Virtual?

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher and just checked my email and I do not have anything indicating that it will be a code Purple on Friday. Not to say that it won't happen, just that it doesn't appear that a decision has been made.

[Anonymous]

Got an email from principal of son's MS with a survey asking what technology/computers we had at home "due to recent weather conditions" ... didn't specify a timeframe, though

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

[Anonymous]

Thank you teachers!

[Anonymous]

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

You think they're going to be tracking that $hitshow? It doesn't matter if you do it or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

You think they're going to be tracking that $hitshow? It doesn't matter if you do it or not.

Exactly. MCPS has no plan. They must have sent something to schools saying to prepare for virtual days, but half the schools aren't and the other half are all telling their staff different things. One of the messages must have been something like after two snow days, it's virtual because now people are scrambling because they think Friday is going to be virtual. Another mess caused by MCPS central office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

Can’t be live on Friday. First day of code purple is a teacher planning day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

"The only winning move is not to play."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

Can’t be live on Friday. First day of code purple is a teacher planning day

I'm just asking a question, not advocating for this, but if they cancel school tomorrow and call "code purple" wouldn't that make virtual on Friday a possibility?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

Can’t be live on Friday. First day of code purple is a teacher planning day

I'm just asking a question, not advocating for this, but if they cancel school tomorrow and call "code purple" wouldn't that make virtual on Friday a possibility?

Perhaps, but that wouldn't make any sense. Why would you close on a day when you could open just so you can have one virtual day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

Can’t be live on Friday. First day of code purple is a teacher planning day

There is no planning. It’s essentially meeting with each period for 30 minutes. That’s how it was explained to me. I don’t need to plan for a check in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

Can’t be live on Friday. First day of code purple is a teacher planning day

I'm just asking a question, not advocating for this, but if they cancel school tomorrow and call "code purple" wouldn't that make virtual on Friday a possibility?

Can't do virtual without an in-school tech (Chromebook) prep day first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

Can’t be live on Friday. First day of code purple is a teacher planning day

I'm just asking a question, not advocating for this, but if they cancel school tomorrow and call "code purple" wouldn't that make virtual on Friday a possibility?

Perhaps, but that wouldn't make any sense. Why would you close on a day when you could open just so you can have one virtual day?

Maybe they forgot that they didn't clean the parking lots again?

I don't know, it's MCPS. I'm not sure "does it make sense?" is part of their decision tree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

Can’t be live on Friday. First day of code purple is a teacher planning day

There is no planning. It’s essentially meeting with each period for 30 minutes. That’s how it was explained to me. I don’t need to plan for a check in.

How is that an instructional day? Or would MCPS not try to count it as one of the required 180 days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and I got an email from admin to be ready Friday for virtual. My impression is that if they call it, it’s 100% a virtual day. Live checkins for all periods. Needed as time is ticking for end of the semester. Maybe elementary will get packets?

Can’t be live on Friday. First day of code purple is a teacher planning day

I'm just asking a question, not advocating for this, but if they cancel school tomorrow and call "code purple" wouldn't that make virtual on Friday a possibility?

Can't do virtual without an in-school tech (Chromebook) prep day first.

Why? MCPS knows students aren't going to call in either way.