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Son charged in Loudoun man’s death

A 21-year-old man from Leesburg was arrested and charged with second-degree murder after police found his father, a Loudoun County brewer and businessman, dead at home Saturday. Schuyler Lake was being held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center, Leesburg police said Sunday. He also faced charges of credit card theft and credit card fraud, police said. Dean Lake, 57, his father, was found dead in a house in the 400 block of South King Street in Leesburg, police said. He had “apparent trauma” to the upper body, police said in a statement. Officers responded to a 7:30 a.m. call about a “suspicious event,” police said. When they reported the death on Saturday, police said they were trying to find Schuyler Lake “due to mental and/or physical health concerns.” In a follow-up statement on Sunday, police said: “There are no other persons of interest in this investigation at this time and there is no further danger to the community.” A police spokesman said no further details were available about Dean Lake’s death. A LinkedIn account lists Dean Lake as director of brewing operations at Black Hoof Brewing Company. On its website, Black Hoof is described as a microbrewery in downtown Leesburg. — Martin Weil and Nick Anderson

Woman charged in pedestrian’s death

A 40-year-old Fairfax City woman was charged in a crash that killed a pedestrian last month, Fairfax County police said. Rachel Isner is facing counts of careless driving and inflicting an injury on a vulnerable road user in the April 20 death of Lloyd Ingram, 58, of Burke, police said. Ingram was crossing Guinea Road at Olley Lane inside the crosswalk and had the right of way when Isner struck him in a Kia Forte about 6 :30 p.m., police said. Ingram was rushed to the hospital, where he died of his injuries. Police said Isner remained at the scene of the crash. An investigation determined that speed and alcohol were not factors in the crash. Isner did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Her case was not yet listed in court records, so it could not be determined whether she had an attorney. — Justin Jouvenal

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who are nervous about learning in-person due to covid-19, ac- cording to the school system. Instead, it’s intended for “students who want to make online learning their approach to educa- tion for the duration of their K-12 career,” per the school system’s website. In D.C., the public school system offers a virtual academy for students who meet certain medical requirements. Some charter schools also offer virtual slots. The city said a decision has not been made about virtual offerings next year.

Nicole Asbury and Perry Stein contributed to this report.

that prefer it next year. Everson said that about 500 students participated in virtual learning this school year, and that officials are expecting that number to drop next year, “as covid-related concerns decline.” Everson added, “Schools will review information from families who request virtual learning to determine if their students have the academic standing to partici- pate and succeed in virtual learning for the coming school year.” Maryland’s Prince George’s County Public Schools, mean- while, will offer a full-time online academy for its seventh-to-12th- graders next year. But the program is not meant for students

The school systems in Alexan- dria and Loudoun, however, plan to continue offering online learning. Loudoun County Public Schools spokesman Wayde Byard said Friday that 270 elementary and 226 secondary students — of the district’s 81,000 — are en- rolled in virtual school. Byard said the school board has decided to extend its online program at the elementary, middle and high school levels into the 2022-2023 academic year. In Alexandria City Public Schools, which enrolls about 16,000 students, virtual adminis- trator Izora Everson said the district will continue to offer online programming for families

dents next year. To enroll, students will have to show they have “a health condition that is associ- ated with a weakened immune system” or are the sibling of a student with a health condition. Other students who meet stringent academic requirements, proving that they have “above average levels of motiva- tion, self-regulation, and inde- pendent work habits,” can apply and will be entered into a lottery for the remaining seats, left over after students with medical con- ditions have been accepted. Prince William has about 2,000 virtual students, representing roughly 2 percent of its student body.

