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Anonymous wrote:County or state should have declared emergency and have national guard with heavy duty equipment helping out. Contract out idle building companies. Anything. Some kind of idea and solution. Euphemisms such as weather event or our principle hoping we had a cozy fun time in the snow with hot chocolate. It has been a mess especially if you had school and preschool kids and you had to work. Cannot take 5 days PTO. Simply acknowledging this disaster week is what MCPS and their enablers in the county could have done. Come June my tax bill will be higher, again. For the schools, for the kids...

You realize some of us don't have PTO so these are unpaid days. My spouse works hourly/no PTO, so between the last shut down, the snow, and this new shut down, we've gone months without income in the last six months. Be thankful you have PTO.

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Anonymous wrote:Code ORANGE offices open on time. Why not 2 hr delay for staff?

It'll be difficult for those using public transportation and who have to navigate the same sidewalks they said students couldn't because of the unshoveled areas. Interesting.

Uber?

Uber is crazy expensive... NO.

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Anonymous wrote:Now if we just virtual...
Teachers are going in tomorrow. They coulda taught from the school building.

If we went virtual, then most kids wouldn't join, no learning would happen, and we'd still have to add make-up days under Maryland law.

What’s your evidence they wouldn’t join? Kids were online for almost a year for covid. By now even the laziest kid is getting bored at home.

Only 5th graders and up were in school during Covid, all the younger ones (my 4th grader included) only started K after schools were back in person. So no current K-4 have not done remote school.

You said “no one would join.” What’s your evidence that all these kids who were online for a year Gr5 and up wouldn’t join and that parents of kids K-4 wouldn’t have their kids join.

The chat group at my kid’s ES is full of angry parents who can’t figure out why all the school districts around us have either virtual school or in person school but MCPS has nothing but snow day videos.

I know kids who are still struggling with impacts of COVID era virtual school - they should all be very careful what they wish for.

Sure,Jan.

Its probably that "psychologist" who is desperate for clients and for years has complained about covid being the reason for all mental health and other struggles who is failing her patients by being against virtual if it would benefit them and not looking at the true root of the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:County or state should have declared emergency and have national guard with heavy duty equipment helping out. Contract out idle building companies. Anything. Some kind of idea and solution. Euphemisms such as weather event or our principle hoping we had a cozy fun time in the snow with hot chocolate. It has been a mess especially if you had school and preschool kids and you had to work. Cannot take 5 days PTO. Simply acknowledging this disaster week is what MCPS and their enablers in the county could have done. Come June my tax bill will be higher, again. For the schools, for the kids...

I feel like it’s crazy to expect the national guard to come in so you can get back to work. Let’s assume that would even work - we’d maybe shave off what, 3 snow days when all is said and done? If you all want to grind your MCPS axes, pick some other reason than a once per decade ice storm.

They called in the national guard to help in DC. And DCPS opened virtual on Wednesday last week and Thursday/Friday in person. Most school districts in the area are open tomorrow. McPS is the exception.

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Anonymous wrote:If they are opening child care at all sites, they should be opening schools. If it's like last Friday, they won't open district wide.

You're right that they should open, but then MCPS staff would have to work. They might still be nursing their hangovers.

Are folks here really so simple minded as to not realize that daycare and a school district are wildly different?

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Anonymous wrote:Now if we just virtual...
Teachers are going in tomorrow. They coulda taught from the school building.

If we went virtual, then most kids wouldn't join, no learning would happen, and we'd still have to add make-up days under Maryland law.

What’s your evidence they wouldn’t join? Kids were online for almost a year for covid. By now even the laziest kid is getting bored at home.

Only 5th graders and up were in school during Covid, all the younger ones (my 4th grader included) only started K after schools were back in person. So no current K-4 have not done remote school.

You said “no one would join.” What’s your evidence that all these kids who were online for a year Gr5 and up wouldn’t join and that parents of kids K-4 wouldn’t have their kids join.

The chat group at my kid’s ES is full of angry parents who can’t figure out why all the school districts around us have either virtual school or in person school but MCPS has nothing but snow day videos.

I know kids who are still struggling with impacts of COVID era virtual school - they should all be very careful what they wish for.

Sure,Jan.

Its probably that "psychologist" who is desperate for clients and for years has complained about covid being the reason for all mental health and other struggles who is failing her patients by being against virtual if it would benefit them and not looking at the true root of the problem.

No, but sure goes to show that whenever you are sure you’re right about something, you just might not be right at all!

