Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 11:12     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS


So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.


Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄


NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.


Find a daycare that doesn’t follow the school weather policy. Easy and simple. You sign up for something and then complain about following the policies. You knew exactly what you were signing onto. And plenty of day cares don’t follow the school Weather policy.


Is the bolded true? My kids are older now, but when they were in daycare, I could not find any daycares nearby where they didn't follow public school delays and closings. Maybe things are better now.


My kids have been out of daycare for five years but ours followed the federal government weather delays rather than MCPS.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 11:04     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS


So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.


Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄


NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.


Find a daycare that doesn’t follow the school weather policy. Easy and simple. You sign up for something and then complain about following the policies. You knew exactly what you were signing onto. And plenty of day cares don’t follow the school Weather policy.


Is the bolded true? My kids are older now, but when they were in daycare, I could not find any daycares nearby where they didn't follow public school delays and closings. Maybe things are better now.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 10:57     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS


So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.


Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄


NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.


Find a daycare that doesn’t follow the school weather policy. Easy and simple. You sign up for something and then complain about following the policies. You knew exactly what you were signing onto. And plenty of day cares don’t follow the school Weather policy.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 10:56     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
I’m in Silver Spring and my driveway was a sheet of ice this morning. Good call on MCPS.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 09:48     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Anonymous wrote:There will be more delays and cancellations this winter. Best to make preparations now.
I have lived and worked in this county long enough to remember times when a delay wasn’t called and should have been. Or days when a delay should have turned into a cancellation and didn’t. I also know that the parents of the children who didn’t get to come home again because of those errors in mcps judgement would be happy to have their children back. Remember this the next time inclement weather effects the school day.


curious why you conclude that delays or cancellations “should have been called.” presumably there was no mass carnage on those days. so that actually seems to support NOT delaying/cancelling.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 09:46     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Did they send out delay notification late? I saw bunch of school buses pulled to the shoulder and just sitting with blinkers on
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:45     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
There will be more delays and cancellations this winter. Best to make preparations now.
I have lived and worked in this county long enough to remember times when a delay wasn’t called and should have been. Or days when a delay should have turned into a cancellation and didn’t. I also know that the parents of the children who didn’t get to come home again because of those errors in mcps judgement would be happy to have their children back. Remember this the next time inclement weather effects the school day.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:34     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS


So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.


Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄


NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.


PP here, and I totally get that. It’s definitely annoying when MPCS closes for rain and now allll the kids are stuck at home, not just my oldest. But the other PP was making it seem like daycares are doing it cause they’re un-creative which is not the case.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:31     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Well, I just dropped my kid off at a private in the Potomac area. At 8am there was lots of frozen slush and icy mess around and on the roads River, Persimmon, etc.) and the Clara Barton/MacArthur area had similar. By 9:30 it will be a memory, but at 7:45 is was real.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:25     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
My kid is in private in moco and we follow mcps. No buses, but I think it’s because it’s simplifies things for everyone.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:19     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
As someone who used to live 2 blocks from the DC border and now lives up near Travilah, I am feeling the difference between down county and up county weather and I am sorry for all the mean things I said about delays and closures in the past!
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:18     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
I feel like nobody is even trying to pretend to prioritize school!
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:16     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Anonymous wrote:It was clear that there was no preparation (or expectation?) of what happened. I woke up at 3:30 and couldn't get back to sleep. It was snowing huge snowflakes at that time and the grass and road were getting covered. Later it turned to drizzle and the completely untreated road turned into an icy slushy mess. I think it's a good call. I imagine in 2hrs it will be fine.


There's no road preparation for something like this - it rained and was warmer yesterday. Wrong conditions.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:16     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
Anonymous wrote:Daycare doesn’t have a bus, but they do go based on MCPS


So, you’re blaming MCPS for your daycare’s lack of leadership in making their own inclement weather policy.


Not the point of this thread but this is a dumb take. Many daycares align their weather policies with the local school system as parents often have other children in schools. 🙄


NP. I understand why daycares do this, but it's a ridiculous policy. A local daycare that does not provide transportation does not have the same safety concerns as a large countywide public school system responsible for busing thousands of children. It's terrible for families. I was so happy to finish that phase of my family's life. Schools delay at the drop of a hat because it costs them nothing, but there are consequences for most working parents with kids in daycare.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2023 08:13     Subject: 2 hour delay, Monday 12/11
what a joke..