Starting next week - Kindergarteners have to carry laptops back and forth???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

Find something more egregious to complain about. This is low on the totem pole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, your level of hysteria and overreaction is the real issue.

DP. If they told me I'd be liable for a laptop that they choose to give to my kindergartener, I'd be annoyed too. I also wouldn't want my kindergartener having to carry a laptop every day. Yes, they aren't that heavy anymore, but they are heaving for a kindergartener to schlep every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

Find something more egregious to complain about. This is low on the totem pole.

People get to decide what's high or low on their totem pole. What impacted me when my kids were in kindergarten is very different than what impacts me now that they are high schoolers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

That’s a decision your school made, not the district.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s a good idea to teach the kids how to long in and how to do simple things on the computer, just in case it will be needed (school shutdown). Our school has the kids take computers back and forth so they can charge at home and also so the kids have a computer at home if they need to quarantine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m teaching K and we haven’t even gotten the kids logged into the laptops yet.

Are you going to send them home with the children starting next week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

Find something more egregious to complain about. This is low on the totem pole.

I can think of about 10 other posts in this board that are far dumber than this one. People are allowed to complain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

That’s a decision your school made, not the district.

It's still an FCPS school. Stop policing the threads, weirdo.

[Anonymous]

I thought the law was that K kids had to be picked up by someone — like a parent, babysitter, or bus? So couldn’t you just carry it for them?

[Anonymous]

Curbside pick up is time consuming. Managing it during the school day is going to mean lots of staff time lost. Plus quarantined people shouldn’t be coming on school property, parents may be WFH and so unable to pick up. There are lots of reasons why it doesn’t work as a strategy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the law was that K kids had to be picked up by someone — like a parent, babysitter, or bus? So couldn’t you just carry it for them?

Of course the adult can carry it. But then OP would have nothing to complain about.

[Anonymous]

We were told that K-2 keep them at school and 3-5 take them home each night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curbside pick up is time consuming. Managing it during the school day is going to mean lots of staff time lost. Plus quarantined people shouldn’t be coming on school property, parents may be WFH and so unable to pick up. There are lots of reasons why it doesn’t work as a strategy.

+1, and many families don’t show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m teaching K and we haven’t even gotten the kids logged into the laptops yet.

Are you going to send them home with the children starting next week?

I didn’t plan to…no one has told us to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a good idea to teach the kids how to long in and how to do simple things on the computer, just in case it will be needed (school shutdown). Our school has the kids take computers back and forth so they can charge at home and also so the kids have a computer at home if they need to quarantine

Yes but it’s been 2 weeks with trying to get the basics of school down. It’s not been the top of my priorities.