Mcps no school wed and thursday

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance of school Friday.

Yes, my understanding is they're just waiting to see if they want to open more food sites or child care.

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For my ES students, I have sent some videos I made over the strategies we are using for Math and some problems they could work on to prevent loss. I also send them a read works link and assigned some texts in the life cycle for Reading. I apologized for the shutdown but felt it necessary to at least give them some work while out. I also said I miss them all and look forward to when they return.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who said teachers sent assignments, how does that work with the new semester? My HS kid has new teachers in all classes other than AP lang. I don't think he's gotten any emails from teachers. I just looked on Canvas and saw there's something for AP comp sci due tomorrow, but that may have been there from before the teacher knew he wouldn't have had any instructional days with these kids yet.

The new semester has already started so your kid should have canvas course tiles for semester B. Your kid can click on them and access modules and/or assignments. The teacher can also email all students in the class using the canvas announcement feature for their specific course

Maybe it's because I am a Special Ed teacher but none of my classes for second semester are in Canvas or Synergy. I know which classes I will be co teaching. I just cannot access any of them.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s ridiculous. Teachers are still getting paid, even with the snow day. And sending out a few assignments is hardly a crushing work load.

Try again! We are still getting paid but have to work (so far) 3 extra days for the closures. I love my students and am doing work over these closure days and then will be forced to work another 3 days which means MCPS will 6 work days out of me and only pay me for 3.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who said teachers sent assignments, how does that work with the new semester? My HS kid has new teachers in all classes other than AP lang. I don't think he's gotten any emails from teachers. I just looked on Canvas and saw there's something for AP comp sci due tomorrow, but that may have been there from before the teacher knew he wouldn't have had any instructional days with these kids yet.

The new semester has already started so your kid should have canvas course tiles for semester B. Your kid can click on them and access modules and/or assignments. The teacher can also email all students in the class using the canvas announcement feature for their specific course

Yes, my kid has tiles for semester B, but there haven't been any instructional days and he hasn't gotten any emails from teachers. Should he assume that an assignment that's listed as due tomorrow is actually due tomorrow and the teacher expects students to submit it even though they haven't had any classes? I wouldn't assume that.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who said teachers sent assignments, how does that work with the new semester? My HS kid has new teachers in all classes other than AP lang. I don't think he's gotten any emails from teachers. I just looked on Canvas and saw there's something for AP comp sci due tomorrow, but that may have been there from before the teacher knew he wouldn't have had any instructional days with these kids yet.

The new semester has already started so your kid should have canvas course tiles for semester B. Your kid can click on them and access modules and/or assignments. The teacher can also email all students in the class using the canvas announcement feature for their specific course

Teachers are not working during this time. Teachers need to have published the canvas course. This is something that many teachers were going to do on Monday during the professional day. So, some might not be published yet. School is not in session and there should be no expectation that teachers or students are working.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s ridiculous. Teachers are still getting paid, even with the snow day. And sending out a few assignments is hardly a crushing work load.

Try again! We are still getting paid but have to work (so far) 3 extra days for the closures. I love my students and am doing work over these closure days and then will be forced to work another 3 days which means MCPS will 6 work days out of me and only pay me for 3.

What are you working on? The grading that was supposed to be done on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

A 1:1 that was hand picked to meet the needs of the student no less!

I just wish parents cared this much about their kid's education when school is actually in session. It only mysteriously seems to happen when schools are closed.

More likely that kids are too busy working with expensive tutors to remediate the basic skills you failed to properly teach

Even the best teachers can't teach a rock how to read.

The tutor managed to make more progress in two sessions than her teacher did in 3 months

You’re kidding me? A 1-1 tutor made more progress than a teacher trying to teach 20 kids with behaviors and different levels? I’m shocked!

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Anonymous wrote:That’s ridiculous. Teachers are still getting paid, even with the snow day. And sending out a few assignments is hardly a crushing work load.

Try again! We are still getting paid but have to work (so far) 3 extra days for the closures. I love my students and am doing work over these closure days and then will be forced to work another 3 days which means MCPS will 6 work days out of me and only pay me for 3.

