Virtual?

[Anonymous]

I just got the message from one of my kids at Poolesville HS to plan for virtual and it will start at 9:30am. My ES at Little Bennett received nothing but a friend from Flower Hill has a zoom code and everything to prepare for virtual. Is it all schools virtual or do principals pick and choose to participate or not?

[Anonymous]

Is this for tomorrow??

[Anonymous]

Wow!

[Anonymous]

Synchronous or Async?

[Anonymous]

I was under the impression that schools needed to notify students by 12:00 PM of the day before they plan to go virtual. (Take heed—I’m pretty sure I saw this info in another forum post.) Are these plans for tomorrow or friday?

[Anonymous]

Maybe for Friday?

[Anonymous]

I think teachers’ Union rules say they get three days notice before having to teach virtual.

[Anonymous]

OP here: sorry. For Friday.

[Anonymous]

Your kid being... a teacher?

Well, tomorrow is Code Green, so MCPS can, if they wish, send chromebooks home for virtual on Friday. It would solve the Friday snow question. And make a lot of parents mad they have to stay home to supervise!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid being... a teacher?

Well, tomorrow is Code Green, so MCPS can, if they wish, send chromebooks home for virtual on Friday. It would solve the Friday snow question. And make a lot of parents mad they have to stay home to supervise!

Many children won't attend and they know it but it counts so who GAF right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid being... a teacher?

Well, tomorrow is Code Green, so MCPS can, if they wish, send chromebooks home for virtual on Friday. It would solve the Friday snow question. And make a lot of parents mad they have to stay home to supervise!

We have to stay home with kids on snow days anyway - what??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid being... a teacher?

Well, tomorrow is Code Green, so MCPS can, if they wish, send chromebooks home for virtual on Friday. It would solve the Friday snow question. And make a lot of parents mad they have to stay home to supervise!

No they can’t. First code purple day is teacher planning per our contract.

[Anonymous]

So if kids don’t do it are they excused?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if kids don’t do it are they excused?

Per MCPS, absences on virtual days are to be considered "excused." If a decision has been made to go virtual, teachers must be notified by noon the day before a virtual teaching day.

The majority of elementary schools have switched back to a "cart" model, which means the chromebooks are housed in a cart and the chargers are wired into the cart. There are no cases or chargers to send home with most elementary students. If need be, the chromebooks would go straight from the cart to students' backpacks (with no protective case and no charger).

Elementary schools are in the midst of mandatory testing (MAP testing, district mandated reading interim assessments, DIBELS assessing, WIDA testing, etc.) We need charged chromebooks for ALL of these assessments. The thought of having to send them home (unprotected) in the hopes that they are returned unharmed is distressing. They will of course, return uncharged which presents its own problems. There is no "win" with a decision to go virtual for the elementary students.

[Anonymous]

No, my kid is a high schooler not a teacher. I said Poolesville HS. Her teachers sent a link with all the assignments that need to be work on and they said there will be “live” instruction. She is in SMCS so they hate losing any instruction time and there are so many projects going on right now. I just want to know if I need a sitter for my ES or if she is virtual. If she is virtual, she can sit in my office and work right alongside me.