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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.

Go away teacher. This thread is for people who want to complain that anyone who wants to open schools 7 days after a storm while it's bright and sunny day hates children and wants them dead from a falling icicle to the head. All the school districts in the area that operated today--DCPS, ACPS, HoCo, Baltimore, Falls Church, Loudoun County, Alexandria-- they are full of parents who hate their children so much they made them attend school!

Zip it, Karen. You dumb twat. Could you BE any more of a ridiculous cliche?

Does the truth hurt, Drama Llama? Does it upset you to be reminded that the rest of the region functions, even when MCPS doesn't?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Great so it’s equitable in that NONE of the kids are learning. That’s something to really feel good about. Should we all sleep outside since some are homeless too?

It’s actually more like not going on a tropical vacation while your constituents are freezing to death.

We’ll all sit this out together and then we’ll all make up the days together.

But we won't make up the days. They'll stick some worthless half days at the end of the year when nothing gets taught. And apparently you're fine with that as long as everyone is getting nothing taught.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

This is what bothers me the most about MCPS adding days to the school year. Take away any remaining professional days and whatever part of spring break is not legally required. MCPS adds half days instead and of actual instruction.

Yes. It baffles me that people scream about how it's impossible to do virtual learning because their kid learns better in person and it's inferior to the in-person product MCPS offers. It's like they want to ignore that last year MCPS added only half days in end-June where most kids spend their days in front of screens, because instruction was over for the year.

+1 million. People are comparing virtual learning to in-person learning as if it's possible for MCPS to make up 4 snow days this year in a way that's comparable to normal school. But the reality is that most days are going to be added on in end-June. A lot of kids won't come, and last year, my kids mostly watched videos.

So you hate virtual learning but want your kids watching videos for half-days June because teachers are done teaching?

Honestly, I really don't want to supervise virtual learning for my ASD 6 yo for multiple days on end. It sounds completely miserable and also I have a job. Maybe if it were limited to a couple of days or teachers sent packets home instead of would be somewhat tolerable.

Then have your child skip it. Should the entire county miss out because your 6 year old can’t handle virtual? And for your child, just read him some extra stories in the evening or have him bake cookies with you. I guarantee you he will get more out of that than any school lesson at that age

I don't want my child to miss instruction. First grade is very academic. And if they aren't doing any actual instruction virtually, why do it at all?

I guess you must have missed those lessons in kindergarten where kids are taught that the world doesn't revolve around them and their preferences, and that they need to consider others.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Great so it’s equitable in that NONE of the kids are learning. That’s something to really feel good about. Should we all sleep outside since some are homeless too?

It’s actually more like not going on a tropical vacation while your constituents are freezing to death.

We’ll all sit this out together and then we’ll all make up the days together.

But we won't make up the days. They'll stick some worthless half days at the end of the year when nothing gets taught. And apparently you're fine with that as long as everyone is getting nothing taught.

Last year, they turned full-days in June into half days because the teachers hadn't gotten enough non-instructional days for grading. And yes, for the extended June days of the school year, they sent a message saying "we understand that you may have already made plans and that you may not be able to attend." So a lot of people didn't. My kids did, but it was more like a goodbye party/daycare than school where they played board games and helped the teacher take stuff off the walls.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

This is what bothers me the most about MCPS adding days to the school year. Take away any remaining professional days and whatever part of spring break is not legally required. MCPS adds half days instead and of actual instruction.

Yes. It baffles me that people scream about how it's impossible to do virtual learning because their kid learns better in person and it's inferior to the in-person product MCPS offers. It's like they want to ignore that last year MCPS added only half days in end-June where most kids spend their days in front of screens, because instruction was over for the year.

+1 million. People are comparing virtual learning to in-person learning as if it's possible for MCPS to make up 4 snow days this year in a way that's comparable to normal school. But the reality is that most days are going to be added on in end-June. A lot of kids won't come, and last year, my kids mostly watched videos.

So you hate virtual learning but want your kids watching videos for half-days June because teachers are done teaching?

Honestly, I really don't want to supervise virtual learning for my ASD 6 yo for multiple days on end. It sounds completely miserable and also I have a job. Maybe if it were limited to a couple of days or teachers sent packets home instead of would be somewhat tolerable.

Then have your child skip it. Should the entire county miss out because your 6 year old can’t handle virtual? And for your child, just read him some extra stories in the evening or have him bake cookies with you. I guarantee you he will get more out of that than any school lesson at that age

I don't want my child to miss instruction. First grade is very academic. And if they aren't doing any actual instruction virtually, why do it at all?