What are you working on? The grading that was supposed to be done on Monday?

I checked one of my coworker's canvas classrooms today and there were 18 ungraded assignments still. All I can do is shake my head

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Anonymous wrote:Could they have prepared better by thinking how to do some instruction during a week-long shutdown? At lease make the effort, send textbooks, emails, assignments, ask kids to read X,Y,Z. Just for performance's sake, if not for real, since they are so good at performing - just look at the head of MCPS rapping in videos. The lack of care and focus on actual instruction and academics is staggering. Snow days just expose the dysfunction of the whole system.

A 1:1 that was hand picked to meet the needs of the student no less!

I just wish parents cared this much about their kid's education when school is actually in session. It only mysteriously seems to happen when schools are closed.

More likely that kids are too busy working with expensive tutors to remediate the basic skills you failed to properly teach

Even the best teachers can't teach a rock how to read.

The tutor managed to make more progress in two sessions than her teacher did in 3 months

You’re kidding me? A 1-1 tutor made more progress than a teacher trying to teach 20 kids with behaviors and different levels? I’m shocked!

The tutor did that in 2 hours

The teacher had over 100 days of school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That’s ridiculous. Teachers are still getting paid, even with the snow day. And sending out a few assignments is hardly a crushing work load.

Try again! We are still getting paid but have to work (so far) 3 extra days for the closures. I love my students and am doing work over these closure days and then will be forced to work another 3 days which means MCPS will 6 work days out of me and only pay me for 3.

DP. I'm confused. It's code Red. How are you being forced to work?

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Anonymous wrote:That’s ridiculous. Teachers are still getting paid, even with the snow day. And sending out a few assignments is hardly a crushing work load.

Try again! We are still getting paid but have to work (so far) 3 extra days for the closures. I love my students and am doing work over these closure days and then will be forced to work another 3 days which means MCPS will 6 work days out of me and only pay me for 3.

DP. I'm confused. It's code Red. How are you being forced to work?

They're not. They are grumpy because of one of the snow days fell on their grading day so they could either grade that day which is horribly unfair given that it was a snow day s/ or not grade and have to grade on their own time later, which they consider to be unpaid work even though they are salaried employees and that's just how salaries work.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s ridiculous. Teachers are still getting paid, even with the snow day. And sending out a few assignments is hardly a crushing work load.

Try again! We are still getting paid but have to work (so far) 3 extra days for the closures. I love my students and am doing work over these closure days and then will be forced to work another 3 days which means MCPS will 6 work days out of me and only pay me for 3.

DP. I'm confused. It's code Red. How are you being forced to work?

They're not. They are grumpy because of one of the snow days fell on their grading day so they could either grade that day which is horribly unfair given that it was a snow day s/ or not grade and have to grade on their own time later, which they consider to be unpaid work even though they are salaried employees and that's just how salaries work.

Special Education teacher here. Not grumpy, but my special ed timelines don’t change just because school is out. Calendar day rules still require things to be done by a certain date to meet federal requirements. There are also special ed staff in Infamts and Toddlers who follow a different calendar and don’t get the same grading days that we get.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s ridiculous. Teachers are still getting paid, even with the snow day. And sending out a few assignments is hardly a crushing work load.

Try again! We are still getting paid but have to work (so far) 3 extra days for the closures. I love my students and am doing work over these closure days and then will be forced to work another 3 days which means MCPS will 6 work days out of me and only pay me for 3.

DP. I'm confused. It's code Red. How are you being forced to work?

They're not. They are grumpy because of one of the snow days fell on their grading day so they could either grade that day which is horribly unfair given that it was a snow day s/ or not grade and have to grade on their own time later, which they consider to be unpaid work even though they are salaried employees and that's just how salaries work.

Special Education teacher here. Not grumpy, but my special ed timelines don’t change just because school is out. Calendar day rules still require things to be done by a certain date to meet federal requirements. There are also special ed staff in Infamts and Toddlers who follow a different calendar and don’t get the same grading days that we get.

Okay? Welcome to the life of every salaried professional.

[Anonymous]

Even without snow, they likely would’ve closed due to frigid temperatures