I don’t like the new concurrent plan (FCPS)

[Anonymous]

You lost me at DL is going well.

Nice try, Brabrand. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how it will be much different for the kids at home on a computer. Sometimes they’re looking at the teacher, sometimes they’re looking at a Google slide, sometimes they’re doing independent work, sometimes they’re in a breakout room. If that’s working for you now, great.

It'll essentially be the same, bit they may need to wait longer for the teacher to address their chat message or notice that their hand is raised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how it will be much different for the kids at home on a computer. Sometimes they’re looking at the teacher, sometimes they’re looking at a Google slide, sometimes they’re doing independent work, sometimes they’re in a breakout room. If that’s working for you now, great.

It'll essentially be the same, bit they may need to wait longer for the teacher to address their chat message or notice that their hand is raised.

Agree. But also teachers can signal to kids when it’s an appropriate time to raise their hands, like ours has been anyway.

[Anonymous]

Teachers will adjust your multitasking, the kids will be fine if they just model resilience right? You’re up!

[Anonymous]

Sure, make parents do half your job, work four days a week, blame unsubstantiated claims about the danger of the virus, ignore the data, tank the economy - teachers in 2020 - greatest generation.

[Anonymous]

I like it a lot. I hope they get it off the ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like it a lot. I hope they get it off the ground.

+1

I emailed my school board members and the at large members and told them this. I'll email again this week and repeat that the concurrent plan sounds good and say how poorly my kid is doing right now, academically and emotionally, with DL.

[Anonymous]

“The only reason they have moving to this new plan is because SOLs aren’t waived. They need 4 days of instruction to even attempt the SOLs. Anyone agree?“

Soooo, on one hand you say kids get shortchanged with this, but on the other you admit the kids need more isntruction to keep up with SOLs. See the problem? Our kids are going to be sooooooo behind other kids that had 4-5 days of school a week starting in September. Parents can not effectively homeschool 3 days a week all year, and full time DL all year is nuts. Too many families need support. Full time DL works fine for us, but I’m not stupid enough to think I’m in a typical situation. Almost every single family I know cannot make this work. The only ones that can have either one child, or multiples with a stay at home spouse and lots of money. It’s a huge problem. Something has to give. I think DL will be fine for mine even if it is a concurrent approach, might even be better because kids struggling at home will have some support from the teacher a coup of times a week, and it will improve the class as a whole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure, make parents do half your job, work four days a week, blame unsubstantiated claims about the danger of the virus, ignore the data, tank the economy - teachers in 2020 - greatest generation.

There's 49 other states in America. I'm sure they'd be thrilled to have your sparkling personality.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, make parents do half your job, work four days a week, blame unsubstantiated claims about the danger of the virus, ignore the data, tank the economy - teachers in 2020 - greatest generation.

There's 49 other states in America. I'm sure they'd be thrilled to have your sparkling personality.

But ... that PP is right. You know she's right, that's why it stings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, I don’t think the plan is going to be effective those two days at home....

That being said: why wasn’t this the plan we started with?

I suggested this months ago and was told multiple times it wasn't possible due to technology constraints.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly, I don’t think the plan is going to be effective those two days at home....

That being said: why wasn’t this the plan we started with?

I suggested this months ago and was told multiple times it wasn't possible due to technology constraints.

It's still not possible for every student in the building to log in to BBCU/Meet for hours every day. Teachers will have to project the lesson and the at-home students and teach the in-person students directly. Not via laptop, not just DL in the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I disagree. I think of a teacher can handle 20-30 kids online she can definitely handle having a third of them with her in class at the same time. Smaller online cohort is easier, and she will have eyes on everyone else. Many other benefits. This is being done at other schools successfully, don’t believe the excuses.

Are you a teacher teaching online? Obviously not. If you listen to any of the teachers who are already doing this, they say it is an utter disaster. There is no way to be effective with both in person and online students at the same time. They are entirely different modalities. They only watt his would “work” is if instruction stayed in the online modality while kids were actually in the classroom, with small groups working with the teacher during rotations, but all direct instruction being online. But FCPS can’t do that because the bandwidth in buildings can’t sustain that many people on Meet or BBCU at once.

Everyone is going to be shortchanged by this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, I don’t think the plan is going to be effective those two days at home....

That being said: why wasn’t this the plan we started with?

I suggested this months ago and was told multiple times it wasn't possible due to technology constraints.

People needed to see what the DL classroom looked like. I’ll admit, it’s nothing like what I thought it would be, I hated it at first but can see how the way it’s being done will make concurrent teaching possible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If this is the plan then I really wish I could just opt out of the 2 days at home.

Agree. I don’t want my child having to log in and watch a classroom. Talk about boring. I would much rather have my child working on independent work. I think the 2 days at home with concurrent instruction will be FAR worse than DL now.

Totally agree. This is going to be a logistical nightmare and way worse than just doing asynchronous work in the off-days.