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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There cannot be a real conversation about these issues as long as [b]the loudest parents claim there was no teaching[/b]. It obliterates the hard work of teachers who went above and beyond every day.

I wrote about this before. DCUM posts were so negative that  I started to feel paranoid that my parents were lying when they thanked me. Maybe they really thought I did nothing? Did that mean that they thanked me because they also thought if they didn’t I would retaliate in some way? It was really upsetting.  [/quote]

In the experience of my high school kid, for some teachers, there really was no teaching. Really. They did nothing other than post a few things on Google Classroom. Meanwhile, other teachers worked very hard. If I had to generalize, I'd say that the teachers who didn't do much at school also did little or nothing last spring, and the teachers who worked hard at school also worked hard last spring.

If you're a teacher who works hard - well, you know your colleagues. You know who works and who doesn't.[/quote]

If you believe this then the FORMAT isn’t the issue. It won’t natter whether you select DL or Hybrid or if MCPS decides to go back FT F2F. There would still be great teachers and duds, just like every other profession, including nursing. And it would probably be sheer luck whether your child got the teacher who went above and beyond or the one who phoned it in. Sounds like a very different conversation than people are having on DCUM where the argument has been that no teachers did anything last spring and the only way to make teachers work is to force FT F2F. Maybe all of the people who realize format doesn’t matter can talk with those who are stuck on format as the only solution.[/quote]

True, but even a dud has a better chance of being effective when teaching 5 days per week as opposed to a 1 hour check-in.  That is part of the problem. As we reduce instruction hours in DL, the impact of having a less engaged or less effective teacher is magnified.[/quote]

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