Fayette County Schools

[Pelosigalore]

They are out of school for the 8th day in a row for snow. What in the world is going on with plowing?

There are school systems with much more tricky roads and less equipment already back to school in the area.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

When I was a kid we had to wear shorts and a shirt during the winter and they lined up snow blowers to make sure we all got covered on the way to and from school.

Kids are soft these days

 

[warrior_SW]

It’s a shit show. They blame the city, the city blames them. I’m inclined to believe it’s FCPS because Liggins and Tyler Murphy were more concerned with flirting with each other and renaming schools than actually running a school system, but IDGAF. Someone f’ng fix it

 

[H-D cat]

I don't think the county schools have any of their own plows do they? There appears to be a disconnect between the school system and the city. I'd love to get a real take on this from someone in the know, not the usual group of folks who hate on FCPS and the City of Lexington every time they come up. I live in the Glendover area, have two kids bouncing off the walls, but some of the roads are still unequivocally a disaster around here so I understand why school is still out. What gives on these road conditions?

 

[cricket3]

Fayette Counties Snow Plow plan is plow the major roads and arteries, get secondary streets if it’s really bad, and let the neighborhood streets melt on their own.

This is the first time I know of we’ve gotten a significant snowfall, plus ice, that there wasn’t warm enough weather that came behind and cleared the roads naturally.

 

[H-D cat]

Fayette Counties Snow Plow plan is plow the major roads and arteries, get secondary streets if it’s really bad, and let the neighborhood streets melt on their own.

This is the first time I know of we’ve gotten a significant snowfall, plus ice, that there wasn’t warm enough weather that came behind and cleared the roads naturally.

Thanks. It seems this situation would call for a contingency plan, right? I know the city snow website says unranked roads will be treated in the event of a 5"+ snow event. It almost seems like they waited too long and let the secondary streets get too far gone for the plows to even work. They're just skidding across the top of the ice where they are trying.

 

[Pelosigalore]

I get that it would take a few days to get to the side streets but it’s been 10 days since the storm.

 

[vhcat70]

No different than being unprepared for fires in LA.

If they can't do it themselves, they should have contractors lined up to do it like stores & businesses do.

Liberalism at work. Yeh public schools over vouchers. You got what you voted for. Collective bunch of DA's.

 

[VibratingDryer]

OP, have you met my friend @LowerLevelSeatA?

 

[Pelosigalore]

OP, have you met my friend @LowerLevelSeatA?

No, does he complain a lot too?😆

 

[H-D cat]

Here comes the typical shitshow of a thread. Just once it would be cool to have a real discussion with real information.

 

[Pelosigalore]

I just heard that they are going back tomorrow, very efficient.

 

[JumperJack]

Why can’t kids in an urban area just walk to their local schools?

 

[Pelosigalore]

Why can’t kids in an urban area just walk to their local schools?

Because they might catch a cold.

 

[Joerules19]

No different than being unprepared for fires in LA.

If they can't do it themselves, they should have contractors lined up to do it like stores & businesses do.

Liberalism at work. Yeh public schools over vouchers. You got what you voted for. Collective bunch of DA's.

And then people would complain about their high taxes

 

[Pelosigalore]

And then people would complain about their high taxes

Taxes are already high, just use the money for private contractors instead of guys that don’t really want to do the work.

 

[80 Proof]

Fayette Counties Snow Plow plan is plow the major roads and arteries, get secondary streets if it’s really bad, and let the neighborhood streets melt on their own.

This is the first time I know of we’ve gotten a significant snowfall, plus ice, that there wasn’t warm enough weather that came behind and cleared the roads naturally.

FCPS hasn't shared their school bus route with LFUCG in a few years. Apparently they don't have an emergency snow plan anymore like they used to.

I think the superintendent coming from Texas and having no clue how to deal with snow is a big part of the problem.

 

[rudd1]

-there is a petition on change.org to dissuade the board from renewing Liggins's contract ... I'm not endorsing but it's a way for Fayette County folk to try to affect change in their school system.

 

[LowerLevelSeatA]

Story last year in January. Schools closed because school system did not respond to city’s repeated requests:

https://amp.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article284555965.html

Sounds like same issues this year:

MSN

School board needs overhaul if you want FCPS to have accountability. Keep voting same people in, keep getting same results.

 

[CondorCat]

Don't some school districts have "remote learning" now on snow days?

 

[LowerLevelSeatA]

Don't some school districts have "remote learning" now on snow days?

Yeah, they give them about an hour of busy work to do on their own and teacher is available during a two hour window online if they have questions. Not much learning going on those days.

 

[WayneDougan]

This is flat out a collapse of an institution. Liggins shouldn't step foot in his office again.

 

[Blue Bleeding Marine]

When asked for a comment, Fayette Co Schools spokesperson Dia Davidson responded with " Have a groovy day"

 

[cole854]

I get that it would take a few days to get to the side streets but it’s been 10 days since the storm.

They hit many of the side streets and even neighborhoods the first few days, but then just stopped. They were also going out to hit certain roads if someone called and complained about a street(s) in some neighborhoods, but you had to call.....laughable.

