The prospect of kids not going back to school until 2021

[Anonymous]

This is my favorite, but I think it is better to keep students together back to back (M/T cohort and Th/F cohort), using Wed as a cleaning day.

Two-Day Rotation
All students report to school two full days a week (e.g., Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/ Friday). Students would be provided assignments to support their learning on the days in which they do not report to school that could include paper, pencil, eLearning or a combination.
Special Education, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and resource teachers will collaborate with classroom teachers to schedule and provide required services to students. Rotated pull-out classes may also reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer. Fine Arts, Physical Education, and Health Education teachers will be included, to teach their respective content. These classes will be offered as a rotation to provide the necessary content and support to students for a well-rounded curriculum while also helping to reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer in each learning environment.
* One day is used for teacher planning and professional learning. Students will not report to school, distance learning will continue.
pg 18, Maryland Together: Maryland’s Recovery Plan for Education

[Anonymous]

There's no need for a "cleaning day". Surfaces are not a major vector of transmission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No, I mean would you accept that road map or will you just want F2F school anywhere? Because some posters have backtracked about following other countries once they saw those plans fall apart. I would love to see just one F2F poster say that they would accept staying closed based on the example of a country that had to consider.

You're asking the wrong question.

The right questions are:

1. Given that schools must open in August (unless there's another widespread community outbreak and associated stay-at-home order), what actions can the school district do to reduce the risk of transmission?
2. What should the school district do if if there is a covid outbreak at a particular school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is my favorite, but I think it is better to keep students together back to back (M/T cohort and Th/F cohort), using Wed as a cleaning day.

Two-Day Rotation
All students report to school two full days a week (e.g., Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/ Friday). Students would be provided assignments to support their learning on the days in which they do not report to school that could include paper, pencil, eLearning or a combination.
Special Education, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and resource teachers will collaborate with classroom teachers to schedule and provide required services to students. Rotated pull-out classes may also reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer. Fine Arts, Physical Education, and Health Education teachers will be included, to teach their respective content. These classes will be offered as a rotation to provide the necessary content and support to students for a well-rounded curriculum while also helping to reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer in each learning environment.
* One day is used for teacher planning and professional learning. Students will not report to school, distance learning will continue.
pg 18, Maryland Together: Maryland’s Recovery Plan for Education

How are the families of elementary-school-aged children supposed to deal with this?

[Anonymous]

http://www.mcps.org/reopening_2020

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watch, by Mid-August, every other county in Maryland will have announced that they will be open in the fall but MoCo will not have made an announcement. Residents will be enraged, Elrich will be shamed, and schools will open. Mark my words. Our leadership is a joke.

They have to announce by 8/14.

What is special about that day?

Clearly none of y’all screaming online bothered to actual read the state plan.

Page 5 says “LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS MUST HAVE THEIR RECOVERY PLANS COMPLETED AND POSTED TO THEIR WEBSITES BY AUGUST 14, 2020. THE MSDE WILL REVIEW ALL LOCAL RECOVERY PLANS TO ENSURE THAT THE PLANS INCLUDE AND ADDRESS ALL REQUIREMENTS FOR OPENING SCHOOLS.“

Read the freaking plan before you start throwing around your opinion on what MCPS can do and should do. They have to follow state guidelines. Don’t like the state guidelines, move to Virginia, PA, DE, or WV.

Lol. I am the person who asked about the date. I’ve actually been off of DCUm for years but came back yesterday to see if I could find out about [solidcore] and saw this thread. Thank you for reminding me why I left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's no need for a "cleaning day". Surfaces are not a major vector of transmission.

When they announced cleaning day, people thought surfaces were still the major issue. But now, I figure they are just trying to keep the days even.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is my favorite, but I think it is better to keep students together back to back (M/T cohort and Th/F cohort), using Wed as a cleaning day.

Two-Day Rotation
All students report to school two full days a week (e.g., Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/ Friday). Students would be provided assignments to support their learning on the days in which they do not report to school that could include paper, pencil, eLearning or a combination.
Special Education, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and resource teachers will collaborate with classroom teachers to schedule and provide required services to students. Rotated pull-out classes may also reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer. Fine Arts, Physical Education, and Health Education teachers will be included, to teach their respective content. These classes will be offered as a rotation to provide the necessary content and support to students for a well-rounded curriculum while also helping to reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer in each learning environment.
* One day is used for teacher planning and professional learning. Students will not report to school, distance learning will continue.
pg 18, Maryland Together: Maryland’s Recovery Plan for Education

How are the families of elementary-school-aged children supposed to deal with this?

Either that, or have your elementary school kids at home full-time for you to do most of the teaching yourself. Which do you prefer?

