Anonymous
12/01/2025 23:00
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They need to send out a text with that clarification. Plenty of middle and high schoolers are going to go to bed with their alarms set 2 hours later.
No middle or high schooler is going to bed before 9 pm.
My middle schooler goes to sleep at 8:00pm. I recognize this is unusual, but my kid needs a lot of sleep!
I have a 15 year old who goes to sleep at 9pm. She has an auto-immune disorder. I wish she were a typical teenage night owl without any sort of disease.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 22:58
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They need to send out a text with that clarification. Plenty of middle and high schoolers are going to go to bed with their alarms set 2 hours later.
No middle or high schooler is going to bed before 9 pm.
My middle schooler goes to sleep at 8:00pm. I recognize this is unusual, but my kid needs a lot of sleep!
Lucky you lol
Anonymous
12/01/2025 22:26
Subject: Re:2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Cold rain. Do you really want your kids to be in school in late June?
They’d have to cancel or delay a lot of days to have to extend the SY.
I have a long memory. It has happened.
Yeah, my memory goes back through the 33 years I’ve been with FCPS, but I don’t recall extending the school year since we started building in and counting the extra hours. It was back when we had something like 3 extra days beyond the 180 and would use more than those 3.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 22:21
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wish they would consider us middle school employees that have to wake up at 4-5am. I would have been in bed an hour ago but got thrown off with the fake-out delay.
You don't remember waking up to find out if they were going to have school? This goes on in most areas. Seldom was the decision made the night before.
It was not called until the morning in FCPS, too. Even as recently as ten years ago. I’m not sure why people expect a call the evening before especially when it’s a mix of precipitation. I do think it’s ridiculous that they post a delay and then took it back without acknowledging the error!
Anonymous
12/01/2025 22:08
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Wish they would consider us middle school employees that have to wake up at 4-5am. I would have been in bed an hour ago but got thrown off with the fake-out delay.
You don't remember waking up to find out if they were going to have school? This goes on in most areas. Seldom was the decision made the night before.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 22:02
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Wish they would consider us middle school employees that have to wake up at 4-5am. I would have been in bed an hour ago but got thrown off with the fake-out delay.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 22:02
Subject: Re:2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Cold rain. Do you really want your kids to be in school in late June?
They’d have to cancel or delay a lot of days to have to extend the SY.
I have a long memory. It has happened.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 22:02
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t want to get up at 6 am to get my kid off to middle school only to find out there is a delay. Ughhhhh. Wish we knew tonite.
So true! I don't want to set an unnecessary alarm but I also don't want to stay up until 11 constantly checking my emails for an update. So annoying
Anonymous
12/01/2025 22:00
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
I don’t want to get up at 6 am to get my kid off to middle school only to find out there is a delay. Ughhhhh. Wish we knew tonite.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 21:58
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Nothing for PWC, APS, or ACPS yet that I can tell. Montgomery Co. (MD) has a very similar message about monitoring the weather.
APS and ACPS are getting nothing but rain.
It is absurd this is even a debate for Fairfax. Lamest school district ever.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 21:57
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They need to send out a text with that clarification. Plenty of middle and high schoolers are going to go to bed with their alarms set 2 hours later.
No middle or high schooler is going to bed before 9 pm.
My middle schooler goes to sleep at 8:00pm. I recognize this is unusual, but my kid needs a lot of sleep!
Anonymous
12/01/2025 21:57
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Nothing for PWC, APS, or ACPS yet that I can tell. Montgomery Co. (MD) has a very similar message about monitoring the weather.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 21:57
Subject: Re:2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Cold rain. Do you really want your kids to be in school in late June?
They’d have to cancel or delay a lot of days to have to extend the SY.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 21:57
Subject: 2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
They dont go to school any later when we have snow days since FCPS started counting all kinds of non instructional time as instructional.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 21:56
Subject: Re:2 Hour Delays Tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Cold rain. Do you really want your kids to be in school in late June?
CWG: WINTRY mix update: Temperatures are running a degree or two colder than expected this evening, which may allow for the wintry mix to extend a little farther south and east than previously forecast as it arrives between 5 and 7 a.m. Tuesday
2-hour delay doesn't mean they will be in school in late June.
Agreed. They need at least 4 days or a week of missed school because of snow for extended school year.