Virtual Snow Days

[Anonymous]

Ooo! Colors:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2022-2023/Community-Message-20230113.html



(And I'm colorblind! Where's the equity!? )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ooo! Colors:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2022-2023/Community-Message-20230113.html



(And I'm colorblind! Where's the equity!? )

MCPS sends emails, texts, and voicemails for most communication. So I’d fully expect you would be able to read text or hear the audio “ It’s now a blue day” and what that means just like before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days. He said to pay attention to weather forecasts and remind students to take devices home. He also said there will be a color code similar to Howard County on snow days to differentiate when schools are closed in person but open online or when teachers have to report to the building but students do not. I didn’t get to ask what I’m supposed to do with my own children if I Mayo see to work from school but they aren’t in school in person. Or how I’m supposed to be stuck on zoom with a 7 year old running around. I refuse to teach on zoom for a snow day. I will post asynchronous homework. Children deserve to have snow days. This will continue to drive parents away from MCPS to private schools.

You do the same thing that other working parents do when school is closed but work is not. You make sure you have backup childcare in place or you negotiate with you spouse (if you have) who will supervise the children on a given day. If it’s your day to supervise your children, you take the day off and use PTO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days. He said to pay attention to weather forecasts and remind students to take devices home. He also said there will be a color code similar to Howard County on snow days to differentiate when schools are closed in person but open online or when teachers have to report to the building but students do not. I didn’t get to ask what I’m supposed to do with my own children if I Mayo see to work from school but they aren’t in school in person. Or how I’m supposed to be stuck on zoom with a 7 year old running around. I refuse to teach on zoom for a snow day. I will post asynchronous homework. Children deserve to have snow days. This will continue to drive parents away from MCPS to private schools.

You do the same thing you do summers, holidays and weekends. You figure it out... they are your kids, not MCPS. You are welcome to go to private.

Your post makes no sense. First you complain about child care, then you complain about kids getting school work. MCPS is for education. If kids are on zoom, you are not teaching them, the teachers are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days. He said to pay attention to weather forecasts and remind students to take devices home. He also said there will be a color code similar to Howard County on snow days to differentiate when schools are closed in person but open online or when teachers have to report to the building but students do not. I didn’t get to ask what I’m supposed to do with my own children if I Mayo see to work from school but they aren’t in school in person. Or how I’m supposed to be stuck on zoom with a 7 year old running around. I refuse to teach on zoom for a snow day. I will post asynchronous homework. Children deserve to have snow days. This will continue to drive parents away from MCPS to private schools.

You do the same thing that other working parents do when school is closed but work is not. You make sure you have backup childcare in place or you negotiate with you spouse (if you have) who will supervise the children on a given day. If it’s your day to supervise your children, you take the day off and use PTO.

This. I’m a teacher too. We don’t get to complain about lack of childcare AND hold the line that we are NOT childcare.
My kids are now old enough that they will independently log in (although I will make it a choice for them, I think they deserve a random day off here and there) but if they were younger, I would take the day off. It is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days. He said to pay attention to weather forecasts and remind students to take devices home. He also said there will be a color code similar to Howard County on snow days to differentiate when schools are closed in person but open online or when teachers have to report to the building but students do not. I didn’t get to ask what I’m supposed to do with my own children if I Mayo see to work from school but they aren’t in school in person. Or how I’m supposed to be stuck on zoom with a 7 year old running around. I refuse to teach on zoom for a snow day. I will post asynchronous homework. Children deserve to have snow days. This will continue to drive parents away from MCPS to private schools.

You do the same thing that other working parents do when school is closed but work is not. You make sure you have backup childcare in place or you negotiate with you spouse (if you have) who will supervise the children on a given day. If it’s your day to supervise your children, you take the day off and use PTO.

Everyone I know with kids that isn’t a teacher has a job flexible enough or with enough leave that they don’t have to work from home while supervising their child. Yet they get paid 300% more than I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days. He said to pay attention to weather forecasts and remind students to take devices home. He also said there will be a color code similar to Howard County on snow days to differentiate when schools are closed in person but open online or when teachers have to report to the building but students do not. I didn’t get to ask what I’m supposed to do with my own children if I Mayo see to work from school but they aren’t in school in person. Or how I’m supposed to be stuck on zoom with a 7 year old running around. I refuse to teach on zoom for a snow day. I will post asynchronous homework. Children deserve to have snow days. This will continue to drive parents away from MCPS to private schools.

You do the same thing that other working parents do when school is closed but work is not. You make sure you have backup childcare in place or you negotiate with you spouse (if you have) who will supervise the children on a given day. If it’s your day to supervise your children, you take the day off and use PTO.

