Mcps no school wed and thursday

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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

Came to say that.

It would bother me as a parent if a teacher started using 2020-2021 curriculum.

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Anonymous wrote: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

This is a real problem at my school. We don’t have enough spaces for staff as it is and anyone who arrives after a certain time has to park on the main road. Streets aren’t plowed to the curb, so this won’t be an option. I have no idea where our staff will park.

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Anonymous wrote: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

This is a real problem at my school. We don’t have enough spaces for staff as it is and anyone who arrives after a certain time has to park on the main road. Streets aren’t plowed to the curb, so this won’t be an option. I have no idea where our staff will park.

That is a really good point.

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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.

It’s not.

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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.

They don't give IEPs for kids that aren't learning but aren't disruptive, they have to fail first.

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Anonymous wrote: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

This is a real problem at my school. We don’t have enough spaces for staff as it is and anyone who arrives after a certain time has to park on the main road. Streets aren’t plowed to the curb, so this won’t be an option. I have no idea where our staff will park.

This snow isn’t going anywhere to a long time.

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Anonymous wrote: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

This is a real problem at my school. We don’t have enough spaces for staff as it is and anyone who arrives after a certain time has to park on the main road. Streets aren’t plowed to the curb, so this won’t be an option. I have no idea where our staff will park.

Same.

Worse, everyone who lives on that road parks on the street rather than their driveways. Sometimes I have to park three blocks away.

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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/

I imagine that’s a troll because no one I know in real life is making that complaint.

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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/

I imagine that’s a troll because no one I know in real life is making that complaint.

Clearly it was an issue for some since they pushed back the deadline. Those darned teachers who are also parents that hate their children! Why did they even have children if they don't want to take care of them s/