Schools closed for students Monday Feb 2

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am i out here single its true

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Anonymous wrote:The only people that are pro-virtual are parents who have kids that can be independent learners and are fluent in English. They can’t see past their own little bubble of affluence. They could afford learning pods during COVID or sit with their children while teaching was going on. Not everyone has this luxury. Trying to teach my students while simultaneously teaching my child with learning disabilities was nothing short of awful. Add in our non-English speaking families and it was a struggle for them to help support learning in a language that they don’t understand.

On the flip side, find me a teacher that loved virtual learning and I’ll guarantee you that they taught a class where the kids wanted to be there and didn’t need extra support.

I will personally be happy if I never have to provide virtual instruction or parent a child with an IEP who is receiving virtual instruction ever again.

Adding to my original thought, take away my spring break, holidays, add on to the end of the year. I don’t care. Just give me in person teaching.

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

Man, if only there were positions funded by taxes, staffed by people with degrees in education, to come up with these plans. But no, random parents in the county should definitely have to come up with virtual plans.

Then let's see the plan before assuming it is adequate.

That's the problem. They didn't even want to put in the effort to get a plan in front of MSDE. For goodness sake, just copy Anne Arundel's homework.

Please provide a copy of the plan you want to use.

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

Man, if only there were positions funded by taxes, staffed by people with degrees in education, to come up with these plans. But no, random parents in the county should definitely have to come up with virtual plans.

Then let's see the plan before assuming it is adequate.

That's the problem. They didn't even want to put in the effort to get a plan in front of MSDE. For goodness sake, just copy Anne Arundel's homework.

Please provide a copy of the plan you want to use.

That's the responsibility of the people we pay to develop educational plans, not me. Do you want me to come up with a budget for the schools too?

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I would love it if we had virtual learning and made it a one chance opportunity. No late work allowed. No re-instruction. You are at home. There are no excuses as to why you cant be in the zoom or turn in an assignment on time. Turn your camera off? Zero on the assignment. Show up half way through? Zero on the assignment. If i am going to teach from home you will earn from home with no excuses

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Anonymous wrote:I would love it if we had virtual learning and made it a one chance opportunity. No late work allowed. No re-instruction. You are at home. There are no excuses as to why you cant be in the zoom or turn in an assignment on time. Turn your camera off? Zero on the assignment. Show up half way through? Zero on the assignment. If i am going to teach from home you will earn from home with no excuses

Because not all kids will be home and/or available to participate in class. They might be in a child care setting. They might be providing child care to siblings. They might require educational supports that aren't being provided.

Your idea simply doesn't work. It might work for the older kids from rich families, but not many other kids.

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

Man, if only there were positions funded by taxes, staffed by people with degrees in education, to come up with these plans. But no, random parents in the county should definitely have to come up with virtual plans.

Then let's see the plan before assuming it is adequate.

That's the problem. They didn't even want to put in the effort to get a plan in front of MSDE. For goodness sake, just copy Anne Arundel's homework.

Please provide a copy of the plan you want to use.

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You said you wanted them to copy Anne Arundel's plan. Where is it?

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What do the busses look like? Are depots clear?

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I hope MCPS rethinks their opposition to virtual learning. I think they will have to. Some parents just have unrealistic expectations and want to hold all kids hostage. Parents who support virtual learning should email Taylor and the board. Make sure your voices are being heard

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Anonymous wrote:HS teacher here. I really wish we had a few days of virtual school. This is getting ridiculous. And once we go back, it takes a couple days to get back into the groove so the first couple days are inefficient. I wish I could have done virtual for my AP kids. No one ever thinks about them.

I think about them every time someone screams that "it's impossible to do virtual learning" on these threads. These kids have had years of virtual learning. It's MCPS that finds it impossible to do anything.

If MCPS doesn't want to open until all the ice melts, and doesn't want to do virtual learning, it needs to start school in early August, which will be better for AP/IB kids too. Some schools in the South even start in July and get almost 2 months more of AP instruction than what MCPS provides.

It was the years of virtual learning that made us feel strongly virtual learning is terrible. Have some standards.

This would be a few days...

Then come up with a remediation plan and funding/staff to implement it. The shorter virtual is, the less resource-intensive those remediation activities would be. But just ignoring the problem isn't a solution.

Man, if only there were positions funded by taxes, staffed by people with degrees in education, to come up with these plans. But no, random parents in the county should definitely have to come up with virtual plans.

Then let's see the plan before assuming it is adequate.

That's the problem. They didn't even want to put in the effort to get a plan in front of MSDE. For goodness sake, just copy Anne Arundel's homework.

Please provide a copy of the plan you want to use.

