Montgomery Co. school district under fire for operating normally during Friday’s wintry weather

Days after issuing an apology for opening schools with a two-hour delay when snow predictions resulted in nothing more than rain, the Montgomery County Public School district came under fire for opening on-time Friday, when icy roads led to crashes — some involving county school buses.

Brigid Howe serves as the president of the Montgomery County Council of PTAs, which she said represents “well over 25,000 parents.”

Like many other parents who left blistering comments on social media, Howe told WTOP that Friday “was a really difficult morning to be on the roads,” and that the morning drive to school could have been avoided…

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