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[quote=Anonymous]Former teacher here and I am just so sad about MCPS and the missed opportunity to inspire and teach kids with this eclipse. Instead of using this once in a lifetime astronomical event as a teaching tool, the district left individual teachers to decide what to do. At our ES that meant one entire grade went outside with glasses provided by a NASA parent, and got to hear a talk by them. Other teachers did nothing, some would not even let the kids use their glasses to even look outside, and still others showed the kids livestreams of the event that was literally happening outside their window.

My older sister is a teacher in another state  they procured glasses for all the students and used this event as a teaching tool. Curriculum was provided and they made it an event for the students to get excited about. The whole school was outside and got to experience it together. This is what my school did during the 90s eclipse and it is something I still remember. No one was hurt. There were no safety issues.

MCPS is pathetic. They say they care about equity, yet how is it equitable to allow teachers to make a decision that should have been handled at a district level in a way to optimize learning. How is equitable  for the kids with parents with the means to procure glasses and not work take their
Kids out for the day or afternoon to see it and for kids whose parents do not have those means to suffer. Thousands of kids could have been inspired by this event to a career in science of astromony and instead they are inside, missing the whole thing or watching it on a Chromebook. It’s absolutely pathetic.  [/quote]

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