FCPS Teachers - would you be ok with kids skipping morning meeting/afternoon wrap up?

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

We want in person school. It’s simple.

Covid be gone!! Poof!!

DP. That would be great! But until then, with our current local health metrics, I want 50% class sizes and my kids in the building.

And I want vanilla ice cream. Covid is what it is, DL it will be this year.

When did vanilla ice cream become unavailable?

Is there a nationwide shortage?

Is it not in the budget?

You can't get to the grocery store?

Actually, most decent brands of ice cream were impossible to find for a month in the late spring. This is earned into my brain, because it’s my stress eating food and all I wanted was Ben and Jerry’s.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

45 minutes without any differentiation was not enough, but 9-4 is way too much. I would have been happy with 9-12 live instruction (with 2 15 minute breaks) and small group meetings in the afternoon.

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of a first grader here. We’re planning to be online for all sessions, but I do think schools will have to be a bit forgiving and flexible for conflicts at times. For instance, what about families with younger children who are going to attend preschool in person? We made the decision, for various reasons, to send our four-year-old to preschool this year. Depending on the start times of both schools, we may have a conflict two days a week where my first grader is supposed to be logging on while I’m dropping off my preschooler. It may just end up being a situation where she has to miss a few minutes of morning meeting.

OP here - this was pretty much the reason I asked this question.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

We want in person school. It’s simple.

I don't think it's that simple. But different parents want different things. Unfortunately, because school choice gives the local powers that be heart palpitations, everybody is trapped with each other in a large, slow-moving bureaucratic system.

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Anonymous wrote:My dc is logging in for math instruction and maybe language arts if it is well done. That’s it. I don’t really care what the teacher thinks.

Ok but after 15 absences, your child will be unenrolled from school.

Yeah no. Although if you wonder why there's anger, just look at comments like these.

What do you mean, "no?" This is indeed exactly what will happen. Public school has compulsory attendance, not just for whatever the entitled parent feels the need to access as if it's an educational buffet.

If your child does not meet the attendance criteria -- yes, even in DL -- they will be disenrolled. So if that's your plan, withdraw now and homeschool. Done.

Sorry, but they can't unenroll children if they have NOT been absent for 15 CONSECUTIVE days. Plus, logging in late is not the same as absence - just tardy. Sorry if it makes you unhappy/felling under appreciated - don't take it personally. WE are doing what is best for our children, it has nothing to do with you or your good intentions. As parents, we know what is best for our children.

In my house, they will enroll for morning meetings because I think it is the best part of the day for community building, but we are not doing specials or wraps up.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

Please, don't be disingenuous - you know what parents want. They want their kid to learn Math, LA and social studies. Everything else is just to keep the others employed (pe, coaches, specials). Nothing wrong with that since we are in a pandemic... it doesn't mean we want and will make our children sit through 6 hours of DL just so p.e teachers and some others feel essential.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

We want in person school. It’s simple.

Covid be gone!! Poof!!

DP. That would be great! But until then, with our current local health metrics, I want 50% class sizes and my kids in the building.

And I want vanilla ice cream. Covid is what it is, DL it will be this year.

When did vanilla ice cream become unavailable?

Is there a nationwide shortage?

Is it not in the budget?

You can't get to the grocery store?

Actually, most decent brands of ice cream were impossible to find for a month in the late spring. This is earned into my brain, because it’s my stress eating food and all I wanted was Ben and Jerry’s.

Well, if people were making sourdough bread surely you can make ice cream. Did ice cream makers sell out?

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

Please, don't be disingenuous - you know what parents want. They want their kid to learn Math, LA and social studies. Everything else is just to keep the others employed (pe, coaches, specials). Nothing wrong with that since we are in a pandemic... it doesn't mean we want and will make our children sit through 6 hours of DL just so p.e teachers and some others feel essential.

To be honest, you could drop social studies from that list. Math and Language Arts is what matters.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

Please, don't be disingenuous - you know what parents want. They want their kid to learn Math, LA and social studies. Everything else is just to keep the others employed (pe, coaches, specials). Nothing wrong with that since we are in a pandemic... it doesn't mean we want and will make our children sit through 6 hours of DL just so p.e teachers and some others feel essential.

