Why is fcps making elementary kids drag laptops to/from school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mine isn't.

Mine either. I’m convinced the same 30 post on DCUM.

Actually, you might be on to something here. At first, I thought that the policy is uniform across FCPS. Which school or school pyramid are you in? We are in Robinson pyramid and kids are required to carry laptops back home every day to charge them. I would be curious to know how widespread this policy is.

Oakton pyramid and that is our policy too.

Mantua. Our children carry laptops everyday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many hours of use does a fully charged laptop get?

4hrs? Some of these laptops are fairly old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many hours of use does a fully charged laptop get?

4hrs? Some of these laptops are fairly old.

Yes, my kids were issued old and heavy DELL laptops. I think, performance-wise, along with the fact that my kids are in lower-elementary, the laptops are just fine. The only issue is that kids have to carry them home to charge them and the weight of their backpacks is so high, that my kids have trouble lifting their backpacks off the ground.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many hours of use does a fully charged laptop get?

4hrs? Some of these laptops are fairly old.

Almost all the laptops this year are new (or 2 years old) - this is what they used a lot of ESSER money for.

[Anonymous]

Even if they only last four hours, one charge should last all week if the laptops are being used sparingly and adjacent to real instruction. So I would charge once per week, on Sunday night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if they only last four hours, one charge should last all week if the laptops are being used sparingly and adjacent to real instruction. So I would charge once per week, on Sunday night.

Agree this seems reasonable. Surely k-6 won't be on laptops more than 30
Min or so a day!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine isn't.

Mine either. I’m convinced the same 30 post on DCUM.

Actually, you might be on to something here. At first, I thought that the policy is uniform across FCPS. Which school or school pyramid are you in? We are in Robinson pyramid and kids are required to carry laptops back home every day to charge them. I would be curious to know how widespread this policy is.

Chantilly pyramid and same here, re: bringing home daily to charge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine isn't.

Mine either. I’m convinced the same 30 post on DCUM.

Actually, you might be on to something here. At first, I thought that the policy is uniform across FCPS. Which school or school pyramid are you in? We are in Robinson pyramid and kids are required to carry laptops back home every day to charge them. I would be curious to know how widespread this policy is.

Chantilly pyramid and same here, re: bringing home daily to charge.

McLean pyramid. Same, every day last year and it’s already begun again this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if they only last four hours, one charge should last all week if the laptops are being used sparingly and adjacent to real instruction. So I would charge once per week, on Sunday night.

Agree this seems reasonable. Surely k-6 won't be on laptops more than 30
Min or so a day!!!

Lol!!! My fourth grader spend 3 hours daily last year (I got the light speed reports). Va studies was basically all online (review digital textbook and do work online), math was on the computer every class (answer surveys so teacher would get immediate responses from kids, do digital worksheets, etc.) — they had paper to work through problems but everything was based on online work and turned in that way, in language arts— digital notebooks for all writing assigmnets, google slide shows for all project sommelier of posters or reports, laptops used in Spanish and PE!!. All work that came home to be finished or homework was digital (slideshow or flip grid). I used to sav my kids work and there was almost nothing to save last year aside from some art work. We had to buy online workbooks to get our child some multiplications Ms division straight forward practice. I tried to print as much as I could from schoology so cold could reference print material, but it’s time consuming and a lot of the digital work doesnt lend itself to being printed and done by hand. Awful, awful, awful.
And yes, backpacks are too heavy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if they only last four hours, one charge should last all week if the laptops are being used sparingly and adjacent to real instruction. So I would charge once per week, on Sunday night.

Agree this seems reasonable. Surely k-6 won't be on laptops more than 30
Min or so a day!!!

Lol!!! My fourth grader spend 3 hours daily last year (I got the light speed reports). Va studies was basically all online (review digital textbook and do work online), math was on the computer every class (answer surveys so teacher would get immediate responses from kids, do digital worksheets, etc.) — they had paper to work through problems but everything was based on online work and turned in that way, in language arts— digital notebooks for all writing assigmnets, google slide shows for all project sommelier of posters or reports, laptops used in Spanish and PE!!. All work that came home to be finished or homework was digital (slideshow or flip grid). I used to sav my kids work and there was almost nothing to save last year aside from some art work. We had to buy online workbooks to get our child some multiplications Ms division straight forward practice. I tried to print as much as I could from schoology so cold could reference print material, but it’s time consuming and a lot of the digital work doesnt lend itself to being printed and done by hand. Awful, awful, awful.
And yes, backpacks are too heavy.

“Sommelier” = “instead of”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if they only last four hours, one charge should last all week if the laptops are being used sparingly and adjacent to real instruction. So I would charge once per week, on Sunday night.

