Mcps no school wed and thursday

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

Then MCPS needs to build more than one snow day into its calendar like any professional school district where snow and frigid temperatures are an annual occurrence.

MCPS had to add 3 snow days to the end of the year calendar just last year which were a total waste of instructional time because Taylor sent out a message that basically said kids weren’t required to come because he knew they were all in summer camp and no actual teaching would occur.

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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 So, some might not be published yet.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.

Two of my kids’ middle school teachers posted assignments today gently suggesting they read or look at reading assignment XYZ if they were able to but that it wasn’t required. I appreciate it-it gave my kid something to work on.

I guess the thought of all these kids sitting around with nothing to do and wasting instructional time must be killing them too.

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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

As a tutor, I’d say your child has an LD and you need to get them tested.

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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.

+1 million. Why didn’t Taylor tell his central office to prepare for this possibility of a full week closure. Many teachers have materials for asynchronous learning from the Covid years and could even have taught if MCpS had been more organized about making sure kids had their chrome books at home.

Both my kids have their Chromebook . I’ve been assigning them IxL and reading every day but they could actually be advancing on the McPS curriculum if teachers sent out assignments.

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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

As a tutor, I’d say your child has an LD and you need to get them tested.

As a tutor, you have zero credentials to make that diagnosis of a kid you never met and you should stop embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.

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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.

+1 million. Why didn’t Taylor tell his central office to prepare for this possibility of a full week closure. Many teachers have materials for asynchronous learning from the Covid years and could even have taught if MCpS had been more organized about making sure kids had their chrome books at home.

Both my kids have their Chromebook . I’ve been assigning them IxL and reading every day but they could actually be advancing on the McPS curriculum if teachers sent out assignments.

The curriculum has changed since Covid

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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

As a tutor, I’d say your child has an LD and you need to get them tested.

What a bizarre comment based on the information you have. MCPS literacy rates are terrible and it's not because all the kids have LDs.It's because the instruction isn't awesome.

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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

As a tutor, I’d say your child has an LD and you need to get them tested.

As a tutor, you have zero credentials to make that diagnosis of a kid you never met and you should stop embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.

Nope, that parent needs to get that kid evaluated. Poor kid.

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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

As a tutor, I’d say your child has an LD and you need to get them tested.

As a tutor, you have zero credentials to make that diagnosis of a kid you never met and you should stop embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.

And it's especially embarrassing and offensive to use "your child has LDs" without any relevant information to make that statement as some kind of gotcha against a parent. Having a disability is not an insult or an excuse for a teacher to dismiss a child's struggles. If MCPS can only educate the kids that are easy to educate (or whose parents hire tutors) then what are they even doing?

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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.

Please don't engage with anti-teacher trolls. They don't care; they just want to spread hate for their stupid political agenda .

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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.

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

Maybe your kid needs an IEP for refusing to engage in class.

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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.

Please don't engage with anti-teacher trolls. They don't care; they just want to spread hate for their stupid political agenda .

Our evil agenda to understand how teachers are being victimized because a snow day fell on their grading day?

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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.

You can care all you want, but it is what MCPS decides to teach or not to teach your kids that really matters. Omitting large chunks of CKLA because it is too much is a cop out. I cannot physically supplement 50% of material not covered. My wish is also that parents cared and there was more pressure on MCPS to do better. But it is what it is.


These trolls don't care about education. They just hate having their kids around.

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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.

You can care all you want, but it is what MCPS decides to teach or not to teach your kids that really matters. Omitting large chunks of CKLA because it is too much is a cop out. I cannot physically supplement 50% of material not covered. My wish is also that parents cared and there was more pressure on MCPS to do better. But it is what it is.

These trolls don't care about education. They just hate having their kids around.

What about the teachers upset that they "lost" a grading day due to it being a snow day? Probably because they had no childcare on that day? How dare they want a grading day without their kids around. They must hate their kids s/

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Whenever we do go back, teachers make sure you get to work early because the way these parking lots are forced to be plowed, we are going to be without like 25-30% of the regular spaces for awhile. I would hate to see you get to work and have nowhere to park