"DL is working well for my kid"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DL is working well for families who:
-work from home
-have help (hired or extended family)
-have neurotypical kids
-don’t have several younger children who need attention

Just because it is working well for your family, does not mean that you should turn a blind eye to reopening plans and metrics. If you want to have public schools for your children to return to in person in a year, you need to pay attention. Get involved.

It’s not okay to keep mcps children locked in virtual learning for years. Our numbers are low. The CDC says we should be open. Fauci says we should be open. Hogan says we should be open.

I pulled my kids out of mcps. Virtual does not work for us. But I will always advocate for children. In person public education is essential. We need to move toward making a plan. At least for our most vulnerable students.

Sorry to burst your little bubble but my child with special needs is doing better with distance learning than in-person.

I can just see your brain clicking away, lumping all ESOL, low-income and special needs students into some kind of at-risk category. Well, the reality is incredibly more complex.
I have the impression that the people pushing for in-person are wealthy extroverts oblivious to how viral spread actually works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DL is working well for families who:
-work from home
-have help (hired or extended family)
-have neurotypical kids
-don’t have several younger children who need attention

Just because it is working well for your family, does not mean that you should turn a blind eye to reopening plans and metrics. If you want to have public schools for your children to return to in person in a year, you need to pay attention. Get involved.

It’s not okay to keep mcps children locked in virtual learning for years. Our numbers are low. The CDC says we should be open. Fauci says we should be open. Hogan says we should be open.

I pulled my kids out of mcps. Virtual does not work for us. But I will always advocate for children. In person public education is essential. We need to move toward making a plan. At least for our most vulnerable students.

I'm not turning a blind eye to the re-opening plans and metrics. OP asked what people mean by "working well", so I answered that question.

As for re-opening plans and metrics, the county voted for Elrich and the Board of Education. The BoE hired Smith. Rationality went out the window a long time ago. Nothing much will change with the approach being taken until those folks are out of elected office. As much as detest De Blasio, at least he staked his reputation on getting schools open. Our elected officials seem to be doing the exact opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS and the BOE talks about DL not working well for "some."

Endless DCUM posts about how DL "works well for my kid, sorry that it doesn't work well for yours."

I think we need to level set here. How are these people defining "working well"? Do they mean: kid signs in on appointed date/time, so no attendance issues; kids completes assignments satisfactorily, so grades are As & Bs. Is that the MCPS, BOE, and DCUM definition of "working well"?!!!!

Because if that's it, then why not do away with schools altogether? We could more cheaply run a giant county-wide (or state-wide) Khan Academy! Don't have to worry about any risks of anyone coming into contact with anyone else where they could transmit covid, or flu, or have a car accident on their way to school - no risks at all! We can all just have our kids stay home and get an education that way!

I thought that school was about becoming socialized, interacting with people different than you in a meaningful and genuine way; the excitement, buzz, and energy when there is a magic happening in the classroom as lightbulbs click on in kids and kids learning from each other as well as their teachers. About being inspired to do better and compete in the classroom, on the field, on the stage, in the art studio. None of that happens behind computer screens with everyone locked away at home.

I'm finding out that I have a completely different conception of what school and education are for and what objectives they serve. The school I know is essential - the teachers are essential - and it's worth taking some reasonable risks for these purposes.

The problem OP is you are refusing to accept that folks have adjusted their expectations to deal with the realities of a pandemic. Also, you assume that the bold things above happen for every child in the typical classroom. It doesn’t. Similarly, many families have found ways to allow their children socialization, enrichment, and discovery from behind a computer screen. It doesn’t always look the same as pre-COVID, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The biggest misconception you seem to have is, just because DL is working well for some families doesn’t equate to them wantIn to continue with it indefinitely. It doesn’t equate to them not understanding that DL is not working well some.

At some point the folks of DCUM are going to accept that DL is not harming every child in MCPS, some really are fine overall. And this can be true while still wanting to get schools reopen.

