Mcps no school wed and thursday

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I’m all for high schools starting in early August due to APs.

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Anonymous wrote:211schools are not ready. Period. Done. Get over it. It'll open back up on Tues or Wed next week.

Why do kids have Chromebooks if they can’t use them for virtual learning situations like this. At least send out homework assignments or class videos to watch.

Because virtual doesn't work for a large percentage of students and subjects. You'd have to add days to the year anyway.

True, but it's awful for HS students in MCPS who are being judged against students nationwide, many of them who have school districts that start at the end of the July or beginning of August. MCPS students are losing a lot of education, and their AP test scores will show that.

Virtual does work. The issue with ap scores is teachers are not using the ap textbooks and the only way to do well is study on your own. Only one of our ap classses uses one. B

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Anonymous wrote:Im confused by all the childcare complaints. Aren’t all childcare facilities closed when MCPS has a weather day? Why would before and after care and MCPS be different?

Of course you are confused..you don't use child care and don't know how it works. Don't worry your pretty little head about it

No confusion it’s about safety. Maybe start caring about others.

Wow, you are even more confused than I thought

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Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.

Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care

None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.

So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care

MCPS cares, but less about your work than about the childcare workers who need to commute. I've never had to use MCPS childcare, so I'm just guessing here. Most people are still digging out their driveways, so I think this debate is moot.

I don't like how every time something doesn't go your way, or every time you think there's blood in the water, you start critizing MCPS, and others start critizing "Bethesda". The reflexive "bash the rich" or "bash the establishment" is puerile.

MCPS does not give one single f&ck about child care workers. They don't know them, haven't talked to them. They just trot out the phrase "child care workers" to justify the decisions that give them more time off but notably take away income from these workers.

You don’t care about those workers either. You just want them on the job for yourself.

We pay hundreds of dollars for them to provide backup care for situations like this one, knowing that MCPS likes to keep schools closed long past when the rest of the economy has opened. If you think people are going to pay for backup care that isn't usable, and that these workers are going to be happy being unemployed, feel free to send donations their way.

Are you still pretending to care about these workers?

Are you making up their wages during this unnecessary forced closure?

Why don’t you hire one and pay for uber back and forth.

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Anonymous wrote:211schools are not ready. Period. Done. Get over it. It'll open back up on Tues or Wed next week.

Why do kids have Chromebooks if they can’t use them for virtual learning situations like this. At least send out homework assignments or class videos to watch.

I teach HS and my class rosters for this semester aren't even published let alone any of the Canvas pages. There's no way we could have given any sort of assignments at the HS level based on the timing of this storm with the semester change

Are you sure? We had one teacher send out assignments for the day?

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Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.

Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care

None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.

So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care

MCPS cares, but less about your work than about the childcare workers who need to commute. I've never had to use MCPS childcare, so I'm just guessing here. Most people are still digging out their driveways, so I think this debate is moot.

I don't like how every time something doesn't go your way, or every time you think there's blood in the water, you start critizing MCPS, and others start critizing "Bethesda". The reflexive "bash the rich" or "bash the establishment" is puerile.

MCPS does not give one single f&ck about child care workers. They don't know them, haven't talked to them. They just trot out the phrase "child care workers" to justify the decisions that give them more time off but notably take away income from these workers.

You don’t care about those workers either. You just want them on the job for yourself.

We pay hundreds of dollars for them to provide backup care for situations like this one, knowing that MCPS likes to keep schools closed long past when the rest of the economy has opened. If you think people are going to pay for backup care that isn't usable, and that these workers are going to be happy being unemployed, feel free to send donations their way.

Are you still pretending to care about these workers?

Are you making up their wages during this unnecessary forced closure?

Why don’t you hire one and pay for uber back and forth.

DP your plan is no safer for the workers and still leaves most families without childcare

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Anonymous wrote:211schools are not ready. Period. Done. Get over it. It'll open back up on Tues or Wed next week.

Why do kids have Chromebooks if they can’t use them for virtual learning situations like this. At least send out homework assignments or class videos to watch.

I teach HS and my class rosters for this semester aren't even published let alone any of the Canvas pages. There's no way we could have given any sort of assignments at the HS level based on the timing of this storm with the semester change

Your class rosters are already loaded into synergy. Why don’t you publish your semester B canvas courses. What else is there to do

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Anonymous wrote:I’m all for high schools starting in early August due to APs.

