but yes.
My ES doesn’t walk in the door until 4:25pm from the bus stop at their home school.
Those buses for schools across the county tend to run about 45min later.
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:15
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
I kind of agree, they took a gamble and got lucky. Forecasts were showing them to be wrong.
Actually forecasts were showing they were right, which is why they made the call.
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:15
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Kids from our immersion ES get home well over 3 hours from now, so we shall see.
They get home after 5:15?
Some of them — have you seen the magnet bus routes?
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:14
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad to see MCPS making such a sensible call; I wish they took a reasonable approach more often. It seems the specter of another week of school in June has a positive effect.
Early closure has nothing to do with a missed day
There was no reason to shorten a day. This affects time available for tests and how much material can be covered in a day.
I’m surprised that MCPS made the right call.
We can say it was the right call when everyone is home without incident or traffic catastrophe at 5pm. They have really put themselves out on a limb here.
Honestly you sound a bit ghoulish. You know what buses have accidents in the sunshine and in the rain too?
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:13
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad to see MCPS making such a sensible call; I wish they took a reasonable approach more often. It seems the specter of another week of school in June has a positive effect.
Early closure has nothing to do with a missed day
There was no reason to shorten a day. This affects time available for tests and how much material can be covered in a day.
I’m surprised that MCPS made the right call.
We can say it was the right call when everyone is home without incident or traffic catastrophe at 5pm. They have really put themselves out on a limb here.
Not really. All of the media outlets who don't hype things up were stating that snow would not begin to accumulate until after dark. Great call MCPS!
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:13
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Kids from our immersion ES get home well over 3 hours from now, so we shall see.
They get home after 5:15?
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:11
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Kids from our immersion ES get home well over 3 hours from now, so we shall see.
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:09
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
+1
They made the right call. It's only just starting to snow.
Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:08
Subject: predictions schools closed Wed Feb 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if no early dismissal ends up being the “right” call, it was the wrong call because it was a gamble that was not worth taking given the information available.
Oh whatever. MCPS can't win. They get it right and it was still wrong!
More like some people wanted to get off work early and they didn't get what they wanted.