Let's put the PP who says MCPS always fails to prepare in charge of digging out, shall we?
And then we can pelt them with rotten tomatoes when the inevitable happens and they mess it up even worse than the usual MCPS slowpokes.

MCPS is a large system and meaningful snowstorms don't come every year these days. Their priority, financial and operational, is therefore NOT preparing to dig out. If they put money and effort into it, it would take away from other priorities and then you'd complain about that!

It will take the time it takes, and while I agree it should happen sooner, I've resigned myself and prepared in consequence. Missing several days of school due to issues with snow clearance is not the end of the world, but your bad attitude is a real problem.

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Anonymous wrote:We get 10+ inches Sunday with a dig out Monday followed by a deep freeze, I wouldn’t be surprised to get Tuesday to Thursday off.

I’d be happy with enough snow to get Tuesday off though.

We're not getting much snow. MCPS has plenty of time to prepare.

Are you new here? MCPS always has time to prepare. And they always fail.

Signed an MCPS parent since 2009 (when schools were closed for an entire week before the December break due to snow.)

Wow you go back a long way! It looks like that was the best timing of snow ever! That means MCPS experienced at least one year of two weeks off in December even if it was unplanned. In December 2009 Christmas was on Friday so they could have only canceled 3 days that week unless they were also closed the Thursday and Friday of the previous week too.

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Anonymous wrote:We get 10+ inches Sunday with a dig out Monday followed by a deep freeze, I wouldn’t be surprised to get Tuesday to Thursday off.

I’d be happy with enough snow to get Tuesday off though.

We're not getting much snow. MCPS has plenty of time to prepare.

Right now models are forecasting 8+ inches of snow for Sunday into Monday. The forecast is not set in stone yet, of course, we're too far out. However, if 8 inches materializes across MoCo, then you can count on at least a Tuesday closure if not a Wednesday closure and beyond. There is nothing to prepare, PP. The issue is not enough plows across the area to take care of that amount of snow in a short amount of time. Don't know where you're from, but MoCo does not often have such snows. With climate change, this area is turning sub-tropical.

This area has plenty of plows. You don't seem to drive after snow. Most places are plowed within a day, and many of the areas that aren't plowed just have to go a couple blocks to get to a plowed street.

The issue historically has been that MCPS isn't ready.

Utterly wrong. Have you lived in this area for long? Last time it snowed 15+ inches, some streets didn't see a plow for a week. My husband had to catch a flight to say goodbye to his dying father right after the blizzard of 2016, and our street had not been plowed: a kind neighbor rented a snowblower on wheels and carved a path to the main street so he could get out to the airport.

So it depends on the amount of snow, PP. Please listen to the ones who lived through significant snow events in this area.

Anonymous wrote:It's concerning that the temperatures are so low through Tuesday. Whatever amount falls is going to freeze solid and be miserable to clear.

No, you want it to stay below freezing so that it don't melt. It will be fine to clear.

It's concerning that the temperatures are so low through Tuesday. Whatever amount falls is going to freeze solid and be miserable to clear.

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Anonymous wrote:We get 10+ inches Sunday with a dig out Monday followed by a deep freeze, I wouldn’t be surprised to get Tuesday to Thursday off.

I’d be happy with enough snow to get Tuesday off though.

We're not getting much snow. MCPS has plenty of time to prepare.

Right now models are forecasting 8+ inches of snow for Sunday into Monday. The forecast is not set in stone yet, of course, we're too far out. However, if 8 inches materializes across MoCo, then you can count on at least a Tuesday closure if not a Wednesday closure and beyond. There is nothing to prepare, PP. The issue is not enough plows across the area to take care of that amount of snow in a short amount of time. Don't know where you're from, but MoCo does not often have such snows. With climate change, this area is turning sub-tropical.

This area has plenty of plows. You don't seem to drive after snow. Most places are plowed within a day, and many of the areas that aren't plowed just have to go a couple blocks to get to a plowed street.

The issue historically has been that MCPS isn't ready.

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Anonymous wrote:Prepare for Taylor’s new approach of closing some schools and not others

How does that work for makeup days?

It would only apply to schools that closed.

Individual schools have been closed before for local issues (power outages, burst pipes), and they haven't had to make up those days.

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You mean schools only have to makeup days if their entire district was closed?

No they build two days into the existing calendar. After that they add days to the end or ask the state to excuse them.

There is only one day built into the calendar this year.

Same for next year.

I’m sorry but if everyone wants to close at the first snowflake then they are going to need to build in more days. Of course, then people will just say the makeup days if used are useless and no one learns anything on them.

MCPS has intentionally scheduled makeup days lately that are useless. If they made March 20 or April 15 a school day, it would feel like a normal school day and there would be plenty of learning. Even if they made those days half-days, there would still be learning. It's the end of the year stuff (or the ridiculous "asynchronous learning" day) that is mostly wasted time.

Anonymous wrote:European model is often optimistic in its snow totals.

That's because it assumes all moisture will fall as snow rather than a mix.

Due to cold Temps, there is a good chance this is an all snow event so the euro model might be accurate.

European model is often optimistic in its snow totals.

Kids are already off on Monday. Teachers are supposed to report for grading, so maybe co will be quicker to close for all.

It’s too early to even predict.

Calm down. Wait till Friday to get your panties in a wad.

We're not getting much snow. MCPS has plenty of time to prepare.

MCPS never prepares well. Just last year the kids had almost the whole week off even though MCPS had time to prepare.

European model says 14 inches in D.C.
Do you think we could get some Ice due to cold temperatures? Wednesday and Tuesday closures?

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Anonymous wrote:We get 10+ inches Sunday with a dig out Monday followed by a deep freeze, I wouldn’t be surprised to get Tuesday to Thursday off.

I’d be happy with enough snow to get Tuesday off though.

We're not getting much snow. MCPS has plenty of time to prepare.

Right now models are forecasting 8+ inches of snow for Sunday into Monday. The forecast is not set in stone yet, of course, we're too far out. However, if 8 inches materializes across MoCo, then you can count on at least a Tuesday closure if not a Wednesday closure and beyond. There is nothing to prepare, PP. The issue is not enough plows across the area to take care of that amount of snow in a short amount of time. Don't know where you're from, but MoCo does not often have such snows. With climate change, this area is turning sub-tropical.

Anonymous wrote:Prepare for Taylor’s new approach of closing some schools and not others

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