[Anonymous]

The problem OP is you are refusing to accept that folks have adjusted their expectations to deal with the realities of a pandemic. Also, you assume that the bold things above happen for every child in the typical classroom. It doesn’t. Similarly, many families have found ways to allow their children socialization, enrichment, and discovery from behind a computer screen. It doesn’t always look the same as pre-COVID, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The biggest misconception you seem to have is, just because DL is working well for some families doesn’t equate to them wantIn to continue with it indefinitely. It doesn’t equate to them not understanding that DL is not working well some.

At some point the folks of DCUM are going to accept that DL is not harming every child in MCPS, some really are fine overall. And this can be true while still wanting to get schools reopen.

No the problem is that no one seems to look beyond their own family in assessing the cost-benefit of 1.5 yrs distance learning. My family is OK; because we have 2 WAH parents and $$ for a nanny, a tutor and further materials and programs of supplementation. (Written out, I realize this privilege sounds ridiculous.) That does not mean DL is "working well" for the general student population. And it is a perversion of the English language and any concept of the common good to maintain otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is working well for families who:
-work from home
-have help (hired or extended family)
-have neurotypical kids
-don’t have several younger children who need attention

Just because it is working well for your family, does not mean that you should turn a blind eye to reopening plans and metrics. If you want to have public schools for your children to return to in person in a year, you need to pay attention. Get involved.

It’s not okay to keep mcps children locked in virtual learning for years. Our numbers are low. The CDC says we should be open. Fauci says we should be open. Hogan says we should be open.

I pulled my kids out of mcps. Virtual does not work for us. But I will always advocate for children. In person public education is essential. We need to move toward making a plan. At least for our most vulnerable students.

Sorry to burst your little bubble but my child with special needs is doing better with distance learning than in-person.

I can just see your brain clicking away, lumping all ESOL, low-income and special needs students into some kind of at-risk category. Well, the reality is incredibly more complex.
I have the impression that the people pushing for in-person are wealthy extroverts oblivious to how viral spread actually works.

I'm guessing your child does not have severe nonverbal autism... Yes some SN are okay with DL but najority not. That's why we get priority

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is working well for families who:
-work from home
-have help (hired or extended family)
-have neurotypical kids
-don’t have several younger children who need attention

Just because it is working well for your family, does not mean that you should turn a blind eye to reopening plans and metrics. If you want to have public schools for your children to return to in person in a year, you need to pay attention. Get involved.

It’s not okay to keep mcps children locked in virtual learning for years. Our numbers are low. The CDC says we should be open. Fauci says we should be open. Hogan says we should be open.

I pulled my kids out of mcps. Virtual does not work for us. But I will always advocate for children. In person public education is essential. We need to move toward making a plan. At least for our most vulnerable students.

Sorry to burst your little bubble but my child with special needs is doing better with distance learning than in-person.

I can just see your brain clicking away, lumping all ESOL, low-income and special needs students into some kind of at-risk category. Well, the reality is incredibly more complex.
I have the impression that the people pushing for in-person are wealthy extroverts oblivious to how viral spread actually works.

+1, they aren't oblivious. They don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is working well for families who:
-work from home
-have help (hired or extended family)
-have neurotypical kids
-don’t have several younger children who need attention

Just because it is working well for your family, does not mean that you should turn a blind eye to reopening plans and metrics. If you want to have public schools for your children to return to in person in a year, you need to pay attention. Get involved.

It’s not okay to keep mcps children locked in virtual learning for years. Our numbers are low. The CDC says we should be open. Fauci says we should be open. Hogan says we should be open.

I pulled my kids out of mcps. Virtual does not work for us. But I will always advocate for children. In person public education is essential. We need to move toward making a plan. At least for our most vulnerable students.

Sorry to burst your little bubble but my child with special needs is doing better with distance learning than in-person.

I can just see your brain clicking away, lumping all ESOL, low-income and special needs students into some kind of at-risk category. Well, the reality is incredibly more complex.
I have the impression that the people pushing for in-person are wealthy extroverts oblivious to how viral spread actually works.

