Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 20:58     Subject: Re:Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:I work from home around the corner from Wootton high school. I had power all day. Power and Wi-Fi. So odd that the school would lose it. Surprised they having the AP test at the school. When my kids took AP they were at the university of Maryland at Shady Grove buildings and my kids both graduated just a few years ago. They're in college right now.


No, they take them at the hs.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 20:57     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:Who TF TEXTS their children when they’re at SCHOOL?



I do but this is absurd. Change in schedule, kid needs picked up, something else. There was a fire alarm today do mine both texted me to tell me and they were ok.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 18:52     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who TF TEXTS their children when they’re at SCHOOL?



I mean this kindly, but you must not have teenagers at a school outside your home.


I have teenagers at a school far from my home and I very rarely text them during the school day.


WOW! Statues should be built in your honor
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 18:52     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:Who TF TEXTS their children when they’re at SCHOOL?


It must be exhausting to be perfect
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 18:12     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who TF TEXTS their children when they’re at SCHOOL?



I mean this kindly, but you must not have teenagers at a school outside your home.


I have teenagers at a school far from my home and I very rarely text them during the school day.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 17:49     Subject: Re:Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
I work from home around the corner from Wootton high school. I had power all day. Power and Wi-Fi. So odd that the school would lose it. Surprised they having the AP test at the school. When my kids took AP they were at the university of Maryland at Shady Grove buildings and my kids both graduated just a few years ago. They're in college right now.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 17:35     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
I had no WiFi, Cell phone service or AC from Kindergarten through HS like most parents. We survived
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 14:11     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who TF TEXTS their children when they’re at SCHOOL?



I mean this kindly, but you must not have teenagers at a school outside your home.


You mean must not have teenagers who go to class and learn.


Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 12:43     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:Who TF TEXTS their children when they’re at SCHOOL?



I mean this kindly, but you must not have teenagers at a school outside your home.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 12:37     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
They have backup ways of heating things up at DC's school.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 11:19     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:It’s been all morning. Bagged lunches


Do schools have supplies for serving cold lunches on a day like day?
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 11:18     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:if they have no power then they have to close.


Nah, I've taught (well, babysat) full days in the dark before. And my classroom had no windows. They passed out flashlights, lol. It was the middle of winter or I probably would have taken them outside.


This is from 2023. Maybe things are different now or we’re different before.

Update on Closed Schools with Partial Electrical Power

August 28, 2003
Explanation about the closure of schools with partial electricity:

Some schools closed today have partial electricity. However, fire and health safety code requirements, along with school system safety and security requirements, specify that a school's entire electrical system must be certified as operational before schools can be open for students.

Partial electrical power is not sufficient to open a school, even though certain portions of the building may have electricity. In addition, mechanical systems -- such as air conditioning, refrigeration, etc., that were disrupted or damaged by the power outages -- also have to be fixed once power is restored.

Please note that the timeline for restoring power is entirely dependent on the progress of the utility companies. Priority repair efforts, while including schools, also are directed at emergency services, medical facilities, nursing homes, the elderly, and others in a rank order of need.

Full electrical power will be restored as soon as possible, but some problems may not be fixed until Friday.


That's obviously when the students aren't already in the building.


Wrong. The first day of school that year was August 26. Students were in the buildings.


Oh, my God, I hope your kid is in the building so they can learn to think a little, unlike their parent.

Kids aren't kept in the building all day and all night all school year. When schools are closed for the day, kids stay home for the day.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=1121&type=archive&startYear=2003&pageNumber=20&mode=
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 11:09     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Who TF TEXTS their children when they’re at SCHOOL?

Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 11:06     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
It’s been all morning. Bagged lunches
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 11:03     Subject: Wootton currently has no power, wifi and limited cell service
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:if they have no power then they have to close.


Nah, I've taught (well, babysat) full days in the dark before. And my classroom had no windows. They passed out flashlights, lol. It was the middle of winter or I probably would have taken them outside.


This is from 2023. Maybe things are different now or we’re different before.

Update on Closed Schools with Partial Electrical Power

August 28, 2003
Explanation about the closure of schools with partial electricity:

Some schools closed today have partial electricity. However, fire and health safety code requirements, along with school system safety and security requirements, specify that a school's entire electrical system must be certified as operational before schools can be open for students.

Partial electrical power is not sufficient to open a school, even though certain portions of the building may have electricity. In addition, mechanical systems -- such as air conditioning, refrigeration, etc., that were disrupted or damaged by the power outages -- also have to be fixed once power is restored.

Please note that the timeline for restoring power is entirely dependent on the progress of the utility companies. Priority repair efforts, while including schools, also are directed at emergency services, medical facilities, nursing homes, the elderly, and others in a rank order of need.

Full electrical power will be restored as soon as possible, but some problems may not be fixed until Friday.


That's obviously when the students aren't already in the building.


Wrong. The first day of school that year was August 26. Students were in the buildings.