Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 15:19     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Neighbor kid’s private went to 100% synchronous school on Wednesday. Hours of time online on-screen. She said it’s a waste of time.


Ok and?


Those saying their school was “open” with virtual learning are not evaluating the quality of the learning experience, just that it exists. Better to have some independent study than make kids sit in front of a screen for hours.

But people want to think they are getting their money’s worth.


You don’t have a kid in private school and you’re on here trying to disparage other people’s choices.

Go away and deal with your own life.


Actually I do. And I know my kids have been better off this week doing something other than staring at their teacher on Zoom.


Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 11:20     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Neighbor kid’s private went to 100% synchronous school on Wednesday. Hours of time online on-screen. She said it’s a waste of time.


Ok and?


Those saying their school was “open” with virtual learning are not evaluating the quality of the learning experience, just that it exists. Better to have some independent study than make kids sit in front of a screen for hours.

But people want to think they are getting their money’s worth.


You don’t have a kid in private school and you’re on here trying to disparage other people’s choices.

Go away and deal with your own life.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 11:15     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Neighbor kid’s private went to 100% synchronous school on Wednesday. Hours of time online on-screen. She said it’s a waste of time.


Ok and?


Those saying their school was “open” with virtual learning are not evaluating the quality of the learning experience, just that it exists. Better to have some independent study than make kids sit in front of a screen for hours.

But people want to think they are getting their money’s worth.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 11:10     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:Neighbor kid’s private went to 100% synchronous school on Wednesday. Hours of time online on-screen. She said it’s a waste of time.


Ok and?
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 11:06     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the religious schools have been closed more than the secular ones.


Yup. I applaud the public schools for doing right by students and parents. The Catholic schools were a total embarrassment — nothing but stupid excuses and silly justifications to try and excuse their bad decisions.

Think twice before switching from public to Catholic. Grass always seems greener. It’s often not.


I’m happy with their decisions. Some of the independent Catholic schools have been back at school. Others haven’t. What’s it to you?
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 11:06     Subject: School Cancelation
Neighbor kid’s private went to 100% synchronous school on Wednesday. Hours of time online on-screen. She said it’s a waste of time.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 11:02     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the religious schools have been closed more than the secular ones.


Yup. I applaud the public schools for doing right by students and parents. The Catholic schools were a total embarrassment — nothing but stupid excuses and silly justifications to try and excuse their bad decisions.

Think twice before switching from public to Catholic. Grass always seems greener. It’s often not.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 10:17     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the religious schools have been closed more than the secular ones.


Because they have students from a wider range of the DMV than some of the independent schools. At our religious school, there are students from 69 zip codes.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 08:51     Subject: School Cancelation
Sounds like the religious schools have been closed more than the secular ones.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 08:41     Subject: School Cancelation
Good Counsel has been closed all week. Mon-Wed were nothing days and Thursday and Friday asynchronous learning, but that amounted to a couple of worksheets.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 08:41     Subject: School Cancelation
St John’s has not opened all week.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 07:53     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This whole episode has exposed private schools as a big racket. Who TF in their right mind pays tens of thousands of dollars for a school that closes ALL week just bc of snow?? It’s not even a blizzard. It was 8 inches. BFD.

They just use anything as an excuse to close and not work. Meanwhile, almost every other private entity was open.


You’re shouting at clouds. What private school has been closed all week?


St Mary’s in old town has been shut all week. Shocker.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 07:19     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:It kills me that we have a 36-page thread with a misspelled word in the title. And the title has only two words.


"Cancelation" is an acceptable spelling.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 07:11     Subject: School Cancelation
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I would be annoyed paying for a premium product that cannot deliver. Multiple days off for some snow should only be happening in public schools.


Well it sounds like you don’t pay for it, so why do you care?


My kids are in private, so yes I do care.


So then pull them out if you think it isn’t worth it.



They went back to school on Thursday. It should have been Tuesday. Still better than public but needs to be better.