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Anonymous wrote: Metro Bus tweeted 13 times that DCPS was closed today! I guess they thought it was logical that DCPS was closed today today too!

And the thing that irritates me is that our bus, if it runs today, will be empty of all the kids from the ghetto. So keeping the schools open in a misguided attempt to serve the poor is simply wrong since at least in our neighborhood they mostly do not go to school on days like today. There are plenty of other social safety nets which I am supportive of and DCPS does not need to keep schools open on a day like today.

Your point is what??? What I stated is a fact since I have seen this effect anytime there is any sort of bad weather.

PP point was not very nicely put; however, at my school they are correct at the middle/high school level.
Most needy children do not go to school because they don't wan/can't leave the house, perhaps they don't have the appropriate clothes or they just don't want to and use any excuse not to go to school. They're certainly not going to get on a bus and come just for the free breakfast and lunch. The only students that showed up on delay days were the SpEd students and the ESL students, the school would be practically empty.

NP - and I echo what the PP posted - my bus route goes through several housing projects that are full of kids, and whenever the weather is even the slightest bit bad, there's a steep dropoff in the number of kids showing up. When they do show up, I see a lot of them (at least the older ones) are wearing North Face and Helly Hansen jackets, so it's not as though that many of them don't have any choice in clothing either.

PP--you too are as dim as the first poster who seemed to think that it is okay to draw conclusions from what is seen in your 10 block radius. You and the other PP seem to believe that you know that the kids you see on the BUS don't need food when school is closed because--for example- they are wearing North Face (seriously, you've never heard of knock offs? If so, just ride down to the end of Benning Rd. or take a trip to NYC ). There are many reasons why you may not see these kids going to school on days like today. Don't make assumptions like this. Because you really don't know.

12:29 you are so full of shit and you are not bamboozling ANYONE here with your BS. The conclusion is simple: They didn't show up because they didn't want to go out. PERIOD. School was not important enough to them. PERIOD. I don't give a shit if it's a knockoff North Face jacket or not, it's still a jacket that's probably as good or better than my kid's and probably cost the same as my kid's (my kid doesn't need North Face, whether knockoff or real) but the bottom line is MY KID WENT TO SCHOOL INSTEAD OF MAKING BULLSHIT EXCUSES!!!!

Take your "dim" and GO FUCK YOURSELF for treating the rest of us like idiots.

This is the stupidest subject -- "please be strong DCPS". Schools should delay opening or close based on safety. "Be Strong"? What? You have children or a child -- if it ruins your day have some options in place to manage. I don't want my Chancellor or Super. to cave for parents when it comes to urging families and kids to commute in potentially injurious weather conditions.

I will add that getting to my Federal job at 8:30 this morning I was the latest of any of the main people I work with, and I am just working on policy issues, not doing something important like driving a plow.

Paid a babysitter 70 bucks for two hours so my husband could get to our Federal jobs by 8:30 this morning.
Inch of snow did not stop our determined babysitter or us.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, because you happened slip and to fall with just an inch of snow on the ground, all DCPS kids should have been kept at home. A poor choice in footwear trumps all. And what about all the poor kids without shoes or coats? What are they to do? Oh, that's right, I almost forgot that they seem to get to school quite fine on other days with frigid temps.

So, so true. People manage to walk on an inch of snow all the time. OMG do you really think there should be no school because you can't walk properly?

And if the project kids in my neighborhood are any precedence for the rest of the city than we know most of those "poor" kids have pretty f'in nice shoes and coats (and I don't for a second believe all those northface and helly hansen jackets are knock-offs)...

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because you happened slip and to fall with just an inch of snow on the ground, all DCPS kids should have been kept at home. A poor choice in footwear trumps all. And what about all the poor kids without shoes or coats? What are they to do? Oh, that's right, I almost forgot that they seem to get to school quite fine on other days with frigid temps.

So, so true. People manage to walk on an inch of snow all the time. OMG do you really think there should be no school because you can't walk properly?

Yes, because you happened slip and to fall with just an inch of snow on the ground, all DCPS kids should have been kept at home. A poor choice in footwear trumps all. And what about all the poor kids without shoes or coats? What are they to do? Oh, that's right, I almost forgot that they seem to get to school quite fine on other days with frigid temps.