Are you having a problem with reading comprehension? She literally said to use that of Anne Arundel. It's posted online. You can manage google, since you seem to have nothing to do today but insist that virtual learning is impossible in every location.

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Anonymous wrote:The only people that are pro-virtual are parents who have kids that can be independent learners and are fluent in English. They can’t see past their own little bubble of affluence. They could afford learning pods during COVID or sit with their children while teaching was going on. Not everyone has this luxury. Trying to teach my students while simultaneously teaching my child with learning disabilities was nothing short of awful. Add in our non-English speaking families and it was a struggle for them to help support learning in a language that they don’t understand.

On the flip side, find me a teacher that loved virtual learning and I’ll guarantee you that they taught a class where the kids wanted to be there and didn’t need extra support.

I will personally be happy if I never have to provide virtual instruction or parent a child with an IEP who is receiving virtual instruction ever again.

Adding to my original thought, take away my spring break, holidays, add on to the end of the year. I don’t care. Just give me in person teaching.

Really? For in-person teaching, what we got last year for snow days was 3 half days in end-June where students mostly played videos while cleaning out their classroom. I don't understand why you would hate virtual learning so much, but be eager to have your kid come to school to watch videos on days tacked on to the school year after teachers are done teacher, if this is all about the "quality of instruction" for you.

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The problem is that we are too litigious and too risk averse.

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Two things can be true at once. Virtual learning works well for us because I have a (demanding) job where I can work from home, and my kids are neurotypical learners. Virtual learning is a dumpster fire for teachers, kids who are neurodivergent, kids with families who don’t have available computers, or kids who don’t have parents who can monitor and implement (i.e., work outside of the home, don’t speak English, etc.). Why should alllll of those families be disadvantaged just because it works for mine? It’s highly inequitable.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't go through all of the pages and on the DCPS pages. Why did we not have school but they did? The streets are similar or worse there?

Putting aside the discussion of walker conditions, the buses are an issue for MCPS.

Most schools are open today. Most of these districts also have school buses, but somehow they managed it. Some have virtual learning, which MCPS didn't bother to get permission to make a plan to do. MCPS is being a special snowflake.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026...virginia-snow-storm/
Alexandria City Public Schools: Virtual learning
Anne Arundel County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday.
Arlington County Public Schools: Closed; two-hour delay Tuesday
Calvert County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Charles County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Culpeper County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
D.C. Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fairfax County Public Schools: Closed
Falls Church City Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Fauquier County Public Schools: Closed
Howard County Public Schools: Two-hour delay Monday and Tuesday
Loudoun County Public Schools: Two-hour delay
Montgomery County Public Schools: Closed
Pr. George’s County Public Schools: Two-hour delay; Code Orange
Prince William County Public Schools: Closed
Spotsylvania County Public Schools: Remote learning Monday and Tuesday; 12-month employees to report on time.
Stafford County Public Schools: Closed
https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-scho...CGZARVMWHPUHLYH5SYI/

Anne Arundel County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Baltimore County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Caroline County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Cecil County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Charles County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Howard County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday and Tuesday.
Kent County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday.
Montgomery County Public Schools will be closed Monday. Offices will open on time, and staff should report as on a regular noninstructional day
Prince George’s County Public Schools will open two hours late Monday. .
Queen Anne’s County Public Schools will open 90 minutes late Monday.

PG pivoted to a closure this morning. I don’t think this whole list needs to be related every time someone asks about dcps specifically and someone makes the point that they do not have to worry about bus clearance.

The point is a whole lot of schools are open today. Some were open last week. It isn't just DCPS which has metro. Some schools have virtual learning. Many schools have buses running even though the snow hasn't melted.

People keep insisting that MCPS is special. That it can't open, that it can't do virtual learning. That its just TOO HARD. But these these other schools can't.

Or maybe parents who find it so hard to be with their kids for a few days in unprecedented weather days shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Plan better.

Please. We don't want our kids to have an education because we dislike them.

And Frederick, which is geographically large and north of MCPS, is fully open. Just saying.

I’m beginning to think that this is just one person repeating the “then you shouldn’t have kids!” over and over again on these threads. Very similar wording. We should just collectively ignore them rather than responding and derailing the thread.

Yes, on this thread we have the following posters over and over again:
1) Why do you have kids if you hate them so much you can't have them six days at home when schools are closed?
2) Why would you ask for schools to open when there's ice on the ground? Do you hate kids so much you want them to die?
3) Virtual learning is impossible to do. No one can do it and everyone knows it's worse than no instruction at all.
4) MCPS parents must write the virtual learning plan that MCPS staff committed to do in 2024. Because MCPS just...can't.

I feel like some of them must be daydrinking, because they sound incoherent and mean and the same time.

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I have been doing virtual film study and playbook study with the kids on my football team this past week.