Anonymous wrote:Dc schools already opened last Friday…

And 20% showed up.

The thing about cancelling Monday is that the conditions are going to be the same on Tuesday. What big plan is happening tomorrow to clean up?

I don't think you understand the situation. DCPS is located on the former grounds of a swamp, which contributes to faster melting times, while snow in Damascus takes an average of 31% longer to melt (source: a Mocosnow report from 2022).

Anonymous wrote:Dc schools already opened last Friday…

Did you see the legions of volunteers clearing snow to make it safe for kids to walk? We did!

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it closed for students? Did the teachers need to have this day? I thought last Monday was a telework day for them.

From the website, throwing kids with disabilities and walkers out as the reason they can't open:

Why We Can’t Open Tomorrow:

Many neighborhood streets are too narrow and too icy for buses to travel safely. Many neighborhood streets are barely passable for a car and school buses are much wider.
Many sidewalks are impassable, forcing walkers to use busy roads instead of safe sidewalks. Approximately 20% of our students walk to school and do not have access to bus transportation.
Many of our students with disabilities require door-to-door transportation (as part of their legally mandated individualized education plan), which in some areas will not be possible due to some neighborhood street conditions.

Those kids are the most vulnerable.

The speed limit is 35, but cars go 50. One of my students who has special needs does dart into traffic even with his family. He needs to come to school on a bus.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how they're throwing students with disabilities under the bus... "Many of our students with disabilities require door-to-door transportation (as part of their legally mandated individualized education plan), which in some areas will not be possible due to some neighborhood street conditions."

Those buses pick up students right at their curb. Those curbs are NOT ready. People get out there and look around, help if you can in the wind to axe off the BLOCKS of freezing rain.

DP no this is just poor excuse making. No willingness to engage in problem solving.

Dc schools already opened last Friday…

There are easy community solutions to this that are used all over the county and the world but we refuse to do them. Believe it or not other places do get snow, and sometimes it’s even icy snow!! You will not convince me that all the walkers and students who supposedly can’t get to school have stayed inside their homes and not gone anywhere for the past week. I bet you could count the number who have on one hand. So the solution is to help each other out. Buses can’t get down some streets. Undoubtedly true. So parents in those locations band together and carpool their kids to school, each taking a turn. Not safe to walk for the walkers? Ok-if the snow is truly piled so high that it’s impossible to walk (doubtful in the vast majority of cases as believe it or not you CAN walk on the snowcrete), then again, a parent drives a set of kids for the day or makes the very slow walk with a group. New to the area or have don’t have a car? School listservs can turn into ride share offers and requests. It’s really not hard. It’s sad that it will be over a week since the snow ended and that we still can’t figure out how to get kids to school.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it closed for students? Did the teachers need to have this day? I thought last Monday was a telework day for them.

From the website, throwing kids with disabilities and walkers out as the reason they can't open:

Why We Can’t Open Tomorrow:

Many neighborhood streets are too narrow and too icy for buses to travel safely. Many neighborhood streets are barely passable for a car and school buses are much wider.
Many sidewalks are impassable, forcing walkers to use busy roads instead of safe sidewalks. Approximately 20% of our students walk to school and do not have access to bus transportation.
Many of our students with disabilities require door-to-door transportation (as part of their legally mandated individualized education plan), which in some areas will not be possible due to some neighborhood street conditions.

So what it's the truth.

As well as places like my neighborhood kids can not stand at bus stops. Buses can not get through safely.

It's below freezing til tomorrow mid morning.

Shit happens deal with it or give your kids away since you are too stupid to understand ice is a different vocabulary word than snow. Put that together with a week of freezing temps schools can not open. These are not hard concepts for people with brain cells.

*they pull

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it closed for students? Did the teachers need to have this day? I thought last Monday was a telework day for them.

From the website, throwing kids with disabilities and walkers out as the reason they can't open:

Why We Can’t Open Tomorrow:

Many neighborhood streets are too narrow and too icy for buses to travel safely. Many neighborhood streets are barely passable for a car and school buses are much wider.
Many sidewalks are impassable, forcing walkers to use busy roads instead of safe sidewalks. Approximately 20% of our students walk to school and do not have access to bus transportation.
Many of our students with disabilities require door-to-door transportation (as part of their legally mandated individualized education plan), which in some areas will not be possible due to some neighborhood street conditions.

Wonderful the oull verbage from these threads. Lol

Anonymous wrote:Why is it closed for students? Did the teachers need to have this day? I thought last Monday was a telework day for them.

From the website, throwing kids with disabilities and walkers out as the reason they can't open:

Why We Can’t Open Tomorrow:

Many neighborhood streets are too narrow and too icy for buses to travel safely. Many neighborhood streets are barely passable for a car and school buses are much wider.
Many sidewalks are impassable, forcing walkers to use busy roads instead of safe sidewalks. Approximately 20% of our students walk to school and do not have access to bus transportation.
Many of our students with disabilities require door-to-door transportation (as part of their legally mandated individualized education plan), which in some areas will not be possible due to some neighborhood street conditions.

Anonymous wrote:I love how they're throwing students with disabilities under the bus... "Many of our students with disabilities require door-to-door transportation (as part of their legally mandated individualized education plan), which in some areas will not be possible due to some neighborhood street conditions."

Those buses pick up students right at their curb. Those curbs are NOT ready. People get out there and look around, help if you can in the wind to axe off the BLOCKS of freezing rain.

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Anonymous wrote:They just closed. M. Fers. https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/emergency/

Yeah, their suggestions for how to resolve this aren't happening (or even possible), and they can't wait for the thaw so...

We're not going to thaw out of this for weeks. What do they expect us to do? No school until spring?

Why is it closed for students? Did the teachers need to have this day? I thought last Monday was a telework day for them.