Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 12:44     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Give credit where credit is due. For the first time in a long time DC did much better at something than our surrounding districts. The roads were clear and the schools open. Thank you DPW!
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 23:05     Subject: Re:Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:lol, I’m not the only DCPS employee commenting first of all.

Second of all, you decided to throw an insult at me instead of addressing anything that was a real issue in the last post.

How were the other kids supposed to get home, Karen?

Also, you guys are all like my kids made it Hardy and Oyster-Adams and the like on time. None of you(even if you didn’t mention it) are like my kid made it perfectly fine and all the teachers were there at Ballou or Beers, or Drew, or a King. Am I right?

How much did you care about all kids safely making it to school, even the ones that solely rely on walking?

I’ll wait!


My kids attend a school in Ward 5 like those you lost, but I never mention it by name on this board because we are one of only a handful of white families and I feel easily identifiable.

But I'll just note my kids made it to their Title 1 school okay today (we were late due to traffic, road conditions, and my kids being very slow to get up after the snow days). Their teachers were at school, they had a fairly normal day, and the vast majority of their classmates were there.

I am sure some students were unable to make it and I am not happy about that, but I also know many students who WERE at school got a good breakfast and lunch and fun with friends and an opportunity to learn. That's good, right?

I would have been okay with a delay or another snow day but a lot of the other families we know would have to scramble for both.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 22:49     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
My kid goes to a (gasp) Title 1 Middle School in Ward 5. They reported 3 kids of 26 were not there in their homeroom.
My (gasp) Title one elementary 4th grader reported 2 kids missing. Also Ward 5.

Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 22:21     Subject: Re:Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:
Title 1 school, nowhere close to Hardy or Oyster-Adams. Walked.

Repeatedly screaming "privilege!" at anyone who disagrees with you or had a different experience than you is not a very effective way to make an argument.


Hilarious! Which Title 1? Which ward?

You still have negated in answering any other the aforementioned questions. What should those parents have done that OSSE left their children or WMATA didn’t provide service to their schools?


I live in Ward 8, but I don't see why that's relevant. Every ward has Title 1 schools.

Certainly not ideal for those students or families, but I'm sure they figured something out. Just like the students at the many schools that don't have a dedicated WMATA or School Connect route. Everyone has had major disruptions to their routines this week. Most people are just doing their best to adapt.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 22:04     Subject: Re:Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:
Title 1 school, nowhere close to Hardy or Oyster-Adams. Walked.

Repeatedly screaming "privilege!" at anyone who disagrees with you or had a different experience than you is not a very effective way to make an argument.


Hilarious! Which Title 1? Which ward?

You still have negated in answering any other the aforementioned questions. What should those parents have done that OSSE left their children or WMATA didn’t provide service to their schools?


Ward 8.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 21:56     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:Not only did hundreds of Deal students not have any public transportation options to get to school, but they also had a school where the heat was out, per an email from the principal. And my kid messaged me via their laptop to say none of their teachers were there and that half their classes were more or less unsupervised.


The heat wasn't out in the entire school, or if it was, it didn't seem to bother my kid. I thought it was totally reasonable to open. Also totally reasonable for teachers who live elsewhere and couldn't find care for their own kids to call out.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 21:48     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
The other funny thing about all this is that some families that didn’t get to come in probably would agree with you all that they wanted their kids at school but were able to due to the city, WMATA, or DGS dropping the ball.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 21:46     Subject: Re:Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?

Title 1 school, nowhere close to Hardy or Oyster-Adams. Walked.

Repeatedly screaming "privilege!" at anyone who disagrees with you or had a different experience than you is not a very effective way to make an argument.


Hilarious! Which Title 1? Which ward?

You still have negated in answering any other the aforementioned questions. What should those parents have done that OSSE left their children or WMATA didn’t provide service to their schools?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 21:33     Subject: Re:Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:lol, I’m not the only DCPS employee commenting first of all.

Second of all, you decided to throw an insult at me instead of addressing anything that was a real issue in the last post.

How were the other kids supposed to get home, Karen?

Also, you guys are all like my kids made it Hardy and Oyster-Adams and the like on time. None of you(even if you didn’t mention it) are like my kid made it perfectly fine and all the teachers were there at Ballou or Beers, or Drew, or a King. Am I right?

How much did you care about all kids safely making it to school, even the ones that solely rely on walking?

I’ll wait!


Title 1 school, nowhere close to Hardy or Oyster-Adams. Walked.

