A message about school closing from the superintendent:
All Loudoun County Public Schools will continue to be closed for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 10-12, 2010. This closure includes school activities, practices, and other uses of school buildings. The decision to close is made because of the severity of the snow we already received. It will probably take until Sunday to dig out our 770 buses and make them trip worthy. We are working as fast as possible to open school parking lots and clear walkways on campuses. In the meantime we appreciate the work being done by VDOT, Loudoun’s towns, and homeowner associations to open up secondary roads and community streets. In order for buses to use these streets they must have more than single lane passage, and intersections must be sufficiently cleared to allow for turning.
As we prepare to re-open schools on Tuesday, February 16, the day after the scheduled President’s Day holiday, we will need additional help from Loudoun’s citizens in clearing sidewalks for the more than 20,000 students who walk to and from school each day. We also are counting on community assistance to clear bus stops for students to wait to board buses.
Decisions about opening schools are always made with student safety first and foremost, both for walkers and bus riders. It is likely that some neighborhoods will open up before others, but our ability to staff schools and get students safely to their schools involves more than just a neighborhood area.
We appreciate all of the support Loudoun’s parents and citizens will give to helping us get back to school. Please remember to be safe, particularly as young people and others start to walk in streets because sidewalks are not uncovered. Having pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the roads at the same time creates a very dangerous situation.
Thank you again for your understanding and assistance as we deal with the worst snow storm in many years.
Dr Hatrick
Full Version: Schools closed until Tuesday the 16th
Wow!
This is courtesy of the Loudoun County Public Schools website.
QUOTE (oaksandmaples @ Feb 8 2010, 02:00 PM) 
A message about school closing from the superintendent:
All Loudoun County Public Schools will continue to be closed for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 10-12, 2010. This closure includes school activities, practices, and other uses of school buildings. The decision to close is made because of the severity of the snow we already received. It will probably take until Sunday to dig out our 770 buses and make them trip worthy. We are working as fast as possible to open school parking lots and clear walkways on campuses. In the meantime we appreciate the work being done by VDOT, Loudoun's towns, and homeowner associations to open up secondary roads and community streets. In order for buses to use these streets they must have more than single lane passage, and intersections must be sufficiently cleared to allow for turning.
As we prepare to re-open schools on Tuesday, February 16, the day after the scheduled President's Day holiday, we will need additional help from Loudoun's citizens in clearing sidewalks for the more than 20,000 students who walk to and from school each day. We also are counting on community assistance to clear bus stops for students to wait to board buses.
Decisions about opening schools are always made with student safety first and foremost, both for walkers and bus riders. It is likely that some neighborhoods will open up before others, but our ability to staff schools and get students safely to their schools involves more than just a neighborhood area.
We appreciate all of the support Loudoun's parents and citizens will give to helping us get back to school. Please remember to be safe, particularly as young people and others start to walk in streets because sidewalks are not uncovered. Having pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the roads at the same time creates a very dangerous situation.
Thank you again for your understanding and assistance as we deal with the worst snow storm in many years.
Dr Hatrick
All Loudoun County Public Schools will continue to be closed for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 10-12, 2010. This closure includes school activities, practices, and other uses of school buildings. The decision to close is made because of the severity of the snow we already received. It will probably take until Sunday to dig out our 770 buses and make them trip worthy. We are working as fast as possible to open school parking lots and clear walkways on campuses. In the meantime we appreciate the work being done by VDOT, Loudoun's towns, and homeowner associations to open up secondary roads and community streets. In order for buses to use these streets they must have more than single lane passage, and intersections must be sufficiently cleared to allow for turning.
As we prepare to re-open schools on Tuesday, February 16, the day after the scheduled President's Day holiday, we will need additional help from Loudoun's citizens in clearing sidewalks for the more than 20,000 students who walk to and from school each day. We also are counting on community assistance to clear bus stops for students to wait to board buses.
Decisions about opening schools are always made with student safety first and foremost, both for walkers and bus riders. It is likely that some neighborhoods will open up before others, but our ability to staff schools and get students safely to their schools involves more than just a neighborhood area.
We appreciate all of the support Loudoun's parents and citizens will give to helping us get back to school. Please remember to be safe, particularly as young people and others start to walk in streets because sidewalks are not uncovered. Having pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the roads at the same time creates a very dangerous situation.
Thank you again for your understanding and assistance as we deal with the worst snow storm in many years.
Dr Hatrick
Now I know what that loud, anguished, wailing sound was.
QUOTE (Richmond @ Feb 8 2010, 02:12 PM)
Now I know what that loud, anguished, wailing sound was.
From the parents or from the children???
Honestly, I think it was handled and explained very well. Didn't even think of all the buses that they need to dig out.
Wow, that's a lot of work to do! Long way to go......
QUOTE (MrsDepp @ Feb 8 2010, 02:28 PM)
Honestly, I think it was handled and explained very well. Didn't even think of all the buses that they need to dig out.
Didn't even think of that. They have started plowing at Briar Woods. Can't imagine the what next storm will do to their efforts. But, I agree with the closing, when you drive around neighborhoods and see several feet of snow on street corners....doesn't matter how many sidewalks are cleared if they don't clear corners for bus stops and walkers. Not complaining just an observation.
Legacy is being plowed today...or, at least, started on.
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