11 schools going virtual for 14 days starting tomorrow, 1/5

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hoping that MCPS will go virtual AND will address the reasons why it was not as effective as in-person teaching.
The reason why virtual learning did not go well last year for many is not so much the format. It is due to grade inflation, the fact that teachers can not give less than 50% even when students are cheating or not doing the work, the fact that students don't have to attend a class more than a minute to be officially present, that they did not have to turn their camera on, the lack of deadlines except for the last day of the marking period... Teachers want to instill good work ethics, good habits, honesty... They are forced to do just the opposite. This is not how we prepare children and teenagers for their future.

FFS. Virtual doesn't work for children because children are not robots. Even rodents get stressed by social isolation; you think primates do better with it?

Most children are not isolated during virtual learning. They have their siblings and families around them. We are talking about a couple of weeks. Sorry that you don’t know what to do with your kids unless they are in a school building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The FARMS/ESOL thing is just ridiculous, and is the kind of pick-your-data-to-back-your-bias (or, in this case, pick a single datum and insinuate that it supports a viewpoint) that pervades modern American discourse. Look at the rates in all the schools. Do you see higher positive rates correlating well with higher ESOL/FARMS schools? Nope!

It's actually that opposite, higher rates at more affluent schools (probably because of more testing), although the correlation isn't that strong to me.

https://twitter.com/Jill4allMoCo/status/1478761802540494848?t=VmNITUrk3Qs0kq1LzFqY-A&s=19

I know this person is very controversial here, but the data looks legitimate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hoping that MCPS will go virtual AND will address the reasons why it was not as effective as in-person teaching.
The reason why virtual learning did not go well last year for many is not so much the format. It is due to grade inflation, the fact that teachers can not give less than 50% even when students are cheating or not doing the work, the fact that students don't have to attend a class more than a minute to be officially present, that they did not have to turn their camera on, the lack of deadlines except for the last day of the marking period... Teachers want to instill good work ethics, good habits, honesty... They are forced to do just the opposite. This is not how we prepare children and teenagers for their future.

FFS. Virtual doesn't work for children because children are not robots. Even rodents get stressed by social isolation; you think primates do better with it?

Most children are not isolated during virtual learning. They have their siblings and families around them. We are talking about a couple of weeks. Sorry that you don’t know what to do with your kids unless they are in a school building.

Sorry you don’t realize that not every child has a sibling, not every child has a family that apparently just lays around the house with the children like you do, sorry you don’t realize that some children actually have really poor home lives and would rather be at school. Sorry you don’t realize that for some children home life is very dangerous -home life has no food, home life has no electricity, home life has no stability. You’re a pompous jerk. I sincerely hope you never had children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hoping that MCPS will go virtual AND will address the reasons why it was not as effective as in-person teaching.
The reason why virtual learning did not go well last year for many is not so much the format. It is due to grade inflation, the fact that teachers can not give less than 50% even when students are cheating or not doing the work, the fact that students don't have to attend a class more than a minute to be officially present, that they did not have to turn their camera on, the lack of deadlines except for the last day of the marking period... Teachers want to instill good work ethics, good habits, honesty... They are forced to do just the opposite. This is not how we prepare children and teenagers for their future.

FFS. Virtual doesn't work for children because children are not robots. Even rodents get stressed by social isolation; you think primates do better with it?

Most children are not isolated during virtual learning. They have their siblings and families around them. We are talking about a couple of weeks. Sorry that you don’t know what to do with your kids unless they are in a school building.

Sorry you don’t realize that not every child has a sibling, not every child has a family that apparently just lays around the house with the children like you do, sorry you don’t realize that some children actually have really poor home lives and would rather be at school. Sorry you don’t realize that for some children home life is very dangerous -home life has no food, home life has no electricity, home life has no stability. You’re a pompous jerk. I sincerely hope you never had children.

+1 Sounds completely crazy, Old and bitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hoping that MCPS will go virtual AND will address the reasons why it was not as effective as in-person teaching.
The reason why virtual learning did not go well last year for many is not so much the format. It is due to grade inflation, the fact that teachers can not give less than 50% even when students are cheating or not doing the work, the fact that students don't have to attend a class more than a minute to be officially present, that they did not have to turn their camera on, the lack of deadlines except for the last day of the marking period... Teachers want to instill good work ethics, good habits, honesty... They are forced to do just the opposite. This is not how we prepare children and teenagers for their future.