I guess you must have missed those lessons in kindergarten where kids are taught that the world doesn't revolve around them and their preferences, and that they need to consider others.

Sounds like you want people to care about your kids but you don't want to care about other people's kids

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

This is what bothers me the most about MCPS adding days to the school year. Take away any remaining professional days and whatever part of spring break is not legally required. MCPS adds half days instead and of actual instruction.

Yes. It baffles me that people scream about how it's impossible to do virtual learning because their kid learns better in person and it's inferior to the in-person product MCPS offers. It's like they want to ignore that last year MCPS added only half days in end-June where most kids spend their days in front of screens, because instruction was over for the year.

+1 million. People are comparing virtual learning to in-person learning as if it's possible for MCPS to make up 4 snow days this year in a way that's comparable to normal school. But the reality is that most days are going to be added on in end-June. A lot of kids won't come, and last year, my kids mostly watched videos.

So you hate virtual learning but want your kids watching videos for half-days June because teachers are done teaching?

Honestly, I really don't want to supervise virtual learning for my ASD 6 yo for multiple days on end. It sounds completely miserable and also I have a job. Maybe if it were limited to a couple of days or teachers sent packets home instead of would be somewhat tolerable.

Then have your child skip it. Should the entire county miss out because your 6 year old can’t handle virtual? And for your child, just read him some extra stories in the evening or have him bake cookies with you. I guarantee you he will get more out of that than any school lesson at that age

I don't want my child to miss instruction. First grade is very academic. And if they aren't doing any actual instruction virtually, why do it at all?

I guess you must have missed those lessons in kindergarten where kids are taught that the world doesn't revolve around them and their preferences, and that they need to consider others.

Sounds like you want people to care about your kids but you don't want to care about other people's kids

Lazy momma, I had two kids in K-2 plus a full-time job for more than a year during COVID when MCPS was closed. Believe me, I understand that it's suboptimal for kids those age, and that it's a lot of work for the parent, but sometimes the world isn't designed according to your preferences, and that's the way it should be.

You need to dig your head out of your nether regions and recognize that kids in Grades3+ are able to navigate virtual learning independently. It should not be that HS kids bomb their AP exams, because you're too lazy to help a 6 year old figure out how to use a computer for a few days until the severe weather conditions are over.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

This is what bothers me the most about MCPS adding days to the school year. Take away any remaining professional days and whatever part of spring break is not legally required. MCPS adds half days instead and of actual instruction.

Yes. It baffles me that people scream about how it's impossible to do virtual learning because their kid learns better in person and it's inferior to the in-person product MCPS offers. It's like they want to ignore that last year MCPS added only half days in end-June where most kids spend their days in front of screens, because instruction was over for the year.

+1 million. People are comparing virtual learning to in-person learning as if it's possible for MCPS to make up 4 snow days this year in a way that's comparable to normal school. But the reality is that most days are going to be added on in end-June. A lot of kids won't come, and last year, my kids mostly watched videos.

So you hate virtual learning but want your kids watching videos for half-days June because teachers are done teaching?

Honestly, I really don't want to supervise virtual learning for my ASD 6 yo for multiple days on end. It sounds completely miserable and also I have a job. Maybe if it were limited to a couple of days or teachers sent packets home instead of would be somewhat tolerable.

Then have your child skip it. Should the entire county miss out because your 6 year old can’t handle virtual? And for your child, just read him some extra stories in the evening or have him bake cookies with you. I guarantee you he will get more out of that than any school lesson at that age

I don't want my child to miss instruction. First grade is very academic. And if they aren't doing any actual instruction virtually, why do it at all?

I guess you must have missed those lessons in kindergarten where kids are taught that the world doesn't revolve around them and their preferences, and that they need to consider others.

Sounds like you want people to care about your kids but you don't want to care about other people's kids

Lazy momma, I had two kids in K-2 plus a full-time job for more than a year during COVID when MCPS was closed. Believe me, I understand that it's suboptimal for kids those age, and that it's a lot of work for the parent, but sometimes the world isn't designed according to your preferences, and that's the way it should be.

You need to dig your head out of your nether regions and recognize that kids in Grades3+ are able to navigate virtual learning independently. It should not be that HS kids bomb their AP exams, because you're too lazy to help a 6 year old figure out how to use a computer for a few days until the severe weather conditions are over.

Wow, what is wrong with you? Why do you think it is okay to talk to people this way?

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

This is what bothers me the most about MCPS adding days to the school year. Take away any remaining professional days and whatever part of spring break is not legally required. MCPS adds half days instead and of actual instruction.

