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Anonymous wrote:It snowed at the END of January. 1 big storm. One really awlful cold spell that lasted 3 days. And 3-4 inches today mid February. Our winter will be over soon. I would not call it a horrible winter. You can not spend tons of extra money for 2 months out of the year. Most of these Northeast and Northwest states experience 4-5 months of winter(double the amount of ours)

You can if you want to equip your kids to compete in the world. Try talking to the teachers about all the backsliding that's happened since Christmas -- or better yet, any real momentum they've been able to build in new learning since then.

And I think you'll find that despite their winters the Northeast and the Northwest states have a lot fewer school closings. So we can adapt to what appear to be changing winter weather conditions here, or continue to fall behind while our molly-coddled kids expect a break every time a few flakes fall.

you do realize that if FCPS do not USE all of there 13.5 snow days they are actually in school longer than other school districts. This does not solve a disruption and I actually agree with you about the breaks since Christmas, but I think you missed the point. As im certainly not coddling my kids, they were out helping neighbors shovel and running around outside yesterday in the single digits, they spent time reading and doing math as well. Seems as you may have posted the same on another thread. It is what it is with 187,000 kids. so far this winter we have had about 2 total weeks of "harsh" winter effects. The county is not going to make any huge changes.

you do realize that 10 of the so-called 13 snow days were made up with creative accounting, right? By that, I mean they created 10 "snow days" or instructional time by suddenly deciding that walking into school and out of school (20 min. total per day) are now "instructional time." Prior to last school year, walking into and out of the school were not considered "instructional time". The state specifically excludes recess and lunch from being counted as "instructional time" -- but they didn't mention "walking into the building" or "walking out of the building" -- but I think we could all see that those activities are not "instructional" any more than lunch or recess and should not be counted. But, the state hasn't told FCPS "no" on it, so they keep screwing our kids out of 10 days of instruction (or whatever number of days are missed due to weather or other calamities). Kids in FCPS simply lose out on instruction when there are more than 3 snow days.

You do realize that, right?

PP here. My mistake. I forgot last Monday was the day we received the absurd text that school would actually open on time. That was before they cancelled after school activities (which did affect my kids) twice during the week for weather events that never happened.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It snowed at the END of January. 1 big storm. One really awlful cold spell that lasted 3 days. And 3-4 inches today mid February. Our winter will be over soon. I would not call it a horrible winter. You can not spend tons of extra money for 2 months out of the year. Most of these Northeast and Northwest states experience 4-5 months of winter(double the amount of ours)

You can if you want to equip your kids to compete in the world. Try talking to the teachers about all the backsliding that's happened since Christmas -- or better yet, any real momentum they've been able to build in new learning since then.

And I think you'll find that despite their winters the Northeast and the Northwest states have a lot fewer school closings. So we can adapt to what appear to be changing winter weather conditions here, or continue to fall behind while our molly-coddled kids expect a break every time a few flakes fall.

you do realize that if FCPS do not USE all of there 13.5 snow days they are actually in school longer than other school districts. This does not solve a disruption and I actually agree with you about the breaks since Christmas, but I think you missed the point. As im certainly not coddling my kids, they were out helping neighbors shovel and running around outside yesterday in the single digits, they spent time reading and doing math as well. Seems as you may have posted the same on another thread. It is what it is with 187,000 kids. so far this winter we have had about 2 total weeks of "harsh" winter effects. The county is not going to make any huge changes.

No one said huge changes were necessary. But the county is going to have to start dealing with the problem. It's not 2 total weeks of harsh effects. It's disrupted schooling for 6 weeks since the first week back to school in January. We're midway through February and kids haven't yet had a full week of school. It's great that we can all send our kids out to help shovel the neighbor's driveway and have them do math and reading at home, but this isn't Little House on the Prairie and most of us are too busy with working to take on home schooling as well. And good luck trying this with high school students.

Wasn't this past week a full week?

Maybe PP's kids were sick last week, and that's why they didn't have a full week of school.

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Anonymous wrote:It snowed at the END of January. 1 big storm. One really awlful cold spell that lasted 3 days. And 3-4 inches today mid February. Our winter will be over soon. I would not call it a horrible winter. You can not spend tons of extra money for 2 months out of the year. Most of these Northeast and Northwest states experience 4-5 months of winter(double the amount of ours)

You can if you want to equip your kids to compete in the world. Try talking to the teachers about all the backsliding that's happened since Christmas -- or better yet, any real momentum they've been able to build in new learning since then.

