Anonymous
01/07/2022 14:14
Subject: Re:CLOSED FRIDAY
Anonymous wrote:13:33, this is logical except there is a minor problem. MCPS is run by a central office that is all about control. We are new this year, and I have to feel sorry for the teachers, staff and even principals who have no choice but to follow guidance/rules/BS from central office. Yes, it is very sad.
Show me a school system not run by pointy haired bosses
Anonymous
01/07/2022 13:52
Subject: Re:CLOSED FRIDAY
13:33, this is logical except there is a minor problem. MCPS is run by a central office that is all about control. We are new this year, and I have to feel sorry for the teachers, staff and even principals who have no choice but to follow guidance/rules/BS from central office. Yes, it is very sad.
Anonymous
01/07/2022 13:33
Subject: CLOSED FRIDAY
What bubble do you live in that kids don’t drive. The HS the lot is filled with cars. My 14 year old has two sisters who drive.
This is a BS day. We had a two hour delay. I was ready to drive to school.
Reality is bus drivers our, teachers out, subs out and snow gave reason to call it a day. My daughter in HD say in auditorium with 300 kids for two classes as teachers out and no subs.
Reality is this is BULLSHIT. My block alone I have around 8 “girls” home from college today who went to my daughters HS. Heck my daughter who is a sophomore had an A in class canceled for younger daughters. Why not have every kids who graduated your HS who had an A average who is in college today come in.
Also where are retired teachers, where are parents. Everyone has a thumb up their ass.
Of this was Catholic school parents would jump in an help.
This is a BS day. We had a two hour delay. I was ready to drive to school.
Reality is bus drivers our, teachers out, subs out and snow gave reason to call it a day. My daughter in HD say in auditorium with 300 kids for two classes as teachers out and no subs.
Reality is this is BULLSHIT. My block alone I have around 8 “girls” home from college today who went to my daughters HS. Heck my daughter who is a sophomore had an A in class canceled for younger daughters. Why not have every kids who graduated your HS who had an A average who is in college today come in.
Also where are retired teachers, where are parents. Everyone has a thumb up their ass.
Of this was Catholic school parents would jump in an help.
Anonymous
01/07/2022 13:00
Subject: Re:CLOSED FRIDAY
10:51, so sorry to hear that, but it confirms what I suspected: Not only does the central office not care about students and their families, but they could not care less about staff who have to get up in the cold and dark and needlessly head toward work. I hope that you use the rest of the day for some indulgence (whatever that means to you).
Please know that your colleagues, students and their families appreciate you!
Please know that your colleagues, students and their families appreciate you!
Anonymous
01/07/2022 12:49
Subject: CLOSED FRIDAY
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the mall Chick Fillet, Starbucks, rio, Cabin John, movie theaters, downtown Bethesda, Rockville pike will be packed with kids eating fast food and hanging out rather than in class.
Exactly how is this better?
UM, this thread is about a weather related closure. You may be in the wrong place.
Exactly this is not a weather related closing. Roads are perfect. Sun is out. If it is a back door Covid things kids are out anyhow.
Where I live in MoCo, the conditions are much worse now than they were on Monday or Tuesday. Amazing how things can be different in different parts of a large county.
Anonymous
01/07/2022 12:17
Subject: CLOSED FRIDAY
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the mall Chick Fillet, Starbucks, rio, Cabin John, movie theaters, downtown Bethesda, Rockville pike will be packed with kids eating fast food and hanging out rather than in class.
Exactly how is this better?
No need to exaggerate. Many kids stay home all day including my teenagers. Too much computer and phone time but not socializing in person
Enjoy your bubble as I sit in Starbucks right now picking up coffee and kids are here already on their iPhones
NP.
How many kids? What percentage of the MCPS population?
Hm, let's see...
180,000 kids and staff in MCPS
Probably 150,000 who would have been in school today, average 30 people per classroom for 5-6 hours + 25-400 people maskless in the same room at lunch, for < an hour.
vs
5%? 10%? 20%? (seems high) of ~70,000 MS/HS kids and very few ES kids gallivanting at packed malls (lol, malls) and fast food places for... how many hours at a time, how many maskless hours? An hour, like they'd be at lunch?
