Maryland Recovery Plan for Education has been posted

[Anonymous]

http://marylandpublicschools.org/newsroom/Documents/MSDERecoveryPlan.pdf

I gave it a very quick glance through and thought it did a good job of laying out options and, in some areas, includes informative details about what is, and is not, supported by research.





Warning: It uses the "bussing" spelling (rather than busing).

[Anonymous]

Thank you for posting this. It's a very ambitious set of plans. I give them credit for at least trying to come up with something. This is going to require an unbelievable amount of flexible scheduling from an employer standpoint. Just thinking about my own situation as a teacher. I have no idea what I'll do with my child if she isn't in school every other week. Like I said, at least they're trying to come up with something.

[Anonymous]

I don't get why they cannot do things they talked about like small groups online. We have an all class math and all class reading. I truly hope they don't keep teachers the same year to year. We don't have great ones this year. I couldn't take another year of them.

[Anonymous]

Dual working parents here. I don't know for sure if my employer will be that flexible to allow me to work around my child school schedule. Distance learning is not working for my child now, and I don't think it will in the fall. I need to find childcare M-F to cover the time when my kid in not in school hours.

I have a friend starting her child in K this fall, and she has been anxious about the whole situation. So far, no orientation, nothing & she does not know what to do at all.

Agree that I give them credits to at least trying to come up with something.

[Anonymous]

This is actually an extremely well thought out plan. Parents, teachers, kids, schools and workplaces are all going to have to change drastically in order to begin to reopen schools. Everyone is going to have to sacrifice.

[Anonymous]

I think the plan to make smaller classes, by having all the teachers teaching their own groups, and to just bring the elementary schoolers back, and distribute across all the campuses is the best one. If everyone had different days off, then daycares/aftercare type programs would be able to make programs that served a different group each day.

I will say, though, as a HS special education teacher, that they should bring back the transition students (students between 18 and 21 who continue to be eligible because of significant disabilities). I think they could do that pretty easily by choosing a couple sites. It wouldn't be inclusive, and thus not ideal, but I think that getting those kids back, especially those in their last year is critical.

Middle schoolers and high schoolers going to school online isn't ideal, but it wouldn't be as devastating for the economy as having kids who need childcare at home, and they're more able to learn online if the system invests in decent online curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Middle schoolers and high schoolers going to school on line is a non-starter. If it's ok for the parents to go to work, then it's ok for the middle schoolers and high schoolers to go to school.

[Anonymous]

No specific dates in this education recovery document, but the following article says schools may not resume in-person classes until January 2021.

https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2020/05/governor-hogans-update-on-covid-19-response-go-boating-and-golfing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Middle schoolers and high schoolers going to school on line is a non-starter. If it's ok for the parents to go to work, then it's ok for the middle schoolers and high schoolers to go to school.

I agree with this and I am a SAHM. It was tough for me to keep my kids motivated with school a few years ago when I worked full time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Middle schoolers and high schoolers going to school on line is a non-starter. If it's ok for the parents to go to work, then it's ok for the middle schoolers and high schoolers to go to school.

+1 This idea that school is primarily for child care is ridiculous. It's vital that we keep educating our children, especially our HS students. To deprive them of their education, in all its forms, is criminal. By September, they will have been out of school for 6 months. We have asked enough of them at this point.

[Anonymous]

I laughed out loud when i read this. What BS.

Parents of students with disabilities have always had a decisionmaking voice and required participation at the IEP Team. Remote learning has increased parent capacity (with ongoing
coaching and support by educators) to provide supplemental instruction and progress monitoring. In recovery efforts,
leveraging this skill and elevating the supportive role of the family to accelerate student progress is essential.

[Anonymous]

If people are sending their kids back to daycares anyway (which they would have to be-for teacher's kids), all of this is unnecessary and it should be school as usual.

There is no way for daycares to remain open with "social distancing".

[Anonymous]

How will they have the staff to cover lunches in classrooms and enough teachers to cover smaller classes spread out using MS space?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No specific dates in this education recovery document, but the following article says schools may not resume in-person classes until January 2021.

https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2020/05/governor-hogans-update-on-covid-19-response-go-boating-and-golfing

The governor already demonstrated his opinion that Ocean City tourism is a higher priority than schools, so it wouldn't be surprising if he also thinks that other businesses are a higher priority than schools.

[Anonymous]

It's not realistic to expect teachers to teach in masks all day. It is deliberately vague as to whether they think students will be wearing masks. I can barely stand a mask for 30 minutes at the store, and I'm not trying to teach.