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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.

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

Seriously! Calling someone by their first name is now racist? Didn’t realize Sleepy Joe is the victim of a zillion online racists.

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Anonymous wrote:Judging by the flood of Meeting Room setups this morning, tomorrow will be work from home with teachers accessible via zoom

I doubt it. They're going to realize this morning that they have no way to accommodate elementary grades.

Not sure what you are talking about.

Is that sarcasm? They don't have a good way of sending the Chromebooks home. Nor would the parents or kids in the younger grades know what to do with them anyway.

Why would that stop high school teachers from setting up zoom meeting rooms??

Because the district can't count it as an instructional day if they can't come up with a workable plan for elementary.

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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.

This. My kid will not be turning on her computer if it is a virtual day. We will have a sick day lol.

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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.

It turns out elementary isn't exempt from the 180 instructional day legal requirement.

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No code purple. Just got the email. If it's a snow day, it's a normal snow day.

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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.

It turns out elementary isn't exempt from the 180 instructional day legal requirement.

PP you replied to. That is not the question. The point is that your kid won't miss anything if they skip virtual tomorrow. They can be marked absent and nothing will happen. I have an 18 and 13 year old in MCPS, and I know elementary is one long boring stretch of years where content get repeated a million times. Please don't worry about having your kid miss virtual learning.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This. My kid will not be turning on her computer if it is a virtual day. We will have a sick day lol.

It doesn't need to be a sick day. It's automatically an excused absence. No one will be on. If they do this, I bet a substantial number of teachers won't even bother to show up.

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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....

I actually vote to add the religious holidays back into the calendar as makeup days. Let those who want to celebrate have an excused absence. Problem solved!!

[Anonymous]

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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.

It turns out elementary isn't exempt from the 180 instructional day legal requirement.

PP you replied to. That is not the question. The point is that your kid won't miss anything if they skip virtual tomorrow. They can be marked absent and nothing will happen. I have an 18 and 13 year old in MCPS, and I know elementary is one long boring stretch of years where content get repeated a million times. Please don't worry about having your kid miss virtual learning.

They won't miss anything because the classes aren't going to do anything. How is that an instructional day?

And how would MCPS even be able to claim they had an instructional day when there's likely no ability to have the kids log in?

[Anonymous]

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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.

It turns out elementary isn't exempt from the 180 instructional day legal requirement.

PP you replied to. That is not the question. The point is that your kid won't miss anything if they skip virtual tomorrow. They can be marked absent and nothing will happen. I have an 18 and 13 year old in MCPS, and I know elementary is one long boring stretch of years where content get repeated a million times. Please don't worry about having your kid miss virtual learning.

I wonder how the before/after care programs would deal with this if it does happen. They intend to open tomorrow.

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If MCPS attempts this tomorrow, it will be the first and last time. It will go so poorly that MSDE will end up having to crack down on the virtual instruction loophole for the 180 day requirement.

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Anonymous wrote:If MCPS attempts this tomorrow, it will be the first and last time. It will go so poorly that MSDE will end up having to crack down on the virtual instruction loophole for the 180 day requirement.

Read above. It's already been announced at schools there won't be one. If there's inclement weather, it'll be a normal 2 hour delay and/or snow day. Maybe read before posting next time.

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Anonymous wrote:If MCPS attempts this tomorrow, it will be the first and last time. It will go so poorly that MSDE will end up having to crack down on the virtual instruction loophole for the 180 day requirement.

Also, no it wouldn't. Anne Arundel County has used virtual twice this year. Went fine. They don't have crazy MoCo parents though so there's always that. MDSE won't crack down on anything because every other county is sane.

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Anonymous wrote:If MCPS attempts this tomorrow, it will be the first and last time. It will go so poorly that MSDE will end up having to crack down on the virtual instruction loophole for the 180 day requirement.

Read above. It's already been announced at schools there won't be one. If there's inclement weather, it'll be a normal 2 hour delay and/or snow day. Maybe read before posting next time.

They should be prepared to make up the day then on 1/29

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Anonymous wrote:If MCPS attempts this tomorrow, it will be the first and last time. It will go so poorly that MSDE will end up having to crack down on the virtual instruction loophole for the 180 day requirement.

Read above. It's already been announced at schools there won't be one. If there's inclement weather, it'll be a normal 2 hour delay and/or snow day. Maybe read before posting next time.

They should be prepared to make up the day then on 1/29

That it would be the ideal solution and extend the quarter to that day. It will never happen though.