And I think you'll find that despite their winters the Northeast and the Northwest states have a lot fewer school closings. So we can adapt to what appear to be changing winter weather conditions here, or continue to fall behind while our molly-coddled kids expect a break every time a few flakes fall.

you do realize that if FCPS do not USE all of there 13.5 snow days they are actually in school longer than other school districts. This does not solve a disruption and I actually agree with you about the breaks since Christmas, but I think you missed the point. As im certainly not coddling my kids, they were out helping neighbors shovel and running around outside yesterday in the single digits, they spent time reading and doing math as well. Seems as you may have posted the same on another thread. It is what it is with 187,000 kids. so far this winter we have had about 2 total weeks of "harsh" winter effects. The county is not going to make any huge changes.

No one said huge changes were necessary. But the county is going to have to start dealing with the problem. It's not 2 total weeks of harsh effects. It's disrupted schooling for 6 weeks since the first week back to school in January. We're midway through February and kids haven't yet had a full week of school. It's great that we can all send our kids out to help shovel the neighbor's driveway and have them do math and reading at home, but this isn't Little House on the Prairie and most of us are too busy with working to take on home schooling as well. And good luck trying this with high school students.

Wasn't this past week a full week?

Happens every year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It snowed at the END of January. 1 big storm. One really awlful cold spell that lasted 3 days. And 3-4 inches today mid February. Our winter will be over soon. I would not call it a horrible winter. You can not spend tons of extra money for 2 months out of the year. Most of these Northeast and Northwest states experience 4-5 months of winter(double the amount of ours)

You can if you want to equip your kids to compete in the world. Try talking to the teachers about all the backsliding that's happened since Christmas -- or better yet, any real momentum they've been able to build in new learning since then.

And I think you'll find that despite their winters the Northeast and the Northwest states have a lot fewer school closings. So we can adapt to what appear to be changing winter weather conditions here, or continue to fall behind while our molly-coddled kids expect a break every time a few flakes fall.

you do realize that if FCPS do not USE all of there 13.5 snow days they are actually in school longer than other school districts. This does not solve a disruption and I actually agree with you about the breaks since Christmas, but I think you missed the point. As im certainly not coddling my kids, they were out helping neighbors shovel and running around outside yesterday in the single digits, they spent time reading and doing math as well. Seems as you may have posted the same on another thread. It is what it is with 187,000 kids. so far this winter we have had about 2 total weeks of "harsh" winter effects. The county is not going to make any huge changes.

No one said huge changes were necessary. But the county is going to have to start dealing with the problem. It's not 2 total weeks of harsh effects. It's disrupted schooling for 6 weeks since the first week back to school in January. We're midway through February and kids haven't yet had a full week of school. It's great that we can all send our kids out to help shovel the neighbor's driveway and have them do math and reading at home, but this isn't Little House on the Prairie and most of us are too busy with working to take on home schooling as well. And good luck trying this with high school students.

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Anonymous wrote:It snowed at the END of January. 1 big storm. One really awlful cold spell that lasted 3 days. And 3-4 inches today mid February. Our winter will be over soon. I would not call it a horrible winter. You can not spend tons of extra money for 2 months out of the year. Most of these Northeast and Northwest states experience 4-5 months of winter(double the amount of ours)

You can if you want to equip your kids to compete in the world. Try talking to the teachers about all the backsliding that's happened since Christmas -- or better yet, any real momentum they've been able to build in new learning since then.

And I think you'll find that despite their winters the Northeast and the Northwest states have a lot fewer school closings. So we can adapt to what appear to be changing winter weather conditions here, or continue to fall behind while our molly-coddled kids expect a break every time a few flakes fall.

you do realize that if FCPS do not USE all of there 13.5 snow days they are actually in school longer than other school districts. This does not solve a disruption and I actually agree with you about the breaks since Christmas, but I think you missed the point. As im certainly not coddling my kids, they were out helping neighbors shovel and running around outside yesterday in the single digits, they spent time reading and doing math as well. Seems as you may have posted the same on another thread. It is what it is with 187,000 kids. so far this winter we have had about 2 total weeks of "harsh" winter effects. The county is not going to make any huge changes.

1 big, record breaking storm with all over the place weather surrounding? I call that a crappy winter.

Anonymous wrote:It snowed at the END of January. 1 big storm. One really awlful cold spell that lasted 3 days. And 3-4 inches today mid February. Our winter will be over soon. I would not call it a horrible winter. You can not spend tons of extra money for 2 months out of the year. Most of these Northeast and Northwest states experience 4-5 months of winter(double the amount of ours)

You can if you want to equip your kids to compete in the world. Try talking to the teachers about all the backsliding that's happened since Christmas -- or better yet, any real momentum they've been able to build in new learning since then.

And I think you'll find that despite their winters the Northeast and the Northwest states have a lot fewer school closings. So we can adapt to what appear to be changing winter weather conditions here, or continue to fall behind while our molly-coddled kids expect a break every time a few flakes fall.

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Conditions will be reassessed in the morning and if closure is necessary will be announced by approximately 6:15 am.

Well, this was in the email from FCPS, which leads me to think that the delay may not be the final word.

That's different from "they will close after reassessing".