ES Parents, please listen in to one or two zoom classes to make sure your kid isn’t “that kid”

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I’ve seen some of that, but the kids aren’t annoying on purpose, they’re impulsive and/or anxious...

Oh, that is right. We don’t discipline or show accountability. We make excuses and turn it into something that should be tolerated by the masses.

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It is obvious the parents on the defense here have these kids and think it is bad that other people find them problematic and are trying to turn them into victims. ALL the kids are anxious. Mine literally was diagnosed with anxiety and SPD last year. But that sure doesn't give her a free ticket to unmute herself to call out, type inappropriate messages on the chat, and disrupt in other ways as well. There is no excuse for that. And yes, I work FT and I am extremely busy since rates are so low. But I make the time to make sure I am involved with both of my kid's schooling (2nd and 4th) even if it means I work 1-2 hours after they go to bed at night. It is called parenting and many parents don't know how. They want to turn a blind eye and not deal with it.

Glad your kid responds to stress in a way that is acceptable. Not all kids do. So when you say "it's called parenting" you are just showing how ignorant and judgmental you are. Not surprisingly, you have a daughter, not a son.....

So you think if your child is stressed, they should be allowed to disrupt the class over and over again? You just allow it and say it is stress. You don't have any parental control to say you absolutely can not unmute and disrupt. You can not say no typing comments? Really? What the heck? And it shouldn't matter what sex her kids are. That means nothing and is sexist. We aren't talking about 6 hours a day anymore. 1 hour. Your kid needs to follow directions with a teacher for 1 hour and if they can't, it needs to be addressed by you, the parent. Not wait until a teacher has to roll her eyes for the millionth time and then reluctantly send you an email. Because she knows she is going to hear the same BS and excuses you are spewing here.

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Every kid does something here or there and as long as parents are on top of it, it resolves fairly quickly. The ones doing it daily just have parents who don't care. If they were problems in the class and now on the online classes, nothing will ever be done. I wish kids couldn't unmute. There has to be a way a teacher can overrule that. It is unbelievable how ballsy and rude some young kids are. One kid yesterday was non stop and my DS said he was circling his face, putting backgrounds behind him, making faces and then unmuting to make farting noises and then muting aga
in and denying it. It makes the entire hour a waste. This is 5th grade, not a younger grade by the way.

I thought MCPS was spending last week and this week reconnecting with kids and making sure they could do the online work (i.e., get online) and make sure they were okay. Do you not see that this kid has a problem? I get it that you only care about your own kid, but I don't think that's an admirable quality. I would hope teachers cared about each of their students, not just the easy ones.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you do realize that many of us are also trying to work full-time with our kids in the house, right? And that we can't always request to get off a call based on our kids' Zoom schedule? Come on. Have some empathy here.

MCPS has max one hour zoom classes a day for ES. The OP said to listen in on 1 or 2 of them to see how your kid is behaving and maybe talk about expectations. Are you telling me you honestly can not do this? I am just so sick of parents throwing their hands up in the air and once again using zoom classes as a babysitter. What were you doing the last few weeks working FT. Not interacting with your kids at all. Having no idea what they are doing all day? How about instead of the OP showing some empathy, how about you take some personal responsibility for the actions of the children you chose to have?

Go back and read what you wrote, and tell me if you think it contributes positively to society right now. I'll wait. You may need to wait months, though, to calm down from whatever you're going through right now. Whatever it is, I'm sorry.

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All the parents who are defensive - are you also the parents who don’t want your precious little angel to go to school with poor brown kids? 5 bucks there are some of you out there.

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I am shocked at how many parents think the kids who constantly disrupt should be tolerated by the rest of the 25 kids excited to learn again. Geez, show some accountability.

Teachers do not get paid enough to handle kids and parents like you

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Anonymous wrote:Can't teachers mute peoples mics? That's how my work hosts things. You are muted unless you are called on to speak.

Yup. That’s what happened this morning when I listened in on my son’s zoom session. The teacher was explaining something and one of the kids just started talking while the teacher was talking and the teacher said. “That’s nice Larlo. I’m going to mute you now so we can finish.”

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That kid in dd's zooms is always talking in class and now on zoom. I know her mom is proud of how well spoken she is. It annoys me that it is always her time but not too much because the teacher should have shut it down at school at some point before.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I'm on my own conference calls. If my kid is behaving poorly on Zoom, the teacher should email me just like she does during the school year and I will talk to my kid.

If you are getting emails or calls from your teacher during the school year, your child is a total PIA. It takes a lot for teachers to have to start with parents. I would be embarrassed and very much in tune with my kid during those classes, even if it means rescheduling conferences to help him.

+1. Obviously, the mother of "that kid."

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Anonymous wrote:Ignore the OP. She is a busybody who is sad that social distancing and school closures mean she no longer has gossip to spread about other kids that she gleans from her time as a classroom volunteer.

Ooooo! I know so many parents who fall into this category! I’m sure they are so miserable now that they can continue their social engineering! Ha!

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Anonymous wrote:Can't teachers mute peoples mics? That's how my work hosts things. You are muted unless you are called on to speak.

Yup. That’s what happened this morning when I listened in on my son’s zoom session. The teacher was explaining something and one of the kids just started talking while the teacher was talking and the teacher said. “That’s nice Larlo. I’m going to mute you now so we can finish.”

And then the kid unmutes himself. And goes back to talking.

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Anonymous wrote:That kid in dd's zooms is always talking in class and now on zoom. I know her mom is proud of how well spoken she is. It annoys me that it is always her time but not too much because the teacher should have shut it down at school at some point before.

We had one like this in 5th grade. The mom was so proud of how ‘confident’ and loud and brash the girl was.

I am fine with encouraging your kid to be well-spoken, but you need to balance that with being respectful of others around you.

Depending on the teacher and parent, I think it can be challenging to shut these types of boys and girls down.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me sad how many mean spirited parents are in our "community."

It makes me sad how many disruptive and rude kids there are in our “community”

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't MCPS just send out a letter that Zoom is down..

My kid had a class from 9am to 10am and it worked fine.

Mine had a 10am class and we could not get on for 20 minutes. One kid's class was already on some presentation. We could not access the Mymcps classroom and I thought it was something my kid did and was annoyed at DC trying to figure out what was going on.

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The teacher should be muting all the children until it is their turn to talk.

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Anonymous wrote:All the parents who are defensive - are you also the parents who don’t want your precious little angel to go to school with poor brown kids? 5 bucks there are some of you out there.

Do you try to stir random racist conflicts wherever you go?

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Anonymous wrote:The teacher should be muting all the children until it is their turn to talk.

They try. But the kids know how to unmute.