What’s your elementary school plan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received an email from the principal today saying that teachers will be on zoom and kids will be in the classroom with a monitor. All interventions, ESOL, etc will be virtual.

Interested in other elementary schools plans

Our schools plan is to reopen to ensure maximum spread of COVID to the community.

You're barking up the wrong tree. You should be chasing down the people going to restaurants and gyms and all other things that are much less important than school. I was waiting in my car for takeout this weekend and watched no less than 50 people going in and out of the restaurant.

You might want to thank those people. They’re bringing us closer to herd immunity!

Our original goal was to ‘flatten the curve’ and now the goal is hers immunity.

The faster we get there, the more kids can be back in school! So, yay for them!!

Our ES said it will be a max of 12 kids per classroom for now.

[Anonymous]

Bells Mill ES meeting tonight

[Anonymous]

Those of you who say teachers on zoom - does that mean no teacher will be in the classroom? Just a random monitor? And schools think parents will be ok with that?

Everyone I know who selected to return in person did it with the assumption that the teacher would be there. If schools are planning monitors around the numbers from the survey they're going to have a big issue...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who say teachers on zoom - does that mean no teacher will be in the classroom? Just a random monitor? And schools think parents will be ok with that?

Everyone I know who selected to return in person did it with the assumption that the teacher would be there. If schools are planning monitors around the numbers from the survey they're going to have a big issue...

What exactly are parents going to do about? About the only thing they can do is switch to DL and, frankly, I bet the schools would be thrilled if more people switched to DL.

More conspiratorial people out there might think that they are making in-person as unappealing as possible to reduce the number of people actually doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who say teachers on zoom - does that mean no teacher will be in the classroom? Just a random monitor? And schools think parents will be ok with that?

Everyone I know who selected to return in person did it with the assumption that the teacher would be there. If schools are planning monitors around the numbers from the survey they're going to have a big issue...

What exactly are parents going to do about? About the only thing they can do is switch to DL and, frankly, I bet the schools would be thrilled if more people switched to DL.

More conspiratorial people out there might think that they are making in-person as unappealing as possible to reduce the number of people actually doing it.

What if the teachers WANT to be in person? What happens then? I know a lot of teachers of younger kids who are dying to be back in person.

Not to mention the inequity of why it's safe to have a monitor in class but not a teacher. What school wants to deal with those questions? Not to mention why should teachers be vaccinated if they're staying home?

[Anonymous]

Have any MCPS elementaries announced teachers back in person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have any MCPS elementaries announced teachers back in person?

These meetings are all virtual. No one is announcing things in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any MCPS elementaries announced teachers back in person?

These meetings are all virtual. No one is announcing things in person.

I mean has anyone officially said the teachers will be in their MCPS elementary in person in March?

My 4th grader's teacher indicated that she would be, but it hasn't officially come from the school.

[Anonymous]

It's comforting in a weird way to be told few if any schools have shared their plans, which I'm thinking aren't even solidified. This was my impression too (and our school hasn't shared yet), but I was told by another parent that all the other schools had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who say teachers on zoom - does that mean no teacher will be in the classroom? Just a random monitor? And schools think parents will be ok with that?

Everyone I know who selected to return in person did it with the assumption that the teacher would be there. If schools are planning monitors around the numbers from the survey they're going to have a big issue...

What exactly are parents going to do about? About the only thing they can do is switch to DL and, frankly, I bet the schools would be thrilled if more people switched to DL.

More conspiratorial people out there might think that they are making in-person as unappealing as possible to reduce the number of people actually doing it.

What if the teachers WANT to be in person? What happens then? I know a lot of teachers of younger kids who are dying to be back in person.

Not to mention the inequity of why it's safe to have a monitor in class but not a teacher. What school wants to deal with those questions? Not to mention why should teachers be vaccinated if [b]they're staying home?

