Anonymous wrote:School and DC government is open according to a DC reporter on twitter


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For everyone asking, the D.C. government and @dcpublicschools will be open Wednesday.

Anonymous wrote:has anyone actually phoned the Mayor's office to see if a decision was made?

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Anonymous wrote:As usual DCUM pretends that every DCPS parent has a 9 to 5 job with benefits and flexibility. While many parents in DCPS simply cannot take days off work to care for children because they will not get paid for that missed day. I would rather children are in school, learning, being fed breakfast and lunch than sitting at home doing nothing. Or wandering around the streets getting themselves into trouble.

And, another series of posts that equate school to childcare. Guess what? The two income household falls apart when you become parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans.

Yup. She's not worried about her kids' routine. She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home.

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C.

Or get a new job. People act like they can't leave their job. It's a choice, they just don't like the other choices.

Do you realize how rare full time jobs with benefits are if you are under 30? And it’s worse if you are a blue collar worker.

But there ARE other jobs, are there not? So it remains a choice. You choose salary and benefits over something else. I'm not saying that's the wrong choice, just that parents who complain that they can't handle a school closing because their job isn't flexible makes their choice someone else's problem. They choose to stay in that job, they choose the inconvenience. The argument they make is just annoying, that's all.

Parents are complaining because, unlike with a snow day or a sick kid, this would be a totally optional closing that mostly just results in inconvenience — even for people with flexible jobs, it still costs either time, or money, or energy to deal with a change in the usual routine. And for what purpose? Do you think kids born in 2000 or later would be spending their day off meaningfully reflecting on the service President Bush gave to the nation?

Complaining on an anonymous website about how it's a pain in the ass to arrange unexpected, not usually needed childcare doesn't mean people don't have a backup plan in place, it means they wish they didn't have to use it.

Moan in the right place then, it's Trump who called this not DCPS

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Anonymous wrote:As usual DCUM pretends that every DCPS parent has a 9 to 5 job with benefits and flexibility. While many parents in DCPS simply cannot take days off work to care for children because they will not get paid for that missed day. I would rather children are in school, learning, being fed breakfast and lunch than sitting at home doing nothing. Or wandering around the streets getting themselves into trouble.

And, another series of posts that equate school to childcare. Guess what? The two income household falls apart when you become parents.

Anonymous wrote:As usual DCUM pretends that every DCPS parent has a 9 to 5 job with benefits and flexibility. While many parents in DCPS simply cannot take days off work to care for children because they will not get paid for that missed day. I would rather children are in school, learning, being fed breakfast and lunch than sitting at home doing nothing. Or wandering around the streets getting themselves into trouble.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans.

Yup. She's not worried about her kids' routine. She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home.

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C.

Or get a new job. People act like they can't leave their job. It's a choice, they just don't like the other choices.

Do you realize how rare full time jobs with benefits are if you are under 30? And it’s worse if you are a blue collar worker.

But there ARE other jobs, are there not? So it remains a choice. You choose salary and benefits over something else. I'm not saying that's the wrong choice, just that parents who complain that they can't handle a school closing because their job isn't flexible makes their choice someone else's problem. They choose to stay in that job, they choose the inconvenience. The argument they make is just annoying, that's all.

Parents are complaining because, unlike with a snow day or a sick kid, this would be a totally optional closing that mostly just results in inconvenience — even for people with flexible jobs, it still costs either time, or money, or energy to deal with a change in the usual routine. And for what purpose? Do you think kids born in 2000 or later would be spending their day off meaningfully reflecting on the service President Bush gave to the nation?

Complaining on an anonymous website about how it's a pain in the ass to arrange unexpected, not usually needed childcare doesn't mean people don't have a backup plan in place, it means they wish they didn't have to use it.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans.

Yup. She's not worried about her kids' routine. She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home.

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C.

Or get a new job. People act like they can't leave their job. It's a choice, they just don't like the other choices.

Do you realize how rare full time jobs with benefits are if you are under 30? And it’s worse if you are a blue collar worker.

But there ARE other jobs, are there not? So it remains a choice. You choose salary and benefits over something else. I'm not saying that's the wrong choice, just that parents who complain that they can't handle a school closing because their job isn't flexible makes their choice someone else's problem. They choose to stay in that job, they choose the inconvenience. The argument they make is just annoying, that's all.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans.

Yup. She's not worried about her kids' routine. She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home.

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C.

Or get a new job. People act like they can't leave their job. It's a choice, they just don't like the other choices.

Do you realize how rare full time jobs with benefits are if you are under 30? And it’s worse if you are a blue collar worker.

But there ARE other jobs, are there not? So it remains a choice. You choose salary and benefits over something else. I'm not saying that's the wrong choice, just that parents who complain that they can't handle a school closing because their job isn't flexible makes their choice someone else's problem. They choose to stay in that job, they choose the inconvenience. The argument they make is just annoying, that's all.

This might be the most clueless post in DCUM history. Congrats.

-NP

Sorry I called you out on your BS.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans.

Yup. She's not worried about her kids' routine. She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home.

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C.

Or get a new job. People act like they can't leave their job. It's a choice, they just don't like the other choices.

Do you realize how rare full time jobs with benefits are if you are under 30? And it’s worse if you are a blue collar worker.

But there ARE other jobs, are there not? So it remains a choice. You choose salary and benefits over something else. I'm not saying that's the wrong choice, just that parents who complain that they can't handle a school closing because their job isn't flexible makes their choice someone else's problem. They choose to stay in that job, they choose the inconvenience. The argument they make is just annoying, that's all.

This might be the most clueless post in DCUM history. Congrats.

-NP

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans.

Yup. She's not worried about her kids' routine. She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home.

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C.

Why can her husband/partner stay home with the kids? Men father these children, they can help with shifting schedules.

Some men also have inflexible jobs. My brother is in law enforcement. He can’t shift his schedule without prior approval and there are times when the answer is just no. A friend’s DH is deployed.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans.

Yup. She's not worried about her kids' routine. She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home.

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C.

Why can her husband/partner stay home with the kids? Men father these children, they can help with shifting schedules.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, people don’t get LIVID about that. They get LIVID when they have to change their routine/meeting schedule/lunch plans.

Yup. She's not worried about her kids' routine. She's LIVID that she has to change her routine for one day.

Not everyone has a job where that is easy to do. My young adult daughter runs a video conference meeting of 10 station managers every Wed AM 52 weeks a year. If she is sick, she has to run it. If she is on vacation, same. She doesn’t have kids yet, but she could not just “change her routine” to keep kids at home.

And if she had kids, she would need to put in place a contingency plan for when those kids are sick or have a snow day. This would be no different. Go to Plan B or even Plan C.

Or get a new job. People act like they can't leave their job. It's a choice, they just don't like the other choices.

Do you realize how rare full time jobs with benefits are if you are under 30? And it’s worse if you are a blue collar worker.

But there ARE other jobs, are there not? So it remains a choice. You choose salary and benefits over something else. I'm not saying that's the wrong choice, just that parents who complain that they can't handle a school closing because their job isn't flexible makes their choice someone else's problem. They choose to stay in that job, they choose the inconvenience. The argument they make is just annoying, that's all.