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Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

Some of us have been out and about since day 1, because of dogs needing to be walked, etc, and "the conditions" are what they are. They are not going to change. Everyone is walking the icy snow without sinking. Everyone is getting salt stuck into their shoe treads and tracking it home. Dogs' paws need to be wiped because the salt is toxic. You dig your car out and you let your kid go to school. The only annoying thing at this point are the snow mounds that block some pedestrian crossings. You had time to get your kid solid boots to walk to school... but my husband navigates them in his worn and slippery sneakers. I am sure some kids will walk to school in inadequate shoes. They will survive, even though it's not ideal. The cold temperatures are fine, unless a bus doesn't arrive, but that's very unlikely next week.

This is how it is, PP. You cannot have perfect conditions all the time.

How will a bus arrive if the roads are not passable? Should parents be calling you when that happens??

The major thoroughfares are clear. If anything, MCPS should create central bus stops that avoid the smaller neighborhood streets right now. It works perfectly fine for the magnet schools.

Or just drive your kid or carpool with other parents. It's not that difficult.

It actually is difficult and when you don’t acknowledge it, you seem crazy and people will dismiss your posts. This is not an easy decision for MCPS. Opening schools with 50% students showing up is not a win for MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

Some of us have been out and about since day 1, because of dogs needing to be walked, etc, and "the conditions" are what they are. They are not going to change. Everyone is walking the icy snow without sinking. Everyone is getting salt stuck into their shoe treads and tracking it home. Dogs' paws need to be wiped because the salt is toxic. You dig your car out and you let your kid go to school. The only annoying thing at this point are the snow mounds that block some pedestrian crossings. You had time to get your kid solid boots to walk to school... but my husband navigates them in his worn and slippery sneakers. I am sure some kids will walk to school in inadequate shoes. They will survive, even though it's not ideal. The cold temperatures are fine, unless a bus doesn't arrive, but that's very unlikely next week.

This is how it is, PP. You cannot have perfect conditions all the time.

How will a bus arrive if the roads are not passable? Should parents be calling you when that happens??

The major thoroughfares are clear. If anything, MCPS should create central bus stops that avoid the smaller neighborhood streets right now. It works perfectly fine for the magnet schools.

Or just drive your kid or carpool with other parents. It's not that difficult.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

I agree with this. It sucks to miss so much school but conditions are bad outside. Screaming and crying about it won’t change anything. Try meditation. Sometimes you have to just accept what Mother Nature throws at you. Our kids will be fine

They'll be fine if they go to school, too. Maybe y'all some just accept that?

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Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

I agree with this. It sucks to miss so much school but conditions are bad outside. Screaming and crying about it won’t change anything. Try meditation. Sometimes you have to just accept what Mother Nature throws at you. Our kids will be fine

Please tell me how those poor kids in Minnesota, Alaska, and Wisconsin ever survive! We should not be closed just because its cold and there's snow/ice on the ground. If that was the criteria, some states would never have school in the winter.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

If you are “concerned” then feel free to stay home with your kid. Everyone else needs to get back to school. Again it has been 8 days - absent a disability you should have been out clearing the snow and ice that is in your way or making alternate plans. You should have been getting together with your neighbors to clear the bus stop. If you didn’t, now you have only yourself to blame, and the entire school system cannot be shut down due to your ineptitude.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

I agree with this. It sucks to miss so much school but conditions are bad outside. Screaming and crying about it won’t change anything. Try meditation. Sometimes you have to just accept what Mother Nature throws at you. Our kids will be fine

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Shut up if you think kids could go back safely

Then buy a dictionary.

Look at the footprints. Clearly people have been walking on it fine all week. That's how it got packed down.

Most of the footprints were made early in the week before it was solidly frozen, or they are made possible in certain areas that get more sun. Surely you understand science.

There's a very simple test. Find undisturbed snow. Step on it. Unless you're a very small child, you will sink.

You won’t. I am a heavy adult woman who doesn’t sink.

But the issue isn’t undisturbed snow. It’s the piles of irregular broken chunks of ice on the corners. Residential neighborhoods are often OK, but major thoroughfares, like Rockville Pike and Georgia Ave often have piles that are hard to cross blocking the corner.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

I agree with this. It sucks to miss so much school but conditions are bad outside. Screaming and crying about it won’t change anything. Try meditation. Sometimes you have to just accept what Mother Nature throws at you. Our kids will be fine

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ICE vs Snow

Shut up if you think kids could go back safely

Then buy a dictionary.

Look at the footprints. Clearly people have been walking on it fine all week. That's how it got packed down.

Most of the footprints were made early in the week before it was solidly frozen, or they are made possible in certain areas that get more sun. Surely you understand science.

There's a very simple test. Find undisturbed snow. Step on it. Unless you're a very small child, you will sink.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

If you're that concerned, drive your kids. Drive your neighbor's kids. There's no reason to continue to keep the kids home.

I’m going to call this bubble thinking. While it might be the norm in your neighborhood to be at home and drive your kids, believe it or not there are many families who don’t have this opportunity. They have to be at work and their friends and neighbors who go to the same school, also need to be at work and cannot drive their kids or any other kids to school.

I’m going to be yelled at, but this is why I was advocating for people to shovel their sidewalks the day after the storm so that you wouldn’t have snow cementing. It was hard work then but I think it’s even harder work now. The sidewalks in my middle and elementary school zone neighborhood are about 60/40 shoveled.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

If you're that concerned, drive your kids. Drive your neighbor's kids. There's no reason to continue to keep the kids home.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

Some of us have been out and about since day 1, because of dogs needing to be walked, etc, and "the conditions" are what they are. They are not going to change. Everyone is walking the icy snow without sinking. Everyone is getting salt stuck into their shoe treads and tracking it home. Dogs' paws need to be wiped because the salt is toxic. You dig your car out and you let your kid go to school. The only annoying thing at this point are the snow mounds that block some pedestrian crossings. You had time to get your kid solid boots to walk to school... but my husband navigates them in his worn and slippery sneakers. I am sure some kids will walk to school in inadequate shoes. They will survive, even though it's not ideal. The cold temperatures are fine, unless a bus doesn't arrive, but that's very unlikely next week.

This is how it is, PP. You cannot have perfect conditions all the time.

How will a bus arrive if the roads are not passable? Should parents be calling you when that happens??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

If you are “concerned” then feel free to stay home with your kid. Everyone else needs to get back to school. Again it has been 8 days - absent a disability you should have been out clearing the snow and ice that is in your way or making alternate plans. You should have been getting together with your neighbors to clear the bus stop. If you didn’t, now you have only yourself to blame, and the entire school system cannot be shut down due to your ineptitude.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people actually trying to get over a WEEK off school? Look at the weather report - this ice is not going anywhere. You have had 8 days to dig your car out.

I think most of us are eager for our kids to get back at this point but some of us are actually concerned about the conditions out there. Believe it or not.

Some of us have been out and about since day 1, because of dogs needing to be walked, etc, and "the conditions" are what they are. They are not going to change. Everyone is walking the icy snow without sinking. Everyone is getting salt stuck into their shoe treads and tracking it home. Dogs' paws need to be wiped because the salt is toxic. You dig your car out and you let your kid go to school. The only annoying thing at this point are the snow mounds that block some pedestrian crossings. You had time to get your kid solid boots to walk to school... but my husband navigates them in his worn and slippery sneakers. I am sure some kids will walk to school in inadequate shoes. They will survive, even though it's not ideal. The cold temperatures are fine, unless a bus doesn't arrive, but that's very unlikely next week.

This is how it is, PP. You cannot have perfect conditions all the time.