Virtual Learning - Why Not MCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Also explain how the virtual school days are providing the services and supports identified in students' IEPs.

Do they not have IEPs in Baltimore and Anne Arundel? Hint: They do as they’re required by federal law.

Perhaps the MCPS staff can call them and figure out how a well organized school district manages to educate their kids after they exhaust the 3 snow days they built into the calendar when MCPS is so incompetent it only includes one snow day.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

+1 million. There is zero evidence that providing zero education is superior to virtual education.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

MCPS has to do make-up days. I'm sorry that will disrupt your summer vacation, but you should have known this would happen. Especially after last year.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Also explain how the virtual school days are providing the services and supports identified in students' IEPs.

Do they not have IEPs in Baltimore and Anne Arundel? Hint: They do as they’re required by federal law.

Perhaps the MCPS staff can call them and figure out how a well organized school district manages to educate their kids after they exhaust the 3 snow days they built into the calendar when MCPS is so incompetent it only includes one snow day.

And again, we should hear how Baltimore and Anne Arundel county provide special education services and supports over the next two days. Or, if like MCPS during the pandemic, they just don't.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

+1 million. There is zero evidence that providing zero education is superior to virtual education.

No one is saying that. But MCPS has an obligation under Maryland law to make up the lost days to reach 180.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

A lot of the data on how poorly virtual learning during COVID went pretty much said that virtual school was pretty much the same as not going to school, in terms of what students were able to achieve with academic benchmarks.

So yeah, the data is out there on virtual learning and how much it sucks on a MASS scale.

You can make it work for a class, assuming the majority of students and families are well-resourced and highly motivated. You can maybe even make it work for a small private school, where everyone is paying and opted-in to education.

You can't make it work well for state-mandated, public school districts that don't get to pick and choose which students and families it serves.

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A few of my kids middle school teachers sent home work last week, and have been messaging about doing it. The math teacher plans to have a math test on Monday for the material she sent home.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

MCPS has to do make-up days. I'm sorry that will disrupt your summer vacation, but you should have known this would happen. Especially after last year.

My kids attended those June make up half days last year. they did nothing but watch videos and play games.

I’m sorry that you don’t want kids to be educated now so they can actually do the assigned curriculum. Especially after last year.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

A lot of the data on how poorly virtual learning during COVID went pretty much said that virtual school was pretty much the same as not going to school, in terms of what students were able to achieve with academic benchmarks.

So yeah, the data is out there on virtual learning and how much it sucks on a MASS scale.

You can make it work for a class, assuming the majority of students and families are well-resourced and highly motivated. You can maybe even make it work for a small private school, where everyone is paying and opted-in to education.

You can't make it work well for state-mandated, public school districts that don't get to pick and choose which students and families it serves.

Feel free to cite that research. The research I read states that pandemic period learning online was detrimental to learning outcomes relative to in person learning, but I never read anything that said virtual learning is worse than no learning at all.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

A lot of the data on how poorly virtual learning during COVID went pretty much said that virtual school was pretty much the same as not going to school, in terms of what students were able to achieve with academic benchmarks.

So yeah, the data is out there on virtual learning and how much it sucks on a MASS scale.

You can make it work for a class, assuming the majority of students and families are well-resourced and highly motivated. You can maybe even make it work for a small private school, where everyone is paying and opted-in to education.

You can't make it work well for state-mandated, public school districts that don't get to pick and choose which students and families it serves.

Feel free to cite that research. The research I read states that pandemic period learning online was detrimental to learning outcomes relative to in person learning, but I never read anything that said virtual learning is worse than no learning at all.

Over a lifetime? Sure. But for a week? It's doubtful it makes that much of a difference.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

A lot of the data on how poorly virtual learning during COVID went pretty much said that virtual school was pretty much the same as not going to school, in terms of what students were able to achieve with academic benchmarks.

So yeah, the data is out there on virtual learning and how much it sucks on a MASS scale.

You can make it work for a class, assuming the majority of students and families are well-resourced and highly motivated. You can maybe even make it work for a small private school, where everyone is paying and opted-in to education.

You can't make it work well for state-mandated, public school districts that don't get to pick and choose which students and families it serves.

Feel free to cite that research. The research I read states that pandemic period learning online was detrimental to learning outcomes relative to in person learning, but I never read anything that said virtual learning is worse than no learning at all.

Over a lifetime? Sure. But for a week? It's doubtful it makes that much of a difference.

So you have no research to cite. You just don’t like virtual learning and think it’s preferable to add on days in June where kids are encouraged not to come in and teachers play videos.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Can you share data first on the impact of providing zero schooling because you’re too lazy to do second best options?

A lot of the data on how poorly virtual learning during COVID went pretty much said that virtual school was pretty much the same as not going to school, in terms of what students were able to achieve with academic benchmarks.

So yeah, the data is out there on virtual learning and how much it sucks on a MASS scale.