So that's 15,000 on the very high end out doing their Bethesda rumspringa
plus
135,000 kids at home or just outside playing or otherwise not sowing their wild Starbucks oats NOR being in schools with hundreds of other people during the height of pandemic spread. Just chillin', with an infinitesimal chance of spreading COVID.
Hm.
If I were omicron, which would I prefer? Do you really think a snow day is measurably BETTER at spreading COVID?
Most kids are just playing snow now.
Anonymous
01/07/2022 11:46
Subject: CLOSED FRIDAY
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the mall Chick Fillet, Starbucks, rio, Cabin John, movie theaters, downtown Bethesda, Rockville pike will be packed with kids eating fast food and hanging out rather than in class.
Exactly how is this better?
No need to exaggerate. Many kids stay home all day including my teenagers. Too much computer and phone time but not socializing in person
Enjoy your bubble as I sit in Starbucks right now picking up coffee and kids are here already on their iPhones
NP.
How many kids? What percentage of the MCPS population?
Hm, let's see...
180,000 kids and staff in MCPS
Probably 150,000 who would have been in school today, average 30 people per classroom for 5-6 hours + 25-400 people maskless in the same room at lunch, for < an hour.
vs
5%? 10%? 20%? (seems high) of ~70,000 MS/HS kids and very few ES kids gallivanting at packed malls (lol, malls) and fast food places for... how many hours at a time, how many maskless hours? An hour, like they'd be at lunch?
So that's 15,000 on the very high end out doing their Bethesda rumspringa
plus
135,000 kids at home or just outside playing or otherwise not sowing their wild Starbucks oats NOR being in schools with hundreds of other people during the height of pandemic spread. Just chillin', with an infinitesimal chance of spreading COVID.
Hm.
If I were omicron, which would I prefer? Do you really think a snow day is measurably BETTER at spreading COVID?
Anonymous
01/07/2022 11:45
Subject: CLOSED FRIDAY
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the mall Chick Fillet, Starbucks, rio, Cabin John, movie theaters, downtown Bethesda, Rockville pike will be packed with kids eating fast food and hanging out rather than in class.
Exactly how is this better?
UM, this thread is about a weather related closure. You may be in the wrong place.
Exactly this is not a weather related closing. Roads are perfect. Sun is out. If it is a back door Covid things kids are out anyhow.
Is that why the federal government is also closed?
MCPS has long, sharp claws!
Anonymous
01/07/2022 11:41
Subject: CLOSED FRIDAY
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the mall Chick Fillet, Starbucks, rio, Cabin John, movie theaters, downtown Bethesda, Rockville pike will be packed with kids eating fast food and hanging out rather than in class.
Exactly how is this better?
UM, this thread is about a weather related closure. You may be in the wrong place.
Exactly this is not a weather related closing. Roads are perfect. Sun is out. If it is a back door Covid things kids are out anyhow.
This is *absolutely* a typical MCPS/DC-area weather closing! In 10+ years, we've been through dozens of snow days like this.
Liability issues scare systems into closing. Parents see conditions out their own window and assume the rest of the system is seeing the same thing, go online to complain endlessly, etc. etc. etc.
Avoiding having to deal with Covid issues for another day might have been a bonus for central office, but based on pretty much every other snow day I've ever seen around here, they'd have closed anyway.
Anonymous
01/07/2022 11:38
Subject: CLOSED FRIDAY
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So the mall Chick Fillet, Starbucks, rio, Cabin John, movie theaters, downtown Bethesda, Rockville pike will be packed with kids eating fast food and hanging out rather than in class.
Exactly how is this better?
UM, this thread is about a weather related closure. You may be in the wrong place.
Exactly this is not a weather related closing. Roads are perfect. Sun is out. If it is a back door Covid things kids are out anyhow.
Is that why the federal government is also closed?