What do we think will happen on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:No one has come back to meaningfully address what will be different mid week or when they think schools can re open.

The point is that communities need more time. Everyone in my neighborhood is shoveling but our cars keep getting re-buried by plows and the work of breaking through this ice is frankly exhausting and a multi-day endeavor. I appreciate Reid’s email about communities coming together but the work she’s asking people to do is not feasible in 2 days. The ice isn’t going anywhere but we can at least wait until more progress is made on clearing roads and sidewalks.

Waiting for people to shovel isn't a viable countywide strategy. It's not going to put a dent in this. They can't keep kids home until this goes away.

Then why do we have 10 snow days? We’ve only used three or them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

I don’t foresee FCPS trying to do online instruction. That would have to be prepped for ahead of the storm.

Have them all do book reports.

I’m not joking , in the district’s policies that would be an equity issue because not all kids have access to books at home. Anything we post for asynchronous work has to be accessible to all the kids and they can’t be negatively impacted by not doing the work.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone saying there’s “no way” we’re not sending the kids back clearly didn’t have school age kids during Snowmageddon… we were out 2 weeks for conditions frankly better than this.

That was insanity. We were at Hollin Meadows ES. The buses could not get to the school. Nordok Place was never plowed. For days, andministrators and teachers met the buses on Elba and walked a line of students along the winding goat trail that was the sidewalk. It was a good .2 mile.

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Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

I don’t foresee FCPS trying to do online instruction. That would have to be prepped for ahead of the storm.

Have them all do book reports.

I’m not joking , in the district’s policies that would be an equity issue because not all kids have access to books at home. Anything we post for asynchronous work has to be accessible to all the kids and they can’t be negatively impacted by not doing the work.

Sounds like busywork and not instruction.

Many students wouldn’t have access unless they use their home computer, which I guess most would have at least one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

I don’t foresee FCPS trying to do online instruction. That would have to be prepped for ahead of the storm.

Have them all do book reports.

I’m not joking , in the district’s policies that would be an equity issue because not all kids have access to books at home. Anything we post for asynchronous work has to be accessible to all the kids and they can’t be negatively impacted by not doing the work.

They are doing food pick-ups, they can hand them library books at the same time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

I don’t foresee FCPS trying to do online instruction. That would have to be prepped for ahead of the storm.

Have them all do book reports.

I’m not joking , in the district’s policies that would be an equity issue because not all kids have access to books at home. Anything we post for asynchronous work has to be accessible to all the kids and they can’t be negatively impacted by not doing the work.

Sounds like busywork and not instruction.

Many students wouldn’t have access unless they use their home computer, which I guess most would have at least one.

Of course it’s not instruction, that’s implied in the title “asynchronous.” We cannot introduce new instruction that all kids cannot access or receive their accommodations for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

I don’t foresee FCPS trying to do online instruction. That would have to be prepped for ahead of the storm.

Have them all do book reports.

I’m not joking , in the district’s policies that would be an equity issue because not all kids have access to books at home. Anything we post for asynchronous work has to be accessible to all the kids and they can’t be negatively impacted by not doing the work.

Sounds like busywork and not instruction.

Many students wouldn’t have access unless they use their home computer, which I guess most would have at least one.

Of course it’s not instruction, that’s implied in the title “asynchronous.” We cannot introduce new instruction that all kids cannot access or receive their accommodations for.

Of course. I agree. These replies were prompted though by someone saying that LCPS is prepping for “virtual learning”.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

Do you want to pay the taxes to have VDOT equipped to handle storms that happen once every 20 years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

Do you want to pay the taxes to have VDOT equipped to handle storms that happen once every 20 years?

There already was a plow on our street on Sunday and they did multiple rounds. They just decided to plow enough to make a single lane. I don’t understand what was preventing them from plowing the entire street.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

God no. Please!

Not like that. Just asynchronous work we post that kids can independently complete (or not do at all). As someone who taught when we were virtual I can assure you it’s not possible to get that kind of instruction up and functional for a stray couple days of snow cancellations. No kid under 5th grade has ever done it at all and would be starting from square one, let alone the number of new teachers since then who wouldn’t know how to do it either. It will not be live google meet instruction like 2020.

No!!! We do not want asynchronous work whatsoever. School cancelled is fine with us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

Do you want to pay the taxes to have VDOT equipped to handle storms that happen once every 20 years?

They did multiple passes of one single lane. Now it’s a safety issue. Forget about school for a second, they needed to plow so at least two cars can pass side by side. We’ve had multiple cars get stuck in ice, trying to pull over for other cars and now garbage trucks on our street. I’m not having my kids attempt to walk down the street to the bus stop with that going on. -teacher poster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

LCPS has already been communicating with teachers about possibly doing virtual learning this coming week.

God no. Please!

Not like that. Just asynchronous work we post that kids can independently complete (or not do at all). As someone who taught when we were virtual I can assure you it’s not possible to get that kind of instruction up and functional for a stray couple days of snow cancellations. No kid under 5th grade has ever done it at all and would be starting from square one, let alone the number of new teachers since then who wouldn’t know how to do it either. It will not be live google meet instruction like 2020.

No!!! We do not want asynchronous work whatsoever. School cancelled is fine with us.

It’s not going to happen. Our school didn’t even send home laptops.

[Anonymous]

In mid-nineties, we were a walking neighborhood to school. Parents had to drive for weeks because of thick, thick ice on sidewalks.