Anonymous wrote:They made a stupid call to delay 2 days when it wasn’t warranted. At least they fixed it and are getting kids back normally tomorrow. But yes the “joy” part of the message was moronic/tonedeaf.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really struggling to understand how anyone could view this as a bad thing. What plans could you have possibly made in the last day that you can't easily adjust? This is a far easier change than dealing with a delay or closure.

It's the absurdity of the entire week. If you don't understand that's okay. We are used to having our needs dismissed.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with this decision is that in the future people may wonder if they will reverse course again. I have never seen them change a delay to an open on time until today. Will they in the future change an already announced closure to a delay or open on time?

This is my biggest worry. Whether the decision was right or wrong, at least we could rely on it. Things might get upgraded (delay to closure) but never downgraded. If suddenly we have to plan for additional contingencies and them changing their minds after they've already made an announcement, that way lies chaos.

I am trying to be patient with this new superintendent and give him the benefit of the doubt. There are things he has done that I have liked. But this was an "underprepared small district superintendent" move. Once they made the decision, they needed to stick to it. MCPS is not Stafford County. Daily operations are like parallel parking the Titanic. There were a lot of cascading effects of this reversal that are really problematic. As one example, swaths of interpreters for IEP meetings got canceled because supervisors rightly relied on these decisions never being reversed once they're made and there's a fee for cancellations within 24 hours. Now they can't be re-engaged on such short notice so the time is wasted and the meeting has to be rebooked anyway, for example. Cutesy messages about "confusion" and "joy" show an ignorance of the domino effect this caused and were tone deaf.

What you described doesn't seem to be a problem. If they were going to cancel due to a closure, cancelling due to losing the interpreter isn't any *worse.*

The parents already had to take off work during that time. If the meeting could go forward, great. If not, then again it's no worse than cancelling due to weather.

DP you are forgetting that parents' needs don't matter. It's practically neglect in MCPS's mind to try to hold down a job while kids are in school. School is not child care so you are supposed to be sitting at home staring at the wall in case they call.

Anonymous wrote:I'm really struggling to understand how anyone could view this as a bad thing. What plans could you have possibly made in the last day that you can't easily adjust? This is a far easier change than dealing with a delay or closure.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with this decision is that in the future people may wonder if they will reverse course again. I have never seen them change a delay to an open on time until today. Will they in the future change an already announced closure to a delay or open on time?

This is my biggest worry. Whether the decision was right or wrong, at least we could rely on it. Things might get upgraded (delay to closure) but never downgraded. If suddenly we have to plan for additional contingencies and them changing their minds after they've already made an announcement, that way lies chaos.

I am trying to be patient with this new superintendent and give him the benefit of the doubt. There are things he has done that I have liked. But this was an "underprepared small district superintendent" move. Once they made the decision, they needed to stick to it. MCPS is not Stafford County. Daily operations are like parallel parking the Titanic. There were a lot of cascading effects of this reversal that are really problematic. As one example, swaths of interpreters for IEP meetings got canceled because supervisors rightly relied on these decisions never being reversed once they're made and there's a fee for cancellations within 24 hours. Now they can't be re-engaged on such short notice so the time is wasted and the meeting has to be rebooked anyway, for example. Cutesy messages about "confusion" and "joy" show an ignorance of the domino effect this caused and were tone deaf.

What you described doesn't seem to be a problem. If they were going to cancel due to a closure, cancelling due to losing the interpreter isn't any *worse.*

The parents already had to take off work during that time. If the meeting could go forward, great. If not, then again it's no worse than cancelling due to weather.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with this decision is that in the future people may wonder if they will reverse course again. I have never seen them change a delay to an open on time until today. Will they in the future change an already announced closure to a delay or open on time?

This is my biggest worry. Whether the decision was right or wrong, at least we could rely on it. Things might get upgraded (delay to closure) but never downgraded. If suddenly we have to plan for additional contingencies and them changing their minds after they've already made an announcement, that way lies chaos.

I am trying to be patient with this new superintendent and give him the benefit of the doubt. There are things he has done that I have liked. But this was an "underprepared small district superintendent" move. Once they made the decision, they needed to stick to it. MCPS is not Stafford County. Daily operations are like parallel parking the Titanic. There were a lot of cascading effects of this reversal that are really problematic. As one example, swaths of interpreters for IEP meetings got canceled because supervisors rightly relied on these decisions never being reversed once they're made and there's a fee for cancellations within 24 hours. Now they can't be re-engaged on such short notice so the time is wasted and the meeting has to be rebooked anyway, for example. Cutesy messages about "confusion" and "joy" show an ignorance of the domino effect this caused and were tone deaf.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with this decision is that in the future people may wonder if they will reverse course again. I have never seen them change a delay to an open on time until today. Will they in the future change an already announced closure to a delay or open on time?

They already regularly do last-minute changes from open/delayed to closed. If people can be expected to do those at the last minute, I don't see why they can't be expected to handle delayed-to-open with nearly a full day's notice.

Anonymous wrote:The problem with this decision is that in the future people may wonder if they will reverse course again. I have never seen them change a delay to an open on time until today. Will they in the future change an already announced closure to a delay or open on time?

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Anonymous wrote:My teen is one of the career readiness programs and these delays cause him to miss one of his calculus class every time. It would have been difficult because of tests this week.

This makes no sense as you take one calculus class at time.

What if kid is retaking one of the classes? Some take more than one class

Two calc classes make no sense. And, if you have to retake a class you shouldn't be moving on to Calc.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with this decision is that in the future people may wonder if they will reverse course again. I have never seen them change a delay to an open on time until today. Will they in the future change an already announced closure to a delay or open on time?

This is my biggest worry. Whether the decision was right or wrong, at least we could rely on it. Things might get upgraded (delay to closure) but never downgraded. If suddenly we have to plan for additional contingencies and them changing their minds after they've already made an announcement, that way lies chaos.

I am trying to be patient with this new superintendent and give him the benefit of the doubt. There are things he has done that I have liked. But this was an "underprepared small district superintendent" move. Once they made the decision, they needed to stick to it. MCPS is not Stafford County. Daily operations are like parallel parking the Titanic. There were a lot of cascading effects of this reversal that are really problematic. As one example, swaths of interpreters for IEP meetings got canceled because supervisors rightly relied on these decisions never being reversed once they're made and there's a fee for cancellations within 24 hours. Now they can't be re-engaged on such short notice so the time is wasted and the meeting has to be rebooked anyway, for example. Cutesy messages about "confusion" and "joy" show an ignorance of the domino effect this caused and were tone deaf.

Anonymous wrote:The problem with this decision is that in the future people may wonder if they will reverse course again. I have never seen them change a delay to an open on time until today. Will they in the future change an already announced closure to a delay or open on time?