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Anonymous wrote:Now if we just virtual...
Teachers are going in tomorrow. They coulda taught from the school building.

If we went virtual, then most kids wouldn't join, no learning would happen, and we'd still have to add make-up days under Maryland law.

What’s your evidence they wouldn’t join? Kids were online for almost a year for covid. By now even the laziest kid is getting bored at home.

Only 5th graders and up were in school during Covid, all the younger ones (my 4th grader included) only started K after schools were back in person. So no current K-4 have not done remote school.

You said “no one would join.” What’s your evidence that all these kids who were online for a year Gr5 and up wouldn’t join and that parents of kids K-4 wouldn’t have their kids join.

The chat group at my kid’s ES is full of angry parents who can’t figure out why all the school districts around us have either virtual school or in person school but MCPS has nothing but snow day videos.

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Anonymous wrote:Now if we just virtual...
Teachers are going in tomorrow. They coulda taught from the school building.

If we went virtual, then most kids wouldn't join, no learning would happen, and we'd still have to add make-up days under Maryland law.

What’s your evidence they wouldn’t join? Kids were online for almost a year for covid. By now even the laziest kid is getting bored at home.

Only 5th graders and up were in school during Covid, all the younger ones (my 4th grader included) only started K after schools were back in person. So no current K-4 have not done remote school.

You said “no one would join.” What’s your evidence that all these kids who were online for a year Gr5 and up wouldn’t join and that parents of kids K-4 wouldn’t have their kids join.

The chat group at my kid’s ES is full of angry parents who can’t figure out why all the school districts around us have either virtual school or in person school but MCPS has nothing but snow day videos.

I know kids who are still struggling with impacts of COVID era virtual school - they should all be very careful what they wish for.

Oh please, stop blaming covid. They are struggling for a variety of reasons but that was years ago and a week or two of virtual is fine. Many of our kids were in virtual much longer and did great.

+1 Kids Gr4 and up are on their Chromebooks all the time anyway in the classroom, and a lot of that can be replicated in virtual learning. Virtual learning on snow days would be better than having MCPS seek a waiver so it doesn't have to do 180 days of instruction this year, which seems to be MCPS's plan.

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Anonymous wrote:Now if we just virtual...
Teachers are going in tomorrow. They coulda taught from the school building.

If we went virtual, then most kids wouldn't join, no learning would happen, and we'd still have to add make-up days under Maryland law.

What’s your evidence they wouldn’t join? Kids were online for almost a year for covid. By now even the laziest kid is getting bored at home.

Only 5th graders and up were in school during Covid, all the younger ones (my 4th grader included) only started K after schools were back in person. So no current K-4 have not done remote school.

You said “no one would join.” What’s your evidence that all these kids who were online for a year Gr5 and up wouldn’t join and that parents of kids K-4 wouldn’t have their kids join.

The chat group at my kid’s ES is full of angry parents who can’t figure out why all the school districts around us have either virtual school or in person school but MCPS has nothing but snow day videos.

I know kids who are still struggling with impacts of COVID era virtual school - they should all be very careful what they wish for.

Oh please, stop blaming covid. They are struggling for a variety of reasons but that was years ago and a week or two of virtual is fine. Many of our kids were in virtual much longer and did great.

+1 Kids Gr4 and up are on their Chromebooks all the time anyway in the classroom, and a lot of that can be replicated in virtual learning. Virtual learning on snow days would be better than having MCPS seek a waiver so it doesn't have to do 180 days of instruction this year, which seems to be MCPS's plan.

So because they are already overusing crappy Chromebooks, they should use them even more. No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Now if we just virtual...
Teachers are going in tomorrow. They coulda taught from the school building.

If we went virtual, then most kids wouldn't join, no learning would happen, and we'd still have to add make-up days under Maryland law.

What’s your evidence they wouldn’t join? Kids were online for almost a year for covid. By now even the laziest kid is getting bored at home.

Only 5th graders and up were in school during Covid, all the younger ones (my 4th grader included) only started K after schools were back in person. So no current K-4 have not done remote school.

You said “no one would join.” What’s your evidence that all these kids who were online for a year Gr5 and up wouldn’t join and that parents of kids K-4 wouldn’t have their kids join.

The chat group at my kid’s ES is full of angry parents who can’t figure out why all the school districts around us have either virtual school or in person school but MCPS has nothing but snow day videos.

