My middle schooler is already breathing a sigh of relief. No 6 am mornings!!! Woo!

2 hour delay!

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax, as usual, is the only one not to communicate operational status.

If they are opening tomorrow on time, then just effing announce it. WTH? You should lobby your school board representative for better oversight of Gatehouse employees. Start by firing the Director of Communications.

Just received a text that we are opening with a two hour delay on both Thursday and Friday. Why didn't they just do this earlier like LCPS instead of kicking the can down the road??

Bad leadership

Anonymous wrote:Why not a 1 hour delay. It would be daylight for middle school and less disruptive for everyone.

Yeah, I don’t know.

Anonymous wrote:Delayed!

Good decision

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Anonymous wrote:We have no news yet.
I am going to GUESS on time.

I'm going to guess a delay to make sure bus drivers feel safe picking up middle schoolers. With the melting today there will be black ice and kids waiting on dark roads before 6 am when its still dark.

They could have solved that problem already with a delayed middle school start time.

I agree there should be a delay for the pedestrians to be safe, who you can't see behind the ice banks.

I had thought all the schools had to have the same number of snow hours, but I’ve read that ES principals have been using snow hours to cover the planning time they were required to give their teachers… so yeah, if we’re all different…

Why not a 1 hour delay. It would be daylight for middle school and less disruptive for everyone.

Delayed!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax, as usual, is the only one not to communicate operational status.

If they are opening tomorrow on time, then just effing announce it. WTH? You should lobby your school board representative for better oversight of Gatehouse employees. Start by firing the Director of Communications.

Just received a text that we are opening with a two hour delay on both Thursday and Friday. Why didn't they just do this earlier like LCPS instead of kicking the can down the road??

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Anonymous wrote:I guess we’re on time since no update is posted. The communications department for FCPS needs to be fired.

They will post an update, the decision probably hasn’t been made yet. My guess is they were planning for a delay but are deliberating again now that APS is open on time.

Yeah, well APS doesn’t have 45,000 bus stops over 400 square miles, so they might want to make their own decision!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have no news yet.
I am going to GUESS on time.

I'm going to guess a delay to make sure bus drivers feel safe picking up middle schoolers. With the melting today there will be black ice and kids waiting on dark roads before 6 am when its still dark.

They could have solved that problem already with a delayed middle school start time.

I agree there should be a delay for the pedestrians to be safe, who you can't see behind the ice banks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax, as usual, is the only one not to communicate operational status.

If they are opening tomorrow on time, then just effing announce it. WTH? You should lobby your school board representative for better oversight of Gatehouse employees. Start by firing the Director of Communications.

I don’t think the issue is with Communications … I think Reid somehow hasn’t made up her mind yet.

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax, as usual, is the only one not to communicate operational status.

If they are opening tomorrow on time, then just effing announce it. WTH? You should lobby your school board representative for better oversight of Gatehouse employees. Start by firing the Director of Communications.

Anonymous wrote:I guess we’re on time since no update is posted. The communications department for FCPS needs to be fired.

They will post an update, the decision probably hasn’t been made yet. My guess is they were planning for a delay but are deliberating again now that APS is open on time.

Loudon is delayed all week, arlington is on time. We're right in the middle and span both geographic areas so we could go either way. They don't have an easy out of "well everyone else did ______" so they're going to take their sweet time with it I guess.