 

[Pelosigalore]

They hit many of the side streets and even neighborhoods the first few days, but then just stopped. They were also going out to hit certain roads if someone called and complained about a street(s) in some neighborhoods, but you had to call.....laughable.

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I didn’t understand why they went crazy working on the roads for 2-3 days and then just quit before they were finished. There’s no reason why they couldn’t go back out and clean up the areas that weren’t completed originally. It’s been so cold that there’s not much else those road crews can do anyway.
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[vhcat70]

Yeah
I didn’t understand why they went crazy working on the roads for 2-3 days and then just quit before they were finished. There’s no reason why they couldn’t go back out and clean up the areas that weren’t completed originally. It’s been so cold that there’s not much else those road crews can do anyway.
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Spending more on road clearance would take money from DEI programs - unacceptable.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

Thanks. It seems this situation would call for a contingency plan, right? I know the city snow website says unranked roads will be treated in the event of a 5"+ snow event. It almost seems like they waited too long and let the secondary streets get too far gone for the plows to even work. They're just skidding across the top of the ice where they are trying.

This is exactly what happened. The numbskull plan of letting stuff melt on its own isnt really a plan at all. Its a cost savings measure because these cities cant manage their costs, and waste tons of money on stupidity. The results are side roads are still frozen over in many/most places.

Fyi its the same in Louisville.

 

[FirewithFire]

This kind of thing isn't exclusive to Lexington. The whole state suffers from poor road maintenance and snow clearance. It's been this way for at least fifteen years around here. One day they just stopped doing their jobs properly citing costs, not enough workers, and broken down equipment.

I'm not going to comment on the school thing as it will for sure piss people off and cause a thread slide. I can say that the failure to have some kind of plan B where parents bring their kids to a central drop off point on the main roads is a pretty big oversight, but if anything were to go wrong guess who will be the first to sue.

 

[cole854]

This kind of thing isn't exclusive to Lexington. The whole state suffers from poor road maintenance and snow clearance. It's been this way for at least fifteen years around here. One day they just stopped doing their jobs properly citing costs, not enough workers, and broken down equipment.

I'm not going to comment on the school thing as it will for sure piss people off and cause a thread slide. I can say that the failure to have some kind of plan B where parents bring their kids to a central drop off point on the main roads is a pretty big oversight, but if anything were to go wrong guess who will be the first to sue.

You are spot on with this, however, this issue is hand in hand w/ FCPS and their lack of insight. I know Jessamine and Scott combined a few stops to areas that were "better" but at least they had a plan, contrary to FCPS.

 

[WayneDougan]

Here's what is dumb. Let's say the entire city is clear except for one small section. Under the rules of the district they will cancel school for everybody.

 

[HeismaNole]

-there is a petition on change.org to dissuade the board from renewing Liggins's contract ... I'm not endorsing but it's a way for Fayette County folk to try to affect change in their school system.

I 100% endorse that POS being let go.

 

[Nightwish84]

I can say that the failure to have some kind of plan B where parents bring their kids to a central drop off point on the main roads is a pretty big oversight, but if anything were to go wrong guess who will be the first to sue.

I think the idea of potentially having hundreds, if not thousands, of kids dropped off on a main road in the morning darkness in freezing temps would quickly be shot down. I'm sure it sounded better in your head but logistically and for safety's sake, that's a disaster.

 

[cole854]

I think the idea of potentially having hundreds, if not thousands, of kids dropped off on a main road in the morning darkness in freezing temps would quickly be shot down.

No one ever said that idea was discussed. I will even give FCPS the benefit of the doubt here and state that even their shallow mindset would not have THOUSANDS of kids at one location.

 

[Pelosigalore]

The biggest disaster is that the kids are not in school because of incompetence.

 

[LowerLevelSeatA]

I think the idea of potentially having hundreds, if not thousands, of kids dropped off on a main road in the morning darkness in freezing temps would quickly be shot down. I'm sure it sounded better in your head but logistically and for safety's sake, that's a disaster.

Where do you get hundreds or thousands (you forgot to add or millions, that would have really driven home your point) kids being left on “main roads” they aren’t normally left on? You post a lot of made up stuff. A lot of the bus routes are on streets that were cleared. There are some outlying cases where buses usually go to the actual house to pick a kid up and some of these cases, the bus couldn’t go down because it was not a “main” neighborhood street that had been cleared. Instead of opening school for the majority of kids whose bus routes were cleared, and coming up with a plan for those others who weren’t cleared, FCPS did what they always do…no pre planning, no quick thinking/creative thinking, instead just say school closed for everyone. Do your kids ride the bus?

 

[Catman100]

How hard is it for the school and the city to get together to make sure if the snow has stopped, that bus route roads are plowed enough for buses to use them. Maybe not every single neighborhood street or route, but enough where kids can walk out of their bad street to a plowed street where they will get picked up? How hard it it to arrange that?

And let me add this, it may have been 10 days ago, but I drove into a neighborhood in Lexington today of $500,000 houses, and I don't think a plow has visited that neighborhood. Snow and ice on the roads that was extremely dangerous. Would not want my kid in a bus, or driving to school out of that hood.