Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:50     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:Troll alert. I can't envision anyone living in DC, much less under the ago of 60 and who sends their DC to DCPS, using the term ghetto. Where exactly is this ghetto?


Good point.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:49     Subject: Re:please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
I'm glad DCPS didn't close. One, I had to work and it's impossible to get anything done with them hanging around. And two, they eat through EVERYTHING in the refrigerator on snow days. I can't afford for them to stay home .
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:47     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
The eastern half of DC is usually plowed treated before they start in the west, especially upper NW.

For most DC mayors, "it's all about that 'base.'"
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:41     Subject: Re:please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:Everyone can't afford to live near Metro and teachers are not emergency personnel, they are not expected to risk their safety to come to work. I do know of several new teachers who share housing in tbe city, but they do this for a short time and most eventually move...out of tbe city. If you want qualified teachers accept the fact that DCPS has to get teachers from all over and that means on occasion,decisions are made to accommodate them.


Risk their safety? So any time a flake falls from the sky it is a safety risk? Should we close schools for rain, too?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:40     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The roads are fine. I just got to work. I live and work in the city. I don't understand why everyone is so anxious to close. I for one would prefer that my children's summer plans begin on time. DC only builds two days into the schedule.


Good for you, now I hope you realize most teachers who work for DCPS do not live in DC. Several of then have kids that will be home today so they will use their leave and students would just spend time in the gym or in a classroom with an adult. There would be no lesson. It is better to just close.
Sorry but this is a lame reason to close schools


+1 Terrible reason to close schools.

Frankly, the roads were better during my normal commute time than they were 2 hours later. But either way-- the roads were simply wet. There was barely an inch of snow. Absolutely no need to close school. Come on, folks. This shouldn't even be a conversation.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:40     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Main roads are just fine. Mostly just wet. DCPS should have opened on time because if anything starting earlier would have meant less snow.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:32     Subject: Re:please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Everyone can't afford to live near Metro and teachers are not emergency personnel, they are not expected to risk their safety to come to work. I do know of several new teachers who share housing in tbe city, but they do this for a short time and most eventually move...out of tbe city. If you want qualified teachers accept the fact that DCPS has to get teachers from all over and that means on occasion,decisions are made to accommodate them.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:32     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Troll alert. I can't envision anyone living in DC, much less under the ago of 60 and who sends their DC to DCPS, using the term ghetto. Where exactly is this ghetto?


I am not a troll and I am almost 60 for the record. There are plenty of areas in DC with concentrated public housing and we happen to live near such an area as I am sure plenty of other DC people do. Why not google it?


So you're an old troll at that. And yes, I purposely used the term "old," which shouldn't bother you one bit since it appears your sensitivity chip is missing. Oh, and by the way, drawing conclusions from what you have witnessed inside your 10 block radius is ignorant. You have no clue as to what any child in this city-- outside of your household-- is going through--black/white, rich or poor. To suggest that you do, makes you sound ...well, like a troll.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:31     Subject: Re:please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote: Metro Bus tweeted 13 times that DCPS was closed today! I guess they thought it was logical that DCPS was closed today today too!

And the thing that irritates me is that our bus, if it runs today, will be empty of all the kids from the ghetto. So keeping the schools open in a misguided attempt to serve the poor is simply wrong since at least in our neighborhood they mostly do not go to school on days like today. There are plenty of other social safety nets which I am supportive of and DCPS does not need to keep schools open on a day like today.


Yuck. You are a peach.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 10:17     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Close! Delayed openings are throw away day because half the kids don't go to school. Many kids in the District have inadequate coats and shoes. One slip and fall or injury due to a car/bus accident and it's all not worthwhile.

CLOSE SCHOOL!!!


Is it NO colder today than any other day of the winter. I guess we should close schools from Jan to March because some kids in the District don't have coats.

**That said, I work as an RN and do home visits on completely indigent families in NE and SE every day. Rest assured, the kids have coats.


Do they have a high truancy rate?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 09:54     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The roads are fine. I just got to work. I live and work in the city. I don't understand why everyone is so anxious to close. I for one would prefer that my children's summer plans begin on time. DC only builds two days into the schedule.


Good for you, now I hope you realize most teachers who work for DCPS do not live in DC. Several of then have kids that will be home today so they will use their leave and students would just spend time in the gym or in a classroom with an adult. There would be no lesson. It is better to just close.
Sorry but this is a lame reason to close schools


You must be one of those people who think that school is daycare. So as lame as you may feel it is to close school today, it's more lame to have students come to school and not have teachers there to teach them. Warehousing kids is really lame.
When the teachers took the job, they were aware of where it was, so unless metro shuts down etc, they should be expected in. If the commute is so awful, they could aim to teach in the same school district their kids attend. I think it is a shame when teachers, police officers, and firefighters can't afford to live in their own district, btw
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 09:43     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The roads are fine. I just got to work. I live and work in the city. I don't understand why everyone is so anxious to close. I for one would prefer that my children's summer plans begin on time. DC only builds two days into the schedule.


Good for you, now I hope you realize most teachers who work for DCPS do not live in DC. Several of then have kids that will be home today so they will use their leave and students would just spend time in the gym or in a classroom with an adult. There would be no lesson. It is better to just close.
Sorry but this is a lame reason to close schools


You must be one of those people who think that school is daycare. So as lame as you may feel it is to close school today, it's more lame to have students come to school and not have teachers there to teach them. Warehousing kids is really lame.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 09:43     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The roads are fine. I just got to work. I live and work in the city. I don't understand why everyone is so anxious to close. I for one would prefer that my children's summer plans begin on time. DC only builds two days into the schedule.


Good for you, now I hope you realize most teachers who work for DCPS do not live in DC. Several of then have kids that will be home today so they will use their leave and students would just spend time in the gym or in a classroom with an adult. There would be no lesson. It is better to just close.
Sorry but this is a lame reason to close schools


If school is for learning.... And the teachers not there to teach ..... How is this not???? Very inconsiderate to the teachers and their families. Many great teachers leave the district because they feel as though they are not valued. This statement reflects that notion
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 09:32     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:Troll alert. I can't envision anyone living in DC, much less under the ago of 60 and who sends their DC to DCPS, using the term ghetto. Where exactly is this ghetto?


I am not a troll and I am almost 60 for the record. There are plenty of areas in DC with concentrated public housing and we happen to live near such an area as I am sure plenty of other DC people do. Why not google it?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 09:31     Subject: please, please DCPS stand strong and don't close!
Anonymous wrote:Close! Delayed openings are throw away day because half the kids don't go to school. Many kids in the District have inadequate coats and shoes. One slip and fall or injury due to a car/bus accident and it's all not worthwhile.

CLOSE SCHOOL!!!


If you're so alarmed try emailing kaya.henderson@dcps.gov.