I definitely prefer the PP’s option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is my favorite, but I think it is better to keep students together back to back (M/T cohort and Th/F cohort), using Wed as a cleaning day.

Two-Day Rotation
All students report to school two full days a week (e.g., Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/ Friday). Students would be provided assignments to support their learning on the days in which they do not report to school that could include paper, pencil, eLearning or a combination.
Special Education, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and resource teachers will collaborate with classroom teachers to schedule and provide required services to students. Rotated pull-out classes may also reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer. Fine Arts, Physical Education, and Health Education teachers will be included, to teach their respective content. These classes will be offered as a rotation to provide the necessary content and support to students for a well-rounded curriculum while also helping to reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer in each learning environment.
* One day is used for teacher planning and professional learning. Students will not report to school, distance learning will continue.
pg 18, Maryland Together: Maryland’s Recovery Plan for Education

How are the families of elementary-school-aged children supposed to deal with this?

Either that, or have your elementary school kids at home full-time for you to do most of the teaching yourself. Which do you prefer?

I definitely prefer the PP’s option.

Neither option works. I prefer the option where the kids go to school 5 days a week for the normal-length school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.mcps.org/reopening_2020

This link is not for Montgomery county in Maryland- it’s a Virginia school system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.mcps.org/reopening_2020

This link is not for Montgomery county in Maryland- it’s a Virginia school system

+1. There Are actually multiple mcps's in the country. It would have taken the poster 2 seconds to read the address and realize it wasn't the correct one. Ugh.
Read before you post!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.mcps.org/reopening_2020

This link is not for Montgomery county in Maryland- it’s a Virginia school system

+1. There Are actually multiple mcps's in the country. It would have taken the poster 2 seconds to read the address and realize it wasn't the correct one. Ugh.
Read before you post!

Or either the poster is not even from this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watch, by Mid-August, every other county in Maryland will have announced that they will be open in the fall but MoCo will not have made an announcement. Residents will be enraged, Elrich will be shamed, and schools will open. Mark my words. Our leadership is a joke.

They have to announce by 8/14.

I thought every county owes a plan to the state dept of education by 7/10?

Both of those things are true. The state has to approve the plan. The plan has to be posted in the district’s website. Obviously the state wants to see the plan to force any tweaks before the public sees it.

So the school will submit a plan to the state by 7/10, and is there a deadline for when the public gets to see it? I wonder if we can just FOIA request it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is my favorite, but I think it is better to keep students together back to back (M/T cohort and Th/F cohort), using Wed as a cleaning day.

Two-Day Rotation
All students report to school two full days a week (e.g., Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/ Friday). Students would be provided assignments to support their learning on the days in which they do not report to school that could include paper, pencil, eLearning or a combination.
Special Education, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and resource teachers will collaborate with classroom teachers to schedule and provide required services to students. Rotated pull-out classes may also reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer. Fine Arts, Physical Education, and Health Education teachers will be included, to teach their respective content. These classes will be offered as a rotation to provide the necessary content and support to students for a well-rounded curriculum while also helping to reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer in each learning environment.
* One day is used for teacher planning and professional learning. Students will not report to school, distance learning will continue.
pg 18, Maryland Together: Maryland’s Recovery Plan for Education

How are the families of elementary-school-aged children supposed to deal with this?

Either that, or have your elementary school kids at home full-time for you to do most of the teaching yourself. Which do you prefer?

I definitely prefer the PP’s option.

Neither option works. I prefer the option where the kids go to school 5 days a week for the normal-length school day.

+1. I’m voting for this option as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is my favorite, but I think it is better to keep students together back to back (M/T cohort and Th/F cohort), using Wed as a cleaning day.

Two-Day Rotation
All students report to school two full days a week (e.g., Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/ Friday). Students would be provided assignments to support their learning on the days in which they do not report to school that could include paper, pencil, eLearning or a combination.
Special Education, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and resource teachers will collaborate with classroom teachers to schedule and provide required services to students. Rotated pull-out classes may also reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer. Fine Arts, Physical Education, and Health Education teachers will be included, to teach their respective content. These classes will be offered as a rotation to provide the necessary content and support to students for a well-rounded curriculum while also helping to reduce the student-teacher ratios to 10 or fewer in each learning environment.
* One day is used for teacher planning and professional learning. Students will not report to school, distance learning will continue.
pg 18, Maryland Together: Maryland’s Recovery Plan for Education

How are the families of elementary-school-aged children supposed to deal with this?

Either that, or have your elementary school kids at home full-time for you to do most of the teaching yourself. Which do you prefer?

I definitely prefer the PP’s option.

Neither option works. I prefer the option where the kids go to school 5 days a week for the normal-length school day.

+1. I’m voting for this option as well.

I'm not aware that this is up for a vote....