No Class Meetings Between 11am-1pm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary MCPS teacher here. We can't hold meeting between 11:00 and 1:00 because that is the time for students to pick up food.

We are working so hard to make this work for everyone. It is exhausting on this end, too.

Thanks for all of your hard work. Really. We appreciate it. I can't imaging having to deal with MCPS as an employer on a good day, let alone dealing with them during a pandemic.

We were also told that kids do NOT need to present to pick up food. Any adult can go and get as much food as needed.

Maybe MCPS can just limit it to no meetings between noon-1pm?

But a parent can’t leave their young children home unsupervised for a couple of hours while they go pick-up that food. Same goes for older kids who may not be able to be left unattended due to special needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this universal across MCPS?

My kids ES told us that they can't do meetings at this time to ensure that the kids who need meals, have access to them. That leaves meetings at 10am/1pm/2pm.

Is this being done at all ES/MS, or just our non-W school?

Can you share if this is the case at your school? Are those times blocked off at your school?

Nope - Blair HS - 11 A.M. is an online class time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this universal across MCPS?

My kids ES told us that they can't do meetings at this time to ensure that the kids who need meals, have access to them. That leaves meetings at 10am/1pm/2pm.

Is this being done at all ES/MS, or just our non-W school?

Can you share if this is the case at your school? Are those times blocked off at your school?

As for Tilden - we've gotten no communications yet from teachers about specific times for classes, so difficult to tell whether this will be the case there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this universal across MCPS?

My kids ES told us that they can't do meetings at this time to ensure that the kids who need meals, have access to them. That leaves meetings at 10am/1pm/2pm.

Is this being done at all ES/MS, or just our non-W school?

Can you share if this is the case at your school? Are those times blocked off at your school?

As for Tilden - we've gotten no communications yet from teachers about specific times for classes, so difficult to tell whether this will be the case there.

It’s supposed to be decided by ILT. So please don’t blame the individual teachers. Email Mrs. L that you need this info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My elementary kids have meetings at 11 and 12 on Thursday. We are in a W cluster.

No surprise. MCPS doesn't care about W cluster generally. They set up 40 food distribution sites, and none at all in Potomac, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Cabin John.

[Anonymous]

Remember pre-COVID when the middle and high school parents all said that their kids needed to sleep in later for their academic success and health? I’m eager to see the results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My elementary kids have meetings at 11 and 12 on Thursday. We are in a W cluster.

No surprise. MCPS doesn't care about W cluster generally. They set up 40 food distribution sites, and none at all in Potomac, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Cabin John.

A) My kids are at one of the highest needs elementary schools in the district and have class at 11.

B) The victimization complex from W parents is just too too much at this point. You folks are constantly telling us that you bought in a good school zone for the low poverty rates, "intact families," and excellent peer group, and then you complain because social services for poor kids are not walking distance to your home. For shame, honestly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well that seems eminently reasonable. Kids need to eat!

Having a 2 hour slot of time blocked off for lunch seems excessive. An hour would be sufficient.

Do all MCPS students live close enough to walk to their nearest school, pick up food, walk back and eat in an hour?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My elementary kids have meetings at 11 and 12 on Thursday. We are in a W cluster.

No surprise. MCPS doesn't care about W cluster generally. They set up 40 food distribution sites, and none at all in Potomac, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Cabin John.

A) My kids are at one of the highest needs elementary schools in the district and have class at 11.

B) The victimization complex from W parents is just too too much at this point. You folks are constantly telling us that you bought in a good school zone for the low poverty rates, "intact families," and excellent peer group, and then you complain because social services for poor kids are not walking distance to your home. For shame, honestly.

Not in a W zone, but in Rockville. There are places of low income in W schools. Not as many, but there are. Tobytown, Scotland, apartments by Westfields, etc.... And plenty in low income housing inaprtment buildings in Bethesda, by BCC, etc...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My elementary kids have meetings at 11 and 12 on Thursday. We are in a W cluster.

No surprise. MCPS doesn't care about W cluster generally. They set up 40 food distribution sites, and none at all in Potomac, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Cabin John.

A) My kids are at one of the highest needs elementary schools in the district and have class at 11.

B) The victimization complex from W parents is just too too much at this point. You folks are constantly telling us that you bought in a good school zone for the low poverty rates, "intact families," and excellent peer group, and then you complain because social services for poor kids are not walking distance to your home. For shame, honestly.

Not in a W zone, but in Rockville. There are places of low income in W schools. Not as many, but there are. Tobytown, Scotland, apartments by Westfields, etc.... And plenty in low income housing inaprtment buildings in Bethesda, by BCC, etc...

MCPS has a lot of distribution sites.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/Coronavirus/FoodDistributionSites.pdf

Including at the Scotland Community Center.

And no, there aren't "plenty of low-income students" in downtown Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Why not bus the meals to kids? Then lunch could be much shorter, the bus drivers could work and everyone could learn more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not bus the meals to kids? Then lunch could be much shorter, the bus drivers could work and everyone could learn more.

That would require large groups to congregate at bus stops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not bus the meals to kids? Then lunch could be much shorter, the bus drivers could work and everyone could learn more.

That would require large groups to congregate at bus stops.

Well MCPS said it gave out 546,000 meals or something like that. At 40 sites.

Were people congregating at those meal sites anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elementary focus school. We were told we have to leave 11-1 open every day. Math and reading instruction will occur before 11am. Math is M/W/F and literacy is Tu/Th. Teachers will hold "office hours" at a time yet to be determined, but could be in the afternoon.

Elem focus school here too. We have the same plan

Two non-focus ESs in our household and this is also our schedule. They have Zoom class at 9, 9:15, 10am depending on the day/schedule. Then they can do their assignments in the afternoon. The teachers have a whole lot of organizing, re-grouping, grading/reviewing to do. It’s not like they are only working when they’re on zoom with your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not bus the meals to kids? Then lunch could be much shorter, the bus drivers could work and everyone could learn more.

PP, you want to make the meal distribution system even more complicated and difficult? Why?