Repeatedly screaming "privilege!" at anyone who disagrees with you or had a different experience than you is not a very effective way to make an argument.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 21:08     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:.


The roads are totally fine. I'm sorry you had to do your job today. Sounds like that was very hard for you.


lol, my day was actually great but those parents probably weren’t. Sounds like quite the opposite of what some of you are posting which goes back to your selfish privileged selves.

If schools were open, how does OSSE just get to cancel bus routes?

Are you missing something silly?


Can we grow the hell up? Honestly it's absolutely insane how vitriolic these threads get over a minor snowstorm and the resulting difficult choices being made in terms of school closures. THERE IS NO PERFECT DECISION. There are good arguments as to why DCPS was correct to open school today. There are good arguments as to why DCPS should have closed like neighboring districts did. There are kids that had an easy, good school day. There are kids who did not. There are teachers who made it fine to school today. There are others that had a hard time, or called out. No decision here was going to make EVERYONE happy.


But you can always count on some idiot hung up on the pandemic to chime in every single snow storm all because they had to deal with their kids and be parents for seemingly the first time in their lives. (Oh and unlike anyone else on the planet, they will remind you...THEY WORK!!!) Tale as old as time.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 20:54     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:.


The roads are totally fine. I'm sorry you had to do your job today. Sounds like that was very hard for you.


lol, my day was actually great but those parents probably weren’t. Sounds like quite the opposite of what some of you are posting which goes back to your selfish privileged selves.

If schools were open, how does OSSE just get to cancel bus routes?

Are you missing something silly?


Can we grow the hell up? Honestly it's absolutely insane how vitriolic these threads get over a minor snowstorm and the resulting difficult choices being made in terms of school closures. THERE IS NO PERFECT DECISION. There are good arguments as to why DCPS was correct to open school today. There are good arguments as to why DCPS should have closed like neighboring districts did. There are kids that had an easy, good school day. There are kids who did not. There are teachers who made it fine to school today. There are others that had a hard time, or called out. No decision here was going to make EVERYONE happy.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 20:20     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
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The roads are totally fine. I'm sorry you had to do your job today. Sounds like that was very hard for you.


lol, my day was actually great but those parents probably weren’t. Sounds like quite the opposite of what some of you are posting which goes back to your selfish privileged selves.

If schools were open, how does OSSE just get to cancel bus routes?

Are you missing something silly?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 20:18     Subject: Re:Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
lol, I’m not the only DCPS employee commenting first of all.

Second of all, you decided to throw an insult at me instead of addressing anything that was a real issue in the last post.

How were the other kids supposed to get home, Karen?

Also, you guys are all like my kids made it Hardy and Oyster-Adams and the like on time. None of you(even if you didn’t mention it) are like my kid made it perfectly fine and all the teachers were there at Ballou or Beers, or Drew, or a King. Am I right?

How much did you care about all kids safely making it to school, even the ones that solely rely on walking?

I’ll wait!
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 20:15     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also, you guys are so privileged and talking about how deal kids this and that blah, blah, blah foolishness. It’s ridiculous.

There are over 115 schools in DCPS, not including other charter schools. Deal is one of many schools that were affected by lack of snow and/or ice removal and the WMATA snow modification. Come out of your privileged little bubbles for a minute. Almost all of you said, “oh I dropped my kid off and the day was fine.” That’s not the reality for all of the thousands of families that send their kids to school here.

For instance, OSSE called parents around 2:45-3:00 and said they’re were cancelling one of the bus routes for multiple kids at my school. That left caregivers scrambling to figure out how their children were getting home.


The roads are totally fine. I'm sorry you had to do your job today. Sounds like that was

very hard for you.


Someone sounds very bitter and stuck in 2020. Sad!
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 19:52     Subject: Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?
Anonymous wrote:Also, you guys are so privileged and talking about how deal kids this and that blah, blah, blah foolishness. It’s ridiculous.

There are over 115 schools in DCPS, not including other charter schools. Deal is one of many schools that were affected by lack of snow and/or ice removal and the WMATA snow modification. Come out of your privileged little bubbles for a minute. Almost all of you said, “oh I dropped my kid off and the day was fine.” That’s not the reality for all of the thousands of families that send their kids to school here.

For instance, OSSE called parents around 2:45-3:00 and said they’re were cancelling one of the bus routes for multiple kids at my school. That left caregivers scrambling to figure out how their children were getting home.


The roads are totally fine. I'm sorry you had to do your job today. Sounds like that was very hard for you.