This. I’m a teacher too. We don’t get to complain about lack of childcare AND hold the line that we are NOT childcare.
My kids are now old enough that they will independently log in (although I will make it a choice for them, I think they deserve a random day off here and there) but if they were younger, I would take the day off. It is what it is.

I don’t want childcare for my child. My 7 yo will not engage in virtual learning. She didn’t do it in kindergarten so we homeschooled for first grade until we thought things would be normal again. Since all the research shows how ineffective online instruction was, I never predicted synchronous online instruction happening again for things like snow days! I would much rather print out some worksheets and work around my own work schedule to help her than try to glue her to a Chromebook while I’m also stuck behind a screen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days. He said to pay attention to weather forecasts and remind students to take devices home. He also said there will be a color code similar to Howard County on snow days to differentiate when schools are closed in person but open online or when teachers have to report to the building but students do not. I didn’t get to ask what I’m supposed to do with my own children if I Mayo see to work from school but they aren’t in school in person. Or how I’m supposed to be stuck on zoom with a 7 year old running around. I refuse to teach on zoom for a snow day. I will post asynchronous homework. Children deserve to have snow days. This will continue to drive parents away from MCPS to private schools.

You do the same thing you do summers, holidays and weekends. You figure it out... they are your kids, not MCPS. You are welcome to go to private.

Your post makes no sense. First you complain about child care, then you complain about kids getting school work. MCPS is for education. If kids are on zoom, you are not teaching them, the teachers are.

Zoom is not a guarantee that a child will sit quietly behind a computer so their parent can be teaching online. What is the harm of not having synchronous instruction on a couple of snow days a year? We have days built into the school calendar for this reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days. He said to pay attention to weather forecasts and remind students to take devices home. He also said there will be a color code similar to Howard County on snow days to differentiate when schools are closed in person but open online or when teachers have to report to the building but students do not. I didn’t get to ask what I’m supposed to do with my own children if I Mayo see to work from school but they aren’t in school in person. Or how I’m supposed to be stuck on zoom with a 7 year old running around. I refuse to teach on zoom for a snow day. I will post asynchronous homework. Children deserve to have snow days. This will continue to drive parents away from MCPS to private schools.

You mean teachers “deserve” to have the day off.

No. I mean I want to let my kids play in the snow or watch TV all day so they can leave me alone while I do all the work of teaching that doesn’t happen in front of students like grading, planning, answering emails, creating instructional materials, etc. An actual school day wouldn’t be so chaotic if I could actually be prepared for the students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days.

Yeah, we're not doing this.

-Parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days. He said to pay attention to weather forecasts and remind students to take devices home. He also said there will be a color code similar to Howard County on snow days to differentiate when schools are closed in person but open online or when teachers have to report to the building but students do not. I didn’t get to ask what I’m supposed to do with my own children if I Mayo see to work from school but they aren’t in school in person. Or how I’m supposed to be stuck on zoom with a 7 year old running around. I refuse to teach on zoom for a snow day. I will post asynchronous homework. Children deserve to have snow days. This will continue to drive parents away from MCPS to private schools.

You do the same thing that other working parents do when school is closed but work is not. You make sure you have backup childcare in place or you negotiate with you spouse (if you have) who will supervise the children on a given day. If it’s your day to supervise your children, you take the day off and use PTO.

This. I’m a teacher too. We don’t get to complain about lack of childcare AND hold the line that we are NOT childcare.
My kids are now old enough that they will independently log in (although I will make it a choice for them, I think they deserve a random day off here and there) but if they were younger, I would take the day off. It is what it is.

I don’t want childcare for my child. My 7 yo will not engage in virtual learning. She didn’t do it in kindergarten so we homeschooled for first grade until we thought things would be normal again. Since all the research shows how ineffective online instruction was, I never predicted synchronous online instruction happening again for things like snow days! I would much rather print out some worksheets and work around my own work schedule to help her than try to glue her to a Chromebook while I’m also stuck behind a screen.

What did you do to help her? Sounds like you are part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days.

Yeah, we're not doing this.

-Parent

Neat. Thanks for sharing.

-Another parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days.

Yeah, we're not doing this.

-Parent

Neat. Thanks for sharing.

-Another parent

You're welcome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days.

Yeah, we're not doing this.

-Parent

Full disclosure- I’m not an mcps parent. But there’s zero chance I’d require my kid to get on a zoom on a sledding day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My principal told us Monday that MCPS was going to require live, synchronous zoom classes on snow days.

Yeah, we're not doing this.

-Parent

We won’t either. But I don’t care if they hold the zoom without us.

- another parent