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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and had about 5 students in class today. I ended up not being able to do any new material anyway. One teacher slipped and fell on the ice going down some outside stairs, and our parking lot is on a steep hill and was not treated, so that was fun. The situation today was miserable and unsafe on many levels, but the Gatehouse crew are all warm and comfy and don't care about anything until they actually get sued. And a lot of parents are just selfishly hoping for free childcare and don't care about who else might get hurt in the process.

No, not every parent is hoping for free child care. I am so tired of that argument. My kids are in HS and it's been very challenging getting them in an education flow this fall. There are far too many disruptions. It isn't healthy from an academic perspective. They don't need these breaks. If anything they need to feel the burn for a bit.

In addition, my kids do sports and hate not having that outlet. So constantly closing school isn't socio-emotionally healthy either.

Not everything is "oh you just want free childcare".

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and had about 5 students in class today. I ended up not being able to do any new material anyway. One teacher slipped and fell on the ice going down some outside stairs, and our parking lot is on a steep hill and was not treated, so that was fun. The situation today was miserable and unsafe on many levels, but the Gatehouse crew are all warm and comfy and don't care about anything until they actually get sued. And a lot of parents are just selfishly hoping for free childcare and don't care about who else might get hurt in the process.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and had about 5 students in class today. I ended up not being able to do any new material anyway. One teacher slipped and fell on the ice going down some outside stairs, and our parking lot is on a steep hill and was not treated, so that was fun. The situation today was miserable and unsafe on many levels, but the Gatehouse crew are all warm and comfy and don't care about anything until they actually get sued. And a lot of parents are just selfishly hoping for free childcare and don't care about who else might get hurt in the process.

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Anonymous wrote:Everything that went down today was 100% the right call by FCPS.

Do any of you want your kids in school? The constant pull for 4 day weeks and long vacations and snow days and every other reason to shut school down is mind boggling.

Low energy people who like sitting around at home.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of after school activities tonight. My bet is they don't shut it down. Things are fine. The drama around here is astonishing.

It's insane. The roads were really fine for the duration of this event. They were fine while it was flurrying. Schools should not close because someone somewhere can't make it up their hill at the exact time they need to leave their house. The fact that people think a massive school district should close down for these outlier situations is so self-absorbed and weird to me.

It's also self-absorbed to think that everyone in this massive county should be out on the roads because your little area looks o.k. Although things improved after noon, many roads were not in good shape for most of the morning. There was a ground stop at DCA, the Fairfax County PD asked people to stay off the roads if possible, a section of Richmond Highway was closed due to spin outs, etc. These are all indications that there were some significant issues. Check out the Jobs and Careers thread where people who actually drove to work today, rather than WFH, also experienced a lot of problems on the roads.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of after school activities tonight. My bet is they don't shut it down. Things are fine. The drama around here is astonishing.

It's insane. The roads were really fine for the duration of this event. They were fine while it was flurrying. Schools should not close because someone somewhere can't make it up their hill at the exact time they need to leave their house. The fact that people think a massive school district should close down for these outlier situations is so self-absorbed and weird to me.

It's also self-absorbed to think that everyone in this massive county should be out on the roads because your little area looks o.k. Although things improved after noon, many roads were not in good shape for most of the morning. There was a ground stop at DCA, the Fairfax County PD asked people to stay off the roads if possible, a section of Richmond Highway was closed due to spin outs, etc. These are all indications that there were some significant issues. Check out the Jobs and Careers thread where people who actually drove to work today, rather than WFH, also experienced a lot of problems on the roads.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of after school activities tonight. My bet is they don't shut it down. Things are fine. The drama around here is astonishing.

It's insane. The roads were really fine for the duration of this event. They were fine while it was flurrying. Schools should not close because someone somewhere can't make it up their hill at the exact time they need to leave their house. The fact that people think a massive school district should close down for these outlier situations is so self-absorbed and weird to me.

Anonymous wrote:Everything that went down today was 100% the right call by FCPS.

Do any of you want your kids in school? The constant pull for 4 day weeks and long vacations and snow days and every other reason to shut school down is mind boggling.

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Anonymous wrote:Because Loudoun canceled, students at TJ who live in Loudoun County could not show up to school today, leading to lots of disruption. I know this is only one school, but it's worth pointing out.

Is that true? Why would they not be allowed to show up at school?

Becuase they don’t have a bus. Duh.

That does not mean they can't go to school, as a small fact check. But I can see some kids might not be able to drive themselves or get a ride.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because Loudoun canceled, students at TJ who live in Loudoun County could not show up to school today, leading to lots of disruption. I know this is only one school, but it's worth pointing out.

Is that true? Why would they not be allowed to show up at school?

Becuase they don’t have a bus. Duh.

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Anonymous wrote:Because Loudoun canceled, students at TJ who live in Loudoun County could not show up to school today, leading to lots of disruption. I know this is only one school, but it's worth pointing out.

Is that true? Why would they not be allowed to show up at school?

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of after school activities tonight. My bet is they don't shut it down. Things are fine. The drama around here is astonishing.