Anonymous wrote:We had both when I was in school and it was confusing. It's already enough to remember normal schedules, 2-hour delay and early dismissal. It just makes things easier. And 1-hour delay doesn't really do much to help anyway.

+1 MCPS 80s kid again and worth noting that all of the different counties had both 1- and 2-hour delays back then and none of them have them anymore. So it’s not just an MCPS thing.

I was an MCPS HS student on 9/11/01 and remember that they closed 1.5 hours early instead of 2.5 hours early and we had lunch and went home after 5th period instead of 4th. Which I imagine was because the scope and severity of the situation did not become totally clear until the normal decision deadline for closing early had already passed. But that established a precedent for exactly nothing. Truly and hopefully a one-time-only event and everyone was scrambling and doing the best they could.

Anonymous wrote:They want things to be as straightforward as possible. A delayed opening means a two hour delay. An early release means schools close 2 1/2 hours early. They don’t want lots of confusing options that mean parents are showing up at different times based on misunderstandings.

This. And OP stop looking for things to complain about. Find a new hobby.