Anonymous
02/22/2026 18:16
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Anonymous wrote:County govt announced it’s closed tomorrow so I assume schools will follow
This is surprising. They are usually much slower to close and often don’t close at all.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 18:13
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No, I’d make the call right now considering the snow is clearly sticking all over Fairfax. Why are you presenting a false dichotomy of 3pm or 10pm lol.
It genuinely could stop at 12 am and not accumulate further in which case a close would be pointless. Nobody was able to nail down a solid prediction for an accumulation because all the models disagreed with eachother and it’s a very warm storm with lots of variance.
Wow-you sound logical. Are you sure you’re in the right place?
Anonymous
02/22/2026 18:12
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Well it's officially confirmed Fairfax county roads are accumulating dangerous amounts of snow and pose a significant safety hazard. Everybody's talking about it.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 18:01
Subject: Snow day Monday?
County govt announced it’s closed tomorrow so I assume schools will follow
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:57
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Anonymous wrote:No, I’d make the call right now considering the snow is clearly sticking all over Fairfax. Why are you presenting a false dichotomy of 3pm or 10pm lol.
Because there is maybe an inch of snow on the ground. The storm is pretty uncertain, even now. This could be it. It would be ridiculous to cancel for one or even 2 inches of snow. At 10pm, we’ll have a much better idea if this storm was a boom or a bust.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:57
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Anonymous wrote:No, I’d make the call right now considering the snow is clearly sticking all over Fairfax. Why are you presenting a false dichotomy of 3pm or 10pm lol.
It genuinely could stop at 12 am and not accumulate further in which case a close would be pointless. Nobody was able to nail down a solid prediction for an accumulation because all the models disagreed with eachother and it’s a very warm storm with lots of variance.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:52
Subject: Snow day Monday?
No, I’d make the call right now considering the snow is clearly sticking all over Fairfax. Why are you presenting a false dichotomy of 3pm or 10pm lol.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:43
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Anonymous wrote:It’s very annoying to say “2 hour delay but maybe we’ll close,” lol. They could’ve just waited until the snow started to make a more informed call.
The snow started around 5pm. Are you really complaining because they made a call at 3:30pm?
Or are you saying that they should have waited until 10pm to make any sort of call? Is that what you’re saying you would have done if you were in charge—wait until 10pm tonight to give any communication or make any decision?
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:43
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Sticking very well at Fair Oaks. Just call it off already.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:42
Subject: Snow day Monday?
No need to close before tomorrow morning, when they can evaluate the roads.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:40
Subject: Re:Snow day Monday?
accumulating on sidewalks and roads now in McLean. Woop.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:39
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Anonymous wrote:It’s very annoying to say “2 hour delay but maybe we’ll close,” lol. They could’ve just waited until the snow started to make a more informed call.
People were asking for a call before it was even snow. The storm is all over the place in the forecasts so it is not clear how long or hard it will snow.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:37
Subject: Snow day Monday?
It’s very annoying to say “2 hour delay but maybe we’ll close,” lol. They could’ve just waited until the snow started to make a more informed call.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:31
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:6th snow day of the year
What am I missing? I've counted 4 so far. 1/26, 1/27, 1/28 and 2/2. Likewise this would be the 5th, right?
DP and I'm not sure about the math that PP is using, but since we're now counting hours and not days, all of the delayed openings now need to be accounted for. Each one of them takes 2 hours from the 990 hours of school that we need to have. Several delayed openings are the equivalent one school day.
The 990 hours affords the system about 13 snow days. The early release Wednesdays and the delayed openings impact that.
Here’s how I’m counting:
9/9, 1/26,1/27, 1/28, 2/2=5 days
Delayed openings:
12/2, 2/3, 2/4 =1 days
2/5, 2/6 =2/3 day
Early release Wednesdays so far:
Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec, Feb = 2.5 days
As of today (Sunday 2/22), the total is:
Just over 9 days of 13 used.
Possible future unexpected days off:
Tomorrow, 4/21 Virginia voting new district boundaries.
If need be, the early release days coming up (March, April, May) could be canceled.
I think the possible off day due to the referendum voting day is off the table. It was blocked by a judge on Friday. I also wonder how the district would hand those early release overages since that does not impact preschool/PreK, middle or high school students. In any case, hopefully it won't come to that.
Add in June 16 primary that schools will likely close. Maybe even change the last day.
If 4/21 doesn’t happen, then 6/16 will happen. If 4/21 does happen, then 6/16 will not happen because there’s no way ballots for new districts could be ready.
If 6/16 does happen to be a day off for voting, I predict that Reid will end school on Fri, June 12. She’s already told principals to have a plan A and a plan B for things like Field Day and promotion ceremonies at the elementary level.
Anonymous
02/22/2026 17:30
Subject: Snow day Monday?
Yep they should just announce the cancel it now.