In-person school plans

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Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

As opposed to now, when a lot of kids are rebelling or refusing to do virtual learning?

Not much different from pre-Covid when students came to class physically, but did little to nothing.

Parents and others didn't care as it didn't impact them in any way.

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

We haven't heard anything yet from our middle school but this is basically child care and doesn't make a lot of sense.

And, for ES that have child care hubs, what happens to those kids displaced from the hubs on the days they aren't there?

There has to be someway to keep students grouped in order to limit the impact of infections and quarantines.

You are missing the entire point. The ES schools are being used for child care and equity hubs by multiple groups. If we go back to school hybrid as proposed, they will be using the schools 4-5 days a week so those child care options will be forced to close down. So, if your child is in a hub five days a week and it now shifts to going to school 2 days a week, what does a parent do for child care? That leaves a lot of parents using those facilities in a bind. Plus, then you have kids going to school and multiple other child care situations, which will increase the spread.

If the proposal is teacher is teaching virtual where kids are sitting at their desks for hours (except breaks) and she's just monitoring as she is teaching, this is basically glorified child care. She isn't going to be walking up to each one and helping. So, the k-2, who really need the hands on help with things like writing, handwriting, and other basic skills are going to lose that support from the adults caring for them. The teacher will no longer be helping the child with basics like finger grip for a pencil as they need to stay 6 feet away.

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

How have you never met your home room? Our homeroom teacher has a scheduled class.

It’s on my schedule, but it’s never held. Not ever. We have something called advisory, but those students are not our homeroom class. My homeroom is just a tab with names on Synergy. I wouldn’t even recognize the names of you showed me the list.

Interesting how different each middle school is. We have a homeroom period and the teacher works with the kids on middle school issues - helps guide them through DL, adjusting to middle school and social. She's lovely.

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Anonymous wrote:Per the county website,
“ We expect to reach Phase 1B in February 2021.”

That means they plan to start vaccination 1b next month. They could give 1 shot on 2/28 and they will have met that goal.

If vaccination will be the key to in-person school resuming, it won’t happen in February ‘21. Maybe in mid to late March. I think April is more likely.

As for those upset about “Zoom in the classroom”, remember that the school buildings are magical places where children learn easily and never experience mental illness.

If you have an issue keep your kid home. Some of ours love seeing others and being in the building that means so much to them.

No, thank you. We will work to keep them safely closed until metrics greatly improve. Nobody cares that a building "means so much" to your kids

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

We haven't heard anything yet from our middle school but this is basically child care and doesn't make a lot of sense.

And, for ES that have child care hubs, what happens to those kids displaced from the hubs on the days they aren't there?

There has to be someway to keep students grouped in order to limit the impact of infections and quarantines.

You are missing the entire point. The ES schools are being used for child care and equity hubs by multiple groups. If we go back to school hybrid as proposed, they will be using the schools 4-5 days a week so those child care options will be forced to close down. So, if your child is in a hub five days a week and it now shifts to going to school 2 days a week, what does a parent do for child care? That leaves a lot of parents using those facilities in a bind. Plus, then you have kids going to school and multiple other child care situations, which will increase the spread.

If the proposal is teacher is teaching virtual where kids are sitting at their desks for hours (except breaks) and she's just monitoring as she is teaching, this is basically glorified child care. She isn't going to be walking up to each one and helping. So, the k-2, who really need the hands on help with things like writing, handwriting, and other basic skills are going to lose that support from the adults caring for them. The teacher will no longer be helping the child with basics like finger grip for a pencil as they need to stay 6 feet away.

As I understand it, hybrid (doing virtual 2 days and in person 2 days) is off the table. So if your kid is in person doing a virtual support model they would be possibly trading one virtual hub for one in school (except Wednesdays when school would be closed) . The commercial learning hubs would lose a lot of enrollment.

I hadn't heard anything about teachers virtual teaching a class virtually and simultaneously managing a whole pod of kids on zoom but it could happen. Schools are not getting much more staffing to make in person work but if you only can have 12 kids to a ro you will need more Paras and teachers

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Anonymous wrote:Per the county website,
“ We expect to reach Phase 1B in February 2021.”

That means they plan to start vaccination 1b next month. They could give 1 shot on 2/28 and they will have met that goal.

If vaccination will be the key to in-person school resuming, it won’t happen in February ‘21. Maybe in mid to late March. I think April is more likely.

As for those upset about “Zoom in the classroom”, remember that the school buildings are magical places where children learn easily and never experience mental illness.

If you have an issue keep your kid home. Some of ours love seeing others and being in the building that means so much to them.

No, thank you. We will work to keep them safely closed until metrics greatly improve. Nobody cares that a building "means so much" to your kids

Here's a perfect example of someone more interested in making things worse for others than better for themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

We haven't heard anything yet from our middle school but this is basically child care and doesn't make a lot of sense.

And, for ES that have child care hubs, what happens to those kids displaced from the hubs on the days they aren't there?

There has to be someway to keep students grouped in order to limit the impact of infections and quarantines.

You are missing the entire point. The ES schools are being used for child care and equity hubs by multiple groups. If we go back to school hybrid as proposed, they will be using the schools 4-5 days a week so those child care options will be forced to close down. So, if your child is in a hub five days a week and it now shifts to going to school 2 days a week, what does a parent do for child care? That leaves a lot of parents using those facilities in a bind. Plus, then you have kids going to school and multiple other child care situations, which will increase the spread.

