Virtual?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A virtual day here and there is fine. It is different than what we had during COVID.

I have an MS and a HS student; I assume my HS will be working pretty hard and my MS will be barely paying attention. It's one day, it is fine.

Here is what I would have wanted to hear if I were an elementary school parent -- it is okay. If you're juggling a lot and/or the virtual day isn't going well, bag it. No guilt. If you can't help but have a little guilt, take a few minutes and look at what was done in your kids hardest subject and review that with them for 15 minutes.

I don't know. A virtual snow day feels like another papercut in death by a thousand paper cuts.

It already feels like they've taken away so much from our kids in other ways, that this is just another 'papercut'

It would be preferable to just give a snow day and adjust the schedule/end date.

[Anonymous]

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It works fine for kids all over the country and has worked since the early 2000s. You just refuse to accept change.

Almost every study of virtual education shows it does not work. You mean it's possible? I guess. Kids learn? No.

This! Stop pretending to teach our children. One failed policy after another. MCPS can’t even get the communication right on this- why are we learning about if from the teachers and not the admin? Monifa needs to go. We need some serious accountability here…..

"Fox pays me to complain about schools, so I am complaining again. I will use McKnight's first name to emphasize what I think is the important social and cultural difference between her and me. In truth, I don't even have children, but stirring up fake outrage is fun."

--Your thoughts while writing the previous post.

Stop trying to stir up culture wars over one virtual day.

Nice try- virtual was awful. So much learning loss. I use her first name because that’s her name. It’s about holding leaders accountable regardless of any implied differences. She can’t even communicate this and is making the teachers do it on top of everything else they’re doing.

You're not holding anyone accountable. You're whining like a baby over one virtual day. And you are childless.

You must be part of the MCPS contract to improve the school systems image as that’s quite a grudge. We’re perfectly allowed to call out a lack of leadership and practices that negatively impact our children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A virtual day here and there is fine. It is different than what we had during COVID.

I have an MS and a HS student; I assume my HS will be working pretty hard and my MS will be barely paying attention. It's one day, it is fine.

Here is what I would have wanted to hear if I were an elementary school parent -- it is okay. If you're juggling a lot and/or the virtual day isn't going well, bag it. No guilt. If you can't help but have a little guilt, take a few minutes and look at what was done in your kids hardest subject and review that with them for 15 minutes.

I don't know. A virtual snow day feels like another papercut in death by a thousand paper cuts.

It already feels like they've taken away so much from our kids in other ways, that this is just another 'papercut'

It would be preferable to just give a snow day and adjust the schedule/end date.

Maybe it’s preferable to you because your religious holidays wouldn’t be added back to the calendar as an instructional day, but that’s a biased and oppressive point of few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It works fine for kids all over the country and has worked since the early 2000s. You just refuse to accept change.

Almost every study of virtual education shows it does not work. You mean it's possible? I guess. Kids learn? No.

This! Stop pretending to teach our children. One failed policy after another. MCPS can’t even get the communication right on this- why are we learning about if from the teachers and not the admin? Monifa needs to go. We need some serious accountability here…..

"Fox pays me to complain about schools, so I am complaining again. I will use McKnight's first name to emphasize what I think is the important social and cultural difference between her and me. In truth, I don't even have children, but stirring up fake outrage is fun."

--Your thoughts while writing the previous post.

Stop trying to stir up culture wars over one virtual day.

At least it quickly shows me I can disregard anything the poster says, knowing it’s likely colored by their racism. I’m not sure why they are allowed to continuously post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A virtual day here and there is fine. It is different than what we had during COVID.

I have an MS and a HS student; I assume my HS will be working pretty hard and my MS will be barely paying attention. It's one day, it is fine.

Here is what I would have wanted to hear if I were an elementary school parent -- it is okay. If you're juggling a lot and/or the virtual day isn't going well, bag it. No guilt. If you can't help but have a little guilt, take a few minutes and look at what was done in your kids hardest subject and review that with them for 15 minutes.

I don't know. A virtual snow day feels like another papercut in death by a thousand paper cuts.

It already feels like they've taken away so much from our kids in other ways, that this is just another 'papercut'

It would be preferable to just give a snow day and adjust the schedule/end date.

Maybe it’s preferable to you because your religious holidays wouldn’t be added back to the calendar as an instructional day, but that’s a biased and oppressive point of few.

Oppressive? I didn't even suggest that your religious holidays be added back. I suggested to add more days at the end of the calendar.

Not everything is "biased and oppresive", especially not asking that our children be given their required number of instructional days. Jeez....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It works fine for kids all over the country and has worked since the early 2000s. You just refuse to accept change.

Almost every study of virtual education shows it does not work. You mean it's possible? I guess. Kids learn? No.

This! Stop pretending to teach our children. One failed policy after another. MCPS can’t even get the communication right on this- why are we learning about if from the teachers and not the admin? Monifa needs to go. We need some serious accountability here…..

