FCPS Teachers - would you be ok with kids skipping morning meeting/afternoon wrap up?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here: Morning meeting is all about building classroom community—getting to know one another, games, fun, low stakes activities. It won’t be the same as when we’re in the classroom, but it’s critical.

Please do not skip it.

MM was awful over zoom. Fun for the teacher maybe but it is absolutely terrible on a zoom call with 25 kids.

Maybe do it with smaller groups rather than the whole class?
Or advocate for meeting outside?

Agree. And so boring. My kid has a limited attention span so we want to save it for the most important things - core subjects. We are planning to skip morning meeting and specials.

[Anonymous]

We're 100% skipping specials. P.E. DL, no thanks! Give her a 0. It's 3rd grade, who cares! They're only having specials to justify not having to fire those specials teachers and I appreciate that but my kid is not going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here: Morning meeting is all about building classroom community—getting to know one another, games, fun, low stakes activities. It won’t be the same as when we’re in the classroom, but it’s critical.

Please do not skip it.

This spring, my kid ran around the house trying to find pointless objects she was tasked to locate. That wasn't disruptive to those of us working or my 2 other kids trying to engage in their classes at all! Another time she had to guess trivia facts about her teacher. While I was working she came to my office and said "mom, I don't care who has a nephew at Bush Hill ES. Can I log off?" Don't think it was critical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here: Morning meeting is all about building classroom community—getting to know one another, games, fun, low stakes activities. It won’t be the same as when we’re in the classroom, but it’s critical.

Please do not skip it.

I agree with this. If you do so, you impact your child’s ability to connect with their teacher and class and make it harder for their teacher to know them and what they need if content gets difficult or they’re having a bad day. It does not benefit them to miss this but attend math. What parents think is “silly” is often the most important part of what we do.

My ES kids only have limited attention cycles for screen-based learning. If you think those cycles should be spent on home room instead of a core subject, then we’ll need to make that decision. They’re not doing full days no matter what, so we need to maximize the impact.

This. She just can’t do the whole day. So we are going to have to make choices.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dc is logging in for math instruction and maybe language arts if it is well done. That’s it. I don’t really care what the teacher thinks.

Ok but after 15 absences, your child will be unenrolled from school.

Yeah no. Although if you wonder why there's anger, just look at comments like these.

What do you mean, "no?" This is indeed exactly what will happen. Public school has compulsory attendance, not just for whatever the entitled parent feels the need to access as if it's an educational buffet.

If your child does not meet the attendance criteria -- yes, even in DL -- they will be disenrolled. So if that's your plan, withdraw now and homeschool. Done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dc is logging in for math instruction and maybe language arts if it is well done. That’s it. I don’t really care what the teacher thinks.

Ok but after 15 absences, your child will be unenrolled from school.

Yeah no. Although if you wonder why there's anger, just look at comments like these.

What do you mean, "no?" This is indeed exactly what will happen. Public school has compulsory attendance, not just for whatever the entitled parent feels the need to access as if it's an educational buffet.

If your child does not meet the attendance criteria -- yes, even in DL -- they will be disenrolled. So if that's your plan, withdraw now and homeschool. Done.

/yawn. As if DL has, or is planning to, operate like public school. There’s no way they’re going to disenroll students en masse because the bad optics reflect on the DL system, itself. But if they do, whatever...I can log on and keep it going in the background, and they can proceed to rack up disenrollment stats for the parents that don’t bother in order to share with the press and the SB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fcps will do what it takes to make attendance numbers look good.

If your kid logs in at all it will be counted as present for the day.

They do not want national news stories about how awful their distance learning is and how so many students are absent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dc is logging in for math instruction and maybe language arts if it is well done. That’s it. I don’t really care what the teacher thinks.

Ok but after 15 absences, your child will be unenrolled from school.

Yeah no. Although if you wonder why there's anger, just look at comments like these.

What do you mean, "no?" This is indeed exactly what will happen. Public school has compulsory attendance, not just for whatever the entitled parent feels the need to access as if it's an educational buffet.

If your child does not meet the attendance criteria -- yes, even in DL -- they will be disenrolled. So if that's your plan, withdraw now and homeschool. Done.

/yawn. As if DL has, or is planning to, operate like public school. There’s no way they’re going to disenroll students en masse because the bad optics reflect on the DL system, itself. But if they do, whatever...I can log on and keep it going in the background, and they can proceed to rack up disenrollment stats for the parents that don’t bother in order to share with the press and the SB.

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dc is logging in for math instruction and maybe language arts if it is well done. That’s it. I don’t really care what the teacher thinks.

Ok but after 15 absences, your child will be unenrolled from school.

Oh noez!!!! So should I just log in and leave it running in the background?

Of course, why do you think we’re all advocating for cameras off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

We want in person school. It’s simple.

[Anonymous]

As a parent of a first grader - I highly doubt we will often (or ever) make it to the afternoon wrap up. I also have no intention of ever logging in to virtual specials. I trust that sanity will prevail and teachers and admin will understand we are doing our best.

I value my child’s education very highly and have nothing but respect for her teachers. I know they know this is not a developmentally appropriate schedule for a six year old. Just going to gut things out until it’s safe to be back in the classroom together.

[Anonymous]

Parent of a first grader here. We’re planning to be online for all sessions, but I do think schools will have to be a bit forgiving and flexible for conflicts at times. For instance, what about families with younger children who are going to attend preschool in person? We made the decision, for various reasons, to send our four-year-old to preschool this year. Depending on the start times of both schools, we may have a conflict two days a week where my first grader is supposed to be logging on while I’m dropping off my preschooler. It may just end up being a situation where she has to miss a few minutes of morning meeting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

We want in person school. It’s simple.

Covid be gone!! Poof!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

We want in person school. It’s simple.

Ain’t NOTHING simple about in person school during a pandemic. Only thing simple is likely you.