I've been wondering this all along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who say teachers on zoom - does that mean no teacher will be in the classroom? Just a random monitor? And schools think parents will be ok with that?

Everyone I know who selected to return in person did it with the assumption that the teacher would be there. If schools are planning monitors around the numbers from the survey they're going to have a big issue...

What exactly are parents going to do about? About the only thing they can do is switch to DL and, frankly, I bet the schools would be thrilled if more people switched to DL.

More conspiratorial people out there might think that they are making in-person as unappealing as possible to reduce the number of people actually doing it.

What if the teachers WANT to be in person? What happens then? I know a lot of teachers of younger kids who are dying to be back in person.

Not to mention the inequity of why it's safe to have a monitor in class but not a teacher. What school wants to deal with those questions? Not to mention why should teachers be vaccinated if [b]they're staying home?

I've been wondering this all along.

Both this, and the idea that monitors are somehow allowed in but teachers arent, are going to cause riots especially at the wealthier schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any MCPS elementaries announced teachers back in person?

These meetings are all virtual. No one is announcing things in person.

I mean has anyone officially said the teachers will be in their MCPS elementary in person in March?

My 4th grader's teacher indicated that she would be, but it hasn't officially come from the school.

Our ES indicated a support model, with Teacher in the classroom, and possibly a paraeducator or monitor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any MCPS elementaries announced teachers back in person?

These meetings are all virtual. No one is announcing things in person.

I mean has anyone officially said the teachers will be in their MCPS elementary in person in March?

My 4th grader's teacher indicated that she would be, but it hasn't officially come from the school.

Our ES indicated a support model, with Teacher in the classroom, and possibly a paraeducator or monitor.

what school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who say teachers on zoom - does that mean no teacher will be in the classroom? Just a random monitor? And schools think parents will be ok with that?

Everyone I know who selected to return in person did it with the assumption that the teacher would be there. If schools are planning monitors around the numbers from the survey they're going to have a big issue...

What exactly are parents going to do about? About the only thing they can do is switch to DL and, frankly, I bet the schools would be thrilled if more people switched to DL.

More conspiratorial people out there might think that they are making in-person as unappealing as possible to reduce the number of people actually doing it.

What if the teachers WANT to be in person? What happens then? I know a lot of teachers of younger kids who are dying to be back in person.

Not to mention the inequity of why it's safe to have a monitor in class but not a teacher. What school wants to deal with those questions? Not to mention why should teachers be vaccinated if [b]they're staying home?

I've been wondering this all along.

Both this, and the idea that monitors are somehow allowed in but teachers arent, are going to cause riots especially at the wealthier schools.

It is super strange.

Will the monitors then be prioritized for vaccines?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who say teachers on zoom - does that mean no teacher will be in the classroom? Just a random monitor? And schools think parents will be ok with that?

Everyone I know who selected to return in person did it with the assumption that the teacher would be there. If schools are planning monitors around the numbers from the survey they're going to have a big issue...

What exactly are parents going to do about? About the only thing they can do is switch to DL and, frankly, I bet the schools would be thrilled if more people switched to DL.

More conspiratorial people out there might think that they are making in-person as unappealing as possible to reduce the number of people actually doing it.

What if the teachers WANT to be in person? What happens then? I know a lot of teachers of younger kids who are dying to be back in person.

Not to mention the inequity of why it's safe to have a monitor in class but not a teacher. What school wants to deal with those questions? Not to mention why should teachers be vaccinated if they're staying home?

As for a teacher who wants to be back in school, I don't think MCPS cares any more about that teacher's desire than it does parents' desires for kids to be in school. They are going to do what's best or easiest for the system as a whole.

As for dealing with the inequities of having low paid monitors in the classrooms (monitors who at least initially likely won't be vaccinated because many are just being hired and even teachers can't get appointments), they will brush aside the questions. Yes, it is inequitable but those low paid aides don't have the clout of MCEA, so what are they going to do about it.