"Fox pays me to complain about schools, so I am complaining again. I will use McKnight's first name to emphasize what I think is the important social and cultural difference between her and me. In truth, I don't even have children, but stirring up fake outrage is fun."

--Your thoughts while writing the previous post.

Stop trying to stir up culture wars over one virtual day.

At least it quickly shows me I can disregard anything the poster says, knowing it’s likely colored by their racism. I’m not sure why they are allowed to continuously post.

What was racist about it?

[Anonymous]

No worries, people.

The younger kids who cannot follow virtual instruction easily don't NEED to and can go play in the 3 extra snowflakes we get.

And the middle and high schoolers who actually have stakes involved have reached that level of competence where they can do virtual learning!

So all's well that end's well... apart from the poor parents of young kids who get to work from home and throw iPads at their kids. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It works fine for kids all over the country and has worked since the early 2000s. You just refuse to accept change.

Almost every study of virtual education shows it does not work. You mean it's possible? I guess. Kids learn? No.

This! Stop pretending to teach our children. One failed policy after another. MCPS can’t even get the communication right on this- why are we learning about if from the teachers and not the admin? Monifa needs to go. We need some serious accountability here…..

"Fox pays me to complain about schools, so I am complaining again. I will use McKnight's first name to emphasize what I think is the important social and cultural difference between her and me. In truth, I don't even have children, but stirring up fake outrage is fun."

--Your thoughts while writing the previous post.

Stop trying to stir up culture wars over one virtual day.

At least it quickly shows me I can disregard anything the poster says, knowing it’s likely colored by their racism. I’m not sure why they are allowed to continuously post.

What was racist about it?

Their continued insistence on referring to Dr. McKnight by her first name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It works fine for kids all over the country and has worked since the early 2000s. You just refuse to accept change.

Almost every study of virtual education shows it does not work. You mean it's possible? I guess. Kids learn? No.

This! Stop pretending to teach our children. One failed policy after another. MCPS can’t even get the communication right on this- why are we learning about if from the teachers and not the admin? Monifa needs to go. We need some serious accountability here…..

"Fox pays me to complain about schools, so I am complaining again. I will use McKnight's first name to emphasize what I think is the important social and cultural difference between her and me. In truth, I don't even have children, but stirring up fake outrage is fun."

--Your thoughts while writing the previous post.

Stop trying to stir up culture wars over one virtual day.

At least it quickly shows me I can disregard anything the poster says, knowing it’s likely colored by their racism. I’m not sure why they are allowed to continuously post.

What was racist about it?

Their continued insistence on referring to Dr. McKnight by her first name.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It works fine for kids all over the country and has worked since the early 2000s. You just refuse to accept change.

Almost every study of virtual education shows it does not work. You mean it's possible? I guess. Kids learn? No.

This! Stop pretending to teach our children. One failed policy after another. MCPS can’t even get the communication right on this- why are we learning about if from the teachers and not the admin? Monifa needs to go. We need some serious accountability here…..

"Fox pays me to complain about schools, so I am complaining again. I will use McKnight's first name to emphasize what I think is the important social and cultural difference between her and me. In truth, I don't even have children, but stirring up fake outrage is fun."

--Your thoughts while writing the previous post.

Stop trying to stir up culture wars over one virtual day.

Nice try- virtual was awful. So much learning loss. I use her first name because that’s her name. It’s about holding leaders accountable regardless of any implied differences. She can’t even communicate this and is making the teachers do it on top of everything else they’re doing.

You're not holding anyone accountable. You're whining like a baby over one virtual day. And you are childless.

You must be part of the MCPS contract to improve the school systems image as that’s quite a grudge. We’re perfectly allowed to call out a lack of leadership and practices that negatively impact our children.

One virtual day does not indicate a lack of leadership, or practices that negatively impact children in Montgomery county, a place I rather doubt you live in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It works fine for kids all over the country and has worked since the early 2000s. You just refuse to accept change.

Almost every study of virtual education shows it does not work. You mean it's possible? I guess. Kids learn? No.

This! Stop pretending to teach our children. One failed policy after another. MCPS can’t even get the communication right on this- why are we learning about if from the teachers and not the admin? Monifa needs to go. We need some serious accountability here…..

"Fox pays me to complain about schools, so I am complaining again. I will use McKnight's first name to emphasize what I think is the important social and cultural difference between her and me. In truth, I don't even have children, but stirring up fake outrage is fun."

--Your thoughts while writing the previous post.

Stop trying to stir up culture wars over one virtual day.

At least it quickly shows me I can disregard anything the poster says, knowing it’s likely colored by their racism. I’m not sure why they are allowed to continuously post.

What was racist about it?

Their continued insistence on referring to Dr. McKnight by her first name.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

When all you are is a hammer, the lack of subtley is the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A virtual day here and there is fine. It is different than what we had during COVID.

I have an MS and a HS student; I assume my HS will be working pretty hard and my MS will be barely paying attention. It's one day, it is fine.