supported by copious data that
emerged from the pandemic —
including a recent McKinsey and
Co. study that found children, on
average, fell behind four months
in both mathematics and reading
during remote schooling.
In Virginia, officials with Fair-
fax County Public Schools, the
state’s largest school district with
roughly 178,000 students, an-
nounced in early March that the
district will no longer offer its
virtual program after the end of
this school year. Instead, the
school district will make “home-
bound instruction” — an educa-
tion program for students unable
to leave their homes that existed
before the pandemic — available
to “students with significant
health risks,” Fairfax officials
wrote in an email to families.
“Community health experts
advise that exemptions to in-
p erson instruction should return
to pre-pandemic criteria now
that school-age children are eligi-
ble for vaccination,” officials
wrote. “We believe two things —
our schools are safe for all stu-
dents and our students are more
successful learning in person.”
Nearby Arlington Public
Schools, with about 27,000 stu-
dents, also decided to end its
virtual offerings after this year.
The roughly 600 students en-
rolled in the program will be
“moving back to their home
schools,” spokesman Frank Bella-
via said.
At a mid-February meeting,
chief of school support Kimberly
Graves said the district’s online
program, which struggled to get
off the ground in September due
to staffing shortages, was “falling
short.” She said virtual students
are struggling more academical-
ly than students learning in per-
son.
And in Prince William County,
school officials announced
Wednesday that the district will
offer only 1,000 seats in an online
learning program for K-8 stu-

VIRTUAL FROM B1

Districts will scale back online learning next year

SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST Natasha Rubin of Capitol Heights Elementary in Prince George’s County teaches a fourth-grade class virtually. Next school year, the district will offer a full-time virtual academy for seventh-to-12th-graders who want to learn online “for the duration of their K-12 career.”

our bedroom,” he said. “It was brutal. They’d wake me up at 5:30.” And? “I purchased a white noise machine that makes a hissing sound to block it out,” he said. Problem solved. “There’s not a lot of birds I don’t like,” Bruce said. “There are some I’m not interested in seeing. For most people who love birds, the rarer they are, the more interesting they are.” Bruce said he doesn’t have much love for the grackles, starlings and blackbirds that vacuum up all the seed he puts out in the winter. As for the bird he likes least, he said: “I guess I’m going to have to go with the feral pigeon. If you looked at a picture and didn’t know what it was, you’d think it’s not unattractive. But they’re pretty damn messy and an exotic invasive species.” Bruce reserves his strongest antipathy — probably more reasonable than unreasonable, actually — for people who toss cigarette butts on the ground. “Birds will pick those up and eat them,” he said. That’s a shame. Unless they’re mourning doves. Dumb, stupid birds.

Gripefest What about you? Do you have unreasonable antipathies? Do you get exercised over the most ridiculous things? Do you share your house with someone who does? Send details — with “Unreasonable Antipathy” in the subject line — to me at [email protected].

have called a therapist. Instead I called an ornithologist: Bruce Beehler, a research associate in the division of birds at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Any birds toward which you feel unreasonable antipathy, Bruce? As a matter of fact, he said, a few years ago he didn’t like mourning doves. “These mourning doves would do their hoo hoo mating call around 5:30 every morning starting in April, right next to

Mine are unreasonable antipathies, but are they inexplicable ones? Was my mother frightened by a flock of mourning doves while I was in utero? Or pursued by a pack of really down-market paparazzi wielding Argus C3s? Or do I see in the mourning dove (chubby, fearful) and the camera (common, cheap) some despised aspects of myself? Am I projecting a hidden self- loathing? I decided to consult a professional. I probably should

she said. Well, not exactly. Pet peeves usually have some underlying reason. If your pet peeve is wet towels left on the bedroom floor, that’s probably because the towel won’t dry properly and it could ruin the carpet or the hardwood.

Pet peeves do have something in common with unreasonable antipathies, and that’s the level of degree. You wouldn’t say, “You know what my pet peeve is? Heart disease.” Pet peeves aren’t really very serious, and neither are the antipathies I’ve mentioned. It would be more of a problem if I were unreasonably antipathetic toward, say, obeying traffic laws. Unreasonable antipathies are almost visceral, chemical. They remind me of the way some dogs react to other dogs. To their humans, there’s no apparent reason two dogs should snarl and strain at their leashes when they pass each other on their walks. The dogs just rub each other the wrong way. It’s similar to the way some people just can’t stand the sight of James Corden.

