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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anne Arundel county is looking pretty smart having an approved virtual learning plan for snow that they used during the last snow storm, and having built in 3 snow days into the calendar.

MCPS is the stupid Maryland county.[/quote]

Baltimore County too- but apparently special needs and equity concerns only exist in mcps[/quote]

Spare us your ignorant virtue signaling.  NYC. And many districts in Long Island and New York State.    And Boston and  thousands of school districts around the country use virtual learning for weather emergencies.

If you look at the MSDE form, there's a requirement that MCPS submit the virtual learning plan form with an extensive section on accomodations for kids with IEPs.  But yes, some less professional MCPS staffers prefer having more days off and preferring that MCPS kids get no education at all and try to ask Maryland for a waiver on the 180 days of required instruction so all MCPS kids can learn less. [/quote]

sorry my sarcasm wasn't apparent-- i assume equity and special needs exists in nyc and baltimore county.  and think switching to hours instead of days will shortchange our kids education.  [/quote]

It’s better to get some education than no education. Paras can be online and they can do services online.  [/quote]

You're obviously woefully unfamiliar with what paraeducators do. Our IEPs acknowledge that the supports can't be provided virtually. It has been a nonissue because MCPS doesn't have virtual. We're certainly not the only ones.[/quote]

I am very familiar with it as I have a SN child who did virtual for four years till it was taken away from us.  Maybe its an issue for you, but it worked very well for some of us.[/quote]

+1. There’s someone on this forum spreading lies about what special needs services kids receive and how virtual learning affects them.  You do not speak for all special needs families.  They are not a homogenous lump you can trot out as an excuse for not giving MCPS their required instructional time.  [/quote]

They're not, but common special education supports and services cannot be provided virtually, and no one has provided a clear and credible proposal for how to accommodate those kidsZ[/quote]

I would love to understand a concrete example of a special education support that would not be able to be provided for a virtual day or two, why this is such a big giant deal in the scheme of an entire school year, and why this should prevent all the other students in the district from having an opportunity to access instruction. [/quote]

Well let’s also keep in mind that the majority of non-special needs students will not benefit from virtual. So please don’t hold SN responsible for blocking what you want.[/quote]

The majority of non-special needs students can learn just fine virtually for a day or two. We are not talking about a year. [/quote]

Many wouldn't be able to participate, due to being in child care settings or providing child care to siblings. Others simply wouldn't join because of a lack of support at home. Of those who do, many wouldn't pay attention.

No learning would occur those days for the vast majority of students. Some AP/advanced classes, or a handful of other classes at particularly wealthy schools, might be the exception to that, but that would be a very small percentage of students in MCPS.[/quote]

Do you think MCPS has perfect attendance every day?  Lots of kids don't show up all the time due to "lack of support at home."

I find it bewildering, that because there's no perfect way to serve every child (a problem that is not unique to virtual schooling--we have these same problems for in-person school), that MCPS thinks it's far better to screw EVERY MCPS child out of 180 instructional days and ask for waivers year after year because they can't be bothered to submit the Virtual Learning Plan for Weather Emergencies to MSDE, like other Maryland school districts have done.[/quote]

Come on. On any given day there might be one or two students out from my kids' second and third grade classes. Do you really think virtual is going to have comparable attendance *and* participation? Of course not. There won't be enough kids to cover new material. The days would be worthless.[/quote]

Are you in a rich W district?  Attendance differs widely across the county, and if the snow storm is bad enough, everyone is homebound and looking for something to do.

I truly don't understand why you prefer your kids don't get 180 days of instruction a year (our status quo), as MCPS seeks to waive the instructional days, or why you prefer these half assed June half days, where schools are encouraging kids not to come in, to virtual learning on days in the heart of the school year.

Unless you're an MCPS staffer, and you preferred to get paid for doing nothing in the hopes that you'll have to work fewer days in the year.[/quote]

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