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Anonymous wrote:All of the push out of information by principals and no one posted the presentation link yet? Here it is.

Slide 6
"If there is the possibility of a virtual synchronous instruction day:
● A “Get Ready” announcement will be sent
● The decision to offer virtual instruction in place of a traditional snow day will be announced by NOON on the day prior
● Messages will be shared with students, staff, and families to remind them that it is a required (virtual) school day
● Schools will share additional information about schedules, technology, and instruction"

With all of the messaging being sent by principals this evening, I think MCPS is positioning to have a code Purple Day on Friday. We'll be in person Thursday so they can send home chromebooks and make sure they are set up. Noon Thursday they announce, teachers can prep, and kids log in Friday. There is some urgency to not loose another day here at the end of the quarter, the timing of Friday's weather is perfectly bad, and at some point MCPS wants to have a code purple so they can work out the kinks. We still have another 2 months of winter weather. My bet is on Code Purple Friday.

Doubtful. They’d need to decide by noon Thursday to close….

My interpretation of this is that they don’t need to determine if the next day is a snow day, rather they need to put students and faculty on notice that if the next day is a snow day it will be virtual. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise.

So teachers have double the planning? Virtual and in person because we are at the whim of MCPS to make an informed decision quickly about a closure

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Friday cannot be a virtual day for students according to the teacher contract. Directly from my school’s communication to teachers;

“first code purple virtual day will be a teacher planning day…no kids per our contract”

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Anonymous wrote:So if kids don’t do it are they excused?

Elementary schools are in the midst of mandatory testing (MAP testing, district mandated reading interim assessments, DIBELS assessing, WIDA testing, etc.) We need charged chromebooks for ALL of these assessments. The thought of having to send them home (unprotected) in the hopes that they are returned unharmed is distressing. They will of course, return uncharged which presents its own problems. There is no "win" with a decision to go virtual for the elementary students.

Elementary schools should NEVER go virtual. Did we learn NOTHING from 1.5 years of Covid? It is a farce. Just say you don't care about actual education and be done with it.

One day of virtual will be ok. Sounds like a parenting issue, not a school issue.

No it's just a lot of work for everyone with very little benefit except to allow MCPS to not have to offer in person education for the full number of days it used to have to do.

Why are you so obsessed with virtual education? The cat is out of the bag. It doesn't work.

It works fine for kids all over the country and has worked since the early 2000s. You just refuse to accept change.

Except the data shows it doesn't work. And that's even under ideal conditions where the students opted in, and the teachers prepared. A last-minute flip to virtual guarantees a worthless experience.

Strange, it worked well for my kids. Its one day or a few days.. you just are lazy.

It worked well for 2 of my 3. But I can’t say it didn’t work at all for #3. He just really preferred in person because math is hard for him. One day of virtual beats an in person makeup day months from now when the work missed is long past due. Nobody is suggesting we go 100% virtual again.

And, guess what, even my college kids have virtual classes. Best for our kids to adapt to multiple ways of learning.

What in the world?! No one is saving the snow day content for a distant day in June. They do it on the next school day. Whatever is leftover at the end is tacked on in June.

This isn't cutting edge or rocket science, it's what's been happening since we were kids!

We’d be skipping those days. Aready have plans.

That risks the 6/17 Muslim holiday of Eid an Asha.

Another good reason why virtual is better.

Why would you make inflexible plans on days clearly marked as make up days on the calendar? That's very poor and irresponsible planning on your part.

+1 then just miss those days. No one else cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Friday cannot be a virtual day for students according to the teacher contract. Directly from my school’s communication to teachers;

“first code purple virtual day will be a teacher planning day…no kids per our contract”

I don't see that in writing anywhere

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Anonymous wrote:Most elementary kids would want to enjoy playing in the snow instead of sitting infront of a computer for virtual school. Snow is so rare in the DC area so its unfair to not let the kids enjoy a snow day and let them play in the snow.

I'm the K mom PP and this is absolutely how I feel.

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If you don't want to put your kid on virtual then don't. It's an excused absence and I suspect many kids will not log in. Most kids who are in 2nd grade or younger have never used zoom. Many kids in elementary don't have a Chromebook at home because the school went back to cart model. It would be about 4 hours of instruction so there's still time to play

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Anonymous wrote:Friday cannot be a virtual day for students according to the teacher contract. Directly from my school’s communication to teachers;

“first code purple virtual day will be a teacher planning day…no kids per our contract”

I just got the email that Friday might be virtual. Kids entering classroom in 10 min so I guess my principal thinks I only need 10 min to plan for it. I usually don’t do this kind of thing, but tomorrow will be Kahoot if virtual.

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Anonymous wrote:Friday cannot be a virtual day for students according to the teacher contract. Directly from my school’s communication to teachers;

“first code purple virtual day will be a teacher planning day…no kids per our contract”

I just got the email that Friday might be virtual. Kids entering classroom in 10 min so I guess my principal thinks I only need 10 min to plan for it. I usually don’t do this kind of thing, but tomorrow will be Kahoot if virtual.

Wouldn’t the 2-hour delayed start for a virtual day give you some more planning time? I’m sure this is difficult, but I thought that’s part of the reason for the later start.

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Anonymous wrote:Friday cannot be a virtual day for students according to the teacher contract. Directly from my school’s communication to teachers;

“first code purple virtual day will be a teacher planning day…no kids per our contract”

I don't see that in writing anywhere

DP. It was in last year's contract, but not this year's.

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Judging by the flood of Meeting Room setups this morning, tomorrow will be work from home with teachers accessible via zoom

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Anonymous wrote:Judging by the flood of Meeting Room setups this morning, tomorrow will be work from home with teachers accessible via zoom

I doubt it. They're going to realize this morning that they have no way to accommodate elementary grades.

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Anonymous wrote:Judging by the flood of Meeting Room setups this morning, tomorrow will be work from home with teachers accessible via zoom

I doubt it. They're going to realize this morning that they have no way to accommodate elementary grades.

Not sure what you are talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Friday cannot be a virtual day for students according to the teacher contract. Directly from my school’s communication to teachers;

“first code purple virtual day will be a teacher planning day…no kids per our contract”

I just got the email that Friday might be virtual. Kids entering classroom in 10 min so I guess my principal thinks I only need 10 min to plan for it. I usually don’t do this kind of thing, but tomorrow will be Kahoot if virtual.

Get off dcum and use the recovered time to plan?

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Anonymous wrote:Judging by the flood of Meeting Room setups this morning, tomorrow will be work from home with teachers accessible via zoom

I doubt it. They're going to realize this morning that they have no way to accommodate elementary grades.

Not sure what you are talking about.

Is that sarcasm? They don't have a good way of sending the Chromebooks home. Nor would the parents or kids in the younger grades know what to do with them anyway.

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My DC’s 4th grade teachers informed them last week that virtual is stupid and if they do have virtual it will mostly be blookets.