Virtual Learning - Why Not MCPS?

[Anonymous]

I would support distance learning during extended closure. Like if conditions are truly dangerous and school needs to be closed for more than a week, they could offer some kind of instruction. For ES, they could mail packets home. I would support using this to reduce makeup days by up to 2 days per week of closure (after one week)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is doing the MC program where you get a AA degree + HS degree (Northwood HS). I wish someone would tell Montgomery College that virtual learning is useless. They make the kids take some summer/winter classes that are completely asynchronous (just a bunch of videos and no live teacher). I think it’s ridiculous and my kid got put in an advanced calculus class that was accelerated and completely video based. It was horrible and he passed but really didn’t learn much. That being said, I think virtual learning works when it is temporary and for a few days. Bad idea when it constitutes the entire course

If it useless to have video based classes, then why wouldn't you rather see real school days? What an odd comment.

Seems like you don’t know how to read. She said a few days of teacher- lead virtual instruction is fine and what virtual learning is good for but an entire semester of asynchronous learning (no teacher) is bad especially for college level courses. Some of you parents are such dummies so perhaps the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

If virtual can't consistently be done in a useful way even when you're limiting it to a course that was intended to online, taught by someone who planned for online lessons, and attended by students who opted-in to the online class, then
there's simply no way forcing unmotivated teachers and students into it at the last-minute is going to go well.

This is not a good option. If it were the only option, that would be one thing, but it clearly isn't. We should hold real make-up days. We have them in the calendar.

Then you get rid of those teachers as they are probably bad in person and fail the kids who don’t attend and do the work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How can so many other school systems implement virtual learning when there are long-predicted prolonged absences.

Every student has a Chromebook.

Is it ideal? No.

Will there be complete equitable participation? No.

Will it prevent school from going well into the summer? Yes.

I just don’t get it.

Virtual learning is an ineffective disaster.

It was great for my kids. In person is equally ineffective. Look at the test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would support distance learning during extended closure. Like if conditions are truly dangerous and school needs to be closed for more than a week, they could offer some kind of instruction. For ES, they could mail packets home. I would support using this to reduce makeup days by up to 2 days per week of closure (after one week)

We had ample warning this snow was coming. If McPS central office had been more organized they could have had packets sent home with the K-3s and ensured all the older kids took home their Chromebooks. Instead superintendent Taylor prioritized his stupid snow day videos. Unlike the Baltimore and Anne Arundel school districts, MCPS didn’t even bother to get a virtual learning plan approved by the state-despite MCPS only including ONE snow day on the calendar where a lot of other Maryland school districts include three snow days.

[Anonymous]

I would have been ok with issuing paper work to be sent home as long as there was a 100% understanding that there would be zero late or missing work accepted from it. If I'm going to take the effort to give everyone a packet, you better not lose it and if you did, too bad take your zero

[Anonymous]

How have other counties been able to overcome the 1-1 Chromebook hurdle but mcps can’t? Or are those counties not concerned with that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have been ok with issuing paper work to be sent home as long as there was a 100% understanding that there would be zero late or missing work accepted from it. If I'm going to take the effort to give everyone a packet, you better not lose it and if you did, too bad take your zero

Dig that hole deeper...

Just don't bother if you're going to take that attitude. And hopefully you're looking for a new job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How have other counties been able to overcome the 1-1 Chromebook hurdle but mcps can’t? Or are those counties not concerned with that?

They're not because there's no learning going on during their "virtual" days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would have been ok with issuing paper work to be sent home as long as there was a 100% understanding that there would be zero late or missing work accepted from it. If I'm going to take the effort to give everyone a packet, you better not lose it and if you did, too bad take your zero

Dig that hole deeper...

Just don't bother if you're going to take that attitude. And hopefully you're looking for a new job.

I am. I'm in the admin pool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have been ok with issuing paper work to be sent home as long as there was a 100% understanding that there would be zero late or missing work accepted from it. If I'm going to take the effort to give everyone a packet, you better not lose it and if you did, too bad take your zero

Dig that hole deeper...

Just don't bother if you're going to take that attitude. And hopefully you're looking for a new job.

I am. I'm in the admin pool

Good fit for you. They don't want to do anything, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can so many other school systems implement virtual learning when there are long-predicted prolonged absences.

Every student has a Chromebook.

Is it ideal? No.

Will there be complete equitable participation? No.

Will it prevent school from going well into the summer? Yes.

I just don’t get it.

Virtual learning is an ineffective disaster.

It was great for my kids. In person is equally ineffective. Look at the test scores.

Awesome for you. Mine has ADHD and slow processing speed. Online is a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can so many other school systems implement virtual learning when there are long-predicted prolonged absences.

Every student has a Chromebook.

Is it ideal? No.

Will there be complete equitable participation? No.

Will it prevent school from going well into the summer? Yes.

I just don’t get it.

Virtual learning is an ineffective disaster.

It was great for my kids. In person is equally ineffective. Look at the test scores.

This. People are in denial about how in person learning is quite ineffective as well - at least for certain groups of kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can so many other school systems implement virtual learning when there are long-predicted prolonged absences.

Every student has a Chromebook.

Is it ideal? No.

Will there be complete equitable participation? No.

Will it prevent school from going well into the summer? Yes.

I just don’t get it.

Virtual learning is an ineffective disaster.

It was great for my kids. In person is equally ineffective. Look at the test scores.

This. People are in denial about how in person learning is quite ineffective as well - at least for certain groups of kids.

By all means, lobby to get rid of schools...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can so many other school systems implement virtual learning when there are long-predicted prolonged absences.

Every student has a Chromebook.

Is it ideal? No.

Will there be complete equitable participation? No.

Will it prevent school from going well into the summer? Yes.

I just don’t get it.

Virtual learning is an ineffective disaster.

It was great for my kids. In person is equally ineffective. Look at the test scores.

Awesome for you. Mine has ADHD and slow processing speed. Online is a disaster.

My kid has ADHD and single digit processing speed and was ok during the COVID pandemic period working online. In person is better but sometimes conditions don’t allow and I would rather have them in virtual learning now and getting some education than it be like last year where MoCo just tacked on three half days in end of June and the kids watched videos while the teachers packed up the classrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can so many other school systems implement virtual learning when there are long-predicted prolonged absences.

Every student has a Chromebook.

Is it ideal? No.

Will there be complete equitable participation? No.

Will it prevent school from going well into the summer? Yes.

I just don’t get it.

Virtual learning is an ineffective disaster.

It was great for my kids. In person is equally ineffective. Look at the test scores.

Awesome for you. Mine has ADHD and slow processing speed. Online is a disaster.

My kid has ADHD and single digit processing speed and was ok during the COVID pandemic period working online. In person is better but sometimes conditions don’t allow and I would rather have them in virtual learning now and getting some education than it be like last year where MoCo just tacked on three half days in end of June and the kids watched videos while the teachers packed up the classrooms.

There are three contingency days in the calendar before the end of the year.