I hate mourning
doves. No, that’s
not quite right. I
wouldn’t call it
hatred. The
bulbous birds just
irritate me. I see
them stupidly
waddling about
under the bird
feeder and suddenly I’m
consumed with feelings of...
well, let’s call it unreasonable
antipathy.
It’s odd. I mean, why would
someone get upset by a bird?
Or by a camera? I collect old
film cameras. A few were kind of
pricey, but most are pretty
ordinary, the kind of cameras
people bought in the 1960s and
’70s for snapshots. But what I
don’t have — what brings forth
the bile whenever I see one — is
an Argus C3.
Whenever I see an Argus C3 —
a cheap, boxy, American-made
35mm camera — I want to drive
over it with an 18-wheeler. And I
don’t even have a commercial
driver’s license.
File under: antipathy,
unreasonable.
When the pandemic was in
full swing, I tried to tamp down
all negative feelings. A lot of
people had it a lot worse than I.
Why waste precious moments
consumed by feelings of... well,
not rage, but a certain kind of
annoyance. Life’s too short,
right?
Still, God forbid I ever see a
mourning dove carrying an
Argus C3.
I mentioned these weird
feelings to My Lovely Wife.
“Oh, you mean pet peeves,”

Some people — including me — are irritated by the weirdest things

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JOHN KELLY/THE WASHINGTON POST A mourning dove waddles around under the bird feeder in columnist John Kelly's backyard. He finds the species annoying.

Whenever I see an

Argus C3 — a cheap,

boxy, American-made

35mm camera — I want

to drive over it.

BY MATT ROSS

While we experienced some
chillier-than-normal weather to
close out April, any brief flirta-
tions with winterlike chill are in
the past. Thus, it is a good time
to look back at our winter out-
look.
We always grade our winter
outlooks, even if the results
aren’t pretty.
Taking a look at what we
predicted in November, the re-
sults are mixed. It ended up
being milder than we expected
primarily because of a very
warm December. Our snowfall
forecast was more successful, as
we were in the ballpark of our
predicted ranges.

Temperature review On temperatures, we not only make a seasonal forecast but also break down that forecast by month. Not all outlooks do this. While we consider it important to get the overall temperature difference from normal right, the average monthly temperature is not just an afterthought; it is an integral part of our outlook. We predicted that the overall winter temperature would end up close to average, and it finished 1.9 degrees above average. Even though the winter was almost 2 degrees warmer than we forecast, it was still cooler than four out of the past 10 winters. Also, we correctly noted that temperatures would fluctuate

substantially. Our month-by-month predictions weren’t great, though a good February call salvaged what could have been a disaster: We called for December to be one to two degrees below average, and it finished 5.9 degrees above average, second-warmest on rec- ord. Ouch. We said January would finish around average, and it finished 2.9 degrees below average. Not as bad a call as December, but not good, either. We predicted that February would finish two degrees above average, and it finished 2.6 degrees above average. This was a very solid prediction. In summary, we give ourselves

a C for the overall winter temperature prediction and a C-minus/ D-plus for the month-to-month predictions, for an overall temperature grade of C-minus.

Snowfall review Our snowfall prediction was good. We correctly forecast that snowfall amounts would be a bit below average. We were also cor- rect that we’d see more snow than in the previous winter. Actual amounts at the three airports were just within or slightly ex- ceeded our predicted ranges. At Reagan National Airport, we called for 8 to 12 inches, and 13.2 inches fell (average is 13.7 inches). At Dulles International Air-

port, we called for 12 to 16 inches, and 15.8 inches fell (average is 21.0 inches). At Baltimore-Washington In- ternational Marshall Airport, we called for 10 to 15 inches, and 14.4 inches fell (average is 19.3 inches). We give ourselves a B-plus on our snow call.

Summary Overall, our outlook was slightly better than mediocre. Our temperature outlook was subpar, while our snowfall outlook was quite good. As a whole, we grade our 2021-2022 winter outlook a B-minus/C-plus. Up next: Our summer outlook comes out at the end of May.

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Winter outlook was right on snow, flawed on temperatures

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