If the proposal is teacher is teaching virtual where kids are sitting at their desks for hours (except breaks) and she's just monitoring as she is teaching, this is basically glorified child care. She isn't going to be walking up to each one and helping. So, the k-2, who really need the hands on help with things like writing, handwriting, and other basic skills are going to lose that support from the adults caring for them. The teacher will no longer be helping the child with basics like finger grip for a pencil as they need to stay 6 feet away.

As I understand it, hybrid (doing virtual 2 days and in person 2 days) is off the table. So if your kid is in person doing a virtual support model they would be possibly trading one virtual hub for one in school (except Wednesdays when school would be closed) . The commercial learning hubs would lose a lot of enrollment.

I hadn't heard anything about teachers virtual teaching a class virtually and simultaneously managing a whole pod of kids on zoom but it could happen. Schools are not getting much more staffing to make in person work but if you only can have 12 kids to a ro you will need more Paras and teachers

MCPS is perfectly capable of reopening elementary school full-time, particularly if they use the concurrent model like private schools have done.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Per the county website,
“ We expect to reach Phase 1B in February 2021.”

That means they plan to start vaccination 1b next month. They could give 1 shot on 2/28 and they will have met that goal.

If vaccination will be the key to in-person school resuming, it won’t happen in February ‘21. Maybe in mid to late March. I think April is more likely.

As for those upset about “Zoom in the classroom”, remember that the school buildings are magical places where children learn easily and never experience mental illness.

If you have an issue keep your kid home. Some of ours love seeing others and being in the building that means so much to them.

No, thank you. We will work to keep them safely closed until metrics greatly improve. Nobody cares that a building "means so much" to your kids

Another poster on DCUM using "we" to mean "I" and "nobody cares" to mean "I don't care".

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Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

As opposed to now, when a lot of kids are rebelling or refusing to do virtual learning?

If kids are rebelling or refusing to do virtual learning, maybe we should hold the parents accountable and charge them with neglect.

What do you think that would accomplish?

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

We haven't heard anything yet from our middle school but this is basically child care and doesn't make a lot of sense.

And, for ES that have child care hubs, what happens to those kids displaced from the hubs on the days they aren't there?

There has to be someway to keep students grouped in order to limit the impact of infections and quarantines.

You are missing the entire point. The ES schools are being used for child care and equity hubs by multiple groups. If we go back to school hybrid as proposed, they will be using the schools 4-5 days a week so those child care options will be forced to close down. So, if your child is in a hub five days a week and it now shifts to going to school 2 days a week, what does a parent do for child care? That leaves a lot of parents using those facilities in a bind. Plus, then you have kids going to school and multiple other child care situations, which will increase the spread.

If the proposal is teacher is teaching virtual where kids are sitting at their desks for hours (except breaks) and she's just monitoring as she is teaching, this is basically glorified child care. She isn't going to be walking up to each one and helping. So, the k-2, who really need the hands on help with things like writing, handwriting, and other basic skills are going to lose that support from the adults caring for them. The teacher will no longer be helping the child with basics like finger grip for a pencil as they need to stay 6 feet away.

As I understand it, hybrid (doing virtual 2 days and in person 2 days) is off the table. So if your kid is in person doing a virtual support model they would be possibly trading one virtual hub for one in school (except Wednesdays when school would be closed) . The commercial learning hubs would lose a lot of enrollment.

I hadn't heard anything about teachers virtual teaching a class virtually and simultaneously managing a whole pod of kids on zoom but it could happen. Schools are not getting much more staffing to make in person work but if you only can have 12 kids to a ro you will need more Paras and teachers

MCPS is perfectly capable of reopening elementary school full-time, particularly if they use the concurrent model like private schools have done.

What is the concurrent model? I don't pay attention to private school

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What is the concurrent model? I don't pay attention to private school

Where the same teacher simultaneously teaches kids in the classroom and kids over Zoom at home. It may work ok if you spend a lot of money on AV equipment in the classroom and have small class sizes, but neither of those apply to MCPS. I think it's a terrible idea.

-MCPS parent

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MCPS can’t do concurrent because they can’t hire staff to replace those who teach from home due to medical issues. Private has to hire staff to watch over those classes wheee teacher stays home.

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Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner!

Nah. My elementary kids are doing learning hubs, and they are SO much happier than doing DL at home. And days when there’s no instruction, so it’s fun all day? They pretty much race out the door to get there. Who knew that young kids would actually enjoy the company of peers? Funny.

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What is the concurrent model? I don't pay attention to private school

Where the same teacher simultaneously teaches kids in the classroom and kids over Zoom at home. It may work ok if you spend a lot of money on AV equipment in the classroom and have small class sizes, but neither of those apply to MCPS. I think it's a terrible idea.

-MCPS parent

FCPS has videos, it looks likey invested a lot of money into microphones, webcams and projectors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_RMKBvMjsU&ab_channel=FairfaxCountyPublicSchools

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS can’t do concurrent because they can’t hire staff to replace those who teach from home due to medical issues. Private has to hire staff to watch over those classes wheee teacher stays home.

MCPS is only hiring one extra teaching slot per school to cover the demands of in person. Assuming you can even find people to hire, there's still a lot of unfilled spots.

We haven't gotten any information about which teachers got their ADA accomodations but