Starting next week - Kindergarteners have to carry laptops back and forth???

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Anonymous wrote:I’m teaching K and we haven’t even gotten the kids logged into the laptops yet.

Are you going to send them home with the children starting next week?

I didn’t plan to…no one has told us to.

We aren’t 1:1 in k-2 so the TSPEC had carts ready for those grades. Now he is working to reassign the laptops to students, but we’re short since the original plan was to not have them take the laptops home.

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I would just notify the teacher that my kid would be leaving her laptop at school. Sometimes it just takes a few people not following a silly policy to get school to make the right call.

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This seems like a school policy, not a division one. My kid is in K and we haven't heard anything about this. In fact, my kid reports that computers have not been used or mentioned yet. I teach upper ES at another school, and our kids are technically supposed to be bringing them back and forth, but I have a few parents who have asked if they can charge in our classroom cart and our principal was fine with it when I asked. Homework right now involves reading physical books, so no actual need for kids to tote laptops back and forth. Not sure if this policy will change once we have more covid cases/need for isolation. The kids of parents who are leaving computers in the classroom have said that they have zoom-capable computers at home for their kids to use if need be.

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Anonymous wrote:This seems like a school policy, not a division one. My kid is in K and we haven't heard anything about this. In fact, my kid reports that computers have not been used or mentioned yet. I teach upper ES at another school, and our kids are technically supposed to be bringing them back and forth, but I have a few parents who have asked if they can charge in our classroom cart and our principal was fine with it when I asked. Homework right now involves reading physical books, so no actual need for kids to tote laptops back and forth. Not sure if this policy will change once we have more covid cases/need for isolation. The kids of parents who are leaving computers in the classroom have said that they have zoom-capable computers at home for their kids to use if need be.

Yep, I had a lot of parents refuse school computers in the Spring of 2020 and even some last year - they just used the one they already had a home.
My HS daughter's school laptop stayed in the closet for the last 18 months and it was never turned on.
If you don't want to drag it back and forth, just don't ask for it if or when the class or student needs to quarantine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the law was that K kids had to be picked up by someone — like a parent, babysitter, or bus? So couldn’t you just carry it for them?

Of course the adult can carry it. But then OP would have nothing to complain about.

Oh, I see the Saturday morning b1tches are out!!

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the law was that K kids had to be picked up by someone — like a parent, babysitter, or bus? So couldn’t you just carry it for them?

Oooooh, so you baby your child and carry their backpack for them everywhere they go? Does your school also allow you to walk your child into their classroom? Do you do that for your kindergartener or also for your sixth grader? I'm sure he loves it when mommy carries his stuff for him.

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

That’s a decision your school made, not the district.

It's still an FCPS school. Stop policing the threads, weirdo.

NP here: it is relevant that it was the individual school that made the decision. Many readers here might misinterpret OP’s post to think that ALL FCPS kindergartners have to carry their laptops back and forth. At our school, we decided that only Grades 3-6 would need to do that. K-2 students would keep them at school.

OP—it would not be a bad thing to respectfully ask the teacher and/or administrators what the thinking was behind the decision to have K students carry them back and forth. If they say that they were told to do that, they are incorrect. It is a school decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

That’s a decision your school made, not the district.

It's still an FCPS school. Stop policing the threads, weirdo.

lmao put the crack pipe down, Tina.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the law was that K kids had to be picked up by someone — like a parent, babysitter, or bus? So couldn’t you just carry it for them?

Oooooh, so you baby your child and carry their backpack for them everywhere they go? Does your school also allow you to walk your child into their classroom? Do you do that for your kindergartener or also for your sixth grader? I'm sure he loves it when mommy carries his stuff for him.

I think the point was that the parent could help it’s genuinely too heavy for the 5 year old to carry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

I agree, it’s ridiculous. Hopefully they’ll change their minds after a large group of parents protest.

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Only my 7th grader carries the laptop back and forth! 2nd and 4th grader do not.

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OMG- best of luck to you OP!
Just know that if you ask the teacher to charge your kids laptop every night, hope you are the only parent that thinks their kid needs to be special and not follow the rules. If bunches of parents do, then there aren't enough chargers at school to handle the load!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the law was that K kids had to be picked up by someone — like a parent, babysitter, or bus? So couldn’t you just carry it for them?

Oooooh, so you baby your child and carry their backpack for them everywhere they go? Does your school also allow you to walk your child into their classroom? Do you do that for your kindergartener or also for your sixth grader? I'm sure he loves it when mommy carries his stuff for him.

I think the point was that the parent could help it’s genuinely too heavy for the 5 year old to carry.

Ok, so this sounds like a school issue, talk to the teacher/principal.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG- best of luck to you OP!
Just know that if you ask the teacher to charge your kids laptop every night, hope you are the only parent that thinks their kid needs to be special and not follow the rules. If bunches of parents do, then there aren't enough chargers at school to handle the load!

Am I the only one that thinks it is ridiculous for a K kid to be relying on an individual laptop in school? I was a K teacher and I find this appalling. What are they missing while staring at a screen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I get that it's a contingency plan, but then make a plan to do curbside pickup of the laptops if you have to quarantine a kid or a class like they did summer 2020. Please don't make my just turned 5 year old carry a laptop back and forth and also tell me I'm liable for any damage he causes. It's not cool.

That’s a decision your school made, not the district.

+1 that is not what is happening at my school. My classroom has a cart.