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As a MCPS teacher I have a little in site into this area.

1. Montgomery County hates sending students home early. It is a very huge hassle to arrange buses to arrive to schools early. The decision has to be made by 10 am, buses have to quickly finish dropping off elementary school students and move to high schools etc.

2. High schools start at 7:25. Meaning that even a 2 hour delay is still 9:25. The reality of this is buses would begin picking up students before 8:30. If the roads are unclear at that time, or the it is still icy they close schools. Even if by noon everything has melted.

3. Today they could have easily done a 2 hour delay, but with the potential for snow to start in the afternoon (even though its 3 pm and it has not yet) it was just not worth it.

4. We have four days built in we can miss. In my 7 years in MCPS last year was the first time we ever went beyond 4 days, and last year was clearly abnormal.

by Matt R on Jan 26, 2011 3:17 pm • link • report

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