I'm guessing your child does not have severe nonverbal autism... Yes some SN are okay with DL but najority not. That's why we get priority

Then, you get in ABA and speech therapy as in person gives you a break, which is important but how much education do you think they are doing at school for a severe non-verbal child with autism. Most insurances cover it with that kind of diagnosis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The problem OP is you are refusing to accept that folks have adjusted their expectations to deal with the realities of a pandemic. Also, you assume that the bold things above happen for every child in the typical classroom. It doesn’t. Similarly, many families have found ways to allow their children socialization, enrichment, and discovery from behind a computer screen. It doesn’t always look the same as pre-COVID, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The biggest misconception you seem to have is, just because DL is working well for some families doesn’t equate to them wantIn to continue with it indefinitely. It doesn’t equate to them not understanding that DL is not working well some.

At some point the folks of DCUM are going to accept that DL is not harming every child in MCPS, some really are fine overall. And this can be true while still wanting to get schools reopen.

No the problem is that no one seems to look beyond their own family in assessing the cost-benefit of 1.5 yrs distance learning. My family is OK; because we have 2 WAH parents and $$ for a nanny, a tutor and further materials and programs of supplementation. (Written out, I realize this privilege sounds ridiculous.) That does not mean DL is "working well" for the general student population. And it is a perversion of the English language and any concept of the common good to maintain otherwise.

So, you are ranting at an issue that no way impacts you and pretending to understand what its like for other families when you aren't even at a school impacted but any of this. Preach about your own school but stop preaching about ours with low income/high farms when the kids are doing well and teachers are going above and beyond with those kids (and the rest of ours). Those kids would be behind regardless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DL is working well for families who:
-work from home
-have help (hired or extended family)
-have neurotypical kids
-don’t have several younger children who need attention

Just because it is working well for your family, does not mean that you should turn a blind eye to reopening plans and metrics. If you want to have public schools for your children to return to in person in a year, you need to pay attention. Get involved.

It’s not okay to keep mcps children locked in virtual learning for years. Our numbers are low. The CDC says we should be open. Fauci says we should be open. Hogan says we should be open.

I pulled my kids out of mcps. Virtual does not work for us. But I will always advocate for children. In person public education is essential. We need to move toward making a plan. At least for our most vulnerable students.

False. We have a SN child and its working well. The term neurotypical is offensive and implies something is wrong with our kids when there is nothing wrong with them. My kid is probably doing better than yours as we make it work even whit he SN.

You are lazy and never gave it a try.

Stop pretending to advocate when you are bashing DL and your kids aren't even doing it.

And you pretending to understand vulnerable is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is working well for families who:
-work from home
-have help (hired or extended family)
-have neurotypical kids
-don’t have several younger children who need attention

Just because it is working well for your family, does not mean that you should turn a blind eye to reopening plans and metrics. If you want to have public schools for your children to return to in person in a year, you need to pay attention. Get involved.

It’s not okay to keep mcps children locked in virtual learning for years. Our numbers are low. The CDC says we should be open. Fauci says we should be open. Hogan says we should be open.

I pulled my kids out of mcps. Virtual does not work for us. But I will always advocate for children. In person public education is essential. We need to move toward making a plan. At least for our most vulnerable students.

False. We have a SN child and its working well. The term neurotypical is offensive and implies something is wrong with our kids when there is nothing wrong with them. My kid is probably doing better than yours as we make it work even whit he SN.

You are lazy and never gave it a try.

Stop pretending to advocate when you are bashing DL and your kids aren't even doing it.

And you pretending to understand vulnerable is a joke.

Oh please. SN can mean anything from adhd anxiety dyslexia to nonverbal autism. I'm guessing your kid is on the add side of that line. Yay you, but you're not representative of a large part of the SN population

[Anonymous]

Does it even matter if it’s working well for you or not? This is a once-in-a-lifetime international health catastrophe. Whatever Maryland is doing seems to be working, because our virus numbers are much better than much of the country.

The fact that it IS working for many kids is a bonus. But for the most part we’re all just treading water and staying alive here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The problem OP is you are refusing to accept that folks have adjusted their expectations to deal with the realities of a pandemic. Also, you assume that the bold things above happen for every child in the typical classroom. It doesn’t. Similarly, many families have found ways to allow their children socialization, enrichment, and discovery from behind a computer screen. It doesn’t always look the same as pre-COVID, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The biggest misconception you seem to have is, just because DL is working well for some families doesn’t equate to them wantIn to continue with it indefinitely. It doesn’t equate to them not understanding that DL is not working well some.