Yes. It baffles me that people scream about how it's impossible to do virtual learning because their kid learns better in person and it's inferior to the in-person product MCPS offers. It's like they want to ignore that last year MCPS added only half days in end-June where most kids spend their days in front of screens, because instruction was over for the year.

+1 million. People are comparing virtual learning to in-person learning as if it's possible for MCPS to make up 4 snow days this year in a way that's comparable to normal school. But the reality is that most days are going to be added on in end-June. A lot of kids won't come, and last year, my kids mostly watched videos.

So you hate virtual learning but want your kids watching videos for half-days June because teachers are done teaching?

Honestly, I really don't want to supervise virtual learning for my ASD 6 yo for multiple days on end. It sounds completely miserable and also I have a job. Maybe if it were limited to a couple of days or teachers sent packets home instead of would be somewhat tolerable.

Then have your child skip it. Should the entire county miss out because your 6 year old can’t handle virtual? And for your child, just read him some extra stories in the evening or have him bake cookies with you. I guarantee you he will get more out of that than any school lesson at that age

I don't want my child to miss instruction. First grade is very academic. And if they aren't doing any actual instruction virtually, why do it at all?

I guess you must have missed those lessons in kindergarten where kids are taught that the world doesn't revolve around them and their preferences, and that they need to consider others.

Sounds like you want people to care about your kids but you don't want to care about other people's kids

Lazy momma, I had two kids in K-2 plus a full-time job for more than a year during COVID when MCPS was closed. Believe me, I understand that it's suboptimal for kids those age, and that it's a lot of work for the parent, but sometimes the world isn't designed according to your preferences, and that's the way it should be.

You need to dig your head out of your nether regions and recognize that kids in Grades3+ are able to navigate virtual learning independently. It should not be that HS kids bomb their AP exams, because you're too lazy to help a 6 year old figure out how to use a computer for a few days until the severe weather conditions are over.

+1 Alexandria PS has had virtual learning for kids Gr3+ since last Wednesday including today. You can't always get what you want, and school districts do the best they can with situations they have.

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The problem here by the way is not that some parents don't want to supervise pointless virtual learning for K-2 kids. The problem is that MCPS takes an all or nothing approach to everything. Snow closures, discipline, grades, etc. If you think the answer is for parents of K-2 kids to stfu and not say what we want and what is best for our kids then you are part of the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

This is what bothers me the most about MCPS adding days to the school year. Take away any remaining professional days and whatever part of spring break is not legally required. MCPS adds half days instead and of actual instruction.

Yes. It baffles me that people scream about how it's impossible to do virtual learning because their kid learns better in person and it's inferior to the in-person product MCPS offers. It's like they want to ignore that last year MCPS added only half days in end-June where most kids spend their days in front of screens, because instruction was over for the year.

+1 million. People are comparing virtual learning to in-person learning as if it's possible for MCPS to make up 4 snow days this year in a way that's comparable to normal school. But the reality is that most days are going to be added on in end-June. A lot of kids won't come, and last year, my kids mostly watched videos.

So you hate virtual learning but want your kids watching videos for half-days June because teachers are done teaching?

Honestly, I really don't want to supervise virtual learning for my ASD 6 yo for multiple days on end. It sounds completely miserable and also I have a job. Maybe if it were limited to a couple of days or teachers sent packets home instead of would be somewhat tolerable.

Then have your child skip it. Should the entire county miss out because your 6 year old can’t handle virtual? And for your child, just read him some extra stories in the evening or have him bake cookies with you. I guarantee you he will get more out of that than any school lesson at that age

I don't want my child to miss instruction. First grade is very academic. And if they aren't doing any actual instruction virtually, why do it at all?

I guess you must have missed those lessons in kindergarten where kids are taught that the world doesn't revolve around them and their preferences, and that they need to consider others.

Sounds like you want people to care about your kids but you don't want to care about other people's kids

Lazy momma, I had two kids in K-2 plus a full-time job for more than a year during COVID when MCPS was closed. Believe me, I understand that it's suboptimal for kids those age, and that it's a lot of work for the parent, but sometimes the world isn't designed according to your preferences, and that's the way it should be.

You need to dig your head out of your nether regions and recognize that kids in Grades3+ are able to navigate virtual learning independently. It should not be that HS kids bomb their AP exams, because you're too lazy to help a 6 year old figure out how to use a computer for a few days until the severe weather conditions are over.

+1 Alexandria PS has had virtual learning for kids Gr3+ since last Wednesday including today. You can't always get what you want, and school districts do the best they can with situations they have.