We don’t need to start in early August to get kids prepared for APs. There are many holes in the calendar due to interest group pandering and virtual school can and should be implemented whenever there is more than 1-2 weather closure days. Or the kids can study on their own- these are supposed to be college-level classes.

NY schools start after Labor Day and they manage.

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Anonymous wrote:Im confused by all the childcare complaints. Aren’t all childcare facilities closed when MCPS has a weather day? Why would before and after care and MCPS be different?

No, most childcare providers not on MCPS property usually open well before MCPS does, and historically the ones on MCPS grounds did as well until Taylor decided to start messing with things. MCPS has to wait until every one of hundreds of schools across a large county is ready to open and every neighborhood is safe to travel through-- child care providers do not. (They also can handle parking lot clearing better than MCPS.) Of course they were all closed yesterday and most today, but I suspect few or no childcare providers will be closed through Thursday or Friday like MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Right call to be closed, but terrible call to force childcare to be closed across the entire county for both days.

It would be inequitable to allow some to open while others are closed so it is better to have all closed, even if conditions at some schools would allow opening.

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Anonymous wrote:They advised families to prepare for the possibility of an extended closure.

They did.

And yet a loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Bethesda. There was not a single house where someone did not feel inconvenienced by having to care for their own children.

This is less likely a big deal for folks and Bethesda. They are more likely to have white collar jobs where you can work from home. They also are more likely to have the means to be able to pay for alternative childcare without it being a huge financial hit.

Although you love to pretend that it is the Rich complaining, this decision is actually more a burden on folks with lesser means.

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Anonymous wrote:Right call to be closed, but terrible call to force childcare to be closed across the entire county for both days.

It would be inequitable to allow some to open while others are closed so it is better to have all closed, even if conditions at some schools would allow opening.

How is it inequitable? That's like saying that no kids in Montgomery County should be allowed to go to summer camp if one of them gets canceled because it wouldn't be fair to the poor kids and families. Ridiculous.

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Stop complaining.

Weather is no ones fault.

If this is a problem for you stop having kids.

Or buy your own truck with a plow and plow yourself. See fixed it for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Good. Sucks for parts but good call. Many streets haven't even see a plow, too cold to move snow and I bet many teachers are bonding out yet. Many school lots (from friends pictures) are not clean either.

Many lots are cleared and they could let the child care providers decide if they could open in those cases but MCPS doesn't care

None of the downcounty schools in my area are cleared. They prioritized the meal distribution school sites, which makes sense.

It is what it is. I approve the decision from a safety standpoint, but I really wish there was virtual learning for high schoolers: AP exams are in May and the College Board doesn't care how many days schools were closed.

So those schools can't open child care but others could, preventing parents from losing income and workplaces people like you and me rely on from being short staffed. But MCPS doesn't care

MCPS cares, but less about your work than about the childcare workers who need to commute. I've never had to use MCPS childcare, so I'm just guessing here. Most people are still digging out their driveways, so I think this debate is moot.

I don't like how every time something doesn't go your way, or every time you think there's blood in the water, you start critizing MCPS, and others start critizing "Bethesda". The reflexive "bash the rich" or "bash the establishment" is puerile.

MCPS does not give one single f&ck about child care workers. They don't know them, haven't talked to them. They just trot out the phrase "child care workers" to justify the decisions that give them more time off but notably take away income from these workers.

You don’t care about those workers either. You just want them on the job for yourself.

We pay hundreds of dollars for them to provide backup care for situations like this one, knowing that MCPS likes to keep schools closed long past when the rest of the economy has opened. If you think people are going to pay for backup care that isn't usable, and that these workers are going to be happy being unemployed, feel free to send donations their way.

Are you still pretending to care about these workers?

Are you making up their wages during this unnecessary forced closure?

Why don’t you hire one and pay for uber back and forth.

There you go! Win-win.

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Anonymous wrote:Right call to be closed, but terrible call to force childcare to be closed across the entire county for both days.

It would be inequitable to allow some to open while others are closed so it is better to have all closed, even if conditions at some schools would allow opening.

Oh good lord. This kind of perspective is so tiresome.