Agree this seems reasonable. Surely k-6 won't be on laptops more than 30
Min or so a day!!!

Lol!!! My fourth grader spend 3 hours daily last year (I got the light speed reports). Va studies was basically all online (review digital textbook and do work online), math was on the computer every class (answer surveys so teacher would get immediate responses from kids, do digital worksheets, etc.) — they had paper to work through problems but everything was based on online work and turned in that way, in language arts— digital notebooks for all writing assigmnets, google slide shows for all project sommelier of posters or reports, laptops used in Spanish and PE!!. All work that came home to be finished or homework was digital (slideshow or flip grid). I used to sav my kids work and there was almost nothing to save last year aside from some art work. We had to buy online workbooks to get our child some multiplications Ms division straight forward practice. I tried to print as much as I could from schoology so cold could reference print material, but it’s time consuming and a lot of the digital work doesnt lend itself to being printed and done by hand. Awful, awful, awful.
And yes, backpacks are too heavy.

Well, it sounds like this is a classroom that can only be improved by uncharged laptops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if they only last four hours, one charge should last all week if the laptops are being used sparingly and adjacent to real instruction. So I would charge once per week, on Sunday night.

Agree this seems reasonable. Surely k-6 won't be on laptops more than 30
Min or so a day!!!

Lol!!! My fourth grader spend 3 hours daily last year (I got the light speed reports). Va studies was basically all online (review digital textbook and do work online), math was on the computer every class (answer surveys so teacher would get immediate responses from kids, do digital worksheets, etc.) — they had paper to work through problems but everything was based on online work and turned in that way, in language arts— digital notebooks for all writing assigmnets, google slide shows for all project sommelier of posters or reports, laptops used in Spanish and PE!!. All work that came home to be finished or homework was digital (slideshow or flip grid). I used to sav my kids work and there was almost nothing to save last year aside from some art work. We had to buy online workbooks to get our child some multiplications Ms division straight forward practice. I tried to print as much as I could from schoology so cold could reference print material, but it’s time consuming and a lot of the digital work doesnt lend itself to being printed and done by hand. Awful, awful, awful.
And yes, backpacks are too heavy.

My 5th grader had a similar experience. 700+ pages on the lightspeed report every day. No work coming home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if they only last four hours, one charge should last all week if the laptops are being used sparingly and adjacent to real instruction. So I would charge once per week, on Sunday night.

Agree this seems reasonable. Surely k-6 won't be on laptops more than 30
Min or so a day!!!

Lol!!! My fourth grader spend 3 hours daily last year (I got the light speed reports). Va studies was basically all online (review digital textbook and do work online), math was on the computer every class (answer surveys so teacher would get immediate responses from kids, do digital worksheets, etc.) — they had paper to work through problems but everything was based on online work and turned in that way, in language arts— digital notebooks for all writing assigmnets, google slide shows for all project sommelier of posters or reports, laptops used in Spanish and PE!!. All work that came home to be finished or homework was digital (slideshow or flip grid). I used to sav my kids work and there was almost nothing to save last year aside from some art work. We had to buy online workbooks to get our child some multiplications Ms division straight forward practice. I tried to print as much as I could from schoology so cold could reference print material, but it’s time consuming and a lot of the digital work doesnt lend itself to being printed and done by hand. Awful, awful, awful.
And yes, backpacks are too heavy.

Well, it sounds like this is a classroom that can only be improved by uncharged laptops.

+1

[Anonymous]

Maybe someone should mention the excessive laptop use in lieu of instruction to the new superintendent at one of her listening sessions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if they only last four hours, one charge should last all week if the laptops are being used sparingly and adjacent to real instruction. So I would charge once per week, on Sunday night.

Agree this seems reasonable. Surely k-6 won't be on laptops more than 30
Min or so a day!!!

Lol!!! My fourth grader spend 3 hours daily last year (I got the light speed reports). Va studies was basically all online (review digital textbook and do work online), math was on the computer every class (answer surveys so teacher would get immediate responses from kids, do digital worksheets, etc.) — they had paper to work through problems but everything was based on online work and turned in that way, in language arts— digital notebooks for all writing assigmnets, google slide shows for all project sommelier of posters or reports, laptops used in Spanish and PE!!. All work that came home to be finished or homework was digital (slideshow or flip grid). I used to sav my kids work and there was almost nothing to save last year aside from some art work. We had to buy online workbooks to get our child some multiplications Ms division straight forward practice. I tried to print as much as I could from schoology so cold could reference print material, but it’s time consuming and a lot of the digital work doesnt lend itself to being printed and done by hand. Awful, awful, awful.
And yes, backpacks are too heavy.

Yes yes yes! Same experience for my third grader.