I don’t like the new concurrent plan (FCPS)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I understanding concurrent right for “hybrid” students: instead of two days (tues/thurs or wed/fri) in person and three days asynch, they will now be asynch Mondays, in class two days (tues/wed or Thurs/fri), and virtual two days (whatever days they are not in person)?

Is this approved / a done deal?

It is not yet approved.

It will be, unless the teachers torpedo it. Which they may very well do because honestly it will be a lot more work to teach concurrently. More risk for all but everyone is short changed. This plan sucks.

It's not a lot more work than the other hybrid plan. Different work, but not more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I understanding concurrent right for “hybrid” students: instead of two days (tues/thurs or wed/fri) in person and three days asynch, they will now be asynch Mondays, in class two days (tues/wed or Thurs/fri), and virtual two days (whatever days they are not in person)?

Is this approved / a done deal?

It is not yet approved.

It will be, unless the teachers torpedo it. Which they may very well do because honestly it will be a lot more work to teach concurrently. More risk for all but everyone is short changed. This plan sucks.

It's not a lot more work than the other hybrid plan. Different work, but not more.

DP. It is more education. Same amount of work, but one lesson plan for everyone instead of two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I understanding concurrent right for “hybrid” students: instead of two days (tues/thurs or wed/fri) in person and three days asynch, they will now be asynch Mondays, in class two days (tues/wed or Thurs/fri), and virtual two days (whatever days they are not in person)?

Is this approved / a done deal?

It is not yet approved.

It will be, unless the teachers torpedo it. Which they may very well do because honestly it will be a lot more work to teach concurrently. More risk for all but everyone is short changed. This plan sucks.

It's not a lot more work than the other hybrid plan. Different work, but not more.

DP. It is more education. Same amount of work, but one lesson plan for everyone instead of two.

No, it will be two plans. One for the in class folks and one for the at home folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I understanding concurrent right for “hybrid” students: instead of two days (tues/thurs or wed/fri) in person and three days asynch, they will now be asynch Mondays, in class two days (tues/wed or Thurs/fri), and virtual two days (whatever days they are not in person)?

Is this approved / a done deal?

It is not yet approved.

It will be, unless the teachers torpedo it. Which they may very well do because honestly it will be a lot more work to teach concurrently. More risk for all but everyone is short changed. This plan sucks.

It's not a lot more work than the other hybrid plan. Different work, but not more.

DP. It is more education. Same amount of work, but one lesson plan for everyone instead of two.

No, it will be two plans. One for the in class folks and one for the at home folks.

No.... that’s not how it works. Everyone is earning at the same time, some are in class, some are at home, but you teach them...concurrently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DL is going well for us. We were on board with the initial hybrid plan that included 3 asynchronous days. At least that would be a break from virtual slides and presentations by the teachers. Kids would actually have time to complete work. I don’t like this new concurrent plan because it short changes both groups. I don’t think it’s worth the risk to send my kid in for 2 days, only to have the teacher trying to deal with both the virtual and in class kids simultaneously. This is totally ridiculous and will be a disaster. The only reason they have moving to this new plan is because SOLs aren’t waived. They need 4 days of instruction to even attempt the SOLs. Anyone agree?

Schools should be in person 5 days a week, if you want virtual you can watch a video of the class. end of thread .

[Anonymous]

DL was offered to parents they choose it, so no, videos are not sufficient. Concurrent is a good plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is going well for us. We were on board with the initial hybrid plan that included 3 asynchronous days. At least that would be a break from virtual slides and presentations by the teachers. Kids would actually have time to complete work. I don’t like this new concurrent plan because it short changes both groups. I don’t think it’s worth the risk to send my kid in for 2 days, only to have the teacher trying to deal with both the virtual and in class kids simultaneously. This is totally ridiculous and will be a disaster. The only reason they have moving to this new plan is because SOLs aren’t waived. They need 4 days of instruction to even attempt the SOLs. Anyone agree?

