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Anonymous wrote:Im confused by all the childcare complaints. Aren’t all childcare facilities closed when MCPS has a weather day? Why would before and after care and MCPS be different?

Of course you are confused..you don't use child care and don't know how it works. Don't worry your pretty little head about it

No confusion it’s about safety. Maybe start caring about others.

Wow, you are even more confused than I thought

I wonder how many of the people crowing about safety actually know anyone who works these jobs? I'm guessing they don't.

I worked at the, in college and a few years after. Many of our streets are not plowed and the ice is bad. Keep being selfish. What do you do that’s so important that you don’t feel the need to have back up child care or ask a friend.

So the answer to my question is no. You don't know any. You've decided what's safe for people you don't know out of your very confident ignorance.

I don't need childcare tomorrow. I wouldn't use it if it were offered, but I know people who would because they work jobs that aren't cancelled for snow and they don't make enough to keep backup childcare on standby. I also know several people who work at our local school's KAH and they could get their safely and would like to earn a paycheck for tomorrow. But please tell me how you care about them and I don't.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your guess for Friday?

70% chance closed,
30% delayed opening.

Wouldn’t be surprised either way.

Another storm is headed here Friday.

Ditch the Apple weather app. There never was a storm Friday, and the storm that is potentially hitting on Saturday has had its odds of a hit lowered.

They should probably close on Friday as well. I’m guessing a lot of staff and teachers will take the day off. I’m a teacher and I have cabin fever but my car is completely stuck in snow and ice. I tried to get it out but no dice. I will keep working on it but I may just have to take a day off on Friday which kinda sucks. I don’t need so many days at home. And I don’t have kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Right call to be closed, but terrible call to force childcare to be closed across the entire county for both days.

It would be inequitable to allow some to open while others are closed so it is better to have all closed, even if conditions at some schools would allow opening.

Oh good lord. This kind of perspective is so tiresome.

It's also NOT WHAT EQUITY IS

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Anonymous wrote:Im confused by all the childcare complaints. Aren’t all childcare facilities closed when MCPS has a weather day? Why would before and after care and MCPS be different?

Of course you are confused..you don't use child care and don't know how it works. Don't worry your pretty little head about it

No confusion it’s about safety. Maybe start caring about others.

Wow, you are even more confused than I thought

I wonder how many of the people crowing about safety actually know anyone who works these jobs? I'm guessing they don't.

I worked at the, in college and a few years after. Many of our streets are not plowed and the ice is bad. Keep being selfish. What do you do that’s so important that you don’t feel the need to have back up child care or ask a friend.

I've asked people about their alleged "back up child care" and nobody has shared any actual options that are safer than opening a licensed center that knows your kid in a building that with a plowed parking lot

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your guess for Friday?

70% chance closed,
30% delayed opening.

Wouldn’t be surprised either way.

Another storm is headed here Friday.

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Anonymous wrote:How many plows does MCPS have? 4? Not sure why the lots and sidewalks couldn't be salted in advance and then plowed out late Monday and Tuesday. The school down the road had 2 tractors plowing sidewalks and some of the parking lot. Itbwas definitely useable by 2pm when i walked by. The county needs.to make schools the priority.

The issue isn’t mcps. Many side streets are not plowed. The snow turned to ice making it impossible to walk and cars and busses cannot get through. Some people cannot get out as the doors are frozen shut. Ours froze shut.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your guess for Friday?

70% chance closed,
30% delayed opening.

Wouldn’t be surprised either way.

What’s your guess for Friday?

Anonymous wrote:How many plows does MCPS have? 4? Not sure why the lots and sidewalks couldn't be salted in advance and then plowed out late Monday and Tuesday. The school down the road had 2 tractors plowing sidewalks and some of the parking lot. Itbwas definitely useable by 2pm when i walked by. The county needs.to make schools the priority.

The issue isn’t mcps. Many side streets are not plowed. The snow turned to ice making it impossible to walk and cars and busses cannot get through. Some people cannot get out as the doors are frozen shut. Ours froze shut.

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Anonymous wrote:Im confused by all the childcare complaints. Aren’t all childcare facilities closed when MCPS has a weather day? Why would before and after care and MCPS be different?

Of course you are confused..you don't use child care and don't know how it works. Don't worry your pretty little head about it

No confusion it’s about safety. Maybe start caring about others.

Wow, you are even more confused than I thought

I wonder how many of the people crowing about safety actually know anyone who works these jobs? I'm guessing they don't.

I worked at the, in college and a few years after. Many of our streets are not plowed and the ice is bad. Keep being selfish. What do you do that’s so important that you don’t feel the need to have back up child care or ask a friend.

How many plows does MCPS have? 4? Not sure why the lots and sidewalks couldn't be salted in advance and then plowed out late Monday and Tuesday. The school down the road had 2 tractors plowing sidewalks and some of the parking lot. Itbwas definitely useable by 2pm when i walked by. The county needs.to make schools the priority.

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Anonymous wrote:Im confused by all the childcare complaints. Aren’t all childcare facilities closed when MCPS has a weather day? Why would before and after care and MCPS be different?

Of course you are confused..you don't use child care and don't know how it works. Don't worry your pretty little head about it

No confusion it’s about safety. Maybe start caring about others.

Wow, you are even more confused than I thought

I wonder how many of the people crowing about safety actually know anyone who works these jobs? I'm guessing they don't.

Are you saying they should be required to go to work when it’s not safe to open schools? Isn’t that unsafe for them?

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Anonymous wrote:Im confused by all the childcare complaints. Aren’t all childcare facilities closed when MCPS has a weather day? Why would before and after care and MCPS be different?

Of course you are confused..you don't use child care and don't know how it works. Don't worry your pretty little head about it

No confusion it’s about safety. Maybe start caring about others.

Wow, you are even more confused than I thought

I wonder how many of the people crowing about safety actually know anyone who works these jobs? I'm guessing they don't.

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Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.

Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care

None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.

So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care

MCPS cares, but less about your work than about the childcare workers who need to commute. I've never had to use MCPS childcare, so I'm just guessing here. Most people are still digging out their driveways, so I think this debate is moot.

I don't like how every time something doesn't go your way, or every time you think there's blood in the water, you start critizing MCPS, and others start critizing "Bethesda". The reflexive "bash the rich" or "bash the establishment" is puerile.

MCPS does not give one single f&ck about child care workers. They don't know them, haven't talked to them. They just trot out the phrase "child care workers" to justify the decisions that give them more time off but notably take away income from these workers.

You don’t care about those workers either. You just want them on the job for yourself.

We pay hundreds of dollars for them to provide backup care for situations like this one, knowing that MCPS likes to keep schools closed long past when the rest of the economy has opened. If you think people are going to pay for backup care that isn't usable, and that these workers are going to be happy being unemployed, feel free to send donations their way.

Are you still pretending to care about these workers?

Are you making up their wages during this unnecessary forced closure?

Why don’t you hire one and pay for uber back and forth.

DP your plan is no safer for the workers and still leaves most families without childcare

If it’s unsafe for them to go to work, why complain the centers are closed?