Here is what I would have wanted to hear if I were an elementary school parent -- it is okay. If you're juggling a lot and/or the virtual day isn't going well, bag it. No guilt. If you can't help but have a little guilt, take a few minutes and look at what was done in your kids hardest subject and review that with them for 15 minutes.

I don't know. A virtual snow day feels like another papercut in death by a thousand paper cuts.

It already feels like they've taken away so much from our kids in other ways, that this is just another 'papercut'

It would be preferable to just give a snow day and adjust the schedule/end date.

Maybe it’s preferable to you because your religious holidays wouldn’t be added back to the calendar as an instructional day, but that’s a biased and oppressive point of few.

Oppressive? I didn't even suggest that your religious holidays be added back. I suggested to add more days at the end of the calendar.

Not everything is "biased and oppresive", especially not asking that our children be given their required number of instructional days. Jeez....

This is the poster being thrilled you took their bait. Of course they dog whistle other holidays aren't important. That's all Fox playbook.

Poster. I beg you: ask your masters to send us smarter trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A virtual day here and there is fine. It is different than what we had during COVID.

I have an MS and a HS student; I assume my HS will be working pretty hard and my MS will be barely paying attention. It's one day, it is fine.

Here is what I would have wanted to hear if I were an elementary school parent -- it is okay. If you're juggling a lot and/or the virtual day isn't going well, bag it. No guilt. If you can't help but have a little guilt, take a few minutes and look at what was done in your kids hardest subject and review that with them for 15 minutes.

I don't know. A virtual snow day feels like another papercut in death by a thousand paper cuts.

It already feels like they've taken away so much from our kids in other ways, that this is just another 'papercut'

It would be preferable to just give a snow day and adjust the schedule/end date.

Maybe it’s preferable to you because your religious holidays wouldn’t be added back to the calendar as an instructional day, but that’s a biased and oppressive point of few.

Oppressive? I didn't even suggest that your religious holidays be added back. I suggested to add more days at the end of the calendar.

Not everything is "biased and oppresive", especially not asking that our children be given their required number of instructional days. Jeez....

This is the poster being thrilled you took their bait. Of course they dog whistle other holidays aren't important. That's all Fox playbook.

Poster. I beg you: ask your masters to send us smarter trolls.

You must be nuts. That's just common sense. If Eid is chosen as an instructional day, it is with the knowledge of impact on the Muslim community. Discrimination is measured by both the intent and impact of an action. In this case, the impact would be significant for one particular religious group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A virtual day here and there is fine. It is different than what we had during COVID.

I have an MS and a HS student; I assume my HS will be working pretty hard and my MS will be barely paying attention. It's one day, it is fine.

Here is what I would have wanted to hear if I were an elementary school parent -- it is okay. If you're juggling a lot and/or the virtual day isn't going well, bag it. No guilt. If you can't help but have a little guilt, take a few minutes and look at what was done in your kids hardest subject and review that with them for 15 minutes.

I don't know. A virtual snow day feels like another papercut in death by a thousand paper cuts.

It already feels like they've taken away so much from our kids in other ways, that this is just another 'papercut'

It would be preferable to just give a snow day and adjust the schedule/end date.

Maybe it’s preferable to you because your religious holidays wouldn’t be added back to the calendar as an instructional day, but that’s a biased and oppressive point of few.

Oppressive? I didn't even suggest that your religious holidays be added back. I suggested to add more days at the end of the calendar.

Not everything is "biased and oppresive", especially not asking that our children be given their required number of instructional days. Jeez....

This is the poster being thrilled you took their bait. Of course they dog whistle other holidays aren't important. That's all Fox playbook.

Poster. I beg you: ask your masters to send us smarter trolls.

You must be nuts. That's just common sense. If Eid is chosen as an instructional day, it is with the knowledge of impact on the Muslim community. Discrimination is measured by both the intent and impact of an action. In this case, the impact would be significant for one particular religious group.

DP: If you are Muslim then you know that the exact day that Eid is celebrated is subject to the moon sighting. MCPS has scheduled a professional day for the likely date of Eid al-Fitr. As far as Eid al Adha and a makeup day for snow, yes the likely date of Eid al Adha is the 7th of 8 possible makeup days listed on the MCPS calendar. It is hardly the case that if they don't do virtual tomorrow that there will be school on June 17.

[Anonymous]

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This! Plus… it’s one. Day. The overdramatics are ridiculous.

What do you mean, one day? There was a half day for rain. Two days off for a few inches of snow. Now, virtual Fri and who knows how many days in Feb and maybe March.

I can parent my kids fine. I don't teach them well. I'm not a teacher. And they are learning the school doesn't value them being there when they do this all in the name of getting in "enough" days.

Even if your family is fine .. this is not fine. And you'll be affected by a society where kids aren't fine. Call me over dramatic all you want. Look at who is doing crime in DC right now .. kids.

And whose job is to to parent the kids doing the crime? THE PARENTS, so stop whining and do your job.