Anonymous wrote:our neighborhood has been plowed, but because of the idiots who decided to park on the street instead of on their driveway (yes... everyone has a driveway), it is a narrow 1 lane road that requires one car to go forward before another car can pass by the other direction. Good luck to the school buses on Friday! Oh, and we don't have sidewalks here.....

That's how my neighborhood is but everyone parked what they could in the driveway. The bigger issue is that the driveways fit only 2 cars and the average house on our street has 3-4 cars per household.

our neighborhood has been plowed, but because of the idiots who decided to park on the street instead of on their driveway (yes... everyone has a driveway), it is a narrow 1 lane road that requires one car to go forward before another car can pass by the other direction. Good luck to the school buses on Friday! Oh, and we don't have sidewalks here.....

Anonymous wrote:Many of us are still snowed in, child care pp. How are the child care workers supposed to get there, teleport?

What have you done to get yourself out? Does no one in your house need to go to work or anywhere else this week? Plenty of people had to get out of their neighbohoods to get to work, appointments, etc. today. Just because you don't have any urgency doesn't mean everyone else is sitting at home.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of us are still snowed in, child care pp. How are the child care workers supposed to get there, teleport?

How are you still snowed in? The county has cleared all streets with a minimum first pass. If you haven't had the plows out, contact the county immediately.

They're upset they don't see pavement. Unless they're on an HOA managed street, they almost certainly have been plowed enough to get out. I'm sure there are exceptions, just as exceptional localized circumstances come up separate from snow.

Anonymous wrote:Many of us are still snowed in, child care pp. How are the child care workers supposed to get there, teleport?

Pretty much everything is open today except for schools. You live in a bubble. The vast majority of people can get out. Yes, they might have to drive on some snow until they get off their side street.

The demographics of Dcum give people a warped view of reality. Most people don't live on massive estates in rural parts of the county, or in the million dollar SFHs on the narrow side streets inside the beltway.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you think child care is supposed to work if the school parking lots, side walks etc are not cleared? So many streets are not plowed, how are child care providers supposed to get out of their neighborhoods to get to the school?

Many lots and streets are cleared. The providers always have the option to not open. MCPS has not given them that option. This has been explained as nauseum on these threads. It's clear Thomas just wants to give his people a bunch of free days off. Montgomery County Government is open today. Not even liberal leave. This is embarrassing for MCPS.

Most public schools in the DMV are closed. Its just a few days. Its not the end of the world. Get a grip.

Again, we're not complaining about the schools being closed, we're complaining about the backup childcare we purchased from private childcare companies being banned from opening by MCPS central office staff because they want paid snowdays so they pretend it's still too dangerous for people to travel on the roads to get to work.

+1.

Some people will be happy to know that my child's 10th grade English teacher just gave them assignments to work on

My area has not yet been cleared. We have put in multiple 311s this morning and now there are plows driving around. They mostly aren't plowing, just driving around with the plows up and maybe salting. We did see one plow get stuck and have to get shoveled out.

I really need to take my child to a medical appointment this afternoon so I really hope they get their crap together asap. Been pretty frustrated about their performance this time.

Anonymous wrote:Many of us are still snowed in, child care pp. How are the child care workers supposed to get there, teleport?

The childcare workers call off from work like everyone else does if they're unplowed. And if too many call off, the child care providers close or limit their enrollment, like they always used to do. It's very simple and worked perfectly in the past.

Also, this is an issue for a fairly limited number of people today and will be for far fewer (maybe none) by tomorrow. And again, it's not MCPS's job to figure out staffing for child care providers, it's the private companies' job. It's just their job to lift the ban on opening once there are a few schools plowed and roads are safe to travel on.

I just drove through my neighborhood and while the roads are fine, most of the sidewalks remain unshoveled in a school walking zone for both elementary and middle school.

Anonymous wrote:Many of us are still snowed in, child care pp. How are the child care workers supposed to get there, teleport?

How are you still snowed in? The county has cleared all streets with a minimum first pass. If you haven't had the plows out, contact the county immediately.

Many of us are still snowed in, child care pp. How are the child care workers supposed to get there, teleport?

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Anonymous wrote:How do you think child care is supposed to work if the school parking lots, side walks etc are not cleared? So many streets are not plowed, how are child care providers supposed to get out of their neighborhoods to get to the school?

Many lots and streets are cleared. The providers always have the option to not open. MCPS has not given them that option. This has been explained as nauseum on these threads. It's clear Thomas just wants to give his people a bunch of free days off. Montgomery County Government is open today. Not even liberal leave. This is embarrassing for MCPS.

Most public schools in the DMV are closed. Its just a few days. Its not the end of the world. Get a grip.

Nobody is saying it is the end of the world. We are saying we are missing work and income so Thomas Taylor can curry favor with a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats.

If most schools are closed in the DMV how can you blame or single out Taylor and MCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:How do you think child care is supposed to work if the school parking lots, side walks etc are not cleared? So many streets are not plowed, how are child care providers supposed to get out of their neighborhoods to get to the school?

Many lots and streets are cleared. The providers always have the option to not open. MCPS has not given them that option. This has been explained as nauseum on these threads. It's clear Thomas just wants to give his people a bunch of free days off. Montgomery County Government is open today. Not even liberal leave. This is embarrassing for MCPS.

Most public schools in the DMV are closed. Its just a few days. Its not the end of the world. Get a grip.

Again, we're not complaining about the schools being closed, we're complaining about the backup childcare we purchased from private childcare companies being banned from opening by MCPS central office staff because they want paid snowdays so they pretend it's still too dangerous for people to travel on the roads to get to work.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you think child care is supposed to work if the school parking lots, side walks etc are not cleared? So many streets are not plowed, how are child care providers supposed to get out of their neighborhoods to get to the school?

Many lots and streets are cleared. The providers always have the option to not open. MCPS has not given them that option. This has been explained as nauseum on these threads. It's clear Thomas just wants to give his people a bunch of free days off. Montgomery County Government is open today. Not even liberal leave. This is embarrassing for MCPS.

Most public schools in the DMV are closed. Its just a few days. Its not the end of the world. Get a grip.

Nobody is saying it is the end of the world. We are saying we are missing work and income so Thomas Taylor can curry favor with a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats.