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Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

I haven't seen many people in this thread complaining about schools being closed. However, opening the admin offices and letting childcare providers open does not require busses.

What happens when the child care staff cannot get to work?

Why do people keep acting like this is any of MCPS's business? Do other landlords lock their tenants out of buildings because they speculate that their tenants might not have enough staff to open?

(The answer, of course, is that if a child care program doesn't have enough staff who can get to work, they don't open-- or if they only have enough staff to operate at reduced capacity, they operate at reduced capacity and don't take drop-in kids. Just like they always did in the past. But again, none of your or MCPS's business.)

I tried to dig out my car but it is incased in solid ice. I don’t have a driveway or garage but park on the street. I think I can get it out to drive to school but not sure how I will park when I get home. Teacher here. I may need to take Friday off if they open schools

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

That’s interesting. Are they allowed to do that? I’m not complaining just curious.

Not sure you can penalise kids who don’t do it and since kids are smart they all know it. It might work for AP classes though

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

I haven't seen many people in this thread complaining about schools being closed. However, opening the admin offices and letting childcare providers open does not require busses.

It's not just about the buses.

Our school's parking lot is clear. Office staff live in the neighborhood which is all passable. Child care provider is not being given the option to find out if their staff can make it in to open/determine how many kids they can serve.

Get the staffs number and offer an uber and high pay to work at your house.

Are you the guy that anonymously posted his number here and flipped out when nobody had called him within 5 minutes to have him watch their kids?

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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.....

No one will be going to school Friday. It just hasn’t been called yet.

It doesn't get above freezing until next Tuesday so might be closed into next week too.

By that time, or before, OPM is not even going to still allow telework.

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Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

Many of us are going without in one this week and as an added bonus during the government shutdowns. Stop using us as talking points. Buildings opened today and our road is barely passable but my spouse felt forced to go in. I’d rather be safe and no income for another day.

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Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

I haven't seen many people in this thread complaining about schools being closed. However, opening the admin offices and letting childcare providers open does not require busses.

It's not just about the buses.

Our school's parking lot is clear. Office staff live in the neighborhood which is all passable. Child care provider is not being given the option to find out if their staff can make it in to open/determine how many kids they can serve.

Get the staffs number and offer an uber and high pay to work at your house.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

I haven't seen many people in this thread complaining about schools being closed. However, opening the admin offices and letting childcare providers open does not require busses.

What happens when the child care staff cannot get to work?

I just went out for the first time to a dentist appointment and it was hilarious, if you have a dark sense of humor. East Jefferson and Montrose Road have no sidewalks shoveled at all so there are pedestrians walking in the road and climbing up 4-foot-high mountains of ice to board Ride On buses. Right lanes randomly end unpredictably or are half as wide as they need to be so therefore unusable. Turn lanes aren't plowed and people making turns have to peer around 5-foot-tall mountains of ice boulders piled right at the corner of the road that the plow left. 270 looks great except half the merge lanes are missing for the exit ramps so cars are being dumped straight into traffic with no warning and no time to accelerate up to speed. Some side streets are only one lane wide. Even some of the shopping centers off Rockville Pike have only a lane or a lane and a half plowed so cars can't get past each other.

I saw scattered work crews here and there trying to clear some sidewalks and trying to plow the worst of the obstacles in the road but the stuff is so hard to move and there's a lot left to do. It's not warm enough to melt but whatever has had the sun shining directly on it has developed a new layer of ice making it even harder to chip or shovel. I don't know what they do.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

I haven't seen many people in this thread complaining about schools being closed. However, opening the admin offices and letting childcare providers open does not require busses.

It's not just about the buses.

Our school's parking lot is clear. Office staff live in the neighborhood which is all passable. Child care provider is not being given the option to find out if their staff can make it in to open/determine how many kids they can serve.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

I haven't seen many people in this thread complaining about schools being closed. However, opening the admin offices and letting childcare providers open does not require busses.

It's not just about the buses.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

I haven't seen many people in this thread complaining about schools being closed. However, opening the admin offices and letting childcare providers open does not require busses.

+1 no matter how many times we explain this the lazy central office staffers posting here need to push a false narrative to justify their week+ long free vacation

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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.....

No one will be going to school Friday. It just hasn’t been called yet.

It doesn't get above freezing until next Tuesday so might be closed into next week too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many busses have to be stuck in the snow before people accept closing might be the safest choice....

The people who won’t accept it don’t care what the safest choice is. They are willing to accept a larger amount of risk so they don’t disappoint their employer or lose income. These are valid and legitimate priorities for those individuals, but unfortunately for them, the priority of safety of students and staff and operational considerations like do buildings have heat and running water are higher priorities for the school district.

I haven't seen many people in this thread complaining about schools being closed. However, opening the admin offices and letting childcare providers open does not require busses.

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.....

No one will be going to school Friday. It just hasn’t been called yet.