Is LCPS doing that concurrent foolishness?

[Anonymous]

Concurrent is DL inside the school. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying through their tee teeth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Concurrent is DL inside the school. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying through their tee teeth.

Our principal said if his teachers aren’t able to manage it better than that (he thinks they can) then he will simply split the periods into 40 minutes in person/40 minutes DL with the other half of the class for learning lab/classwork. He has emphatically said he will not allow “DL at school.” He has stated this repeatedly. It helps to have an awesome principal who really cares about the kids. He has all of his own kids in hybrid and encouraged anyone who feels comfortable to do the same.

[Anonymous]

Board members are posting on SM they had no idea their metrics were so high, didn’t understand or consult medical panels when setting them, and that LCPS is way out of alignment by far with local districts. They literally do not know what they are doing setting the metrics this high and then saying it will take 5 full days there before they would transition back to DL. At this point Northam is going to have to step in and say any district in the red of primary metrics can’t phase in. It cannot be left up to people who admit they do not know how this works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Concurrent is DL inside the school. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying through their tee teeth.

Our principal said if his teachers aren’t able to manage it better than that (he thinks they can) then he will simply split the periods into 40 minutes in person/40 minutes DL with the other half of the class for learning lab/classwork. He has emphatically said he will not allow “DL at school.” He has stated this repeatedly. It helps to have an awesome principal who really cares about the kids. He has all of his own kids in hybrid and encouraged anyone who feels comfortable to do the same.

Gotta love a principal who throws his own teachers under the bus like that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Board members are posting on SM they had no idea their metrics were so high, didn’t understand or consult medical panels when setting them, and that LCPS is way out of alignment by far with local districts. They literally do not know what they are doing setting the metrics this high and then saying it will take 5 full days there before they would transition back to DL. At this point Northam is going to have to step in and say any district in the red of primary metrics can’t phase in. It cannot be left up to people who admit they do not know how this works.

“Board members” are not saying this. Looney Beth Barts is. She is an island unto herself and the other board members seem to largely ignore her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Concurrent is DL inside the school. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying through their tee teeth.

Our principal said if his teachers aren’t able to manage it better than that (he thinks they can) then he will simply split the periods into 40 minutes in person/40 minutes DL with the other half of the class for learning lab/classwork. He has emphatically said he will not allow “DL at school.” He has stated this repeatedly. It helps to have an awesome principal who really cares about the kids. He has all of his own kids in hybrid and encouraged anyone who feels comfortable to do the same.

Gotta love a principal who throws his own teachers under the bus like that

How so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Concurrent is DL inside the school. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying through their tee teeth.

Our principal said if his teachers aren’t able to manage it better than that (he thinks they can) then he will simply split the periods into 40 minutes in person/40 minutes DL with the other half of the class for learning lab/classwork. He has emphatically said he will not allow “DL at school.” He has stated this repeatedly. It helps to have an awesome principal who really cares about the kids. He has all of his own kids in hybrid and encouraged anyone who feels comfortable to do the same.

Gotta love a principal who throws his own teachers under the bus like that

How so?

“If they can’t manage better than that “ is a crappy phrase to use especially given he himself has never had to teach online or concurrent . The fact he says he will just show in himself and dictate a 40/40 split is patronizing and disrespectful of his teachers. If he really said this as Pp claims then he shows no faith in his teacher and presents himself as some expert who will jump in and make those bad teachers do what he says since he knows what’s best. It’s fristratinf how little consistency there is between schools. Some admin took a very realistic , don’t set expectations too high approach and support their teachers and others seem to be like this principal selling hybrid as something it really can’t be and framing teachers as the ones who will try to make it suck but he will be there to set them straight. There seems to be absolutely no common vision of what this is going to look like between schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Board members are posting on SM they had no idea their metrics were so high, didn’t understand or consult medical panels when setting them, and that LCPS is way out of alignment by far with local districts. They literally do not know what they are doing setting the metrics this high and then saying it will take 5 full days there before they would transition back to DL. At this point Northam is going to have to step in and say any district in the red of primary metrics can’t phase in. It cannot be left up to people who admit they do not know how this works.

“Board members” are not saying this. Looney Beth Barts is. She is an island unto herself and the other board members seem to largely ignore her.

She’s not looney to point out LCPS metrics were basically pulled out of thin air and have no relation to ANY other local district’s metrics. They’re foolishly high and frankly, parents should not have had to choose by 11/20 only to find out when these were published yesterday that their kids are going to be in school 5 more days after BOTH metrics set to the highest possible threshold are hit. That’s feels incredibly unsafe and based on nothing that is sound or reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Concurrent is DL inside the school. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying through their tee teeth.

Our principal said if his teachers aren’t able to manage it better than that (he thinks they can) then he will simply split the periods into 40 minutes in person/40 minutes DL with the other half of the class for learning lab/classwork. He has emphatically said he will not allow “DL at school.” He has stated this repeatedly. It helps to have an awesome principal who really cares about the kids. He has all of his own kids in hybrid and encouraged anyone who feels comfortable to do the same.

Gotta love a principal who throws his own teachers under the bus like that

How so?