I know kids who are still struggling with impacts of COVID era virtual school - they should all be very careful what they wish for.

Oh please, stop blaming covid. They are struggling for a variety of reasons but that was years ago and a week or two of virtual is fine. Many of our kids were in virtual much longer and did great.

+1 Kids Gr4 and up are on their Chromebooks all the time anyway in the classroom, and a lot of that can be replicated in virtual learning. Virtual learning on snow days would be better than having MCPS seek a waiver so it doesn't have to do 180 days of instruction this year, which seems to be MCPS's plan.

What's your plan for lower elementary and students with special needs?

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There is no option that will make everyone happy at this point while also getting in the days required by law. You can:

1) Open schools in less than optimal weather conditions (too late for that as we've already had five snow days that were unallocated for, plus cue the people screaming that we don't care if their child dies slipping on ice and falling into traffic.)
2) Develop a functional virtual learning plan that is contingency for bad weather weeks like this one and use it (too late for that because MCPS never made a virtual learning plan that the State of Maryland required, unlike other school districts, and apparently people on this forum say it will take them months to make one up.)
3) Do make up days, recognizing that people have made plans thinking that school is out.
4) Shortchange kids of the 180 days of education required by law and apply to the state of Maryland to get a waiver to miss several days of instruction this year.

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Anonymous wrote:County or state should have declared emergency and have national guard with heavy duty equipment helping out. Contract out idle building companies. Anything. Some kind of idea and solution. Euphemisms such as weather event or our principle hoping we had a cozy fun time in the snow with hot chocolate. It has been a mess especially if you had school and preschool kids and you had to work. Cannot take 5 days PTO. Simply acknowledging this disaster week is what MCPS and their enablers in the county could have done. Come June my tax bill will be higher, again. For the schools, for the kids...

I feel like it’s crazy to expect the national guard to come in so you can get back to work. Let’s assume that would even work - we’d maybe shave off what, 3 snow days when all is said and done? If you all want to grind your MCPS axes, pick some other reason than a once per decade ice storm.

They called in the national guard to help in DC. And DCPS opened virtual on Wednesday last week and Thursday/Friday in person. Most school districts in the area are open tomorrow. McPS is the exception.

+1. Not to mention, it's a real public safety liability to still be this crippled by a storm a week later.

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Virtual would likely not be the virtual you had during Covid. From talking with a family friend, her third graders virtual last week was pretty much two quick assignments each day the kid did independently. But the teacher did have an "office" time that a student could log on for help if needed. No class instruction given.

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Anonymous wrote:Now if we just virtual...
Teachers are going in tomorrow. They coulda taught from the school building.

If we went virtual, then most kids wouldn't join, no learning would happen, and we'd still have to add make-up days under Maryland law.

What’s your evidence they wouldn’t join? Kids were online for almost a year for covid. By now even the laziest kid is getting bored at home.

Only 5th graders and up were in school during Covid, all the younger ones (my 4th grader included) only started K after schools were back in person. So no current K-4 have not done remote school.

You said “no one would join.” What’s your evidence that all these kids who were online for a year Gr5 and up wouldn’t join and that parents of kids K-4 wouldn’t have their kids join.

The chat group at my kid’s ES is full of angry parents who can’t figure out why all the school districts around us have either virtual school or in person school but MCPS has nothing but snow day videos.

I know kids who are still struggling with impacts of COVID era virtual school - they should all be very careful what they wish for.

Oh please, stop blaming covid. They are struggling for a variety of reasons but that was years ago and a week or two of virtual is fine. Many of our kids were in virtual much longer and did great.

+1 Kids Gr4 and up are on their Chromebooks all the time anyway in the classroom, and a lot of that can be replicated in virtual learning. Virtual learning on snow days would be better than having MCPS seek a waiver so it doesn't have to do 180 days of instruction this year, which seems to be MCPS's plan.

What's your plan for lower elementary and students with special needs?

Paras would be available same as in person. Younger kids get adult help at home. Don’t you work with your kids outside school?

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Anonymous wrote:Virtual would likely not be the virtual you had during Covid. From talking with a family friend, her third graders virtual last week was pretty much two quick assignments each day the kid did independently. But the teacher did have an "office" time that a student could log on for help if needed. No class instruction given.

They could do it like the MVA where they had regular full classes. Teachers taught and gave assignments no issue. MCPS has done it for four years. That’s not virtual, that’s independent assignments which is very different. Virtual is a teacher teaching a class online.