Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 08:24     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
Anonymous wrote:My kids' basketball games were cancelled today and it didn't start snowing until after 1pm. Ridiculous, everyone is so freaking paranoid here.


My kids' activities were cancelled even though they were before noon.

My guess is FCPS sent out an email canceling the entire day Sunday and then backtracked with their official announcement of noon.

I much preferred morning-of calls of the past.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 08:12     Subject: Re:4 Day weekend?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The messaging this generation gets is nuts. Everything is unsafe or they need to be protected. No wonder they are all hot messes. Zero resilience.


Well yeah.

It was only yesterday they were told they would unalive grandma if they went to school or hung out with their friends, and later that they would unalive grandma if they didn't sit in school all day wearing an ill-fitting paper mask.

Anxiety on 100.


Almost 5 years ago was “yesterday”? You’ve got problems, troll.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 07:51     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
Anonymous wrote:The projected lows for Tuesday-Thursday are now 12-15° which is cold but not as dangerous as the 2-4° peojections. I would be surprised if they have even a delay this week.


Where are you seeing that? All my apps say 8 for tonight and 5 for tomorrow night
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 23:49     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
My kids' basketball games were cancelled today and it didn't start snowing until after 1pm. Ridiculous, everyone is so freaking paranoid here.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 23:13     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
Anonymous wrote:The projected lows for Tuesday-Thursday are now 12-15° which is cold but not as dangerous as the 2-4° peojections. I would be surprised if they have even a delay this week.


I wouldn't
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 23:08     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
The projected lows for Tuesday-Thursday are now 12-15° which is cold but not as dangerous as the 2-4° peojections. I would be surprised if they have even a delay this week.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 22:46     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
Anonymous wrote:The discussion of 2-hr delays - which are warranted in extreme cold - is another reason middle school start times should be later. Let's not have half-asleep kids out at 6AM in the dark slipping on ice. We can do better...pay the money for more buses or whatever it takes to have school at a healthier start time (and when it's at least light out).


It's not about buses. It's about drivers. We can buy buses. We can't find drivers.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 22:44     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard custodians are called in tomorrow so school is happening. I really doubt they will call a delay.


Temps are single digits. They have delayed due to this in the past. It’s not safe.


67,000 people at the Eagles game would disagree with you. They’re not dead yet and they’ve been there for hours


Well dumpy trumpy would disagree with you
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 22:43     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
Anonymous wrote:Why do so many of you constantly wish for school closures? Haven't we had enough of them? My kids are sick and tired of this. They especially hate that their activities keep getting canceled.


Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 22:42     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
When will we find out about any delay?
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 21:58     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
The discussion of 2-hr delays - which are warranted in extreme cold - is another reason middle school start times should be later. Let's not have half-asleep kids out at 6AM in the dark slipping on ice. We can do better...pay the money for more buses or whatever it takes to have school at a healthier start time (and when it's at least light out).
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 20:52     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
If there's a delay on Tuesday, it won't be about coddling the kids - it'll be because they need time to get the busses going, and they need busses to get kids to school.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 20:45     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
The “I went to school when it was -10 outside” people…you likely lived in places that had the ability to plug busses into blocks or parked in a depot that was semi-enclosed. Fairfax does not have blocks to plug into. The brakes on our busses do not warm up easily in these temps.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 20:44     Subject: Re:4 Day weekend?
Anonymous wrote:The messaging this generation gets is nuts. Everything is unsafe or they need to be protected. No wonder they are all hot messes. Zero resilience.


Well yeah.

It was only yesterday they were told they would unalive grandma if they went to school or hung out with their friends, and later that they would unalive grandma if they didn't sit in school all day wearing an ill-fitting paper mask.

Anxiety on 100.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 20:42     Subject: 4 Day weekend?
No buses = no school. It’s simple science.