Survey Results On MSDE Site - 94% of teachers voted for Virtual; 60% of Parents Voted for In Person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at these results on page 14 at the link here:
http://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2020/0728/MDRecoveryPlanJuly2020.pdf


4% of teachers voted for in person; 93% for virtual and 1% hybrid
58% of parents voted for in person; 27% virtual and 1% hybrid
50% of students voted for in person; 17% voted for virtual and 0% hybrid

*These numbers don't add up to 100% because some people just responded with other questions or alternative propossals.

There is a Maryland Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday - you can submit comments in advance and also call. in The counties plans are NOT finalized. Make your voices heard, however you feel.

I’m new to this. How do you submit comments? I will be furious if HS is asynchronous. Why can’t teachers do live zoom calls and actually educate our students versus just calling it in?

Go to MSDE website and you will see a blurb on there about the Board of Education Meeting.

[Anonymous]

This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

[Anonymous]

The problem with a survey like that is that it’s offering a free lunch. Something has to give between the lack of learning in remote school and the lack of revenue for the systems. The teachers should have been offered something like in-person for the traditional school year vs year round DL at the same pay. The parents should have been offered in-person with higher taxes vs DL with current taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with a survey like that is that it’s offering a free lunch. Something has to give between the lack of learning in remote school and the lack of revenue for the systems. The teachers should have been offered something like in-person for the traditional school year vs year round DL at the same pay. The parents should have been offered in-person with higher taxes vs DL with current taxes.

IT WASN'T A SURVEY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

OP, asking for the MCPS survey data is important. What you posted doesn't shed light on MCPS opinions because the emails that they tallied/analyzed represent the entire state of Maryland and represent a self-selected small group of individuals that emailed the MD BOE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

OP, asking for the MCPS survey data is important. What you posted doesn't shed light on MCPS opinions because the emails that they tallied/analyzed represent the entire state of Maryland and represent a self-selected small group of individuals that emailed the MD BOE.

This is the Maryland Education Board so it is relevant. We do really want to see the results of MCPS' survey though. Not sure why they are holding back on releasing that info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with a survey like that is that it’s offering a free lunch. Something has to give between the lack of learning in remote school and the lack of revenue for the systems. The teachers should have been offered something like in-person for the traditional school year vs year round DL at the same pay. The parents should have been offered in-person with higher taxes vs DL with current taxes.

IT WASN'T A SURVEY.

+1 do people just post without reading some of the thread or even look at the links? Or is it a lack of reading comphrension?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

OP, asking for the MCPS survey data is important. What you posted doesn't shed light on MCPS opinions because the emails that they tallied/analyzed represent the entire state of Maryland and represent a self-selected small group of individuals that emailed the MD BOE.

This is the Maryland Education Board so it is relevant. We do really want to see the results of MCPS' survey though. Not sure why they are holding back on releasing that info.

No, we don't know if it relevant. It could be that every email came from counties except MoCo. We don't know because we don't have enough info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

Why is MCPS not releasing the results of the survey? What was the point of it?

Can a PTA submit some sort of FOIA type request?

[Anonymous]

Until the pandemic goes away I would like DL for my kid. My child is in a good MCPS program with a fantastic cohort so being in person at school works for him. But for the duration of the pandemic I would like DL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

Why is MCPS not releasing the results of the survey? What was the point of it?

Can a PTA submit some sort of FOIA type request?

I wonder if a FOIA would get them to release it. It’s shameful that the results have not been published.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

MISLEADING
MISLEADING
MISLEADING

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

MCPS parent and staff survey results were discussed and released at the July 14th board meeting. You can watch it here. Powerpoint with survey data starts around 1:46:00. MCPS is not hiding stuff from you.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/Public#

The gist is

Parents: 42% in-person; 22% virtual; 35% undecided

Staff: 25% in-person; 55% virtual; 22% undecided

N= 58,000+ for parents
Don't know staff but I'm sure they mention it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Yes, this is not the survey that MCPS sent around. Those results have been tallied but MCPS WILL NOT release those results for some reason. Many parents have asked, including my PTA. When I said survey in regards to these results, I should have said a tally.

Why is MCPS not releasing the results of the survey? What was the point of it?

Can a PTA submit some sort of FOIA type request?

I wonder if a FOIA would get them to release it. It’s shameful that the results have not been published.

That’s a good idea. By the way is there some parents organization, outside of the PTA, where parents can organize and present their views - kind of like MEAS does for teachers. I don’t feel like there is someone speaking for parents, regardless of whether we want DL, F2 or hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with a survey like that is that it’s offering a free lunch. Something has to give between the lack of learning in remote school and the lack of revenue for the systems. The teachers should have been offered something like in-person for the traditional school year vs year round DL at the same pay. The parents should have been offered in-person with higher taxes vs DL with current taxes.

Last spring, I provided as much instruction as MCPS would allow. I offered to do additional live Zooms that were purely optional, but my principal said I could not because they conflicted with times that students were supposed to be at lunch or allow siblings to use a shared device. The other option was to offer these supplementary Zooms after 4 pm when my own family needed me.