At some point the folks of DCUM are going to accept that DL is not harming every child in MCPS, some really are fine overall. And this can be true while still wanting to get schools reopen.

No the problem is that no one seems to look beyond their own family in assessing the cost-benefit of 1.5 yrs distance learning. My family is OK; because we have 2 WAH parents and $$ for a nanny, a tutor and further materials and programs of supplementation. (Written out, I realize this privilege sounds ridiculous.) That does not mean DL is "working well" for the general student population. And it is a perversion of the English language and any concept of the common good to maintain otherwise.

Clearly you failed to comprehend that folks indicating that DL is working well for THEM are not necessarily against finding a good plan for schools to reopen and acknowledge that it may not be working for all students. DL is working fine for some and they are not obligated to lie otherwise. Working well and not working well can be true at the same time because the statement is based on individual opinion and not the general student population. In fact, there has been no information published to date that indicates how its going for the general MCPS student population. Just folks hypothesizing based on their limited bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is working well for families who:
-work from home
-have help (hired or extended family)
-have neurotypical kids
-don’t have several younger children who need attention

Just because it is working well for your family, does not mean that you should turn a blind eye to reopening plans and metrics. If you want to have public schools for your children to return to in person in a year, you need to pay attention. Get involved.

It’s not okay to keep mcps children locked in virtual learning for years. Our numbers are low. The CDC says we should be open. Fauci says we should be open. Hogan says we should be open.

I pulled my kids out of mcps. Virtual does not work for us. But I will always advocate for children. In person public education is essential. We need to move toward making a plan. At least for our most vulnerable students.

False. We have a SN child and its working well. The term neurotypical is offensive and implies something is wrong with our kids when there is nothing wrong with them. My kid is probably doing better than yours as we make it work even whit he SN.

You are lazy and never gave it a try.

Stop pretending to advocate when you are bashing DL and your kids aren't even doing it.

And you pretending to understand vulnerable is a joke.

Oh please. SN can mean anything from adhd anxiety dyslexia to nonverbal autism. I'm guessing your kid is on the add side of that line. Yay you, but you're not representative of a large part of the SN population

My kid is classified as SN. How do you think you can represent anyone if you are one of several posters not even doing DL at MCPS? You are arguing to argue and have no personal experience with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The problem OP is you are refusing to accept that folks have adjusted their expectations to deal with the realities of a pandemic. Also, you assume that the bold things above happen for every child in the typical classroom. It doesn’t. Similarly, many families have found ways to allow their children socialization, enrichment, and discovery from behind a computer screen. It doesn’t always look the same as pre-COVID, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The biggest misconception you seem to have is, just because DL is working well for some families doesn’t equate to them wantIn to continue with it indefinitely. It doesn’t equate to them not understanding that DL is not working well some.

At some point the folks of DCUM are going to accept that DL is not harming every child in MCPS, some really are fine overall. And this can be true while still wanting to get schools reopen.

No the problem is that no one seems to look beyond their own family in assessing the cost-benefit of 1.5 yrs distance learning. My family is OK; because we have 2 WAH parents and $$ for a nanny, a tutor and further materials and programs of supplementation. (Written out, I realize this privilege sounds ridiculous.) That does not mean DL is "working well" for the general student population. And it is a perversion of the English language and any concept of the common good to maintain otherwise.

Clearly you failed to comprehend that folks indicating that DL is working well for THEM are not necessarily against finding a good plan for schools to reopen and acknowledge that it may not be working for all students. DL is working fine for some and they are not obligated to lie otherwise. Working well and not working well can be true at the same time because the statement is based on individual opinion and not the general student population. In fact, there has been no information published to date that indicates how its going for the general MCPS student population. Just folks hypothesizing based on their limited bubble.

I'd love for schools to reopen when it is safe for everyone. This person complaining doesn't even have kids DL or MCPS so to speak out against it makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

My kid is unhappy enough that he testified yesterday about the mental health troubles MCPS isn’t addressing.