But what you want is for me to not even say what I want. And for saying what I want I get a stream of abuse. And you somehow think you have the moral high ground?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Great so it’s equitable in that NONE of the kids are learning. That’s something to really feel good about. Should we all sleep outside since some are homeless too?

Seriously. If NYC can do remote learning, MCPS can too.

Do you know how many languages are spoken as the primary home language among NYC public school students? 180.

The socioeconomic needs are HUGELY diverse.

And yet they make it work.

NYC provides free public wifi all over the city. We don't have anything comparable. And while MoCo has had very high rates of home internet adoption in the county in recent years, federal internet subsidies for low-income families (the Affordable Connectivity Program) expired in 2024 after the Rs refused to extend it, so there are probably many more households with no home internet connection now than there were a year and a half ago.

I know lots of students—especially neurodivergent students, students with sibling caretaking responsibilities, and students with no parents at home—would not do as well as others with virtual learning. But even setting aside those inequities (which, yes, some places—like NYC—have accepted) it doesn't even feel like an option when we know we have lots of families who don't even have a home internet connection.

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If your kid bombs an AP exam because of one week, they probably were going to bomb it anyway.

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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.

Where is it posted online? They have their virtual class schedules, but I don't see a 2025-2026 virtual plan anywhere. It should be somewhere, but I can't find it

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

This is what bothers me the most about MCPS adding days to the school year. Take away any remaining professional days and whatever part of spring break is not legally required. MCPS adds half days instead and of actual instruction.

Yes. It baffles me that people scream about how it's impossible to do virtual learning because their kid learns better in person and it's inferior to the in-person product MCPS offers. It's like they want to ignore that last year MCPS added only half days in end-June where most kids spend their days in front of screens, because instruction was over for the year.

+1 million. People are comparing virtual learning to in-person learning as if it's possible for MCPS to make up 4 snow days this year in a way that's comparable to normal school. But the reality is that most days are going to be added on in end-June. A lot of kids won't come, and last year, my kids mostly watched videos.

So you hate virtual learning but want your kids watching videos for half-days June because teachers are done teaching?

Honestly, I really don't want to supervise virtual learning for my ASD 6 yo for multiple days on end. It sounds completely miserable and also I have a job. Maybe if it were limited to a couple of days or teachers sent packets home instead of would be somewhat tolerable.

Then have your child skip it. Should the entire county miss out because your 6 year old can’t handle virtual? And for your child, just read him some extra stories in the evening or have him bake cookies with you. I guarantee you he will get more out of that than any school lesson at that age

I don't want my child to miss instruction. First grade is very academic. And if they aren't doing any actual instruction virtually, why do it at all?

I guess you must have missed those lessons in kindergarten where kids are taught that the world doesn't revolve around them and their preferences, and that they need to consider others.

Sounds like you want people to care about your kids but you don't want to care about other people's kids

Lazy momma, I had two kids in K-2 plus a full-time job for more than a year during COVID when MCPS was closed. Believe me, I understand that it's suboptimal for kids those age, and that it's a lot of work for the parent, but sometimes the world isn't designed according to your preferences, and that's the way it should be.

You need to dig your head out of your nether regions and recognize that kids in Grades3+ are able to navigate virtual learning independently. It should not be that HS kids bomb their AP exams, because you're too lazy to help a 6 year old figure out how to use a computer for a few days until the severe weather conditions are over.

Wow, what is wrong with you? Why do you think it is okay to talk to people this way?

Why you think it's ok to say 100,000 kids shouldn't have virtual learning because you don't feel like helping your 6 year old? People are rude because you're selfish. Millions of people helped their kids do virtual learning during COVID. You do the best you can.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

This is what bothers me the most about MCPS adding days to the school year. Take away any remaining professional days and whatever part of spring break is not legally required. MCPS adds half days instead and of actual instruction.

Yes. It baffles me that people scream about how it's impossible to do virtual learning because their kid learns better in person and it's inferior to the in-person product MCPS offers. It's like they want to ignore that last year MCPS added only half days in end-June where most kids spend their days in front of screens, because instruction was over for the year.

+1 million. People are comparing virtual learning to in-person learning as if it's possible for MCPS to make up 4 snow days this year in a way that's comparable to normal school. But the reality is that most days are going to be added on in end-June. A lot of kids won't come, and last year, my kids mostly watched videos.

So you hate virtual learning but want your kids watching videos for half-days June because teachers are done teaching?

Why did you ask if you were just going to abuse whoever answered you worthless disgusting POS? F&ck your stupid virtual learning.