Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:20     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:None of the streets in our neighborhood have been plowed. Muddy Branch & Darnestown Road areas.


You can put in your address and see when they get to you, though they told us 6pm today and they did it around 7pm last night!

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/snow/snow-status.html


We did.

That information is not accurate at least not for us. It said today by 2 pm...
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:20     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.


Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care


None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.



So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care


MCPS cares, but less about your work than about the childcare workers who need to commute. I've never had to use MCPS childcare, so I'm just guessing here. Most people are still digging out their driveways, so I think this debate is moot.

I don't like how every time something doesn't go your way, or every time you think there's blood in the water, you start critizing MCPS, and others start critizing "Bethesda". The reflexive "bash the rich" or "bash the establishment" is puerile.


MCPS does not give one single f&ck about child care workers. They don't know them, haven't talked to them. They just trot out the phrase "child care workers" to justify the decisions that give them more time off but notably take away income from these workers.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:19     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
You couldn't make me make a video that tone deaf if you put a gun to my head.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:18     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.


Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care


None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.



So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care


MCPS cares, but less about your work than about the childcare workers who need to commute. I've never had to use MCPS childcare, so I'm just guessing here. Most people are still digging out their driveways, so I think this debate is moot.

I don't like how every time something doesn't go your way, or every time you think there's blood in the water, you start critizing MCPS, and others start critizing "Bethesda". The reflexive "bash the rich" or "bash the establishment" is puerile.


If you've never used MCPS hosted childcare maybe you should shut up about how it works, because you don't know. Those of who have, know it would be possible to open.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:16     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.


Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care


None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.



So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care


MCPS cares, but less about your work than about the childcare workers who need to commute. I've never had to use MCPS childcare, so I'm just guessing here. Most people are still digging out their driveways, so I think this debate is moot.

I don't like how every time something doesn't go your way, or every time you think there's blood in the water, you start critizing MCPS, and others start critizing "Bethesda". The reflexive "bash the rich" or "bash the establishment" is puerile.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:12     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.


Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care


None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.



So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care


Choose different childcare.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:11     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.


Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care


None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.



So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:11     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.


Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care


None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.



Mine wasn't clear this morning, but once they started working on it they were done in a couple hours.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:10     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
This is dumb. Why not let child care open?
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:10     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.


Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care


And here we go again.

If you don’t want MCPS to control your childcare, choose childcare that is not in an MCPS building.

Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:10     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They advised families to prepare for the possibility of an extended closure.


They did.

And yet a loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Bethesda. There was not a single house where someone did not feel inconvenienced by having to care for their own children.


Fascinating that the MCPS supporters can't imagine school being important for anything other childcare. Stuff like, I don't know, education.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:09     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They advised families to prepare for the possibility of an extended closure.


They did.

And yet a loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Bethesda. There was not a single house where someone did not feel inconvenienced by having to care for their own children.


Can you stop? I'm in Bethesda and I'm slowly chipping away at my snowplow wall. My car is stuck, BCC high school has not seen a single plow, and I am OK with this closure decision.

Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:08     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.


Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care


None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.

Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:07     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Anonymous wrote:They advised families to prepare for the possibility of an extended closure.


They did.

And yet a loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Bethesda. There was not a single house where someone did not feel inconvenienced by having to care for their own children.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:05     Subject: Mcps no school wed and thursday
Right call to be closed, but terrible call to force childcare to be closed across the entire county for both days.