Quincy Schools Post Valentine’s Blizzard – clean-up or a pile up?

Plowing around as The Valentine’s Blizzard was winding down
A Quincy Quarry News photo

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Quincy schools’ snow piles post The Valentine’s Blizzard are ever increasingly leaving more than just helicopter moms concerned that Quincy schools will continue to maintain their 2015 record of taking the most Snow Days of any major school district in Eastern Massachusetts during this winter without end.

Key concerns of many already on the edge parents are the impact of snow plowing activities undertaking in the wake of the storm around schools so as to perhaps reopen public schools in Quincy this school year.

Piled up even higher after post storm moving snow around?
A Quincy Quarry News photo

As documented photographically by a Quincy Quarry sled dog photo team, it would appear that the snow piles at at least one of the largest schools in town grew in ways arguably troubling during the clean up effort and so – at minimum – making it even harder to see the school behind its massive snow wall.

After all, it is tough enough to get high school kids up in the morning – much less clean their rooms or stop sexting and texting – but now the kids can try to claim having trouble actually finding at least this school behind its massive snow white perimeter.

Similarly, there is the very real possibility of avalanche.

Avalanche or at least drifted snow-filled goat path
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Further troubling, parking at the School Administration building is still snow-covered, unlike the perfectly cleared 24/7 down to the pavement City Hall employee and VIP free parking lots at City Hall.

Additionally, the parking lot at least one grammar school has yet to be plowed.  As such, harried parents are thus bombarding the public school administration offices with calls as they cannot park at this school to use a nearby favorite local sledding hill and so fend off cabin fever for awhile, however brief.

School Administration frozen solid parking lot
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Unfortunately, there is nothing the school administration can do as snow plowing at schools are the responsibility of  the Commissar of the Public Works Department Dan “Spanky” Raymondi and Director of Parks & Forestry Executive Director Chris Cassani.  Even so, parents have no interest in calling either, much less ignored if they did call.

Granted, the Koch Maladministration has long had little actual interest in education as it is lead by someone not all that educated, but unlike the Maladministration, the Quincy Public Schools’ administration team actually knows what it is doing, including developing by far the most detailed annual budgets of any department with the City of Quincy’s operations.

Then again, public schools are required to maintain detailed books as their administrators have to answer in often painstaking detail to both the state and the feds.

Lunchtime photo of the always well-plowed City Hall VIP parking lot – do you know where’s the mayor?
A Quincy Quarry News photo

In fact, the annual budget for Quincy Public Schools is developed via a complex

spreadsheet model that allows school administration to figure out what it can do with the meager funding provided to it by the Koch Maladministration and which has failed to keep up with the rates of inflation and enrollment growth over the past 7 years.

Conversely, City Hall continues to do pretty much as it wants with taxpayers’ money.  Whether – or not – it so ends up facing an outside forensic audit review or perhaps a subpoena remains to be seen.

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