Maryland BOE Meeting 9/1

[Anonymous]

On the agenda for tomorrow.
http://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2020/0901/Maryland-Recovery-Plan-Education-Student-Engagement.pdf

Schools must be open for students at least 180 school days.

All schools must include at least a total of six hours per day.

A school day for each local school system must include the recommended minimum number
of hours of synchronous instruction for each grade band per day, five days per week as
indicated in the table.

Half day pre-K school day for each local school system must include a minimum of 1.5 hours of
synchronous instruction per day, five days per week.

School systems that have indicated that they are not returning students in person until
second semester should reevaluate their reopening plans by the end of the first quarter (after
nine weeks).

Recommended minimum hours need to be implemented by September 28.

[Anonymous]

For Grades 6-8 and 9-12 they want 5 hours of synchronous learning, 5 days per week and 1 hour of asynchronous learning per day, 5 days per week. Total of 6 hours per day.

Grades 3-5: 4 hrs/2 hrs
Grades K-2: 3 hrs/3 hrs
Pre-K (Full Day): 3 hrs/3 hrs
Pre-K (Half Day): 1.5 hrs/1.5 hrs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For Grades 6-8 and 9-12 they want 5 hours of synchronous learning, 5 days per week and 1 hour of asynchronous learning per day, 5 days per week. Total of 6 hours per day.

Grades 3-5: 4 hrs/2 hrs
Grades K-2: 3 hrs/3 hrs
Pre-K (Full Day): 3 hrs/3 hrs
Pre-K (Half Day): 1.5 hrs/1.5 hrs

As of now, my 6th grader has 4 periods, 1-hour-long each, only 4 days a week. With normal, in-person, school he would have had 8 periods daily, 5 days a week.
Wow. I just realized how much instruction has been cut back.

[Anonymous]

So they STILL aren't going to talk about making an actual PLAN to bring kids back? Still just plan to re-evaluate at the end of 9 weeks. This is getting insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For Grades 6-8 and 9-12 they want 5 hours of synchronous learning, 5 days per week and 1 hour of asynchronous learning per day, 5 days per week. Total of 6 hours per day.

Grades 3-5: 4 hrs/2 hrs
Grades K-2: 3 hrs/3 hrs
Pre-K (Full Day): 3 hrs/3 hrs
Pre-K (Half Day): 1.5 hrs/1.5 hrs

As of now, my 6th grader has 4 periods, 1-hour-long each, only 4 days a week. With normal, in-person, school he would have had 8 periods daily, 5 days a week.
Wow. I just realized how much instruction has been cut back.

Before you do that, ask yourself how much of the in-school class time is used for "instruction" as you conceive of it.

[Anonymous]

My HS was online for a total of three hours today, his 4th period was gym and it ended after 20mins. Our HS has not mentioned what is happening during this last period of the day. .

[Anonymous]

I see they are including Wednesday as a half day. What a joke. None of the kids are going to call in for office hours. Why did they ever think 4 days per week would be acceptable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see they are including Wednesday as a half day. What a joke. None of the kids are going to call in for office hours. Why did they ever think 4 days per week would be acceptable?

DCUM's second-favorite habit is making grand pronouncements of what everybody is and is not going to do.

[Anonymous]

Why can't kids do DL full time?

[dcmom]

Wow, MCPS is really going to have to switch its schedule. Not just on Wednesdays, but on all the other half-days on the calendar (and there are quite a few).

[Anonymous]

From the State Department of Ed website: "Please email comments to: [e-mail] until further notice. Comments will be reviewed on a continuous basis."

I encourage you to write if you want to weigh in.

[Anonymous]

dcmom wrote:Wow, MCPS is really going to have to switch its schedule. Not just on Wednesdays, but on all the other half-days on the calendar (and there are quite a few).

Not just the half days but all days, including adding instruction on Wednesday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the State Department of Ed website: "Please email comments to: [e-mail] until further notice. Comments will be reviewed on a continuous basis."

I encourage you to write if you want to weigh in.

Go for it. I'm not sure they're incented to make DL a more bearable experience, though.

[Anonymous]

Why are they just decreeing this NOW, instead of before the deadline to submit plans to the state? Why change the rules after everyone has already started?

This is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For Grades 6-8 and 9-12 they want 5 hours of synchronous learning, 5 days per week and 1 hour of asynchronous learning per day, 5 days per week. Total of 6 hours per day.

Grades 3-5: 4 hrs/2 hrs
Grades K-2: 3 hrs/3 hrs
Pre-K (Full Day): 3 hrs/3 hrs
Pre-K (Half Day): 1.5 hrs/1.5 hrs

As of now, my 6th grader has 4 periods, 1-hour-long each, only 4 days a week. With normal, in-person, school he would have had 8 periods daily, 5 days a week.
Wow. I just realized how much instruction has been cut back.

Before you do that, ask yourself how much of the in-school class time is used for "instruction" as you conceive of it.

I’m not sure what school your kids go to, but my middle schooler certainly received more than 4 hours of instruction per day precovid. When they weren’t getting instruction they were in small groups with the teacher walking around to ensure discussion was occurring.

Compare that to today where they broke into groups of three and no one in my DC’s grouped talked (One student’s mike didn’t work) so he texted with friends in other groups to work on the answers.