Anonymous wrote:Wilson is on the Red Line and major bus route. If you can't make it to a Metro station, you need a back up plan. Try making carpooling arrangements if you don't have access to a car.

Wilson is doable if the buses run...Lots of schools are not blessed with a metro station and several draw citywide. ..maybe DCPS should clear up the transportation concerns at the time they announce opening/closing. That said, I think metro may have overreacted...

Two-hour delay seemed like the right call for today. Any sidewalks shoveled yesterday were clear, even dry in spots. Roads were a little messy in places, but even hill starts on our side streets were perfectly manageable.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad I chose my IB school over a Charter accross the City from my home.

Glad your in-bound school isn't a failing disgrace. Do you really want to bring that inequity into this conversation, too?

At the risk of adding fuel to the inequity debate, I had to drive both to our IB ES and to our charter MS downtown. It took 10 minutes to get to ES and almost another 2 hours to get to MS.

Anonymous wrote:You have no appreciation clearly for the specialized schools which draw from the entire city, or a school like Wilson with inbound kids who are 2 miles away or more...easily a 45 minute walk even in good weather. It isn't simply about an 8 block walk to the local elementary

Solution: let's reduce Wilson boundary (and others), so that it's easier to walk/ drive/ bus there and we don't get mayhem every time it snows.

Wilson is on the Red Line and major bus route. If you can't make it to a Metro station, you need a back up plan. Try making carpooling arrangements if you don't have access to a car.

You have no appreciation clearly for the specialized schools which draw from the entire city, or a school like Wilson with inbound kids who are 2 miles away or more...easily a 45 minute walk even in good weather. It isn't simply about an 8 block walk to the local elementary

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Anonymous wrote:Stay home - problem solved

Would the absences be excused? Middle school kids applying to high schools are very concerned about attendance these days, and are even afraid to rack up excused absences. And... many of these are the same kids who would normally be getting themselves to school by Metrobus, most of which will not be running. Not cool, DCPS. Not cool.

This is emblematic of the problems facing DCPS. We live in the midst of a city. Parents make a choice to send their kids to a charter or OOB school in another part of the city and then sit around bemoaning the fact that their poor little middle schooler might get another unexcused absence (what were the other unexcused absences for, vacations?) because they can't seem to figure out how to get them to school when there is less than five inches of snow on the ground and it stopped snowing around 2PM yesterday. Sad. Very sad.

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Anonymous wrote:If one of the counties opened schools but said school buses wouldn't run, people would be incensed. This is the same situation. The WAMATA buses are the school buses for DCPS.

and all the dcps kids who get usually bussed out of state will stay home....

??? okay...

well, the special schools out in Montgomery and PGb county will likely also be closed

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Anonymous wrote:If one of the counties opened schools but said school buses wouldn't run, people would be incensed. This is the same situation. The WAMATA buses are the school buses for DCPS.

and all the dcps kids who get usually bussed out of state will stay home....

??? okay...

So the conditions are not safe for massive public buses but are safe for children? So children who use the buses (and who get to ride for free) have no way to get to school and will be forced to navigate in very cold temperatures.

Wasn't a study just released that children in Wards 7 and 8 travel the furtherest to school? Several miles in fact.

Anonymous wrote:If one of the counties opened schools but said school buses wouldn't run, people would be incensed. This is the same situation. The WAMATA buses are the school buses for DCPS.

and all the dcps kids who get usually bussed out of state will stay home....

If one of the counties opened schools but said school buses wouldn't run, people would be incensed. This is the same situation. The WAMATA buses are the school buses for DCPS.

Anonymous wrote:Stay home - problem solved

Would the absences be excused? Middle school kids applying to high schools are very concerned about attendance these days, and are even afraid to rack up excused absences. And... many of these are the same kids who would normally be getting themselves to school by Metrobus, most of which will not be running. Not cool, DCPS. Not cool.

Stay home - problem solved

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Anonymous wrote:
Call a cab.

cos there will be oh so many cabs available....

All with a $15 snow emergency surcharge. As if.