Anonymous wrote:Capitol Weather Gang - After models all week consistently showed the D.C. area teetering near the edge of the big coastal storm this weekend, we can now confidently say that a big snow is almost certainly off the table. In fact, the balance of model data now suggests the storm will completely miss our region to the south and east, which is the direction we had been leaning.

Anonymous wrote:So National is the ONLY district that is doing timed finals. Whoa. That is crazy.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve already written to our DSA twice on a different topic and never got a response. I’m writing to both our DSA and the FCPS ombudsman - ombuds@fcps.edu

It’s stupid but the only way I get a response from admin at our school is if I cc: the ombudsman, or ask the ombudsman to help me to get the school to respond after I’ve attempted like 3 times. Then I quickly get a response.

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Contact the DSAs at the National district schools. Their input outweighs coaches. I get the decision to move to timed finals initially but not sure why it wasn’t moved back and I think these decisions should be made as a region not each district doing whatever they want

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Anonymous wrote:Some coaches in the district advocated for timed finals but ultimately it is the district leader’s choice. Maybe the DSA’s had input. It will definitely hurt some kids.

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Anonymous wrote:We are in National and it’s a done deal. No changing minds away from timed finals.

Who made that stupid call??? Seriously?

Who can we at least complain to. It is not the coaches because our coach is NOT happy about it.

Who is the District Leader? And what coaches wanted timed finals?

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Anonymous wrote:when for some reason Fcps changes their minds and closes early tomorrow or sat, national will look smart. Top 8 still go to regionals.

If they close early tomorrow. All districts are screwed except Concorde.

If they close Saturday then everyone would still send top 8. It would only hurt relays because seed time would be the final time.

But by not even giving Saturday as an option screws two districts.

Anonymous wrote:when for some reason Fcps changes their minds and closes early tomorrow or sat, national will look smart. Top 8 still go to regionals.

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Anonymous wrote:
Contact the DSAs at the National district schools. Their input outweighs coaches. I get the decision to move to timed finals initially but not sure why it wasn’t moved back and I think these decisions should be made as a region not each district doing whatever they want

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some coaches in the district advocated for timed finals but ultimately it is the district leader’s choice. Maybe the DSA’s had input. It will definitely hurt some kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in National and it’s a done deal. No changing minds away from timed finals.

Who made that stupid call??? Seriously?

Who can we at least complain to. It is not the coaches because our coach is NOT happy about it.

Who is the District Leader? And what coaches wanted timed finals?

Contact names? Telephone? Emails?

I seriously would like to reach out to all of them.

Just so I'm writing to the right person..DSA is Director for Student Activities? I'm drafting an email now to the DSA for my HS.

Anonymous wrote:when for some reason Fcps changes their minds and closes early tomorrow or sat, national will look smart. Top 8 still go to regionals.