FFS. Virtual doesn't work for children because children are not robots. Even rodents get stressed by social isolation; you think primates do better with it?

Most children are not isolated during virtual learning. They have their siblings and families around them. We are talking about a couple of weeks. Sorry that you don’t know what to do with your kids unless they are in a school building.

Sorry you don’t realize that not every child has a sibling, not every child has a family that apparently just lays around the house with the children like you do, sorry you don’t realize that some children actually have really poor home lives and would rather be at school. Sorry you don’t realize that for some children home life is very dangerous -home life has no food, home life has no electricity, home life has no stability. You’re a pompous jerk. I sincerely hope you never had children.

+1 Sounds completely crazy, Old and bitter.

+2 from the PP who originally noted that children aren't robots. S/he also forgot that at a certain age, kids need *peers* for healthy social and emotional development. It's also disingenuous AF to ignore that these closures are occurring in the context of nearly two years of disruption, so that even if kids haven't been isolated for the entire time, they've had so much stress to contend with. It's not like everything has been hunky-dory and now there's a random, brief closure. It's more stress on top of stress, and for recently-vaccinated elementary kids, isolation we all thought their vaccines would preclude. Good times.

[Anonymous]

How many of these schools are in ES?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hoping that MCPS will go virtual AND will address the reasons why it was not as effective as in-person teaching.
The reason why virtual learning did not go well last year for many is not so much the format. It is due to grade inflation, the fact that teachers can not give less than 50% even when students are cheating or not doing the work, the fact that students don't have to attend a class more than a minute to be officially present, that they did not have to turn their camera on, the lack of deadlines except for the last day of the marking period... Teachers want to instill good work ethics, good habits, honesty... They are forced to do just the opposite. This is not how we prepare children and teenagers for their future.

FFS. Virtual doesn't work for children because children are not robots. Even rodents get stressed by social isolation; you think primates do better with it?

Most children are not isolated during virtual learning. They have their siblings and families around them. We are talking about a couple of weeks. Sorry that you don’t know what to do with your kids unless they are in a school building.

Sorry you don’t realize that not every child has a sibling, not every child has a family that apparently just lays around the house with the children like you do, sorry you don’t realize that some children actually have really poor home lives and would rather be at school. Sorry you don’t realize that for some children home life is very dangerous -home life has no food, home life has no electricity, home life has no stability. You’re a pompous jerk. I sincerely hope you never had children.

+1 Sounds completely crazy, Old and bitter.

+2 from the PP who originally noted that children aren't robots. S/he also forgot that at a certain age, kids need *peers* for healthy social and emotional development. It's also disingenuous AF to ignore that these closures are occurring in the context of nearly two years of disruption, so that even if kids haven't been isolated for the entire time, they've had so much stress to contend with. It's not like everything has been hunky-dory and now there's a random, brief closure. It's more stress on top of stress, and for recently-vaccinated elementary kids, isolation we all thought their vaccines would preclude. Good times.

I'm sure these parents would disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kmTC8OqfM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hoping that MCPS will go virtual AND will address the reasons why it was not as effective as in-person teaching.
The reason why virtual learning did not go well last year for many is not so much the format. It is due to grade inflation, the fact that teachers can not give less than 50% even when students are cheating or not doing the work, the fact that students don't have to attend a class more than a minute to be officially present, that they did not have to turn their camera on, the lack of deadlines except for the last day of the marking period... Teachers want to instill good work ethics, good habits, honesty... They are forced to do just the opposite. This is not how we prepare children and teenagers for their future.

Yes grade inflation is why virtual learning sucks for K-4. Give me a break.

You can require your kids to do the work.

A kid can have his parent teach him everything. That does not make DL "learning," especially for K-4.

I'm so tired of this charade that DL is education, especially for the youngest kids. We would be better off just cancelling school entirely rather than continuing to engage in this mass delusion.

We are out of teachers! Out of subs, out of paras, out of bus drivers. We’re probably even out of janitors. What do you expect the schools to do? I expect they’re at least as tired of it as you are.