While other schools systems in the DC area, including Fairfax County schools, are closed on Friday for the Presidential Inauguration, Loudoun county schools are open. Â While students in Fairfax and other districts will be able to attend the Inauguration, Loudoun students will not have a holiday.
According to one Loudoun School board member the school system forgot to include Inauguration Day as a holiday on their school calendar. Seeing that oversight, in December School Board member Jill Turgeon (R-Blue Ridge district), made a motion to make Inauguration Day a school holiday so students could attend the Inauguration or at least watch it on television. Only one school board member, Eric DeKenipp (R-Catoctin), supported the motion.  Apparently Democrats on the Loudoun School Board  did not want Loudoun county students to have any part in the Inauguration of President Trump.
Now Loudoun parents are confused about what their students can and cannot do on Friday. Â Will students be excused from school if they attend the Inauguration and/or the parade? Â Are children excused if they stay home to watch the Inauguration on television?
Perhaps someone from LCPS will tell us what will be an excused absence on Friday. Perhaps there are no excused absences for the Inauguration. Parents and students don’t know. Many are uncertain whether or not Loudoun schools will be in session. Perhaps a Robo call to inform parents would be a good idea.
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Brett Meteyer teaches fourth graders at Explorer Elementary School in Williamston, Mich., in a small school district near the capital of Lansing.Brett Meteyer emailed the parents of his students to let them know that while he will allow the viewing of Trump’s inauguration ceremony, Trump’s speech will not be screened because Meteyer has trepidation about what President Trump might say.
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Inauguration Day in 2013 coincided with the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The fairest test is whether or not Loudoun County schools closed for Inauguration Day in 2009.
They did. They closed so that students could participate in the “historic” election of Obama.
Yes, they are hypocrites.
Why do I suspect if Hillary had won the election the county would close school AND be running buses to DC?
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You say: “. . . other school systems in the DC area . . . are closed on Friday for the inauguration.” Not exactly.
The only schools closed are:
— DC
— Alexandria
— Fairfax County
— Prince George’s County
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/graphics/closings_011905.html
All closed for obvious reasons . . . they are part of the DC metro area and may be affected by traffic.
Why should Loudon County close schools for the inauguration? DC is miles and miles away.
Prince William, Montgomery, Fauquier, Anne Arundel . . . all open.
Why don’t you go piss and moan about something important . . . like the 340,000 Virginians who will be stripped of their health insurance?
Loudoun closed schools for Obama’s Inauguration, twice.
Loudoun borders Fairfax and many people in the county work in DC. Families drive to DC all the time for various events. If the kids were off school many families would go to into town to watch the Inauguration and/or the parade.
I doubt it.
Trump is now offering tickets to inauguration events FREE.
Scalpers are reporting having paid up to $700 each for tickets and now can’t sell them for $200 a pair.
DC reports applications for 200 bus parking permits for the inauguration . . . and 1,200 similar applications for the Women’s March the day after.
Face it . . . your boy is a fraud and a bully with ADHD and the emotional and intellectual maturity of a 6th-grader — and the public recognizes it.
Did you just mock a disability?
No, I described Donald Trump.
He has ADHD.
I have prostate cancer.
Not mocking, just stating facts.
Get over it, snowflake.
WOW, mocking those with ADHD, and name calling. You sound like a bigot.
Of course he is, he’s a liberal.
Are you a physician who has done a full workup on Trump? If not, we’ll ignore your medical opinions.
He’s such a hater. Once you let Libertarians in, democrat party flocks to where standards have been lowered.
The inaugural bus numbers are up to 400.
The Women’s March bus numbers are up to 1,800.
The inaugural buses aren’t for the attendees. They are for hauling out any protesters who become too much of a pain.
You are wrong! I work for Montgomery County Public Schools and they are closed for Trump’s Inauguration!!!
Prince William is closed. Get your facts straight!
I’m be been moaning about the cost of my insurance. $2900.00 per month with a $3500.00 deductible for two young children and one adult. Who can afford that? So cancelling