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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zoom is not approved for instruction in FCPS.  Any FCPS teacher using it faces a reprimand.

Could you PLEASE lay off until the end of the week?  FCPS has 190,000 students.  They are doing the best that they can. Many teachers didn’t even have their *laptops* until principals allowed them back into the building for literally 10 minutes today.  Buildings have been ordered closed.  Instructional devices provided 2 weeks’ worth of work on Blackboard.  Have you done it all?  And if your child misses classmates so much, why don’t YOU organize a Zoom play date among children?[/quote]

FCPS is such a piece of shit.  Zoom is offering its services FREE to schools, it's the best thing out there, and FCPS administration is saying no?

No, I'm not laying off.  It's already been two weeks.  Literally every one else I know in other parts of the country has received SOMETHING from their schools.  I don't care that it's 190,000 students.  Learn how to scale up.  This is a terrible place to live, we're moving as soon as feasible.[/quote]

1) you can’t count.  It has not been two weeks.

2) Zoom is NOT the best for school instruction.  There are no safeguards for student privacy and security in place and it has a few bells and whistles but is missing much of the core functionality of Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, including the ability for administrators to supervise.

3) It’s not about price.  FCPS has approved many tools that are currently free including Flipgrid. It has to do with ensuring student privacy and security of data.

4) I highly doubt you did any of the activities on Blackboard. They are optional.  There have now been exactly 7 days of missed instruction, the equivalent of a large snow storm.  Why don’t YOU do some things with your kid?  You can certainly sign your kid up from all sorts of free programs now that are not currently FCPS approved.

5) FCPS taxpayers voted down the meals tax that would have paid for 1-1 devices for all students k-12.  We didn’t have the money so we literally do not have enough computers for everyone.  Some schools don’t even have enough laptops.for all the kids on Free and Reduced launch.  Redeploying devices around the county is a Herculean task.  It’s hampered by the order that buildings are closed.

6) Your negativity  accomplished precisely nothing.  Why don’t you DO something instead of bitching?[/quote]

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