Schools closed for students Monday Feb 2

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Anonymous wrote:Its almost 4.. whats taking them so long to announce..

They spent the day defending their imaginary, unfunded class size reduction proposal. Give them a break!

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Anonymous wrote:But I do think we should get back to school in person ASAP to at least get these poor kids away from the abusive parents that are posting here

It’s wild how parents are losing their marbles. Little Johnny will get into a worse college or most likely drop out of high school because MCPS shortchanged him of 4 days of learning in 2nd grade. No one has any coping skills

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Such whiners.

Cry cry my kid is missing 5 days of school. This is going to impact their life FOREVER. This learning for 5 days is essential!!! It will impact their grades, their AP exam score, what college they go to, what their job will be, who they marry, etc.

I teach in a high SES MCPS school and parents regularly take their kids out for vacations this long. Suddenly they care about missing school when it's not on their schedule.

Ridiculous. Shut up already.

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I was going to say that I would love to see what the attendance rates in these AP classes looked like in 1st semester. Unless they were all at like 98% then I don’t think losing a week is that big of a deal.

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You all must tell us how you know that the parents asking for school to open are the same ones pulling kids out for vacation.

Your powers are enviable.

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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.

Maybe you should step away from the internet if you can't respond without throwing profanities at anonymous people who disagree with you. It doesn't seem to be good for your mental health.

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Anonymous wrote:Its almost 4.. whats taking them so long to announce..

They enjoy watching you squirm.

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Anonymous wrote:You all must tell us how you know that the parents asking for school to open are the same ones pulling kids out for vacation.

Your powers are enviable.

Because the parents asking for school to open and pulling their kids out for vacation are the only ones who have time for this forum and even know it exists. Boom.

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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!

So true.

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Anonymous wrote:But I do think we should get back to school in person ASAP to at least get these poor kids away from the abusive parents that are posting here

It’s wild how parents are losing their marbles. Little Johnny will get into a worse college or most likely drop out of high school because MCPS shortchanged him of 4 days of learning in 2nd grade. No one has any coping skills

[phone]

Such whiners.

Cry cry my kid is missing 5 days of school. This is going to impact their life FOREVER. This learning for 5 days is essential!!! It will impact their grades, their AP exam score, what college they go to, what their job will be, who they marry, etc.

I teach in a high SES MCPS school and parents regularly take their kids out for vacations this long. Suddenly they care about missing school when it's not on their schedule.

Ridiculous. Shut up already.

This week was a gift to high school students to catch up on sleep. A gift to teachers who needed a breather after the last week of Q2.

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Anonymous wrote:But I do think we should get back to school in person ASAP to at least get these poor kids away from the abusive parents that are posting here

It’s wild how parents are losing their marbles. Little Johnny will get into a worse college or most likely drop out of high school because MCPS shortchanged him of 4 days of learning in 2nd grade. No one has any coping skills

[phone]

Such whiners.

Cry cry my kid is missing 5 days of school. This is going to impact their life FOREVER. This learning for 5 days is essential!!! It will impact their grades, their AP exam score, what college they go to, what their job will be, who they marry, etc.

I teach in a high SES MCPS school and parents regularly take their kids out for vacations this long. Suddenly they care about missing school when it's not on their schedule.

Ridiculous. Shut up already.

This week was a gift to high school students to catch up on sleep. A gift to teachers who needed a breather after the last week of Q2.

+1
Also a gift to all the sick kids.. as well as a nice break from shuttling kids to their activities.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s like people think MCPS has unique problems no one else has.

This is what I find amazing. Didn't Taylor run a school system in Virginia before coming here? This cannot be his first time doing this. If the school system could pivot to online learning for a year with two weeks notice during COVID, certainly a plan could have been put into place for instances like this. It's incredible how helpless they are acting. And yes, I get that virtual learning is not ideal for everyone but closing schools for 6 days is FAR less ideal.

...in your opinion. Based on your own circumstances and the broader set of facts that you have available.

In most people's opinions. At a certain point, we have to go with what the majority of people want. And based on what we are seeing at school systems across the country, I think its fair to say that the majority of parents would rather have some sort of virtual model vs. this ridiculousness. The school system can provide the equipment, they've done it before.

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Anonymous wrote:But I do think we should get back to school in person ASAP to at least get these poor kids away from the abusive parents that are posting here

It’s wild how parents are losing their marbles. Little Johnny will get into a worse college or most likely drop out of high school because MCPS shortchanged him of 4 days of learning in 2nd grade. No one has any coping skills

[phone]

Such whiners.

Cry cry my kid is missing 5 days of school. This is going to impact their life FOREVER. This learning for 5 days is essential!!! It will impact their grades, their AP exam score, what college they go to, what their job will be, who they marry, etc.

I teach in a high SES MCPS school and parents regularly take their kids out for vacations this long. Suddenly they care about missing school when it's not on their schedule.

Ridiculous. Shut up already.

Those of us at low SES aren’t taking vacations and it’s an issue. We haven’t even traveled for college visits.

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Anonymous wrote:But I do think we should get back to school in person ASAP to at least get these poor kids away from the abusive parents that are posting here

It’s wild how parents are losing their marbles. Little Johnny will get into a worse college or most likely drop out of high school because MCPS shortchanged him of 4 days of learning in 2nd grade. No one has any coping skills

[phone]

Such whiners.

Cry cry my kid is missing 5 days of school. This is going to impact their life FOREVER. This learning for 5 days is essential!!! It will impact their grades, their AP exam score, what college they go to, what their job will be, who they marry, etc.

I teach in a high SES MCPS school and parents regularly take their kids out for vacations this long. Suddenly they care about missing school when it's not on their schedule.

Ridiculous. Shut up already.

This week was a gift to high school students to catch up on sleep. A gift to teachers who needed a breather after the last week of Q2.

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Also a gift to all the sick kids.. as well as a nice break from shuttling kids to their activities.

Kids still had activities including mcps sports. Not a gift at all but hopefully it slowed down the cold and flu.

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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.

Clearly you have access to the internet and most hs kids have phones. Stop using others as your talking points.

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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.

Clearly you have access to the internet and most hs kids have phones. Stop using others as your talking points.

First MCPS couldn't provide virtual learning because it was too big of a school district compared to the other MCPS school districts that provided virtual learning last week. When shown that NYC, which is 10x bigger had virtual learning, then the excuse became that MoCo doesn't have enough internet compared to NYC. According to the Census, 95.3-95.7% of households have broadband internet. In NYC, it's 75% with broadband internet. NYC isn't only Manhattan. It's the Bronx and Queens and Staten Island too, which have poorer areas than MoCo. But NYC PS didn't close for a single day last week. Not one. And yes, it has school buses too.

Approximately 95.3% to 95.7% of households in Montgomery County, Maryland (MoCo), have a broadband internet subscription, according to 2020-2024 U.S. Census Bureau data. The county is recognized as one of the most connected areas in Maryland, with high-speed internet adoption rates exceeding 85%.
Key Details on MoCo Connectivity:
Broadband Adoption: 95.7% of households have a broadband subscription (2020-2024 data).
Computer Access: 98.2% of households have a computer.