Schools should be in person 5 days a week, if you want virtual you can watch a video of the class. end of thread .

No one agrees with you. We can’t have 5 days of school safely given the class sizes in FCPS. Get. Over. It.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is going well for us. We were on board with the initial hybrid plan that included 3 asynchronous days. At least that would be a break from virtual slides and presentations by the teachers. Kids would actually have time to complete work. I don’t like this new concurrent plan because it short changes both groups. I don’t think it’s worth the risk to send my kid in for 2 days, only to have the teacher trying to deal with both the virtual and in class kids simultaneously. This is totally ridiculous and will be a disaster. The only reason they have moving to this new plan is because SOLs aren’t waived. They need 4 days of instruction to even attempt the SOLs. Anyone agree?

Schools should be in person 5 days a week, if you want virtual you can watch a video of the class. end of thread .

No one agrees with you. We can’t have 5 days of school safely given the class sizes in FCPS. Get. Over. It.

DP. I agree with her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only reason they are doing this plan is they couldn’t make anything else work logistically.
I don’t think it has anything to do with SOLs

I agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DL was offered to parents they choose it, so no, videos are not sufficient. Concurrent is a good plan.

I agree. And if we want to talk about FAPE, I think concurrent is appropriate to offer those who select for all virtual. I do not think all virtual is appropriate to offer those who selected hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is going well for us. We were on board with the initial hybrid plan that included 3 asynchronous days. At least that would be a break from virtual slides and presentations by the teachers. Kids would actually have time to complete work. I don’t like this new concurrent plan because it short changes both groups. I don’t think it’s worth the risk to send my kid in for 2 days, only to have the teacher trying to deal with both the virtual and in class kids simultaneously. This is totally ridiculous and will be a disaster. The only reason they have moving to this new plan is because SOLs aren’t waived. They need 4 days of instruction to even attempt the SOLs. Anyone agree?

Schools should be in person 5 days a week, if you want virtual you can watch a video of the class. end of thread .

No one agrees with you. We can’t have 5 days of school safely given the class sizes in FCPS. Get. Over. It.

DP. I agree with her.

Well if you click your heels together three times maybe it will happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No it would not. The distance learning teacher can add in the hybrid kids at home.

Haha. No.

This will not be the case. In my kids’ ES choosing 100% virtual will have a classroom teacher who is teaching 100% virtual students. The hybrid students will have one teacher. Same teacher for both in person and their DL. The hybrid kids are not going to be in the same virtual class as the 100% virtual students.

I wouldn’t be so sure about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL was offered to parents they choose it, so no, videos are not sufficient. Concurrent is a good plan.

I agree. And if we want to talk about FAPE, I think concurrent is appropriate to offer those who select for all virtual. I do not think all virtual is appropriate to offer those who selected hybrid.

There are many parents on both sides of this that agree. Let’s go already. The fact we don’t have a plan to get most kids in part-time yet is horrendous. No other sector is stuck at this level. Everywhere has some people coming in, if not at least half.

[Anonymous]

Many kids (mine included) are miserable on the asynchronous days. They would much rather livestream into the class those days. For me, concurrent makes me MORE likely to choose hybrid, not less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL is going well for us. We were on board with the initial hybrid plan that included 3 asynchronous days. At least that would be a break from virtual slides and presentations by the teachers. Kids would actually have time to complete work. I don’t like this new concurrent plan because it short changes both groups. I don’t think it’s worth the risk to send my kid in for 2 days, only to have the teacher trying to deal with both the virtual and in class kids simultaneously. This is totally ridiculous and will be a disaster. The only reason they have moving to this new plan is because SOLs aren’t waived. They need 4 days of instruction to even attempt the SOLs. Anyone agree?

Schools should be in person 5 days a week, if you want virtual you can watch a video of the class. end of thread .

No one agrees with you. We can’t have 5 days of school safely given the class sizes in FCPS. Get. Over. It.

DP. I agree with her.

Another DP and I also agree.