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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids in both public and private. Private school does not follow mcps and gives first day as a snow day; after that it’s asynchronous learning for MS and HS (LS does sort of a mix of zoom and activitues).

I do not understand why it is so difficult for MCPS to plan ahead re forecasted weather and send kids who do not have a home computer home with a chromebook or worksheets or gasp an actual hardcopy book. That wouldn’t have fixed everything for the previous storm because of the long time off but it would have been better than nothing. It’s not like these were surprise weather events.

And re the low income issue—I used to teach in a school with high FARMS and those kids may not have home computers but they absolutely have cell phones (and therefore hotspots). But again—even just something as simple as sending kids home with books on Friday would help. You don’t need a perfect solution or parity for in class instruction, but keeping kids actively learning even when you cannot physically open school should be a priority.

—parent and former teachers[/quote]
 Many cheaper cell phone plans don't include mobile hotspot. And those that do will quickly run through the data allowance for hotspot (yes, that exists even if you have unlimited data on the phone) when doing Zoom.

But really the issue is that kids won't be places they would be able to join class.[/quote]

I'm the PP you were responding to. I wasn't really proposing Zoom and "virtual school" in the way that we saw it implemented during Covid for MCPS. I was suggesting that kids could check for assignments and, at a minimum, do non-computer work on a snow day. If you know there is likely to be a storm on Sunday that would impact school opening on Monday, send kids home prepared with something to do during that likely snow day. Again, it may not be as productive as in-class work, but do something. [/quote]

We have teachers assigning work for the day.  [/quote]

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