Snowfall around the county was apparently quite variable. The dipsticks making the decisions obviously all live in Hagerstown, which only got about half the snow we did in the southern portion of the County. The local TV station seems to have made a big deal of how little snow fell in the area - typical of their CITY-CENTRIC and inaccurate reporting.

WCPS appears to be the only local school system that's opening ON TIME, without any delays to allow time for a little thawing to make for safer travelling. Apparently officals forgot that WCPS has schools in areas that weren't as relatively unaffected by the snowstorm as Hagerstown was.

Heaven forbid that any accidents should occur and any children be injured as a result of these city-biased idiot officials' bad judgment, but if they do this is one parent who's going to be furious!

Washington Co locals tend to raise their kids alittle tougher than the Fredneck Co pussies...
Deal with it!

I did. My kid's staying home and the local school (and you Greedy) can kiss my lilly white a**!

PASS...Didn't forget to set the VChip mother hen?

I've always favored a HS feeder approach myself (ex. all schools that feed into Boonsboro are closed), rather than the all or nothing county approach for this very reason. The streets here in town are just fine and didn't warrant a delay, but I know some of the outlying roads were probably still a mess this morning. Chalk it up to yet another thing WCPS can't do correctly.

So all this kids in and near the city should miss school because the county can't get all of it's road spotless? Give me a break. They had 24+ hours to make the roads drivable. I didn't have any reason to get too far from the city yesterday to today, how bad were the road out there?

Greedy Report (Southern Washington County) All back roads where clear and dry yesterday 2/12!

Greedy don't know squat.

I'm not talking about cancelling school, just a 2-hr delay like all of the other area school districts. It doesn't count as a missed day and it doesn't endanger the kids - a win-win proposition.

"All the kids in and near the city" should be considered separately fom the rest of the county, like they do with D.C., IMO. The feeder school idea makes sense, but requires coordination with people spaced around the county reporting on conditions, which is obviously beyond this poor county's capabilities.

I thought the BOE was considering a zone closing. Like Hancock Zone, Cascade Zone, Southern WashCo Zone. I know they talked about it at one time, I guess they never went forward with it.

The public school system does have zones for closings.

Main Delays Page for BOE

Now if only they would use them when appropriate!

Okay so it was just my opinion, but I think they screwed up this time, and I don't like it when my child is the one endangered by their screw-ups. A two-hour delay would've made sense, IMO.