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We will attend MM but I think skip the wrap up. We have hired a college student to come help with DL work and need some time for her to work with the kids in the afternoon.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

Please, don't be disingenuous - you know what parents want. They want their kid to learn Math, LA and social studies. Everything else is just to keep the others employed (pe, coaches, specials). Nothing wrong with that since we are in a pandemic... it doesn't mean we want and will make our children sit through 6 hours of DL just so p.e teachers and some others feel essential.

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We aren’t talking about PE. We’re talking about it morning meeting, which is done with your child’s teacher and class. If you’re not going to do it, ok. But don’t turn around and then blame school or teacher for DL not being good for your kid. You’ll be opting them out of the very things that will make it more tolerable and build connections with peers and give the teachers the chance to get to know them. I can’t effectively teach a kid I know nothing about. DL *will* be less enjoyable and less effective for your child if you opt out of these aspects. Again, your choice, just understand the consequences of the choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

Please, don't be disingenuous - you know what parents want. They want their kid to learn Math, LA and social studies. Everything else is just to keep the others employed (pe, coaches, specials). Nothing wrong with that since we are in a pandemic... it doesn't mean we want and will make our children sit through 6 hours of DL just so p.e teachers and some others feel essential.

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We aren’t talking about PE. We’re talking about it morning meeting, which is done with your child’s teacher and class. If you’re not going to do it, ok. But don’t turn around and then blame school or teacher for DL not being good for your kid. You’ll be opting them out of the very things that will make it more tolerable and build connections with peers and give the teachers the chance to get to know them. I can’t effectively teach a kid I know nothing about. DL *will* be less enjoyable and less effective for your child if you opt out of these aspects. Again, your choice, just understand the consequences of the choice.

If you're a teacher, it's sad that you don't understand children. For K-2, there's a reason that they were supposed to go back to the building during Phase 2. I guess the governor knows more about children and education than you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

Please, don't be disingenuous - you know what parents want. They want their kid to learn Math, LA and social studies. Everything else is just to keep the others employed (pe, coaches, specials). Nothing wrong with that since we are in a pandemic... it doesn't mean we want and will make our children sit through 6 hours of DL just so p.e teachers and some others feel essential.

I disagree with this. You have a ton of parents on here saying their kid will be just logging in for math. I get the not wanting to do specials and wrap up. I don’t get why you would have a kid miss LA and SS/Sci

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

Please, don't be disingenuous - you know what parents want. They want their kid to learn Math, LA and social studies. Everything else is just to keep the others employed (pe, coaches, specials). Nothing wrong with that since we are in a pandemic... it doesn't mean we want and will make our children sit through 6 hours of DL just so p.e teachers and some others feel essential.

+1

We aren’t talking about PE. We’re talking about it morning meeting, which is done with your child’s teacher and class. If you’re not going to do it, ok. But don’t turn around and then blame school or teacher for DL not being good for your kid. You’ll be opting them out of the very things that will make it more tolerable and build connections with peers and give the teachers the chance to get to know them. I can’t effectively teach a kid I know nothing about. DL *will* be less enjoyable and less effective for your child if you opt out of these aspects. Again, your choice, just understand the consequences of the choice.

MM has no bearing on whether DL is going to be good for my two ES kids. DL is not going to be good for kids, full stop. It's not going to be enjoyable, it's not going to be tolerable...it's not going to be anything but tears, boredom, and misery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what do parents want? It seems there will be complaining either way. There were a ton of complaints that the time in the spring was not enough live time. The county gives you more live time and parents are still mad. You can’t have it both ways. The school district cannot please everyone!

Please, don't be disingenuous - you know what parents want. They want their kid to learn Math, LA and social studies. Everything else is just to keep the others employed (pe, coaches, specials). Nothing wrong with that since we are in a pandemic... it doesn't mean we want and will make our children sit through 6 hours of DL just so p.e teachers and some others feel essential.

Ok. If you read these boards you have some people who love the idea of a full day with breaks and whatnot. You have others who want 3 hours in the morning and then their kids to be done. You have parents on here that think only certain subjects are important. First off, DL will be a max of 3.5 for upper ES. That .5 is a special. The kids will not be on the computer for 6 hours.