“If they can’t manage better than that “ is a crappy phrase to use especially given he himself has never had to teach online or concurrent . The fact he says he will just show in himself and dictate a 40/40 split is patronizing and disrespectful of his teachers. If he really said this as Pp claims then he shows no faith in his teacher and presents himself as some expert who will jump in and make those bad teachers do what he says since he knows what’s best. It’s fristratinf how little consistency there is between schools. Some admin took a very realistic , don’t set expectations too high approach and support their teachers and others seem to be like this principal selling hybrid as something it really can’t be and framing teachers as the ones who will try to make it suck but he will be there to set them straight. There seems to be absolutely no common vision of what this is going to look like between schools.

He said he thinks the teachers can make it work. How is that not showing faith in them? He said if it does not work, he’d institute the 40/40 plan before allowing the hybrid kid to do “DL at school”, which I fully support. He is a rockstar and has a much better attitude than all the naysayers on this board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Board members are posting on SM they had no idea their metrics were so high, didn’t understand or consult medical panels when setting them, and that LCPS is way out of alignment by far with local districts. They literally do not know what they are doing setting the metrics this high and then saying it will take 5 full days there before they would transition back to DL. At this point Northam is going to have to step in and say any district in the red of primary metrics can’t phase in. It cannot be left up to people who admit they do not know how this works.

“Board members” are not saying this. Looney Beth Barts is. She is an island unto herself and the other board members seem to largely ignore her.

She’s not looney to point out LCPS metrics were basically pulled out of thin air and have no relation to ANY other local district’s metrics. They’re foolishly high and frankly, parents should not have had to choose by 11/20 only to find out when these were published yesterday that their kids are going to be in school 5 more days after BOTH metrics set to the highest possible threshold are hit. That’s feels incredibly unsafe and based on nothing that is sound or reasonable.

She is a total loon. And any parent THAT worried about metrics was selecting DL anyway. Give it a rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Board members are posting on SM they had no idea their metrics were so high, didn’t understand or consult medical panels when setting them, and that LCPS is way out of alignment by far with local districts. They literally do not know what they are doing setting the metrics this high and then saying it will take 5 full days there before they would transition back to DL. At this point Northam is going to have to step in and say any district in the red of primary metrics can’t phase in. It cannot be left up to people who admit they do not know how this works.

“Board members” are not saying this. Looney Beth Barts is. She is an island unto herself and the other board members seem to largely ignore her.

She’s not looney to point out LCPS metrics were basically pulled out of thin air and have no relation to ANY other local district’s metrics. They’re foolishly high and frankly, parents should not have had to choose by 11/20 only to find out when these were published yesterday that their kids are going to be in school 5 more days after BOTH metrics set to the highest possible threshold are hit. That’s feels incredibly unsafe and based on nothing that is sound or reasonable.

She is a total loon. And any parent THAT worried about metrics was selecting DL anyway. Give it a rest.

You are ignoring an entire system of employees who do not have a choice and will be risking their health going in on insane metrics decided on a whim in a last minute agenda add to a meeting about BOUNDARIES. They are not making policy in good faith.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Concurrent is DL inside the school. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying through their tee teeth.

Our principal said if his teachers aren’t able to manage it better than that (he thinks they can) then he will simply split the periods into 40 minutes in person/40 minutes DL with the other half of the class for learning lab/classwork. He has emphatically said he will not allow “DL at school.” He has stated this repeatedly. It helps to have an awesome principal who really cares about the kids. He has all of his own kids in hybrid and encouraged anyone who feels comfortable to do the same.

Gotta love a principal who throws his own teachers under the bus like that

Yes, I certainly do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Board members are posting on SM they had no idea their metrics were so high, didn’t understand or consult medical panels when setting them, and that LCPS is way out of alignment by far with local districts. They literally do not know what they are doing setting the metrics this high and then saying it will take 5 full days there before they would transition back to DL. At this point Northam is going to have to step in and say any district in the red of primary metrics can’t phase in. It cannot be left up to people who admit they do not know how this works.

“Board members” are not saying this. Looney Beth Barts is. She is an island unto herself and the other board members seem to largely ignore her.

She’s not looney to point out LCPS metrics were basically pulled out of thin air and have no relation to ANY other local district’s metrics. They’re foolishly high and frankly, parents should not have had to choose by 11/20 only to find out when these were published yesterday that their kids are going to be in school 5 more days after BOTH metrics set to the highest possible threshold are hit. That’s feels incredibly unsafe and based on nothing that is sound or reasonable.

She is a total loon. And any parent THAT worried about metrics was selecting DL anyway. Give it a rest.

You are ignoring an entire system of employees who do not have a choice and will be risking their health going in on insane metrics decided on a whim in a last minute agenda add to a meeting about BOUNDARIES. They are not making policy in good faith.

Mitigation works and the data backs this up. 6’ apart and masked. Yes I know there are sped kids who can’t do this, but we shouldn’t punish the kids who can mask and distance.

[Anonymous]

Masking and distancing in winter in a windowless high school classroom when our local averages are in the multiple hundred 100,000 and testing PPR could be at 9.9% and be considered “safe.” Yeah. Sure.

[Anonymous]

I fully agree with the posts stating how unhealthy and unsafe the current situation is.
Additionally, how reckless and useless the school board is. Catering to the loudest and most ignorant parents.

But, despair not. The situation is already bad, thanksgiving and Christmas will make it worse. DL will be in place during Q3 and we will see how much of Q4.