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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In-person for my kids. Honestly, DL is working well enough for us that we may ooops change our minds at the last moment, but I want to push MCPS to offer a hybrid option for the families that need it.[/quote]

The survey wasn't intended to decide whether or not to offer hybrid.  Hybrid is coming if the metrics allow.  The survey was intended to give schools the info they need to plan for hybrid. [b]  I don't think it benefits the schools to have lots of people switching after they propose the hybrid plan.[/b] [/quote]

Yeah, but I can't really tell if it's worth the risk for our family until they tell me what it will look like. There are too many variables in the types of classes the kids may be offered at any given school, and our school is pretty outdated, with crowded hallways, few windows, and bad HVAC. I'm concerned that spread in middle and high schools seems to be more common than in elementary, so I want to be sure my kid is actually going to get something out of it before we assume that risk. I'm sure I'd feel differently if it were elementary school, where DL is much harder for working parents to manage and in-person school seems to show much less spread.

But if half my middle school kid's classes will be the support model, they can do that more effectively from the safety of their own bedroom, with a much shorter school day and less stress. Why risk a classroom full of maskless kids eating lunch together, only to sit and stare at a computer screen for half the day just like she does at home? And if her in-person magnet classes will be taught by a random sub, how is that better than DL with their experienced teacher? She doesn't love Zoom classes, but likes her teachers well enough that she'd probably prefer to stay with them.

So we chose hybrid, figuring that leaves her the option to stay virtual if it turns out there really aren't many benefits to the hybrid model we're ultimately offered.

I get that it's a catch-22—that they can't plan until they have the numbers, but the numbers won't be accurate until they have a detailed plan—but we had to do what's best for our family based on the information we were given before the survey. [/quote]

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