Teachers assigning asynchronous work on synchronous days(APS)

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Anonymous wrote:One of my children’s elective teachers joined at the very beginning of class told them she got wrapped up in a project at home and would not be there for the rest of class. She gave them assignment and left the rest of the time. Can you imagine that happening in person?

As a teacher, I am surprised that happened at all!

[Anonymous]

What's the ski resort story?

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Teachers who got that first vaccine dose are out living it up!

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Anonymous wrote:My kid's teacher just changed the schedule so now in a two hour block in the morning they only have 30 min with the teacher (class split into 4 groups and teacher meets with each group for 30 min).

I have done this twice since the beginning of the school year, because I really needed to differentiate some instruction. The students who I was not meeting with had asynchronous work. This is not so different than what we would do in person. We pull small groups aside and everybody else in class will be working independently.

It may be the only wayto get quality instruction to the students. Classes are so big these days.

[Anonymous]

FCPS here.

DS's Teacher took a leave of absence starting at the end of Winter Break. He has had a sub, I believe it is the Librarian, but they have not done much of anything new. He has been using his time to play with some code that his class has been doing. Some days have been async that takes about 30 minutes to complete. His new Teacher was suppose to start today. Apparently she was listening to the class but did not say anything and did not participate. Her first day of actively interacting with the class is on Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who got that first vaccine dose are out living it up!

Not at all. I didn’t go to a friends gathering or hiking with my sister. I have rotten luck and I don”t want to get covid in between shots. I will say this. I seem to have had an unusually strong reaction to shot 1 because I have been feeling off and on fluish for the past 2 and a half weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's all try to share stories like this with Duran. NOT in an effort to get any teachers fired. But to show him that everyone has their own level of risk they are willing to take, whether to see family, take a vacation, or get back in the classroom.

The OP’s story or the Disney story?

Both.. Plus the ski resort story plus others that are popping up.

So you all want to share "I heard about a teacher who..." stories without having any actual firsthand knowledge or experience. Completely whacked.

[Anonymous]

Just here, waiting for the ski resort story...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's all try to share stories like this with Duran. NOT in an effort to get any teachers fired. But to show him that everyone has their own level of risk they are willing to take, whether to see family, take a vacation, or get back in the classroom.

The OP’s story or the Disney story?

Both.. Plus the ski resort story plus others that are popping up.

So you all want to share "I heard about a teacher who..." stories without having any actual firsthand knowledge or experience. Completely whacked.

Or any facts... Like these could have been approved PTO time. They're just going to rattle off some crazy stories that they heard second-hand to the superintendent. Then they wonder why no one's listening to them.

[Anonymous]

Just here, waiting for the ski resort story...

Sounds like a made-up story to me.

[Anonymous]

Apparently the Disney teacher is a well liked good teacher, but I find it outrageous. First of all, teachers don’t get annual leave. They get 3 days of personal leave for needs that cannot be taken care of outside the regular school hours. There is simply no way that ‘I’m taking my family to Disney’ falls into that. https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/BGHNN560B0E0/$file/G-3.2.4%20Leave.pdf

2nd what about the preachy messages about how if only we would stop traveling and gathering we could get our kids on school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the Disney teacher is a well liked good teacher, but I find it outrageous. First of all, teachers don’t get annual leave. They get 3 days of personal leave for needs that cannot be taken care of outside the regular school hours. There is simply no way that ‘I’m taking my family to Disney’ falls into that. https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/BGHNN560B0E0/$file/G-3.2.4%20Leave.pdf

2nd what about the preachy messages about how if only we would stop traveling and gathering we could get our kids on school.

Some admin won’t let teachers take all their personal days in a row (can have 6 if rolled 3 over from previous year) but some do. I’ve had both. The only reasons I’ve ever used personal leave was to attend a siblings college graduation and to travel to weddings. I’ve known people that have saved their personal days to take trips to Hawaii or go on a honeymoon- if their admin approves it then it’s allowed.

[Anonymous]

My 6th grader started a new exploratory section right after winter break, and so far the teacher has missed three or four of the seven class sessions. Not continuous days either or announced in advance, she’ll just randomly send them a message at 10 am that she won’t be there for afternoon class and there’s an asynchronous assignment posted. My kid said yesterday that they don’t get the point of taking the class if the teacher never shows up, and that they can’t even tell what the class is supposed to be about since there’s no connection one class to the next.

I told them it’s the most useless of the exploratory classes anyway so as long as they pass, I don’t care if it’s by a single tenth of a point.

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher who, with permission from my principal, had my students on a total asynchronous day several weeks ago. I informed all the students and families over a week before, as well as two days before, my absence. My students had a very clear lesson plan to follow, and I was still required to log in three times during the day to check attendance.

I didn't tell my students or families why I was going to be out, but my principal knew. All I told my students and their parents was that I needed to be out for one day for personal reasons. I certainly was not out "living it up" unless you consider going to spread some of daughter's ashes, and then meeting virtually with our grief counselor, "living it up."

As was stated in a post above, teachers are permitted to take sick leave and personal leave. I hope not all teachers who take leave are being judged, or that parents think it's because we are vacationing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher who, with permission from my principal, had my students on a total asynchronous day several weeks ago. I informed all the students and families over a week before, as well as two days before, my absence. My students had a very clear lesson plan to follow, and I was still required to log in three times during the day to check attendance.

I didn't tell my students or families why I was going to be out, but my principal knew. All I told my students and their parents was that I needed to be out for one day for personal reasons. I certainly was not out "living it up" unless you consider going to spread some of daughter's ashes, and then meeting virtually with our grief counselor, "living it up."

As was stated in a post above, teachers are permitted to take sick leave and personal leave. I hope not all teachers who take leave are being judged, or that parents think it's because we are vacationing.

I’m sorry for your loss, but a teacher taking a single day off planned in advance isn’t what anyone is talking about here.