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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former MCPS and current FCPS parent here.

Our options are slightly different from the first post.

1. 100% distance learning. Live instruction four days/week. High School may have reduced course selection (AP/IB not guaranteed)/few electives will be offered (only what is required for graduation).

2. Two days/week in person instruction. Social distancing in classroom. Other days are ALL asynchronous. No live zoom classes, etc.

So option 1 is 4 days of live instruction via internet and option 2 is 2 days of live instruction in person. Good luck navigating through the online “resources” and assignments on the other days.

Parents seem to be split. Decisions for the entire year must be made by July 10 - no take-backsies. [/quote]

MCPS parent here. These would be reasonable options IF students/parents can change their choice. Say at the end of every marking period. Rather than commit to the entire year. Likewise, the school can also revisit choices they offer after every marking period. Why do we need to commit to a year long decision when things are changing so rapidly? School systems need to be more nimble than this, get some of the bureaucratic mess out of the way.

Just look at what is happening in the Southern states. This is summer, and cases are still rising. And the virus was supposed to die down in summer and pick back up in winter. There is still no vaccine. Or cure. And kids are often asymptotic carriers. What a mess.[/quote]

There’s no way to give families that choice every quarter without giving it to staff as well. Not just teachers, but bus drivers, paras, speech specialists and OTs. Every quarter would require restaffing the entire system. That’s an enormous amount of work for admin and central offices at the same time that will have all of the usual school year business to handle. Plus, if you ask teachers in the middle of the October second wave if they are interested in teaching F2F during MP 2, more will say no. And it would hit right when there’s normally testing for the HS magnets and the seniors asking for recommendations. Why add even more drama to the lives of students and staff by asking them to decide again. Everyone knows the second wave is coming. We see other countries experiencing it now. Some of them are preparing for wave 3.0 in the fall.[/quote]

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