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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AACPS voted last night to go back in a hybrid mode for K-2 on November 16 and 3-5 on November 30, with middle and high school later (maybe as early as the second week of December)

On one hand, I'm thrilled there is forward motion... on the other hand it's a TERRIBLE plan!

There will be two cohorts - Monday/Tuesday and Thursday/Friday.  Everyone is home on Wednesdays.  So far, so good.
However, the teachers will be expected to be actively teaching both cohorts at the same time.  So the teacher is still sitting in front of her computer, still using the same virtual tools to teach, and now has to manage in class and online behaviors.  And the in school kids are just sitting at their desks instead of sitting at their houses.

Sounds like all the risk of in person without any of the benefit.[/quote]

Other private schools are following this model (Spaulding, for one) and it's working well. I think the new normal will have a transition which is difficult but if the county had done this plan in September like the private schools instead of choosing all virtual, many of these mid semester changes wouldn't be happening. 
Any in person time with a live teacher and live friends to banter with over the chromebooks is a good thing. It's the exact same as some of the virutal learning pods and daycares that are set up for school aged children. There is a benefit to this type of instruction. 
The sad part is that it is going to implemented mid semester and the kids who are staying fully virutal will need to change teachers.  Once again, if it was done in September like the Archdiocese or other private schools, this transition wouldn't have been necessary.

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