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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather than training (I'm a professor, I had to pivot too, and this is not rocket science), all districts need to hold teachers accountable: x hours synchronous each day, mandatory individual check-ins with students x times per week, less busywork, more content and rigor, one app.

Stop posting Instagram shots of your garden projects during work hours, etc.

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This. 100%. I have no doubt some teachers were working very hard, but many were not, at least from our experience in MCPS. Some were doing private tutoring during school hours. Some of my HS kid's teachers never held a single class from March onwards - zero instruction and only a few perfunctory assignments for 3 months of the school year. My elementary kid had 2 teachers, one of whom really did post hot tub and gardening photos on days when he cancelled class. That teacher also did not grade (or even review) a single assignment. And the elementary kid had zero science or social studies instruction after the schools were closed. How is that acceptable? And if this was the experience in schools w/mostly higher income families, who can be intensely demanding about their kids' education, how do you think things went elsewhere in the county with less privileged students?

I understand DL is hard, most of us had little familiarity with the tech before March, but we're all adapting because our jobs and our organizations demand it. There seems to be zero accountability in the public schools whatsoever.[/quote]

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