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Anonymous wrote:Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

I just wish parents cared this much about their kid's education when school is actually in session. It only mysteriously seems to happen when schools are closed.

More likely that kids are too busy working with expensive tutors to remediate the basic skills you failed to properly teach

You can get affordable tutoring online. We added extra sessions this week. Or, you can supplement at home, which is what we did in the early years.

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Anonymous wrote:Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

Emits teachers don’t use textbooks and they are online for the few they use. We have some teachers sending emails with assignments. They can but choose not to.

I posted assignments. Zero were submitted yesterday. I’ll be shocked if any are done today or tomorrow.

There is no way to submit them but mine did it.. we made sure if it. Some may be done. It was just an email and not all kids check email but luckily it went through to our email so it got done.

I hope teachers have at least caught up on grading and that semester grades are complete

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Anonymous wrote:Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

I just wish parents cared this much about their kid's education when school is actually in session. It only mysteriously seems to happen when schools are closed.

More likely that kids are too busy working with expensive tutors to remediate the basic skills you failed to properly teach

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Anonymous wrote:If there is school Friday, my kids will stay home if I’m unable to drive them. No f-ing way I’m putting them on the bus. Last storm their bus slid off the road.

Read their emergency message today..they are already hinting at a closure on Monday. No way they will open on Friday.

Can you quote this? I didn't see anything that referenced Monday.

They did not use the word "Monday" but they said parents should prepare for an "extended closure" and referenced the possibility of snow over the weekend.

The threat of snow over the weekend has all but disappeared. Even the GFS, which was the one remaining model forecasting significant snowfall, is starting to cave to the Euro. If MCPS can't open by Monday, it's such a miserable failure of the entire school system.

No more snow is excellent news

Anonymous wrote:Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

I just wish parents cared this much about their kid's education when school is actually in session. It only mysteriously seems to happen when schools are closed.

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Anonymous wrote:I got curious and drove the bus routes for my school. There is going to have to be a lot of work done to clear these bus stops if we want to open this week. Can’t imagine its a good look to have half a dozen kids standing atop a 4 foot ice wall waiting for a bus at 7 am

Came here to post this. The real issue right now is the state of bus stops (public & school). I drove from East Montgomery Village to Rockville and back on secondary (4 lane roads) where there are a lot of bus stops. Pretty much nine of the sidewalks are clear and consist of 1ft of snow-ice edged by a berm of 3ft plow snow-ice blocks. I passed three different work crews trying to chip out public bus stops with steel shovels and small snow cats. They were making very slow progress. There is literally no place for 10-20 kids to stand (or get to) several of the usual bus stops without being on the actual 4 lane road.

If you want schools to open, go rally your neighbors to work on the normal paths to the stops.

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Anonymous wrote:Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

Emits teachers don’t use textbooks and they are online for the few they use. We have some teachers sending emails with assignments. They can but choose not to.

I posted assignments. Zero were submitted yesterday. I’ll be shocked if any are done today or tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is school Friday, my kids will stay home if I’m unable to drive them. No f-ing way I’m putting them on the bus. Last storm their bus slid off the road.

Read their emergency message today..they are already hinting at a closure on Monday. No way they will open on Friday.

Can you quote this? I didn't see anything that referenced Monday.

They did not use the word "Monday" but they said parents should prepare for an "extended closure" and referenced the possibility of snow over the weekend.

The threat of snow over the weekend has all but disappeared. Even the GFS, which was the one remaining model forecasting significant snowfall, is starting to cave to the Euro. If MCPS can't open by Monday, it's such a miserable failure of the entire school system.

It’s not just MCPS. It’s the county.

Libraries and rec centers are open. I get schools are a much heavier lift than those, but MCPS Central Office is not.

If you have time to post here during the work day, you have time to watch your school aged kids. Put on the tv or iPad.

Anonymous wrote:Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

Emits teachers don’t use textbooks and they are online for the few they use. We have some teachers sending emails with assignments. They can but choose not to.

Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is school Friday, my kids will stay home if I’m unable to drive them. No f-ing way I’m putting them on the bus. Last storm their bus slid off the road.

Read their emergency message today..they are already hinting at a closure on Monday. No way they will open on Friday.

Can you quote this? I didn't see anything that referenced Monday.

They did not use the word "Monday" but they said parents should prepare for an "extended closure" and referenced the possibility of snow over the weekend.

The threat of snow over the weekend has all but disappeared. Even the GFS, which was the one remaining model forecasting significant snowfall, is starting to cave to the Euro. If MCPS can't open by Monday, it's such a miserable failure of the entire school system.

It’s not just MCPS. It’s the county.

Libraries and rec centers are open. I get schools are a much heavier lift than those, but MCPS Central Office is not.

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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.

You get a grip. Many of these child care workers have multiple jobs and may not be available. Clearly if you have time to post here you can care for your kids.

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?

Because as far as I know, MCPS is the only one forcing on-site private child care providers to stay closed through Thursday (and probably Friday.)

Easy way to fix issues in the future is to look for before and aftercare that is not located on MCPS property.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is school Friday, my kids will stay home if I’m unable to drive them. No f-ing way I’m putting them on the bus. Last storm their bus slid off the road.

Read their emergency message today..they are already hinting at a closure on Monday. No way they will open on Friday.

Can you quote this? I didn't see anything that referenced Monday.

They did not use the word "Monday" but they said parents should prepare for an "extended closure" and referenced the possibility of snow over the weekend.

The threat of snow over the weekend has all but disappeared. Even the GFS, which was the one remaining model forecasting significant snowfall, is starting to cave to the Euro. If MCPS can't open by Monday, it's such a miserable failure of the entire school system.

It’s not just MCPS. It’s the county.