You can make it work for a class, assuming the majority of students and families are well-resourced and highly motivated. You can maybe even make it work for a small private school, where everyone is paying and opted-in to education.

You can't make it work well for state-mandated, public school districts that don't get to pick and choose which students and families it serves.

Feel free to cite that research. The research I read states that pandemic period learning online was detrimental to learning outcomes relative to in person learning, but I never read anything that said virtual learning is worse than no learning at all.

Over a lifetime? Sure. But for a week? It's doubtful it makes that much of a difference.

So you have no research to cite. You just don’t like virtual learning and think it’s preferable to add on days in June where kids are encouraged not to come in and teachers play videos.

I actually didn't say I prefer to add days in June. I think that's worthless too. The best thing to do is to seek the waiver from the state for the 180-day state requirement.

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Man, I know that there are some pandemic-era parents whose kids had a hard time and are kind of scarre from those days, but can y'all try to step back and be rational rather than react emotionally from a "I hated the COVID year" place? The rest of us are tired of our kids losing multiple days of education every year due to snow days and would like our kids to actually get some learning in rather than those useless last few days of school. We get it, not all kids learn well online, but you guys act like it's the end of the world .. pretty clearly some kind of trauma response, and again, I get it, but fake a breath and try to move through it.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no longer true that every student has a Chromebook. Some schools returned to the cart model because parents complained about 1:1.

Every kid in middle and high school has a chromebook all the time.

My kids (bcc cluster) certainly do. I read that Pyle MS moved away to having carts so kids only get Chromebooks when they need them which is not as often, but even if that’s the case, there are enough laptops for every student and central office should have had the foresight to tell schools to distribute them on Thursday and Friday considering every news outlet predicted a major storm.

You must be at Westland. Silver Creek uses the cart model.

The storm was predicted for a week. silver creek could have taken the computers off the cart and sent them home. My MS kid has been using his to do IXL and a few of his teachers posted assignments today due 2 days after school is back in session (whenever that is.)

If MCPS wanted to do virtual, they would have had to come up with a plan, presented it at the BOE, provided an opportunity to have public comment, and then the BOE would have needed to vote to adopt it. It could not be asynchronous; only synchronous instruction counts. These are all state requirements. MCPS did not of these. So no, Silver Creek and other schools could not have simply sent students home with Chromebooks. MUCH more planning would have had to go into it.

If only we had known there was a big storm coming a week ahead of time. Oh wait, we did.

You wanted MCPS to: create a plan, present it to the BoE, open it for public feedback, approve it by the BoE, submit it to the state, inform teachers of the intent to go virtual, have teachers create new lesson plans, etc, all over the course of one week?!?!

MCPS has a billion dollar plus budget. Last year it had 3 extra snow days it didn’t budget for.

Why are you writing as if it’s a shock to the system to expect paid staff members to plan for something that has repeatedly occurred and has been a problem?

DCPs for all its poverty did asynchronous learning today. Other school districts will do virtual learning tomorrow.

Why is MCPS doing nothing but making snow day videos?

What school district is doing synchronous virtual school tomorrow?

A tiny little school district you might of heard of called Baltimore county. They’ve depleted all 3 of their 3 allocated snow days and have moved to virtual.

Compare that to poorly planned MCPS which has used up three snow days despite only allocating one and where posters here are shocked that MCPS might be expected to plan anything after using up way more than it’s allocated snow days last year

Baltimore county moves to virtual Thursday Friday https://nottinghammd.com/2026/01/28/bcps-shifts-to-virtual-learning-on-thursday-friday-harford-co-schools-closed/
Looks like Anne arundel may be doing virtual tomorrow as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-closed-virtual-learning-snow-day/

These are Maryland school districts doing something while MCPS concentrates its resources on snow day videos.

Great. I would like to see:

1) What percentage of kids showed up for the virtual days
2) How engaged those students who showed up for the virtual learning days were
3) What impact those virtual learning days had on their ability to achieve state-required proficiencies in math and reading

Once that data is in, and if it's compelling, then we can say that MCPS is doing something wrong by not following in these two districts' footsteps.

Also explain how the virtual school days are providing the services and supports identified in students' IEPs.

Do they not have IEPs in Baltimore and Anne Arundel? Hint: They do as they’re required by federal law.

Perhaps the MCPS staff can call them and figure out how a well organized school district manages to educate their kids after they exhaust the 3 snow days they built into the calendar when MCPS is so incompetent it only includes one snow day.

And again, we should hear how Baltimore and Anne Arundel county provide special education services and supports over the next two days. Or, if like MCPS during the pandemic, they just don't.

There are a dozen school districts in New York State that moved to virtual learning on Wednesday. They have a policy that the first two days are snow days after a big storm and if schools can’t open after that, they automatically move to virtual learning to avoid adversely impacting completion of the assigned curriculum.

DCPS also moved to asynchronous learn in today.
It’s MCPS that can’t seem to do anything.