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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just keep in mind your long-term plans and risks as you consider the VA path. MCPS hasn’t identified alternative funding for VA going beyond the 2023-2024 school year (when the ESSER funds expire).[/quote]

We send kids in person at this point but due to the COVID infections, cold and other reasons, teachers and the kids were on and off for several weeks with subs covering the topics. I can feel for subs who are expected to hit the ground running but kids also notice that they were on their phone most of the time. Kids did what they could but the progress has been very slow this year compared to online learning in 2020-2021 where they focused on the work and progress was much better.  We are also considering virtual for 2022-2023 school year. Are there any issues with cohorts for highly abled kids in VA?[/quote]

We have not seen any issues and they’ve worked hard to keep kids who are on accelerated track on it. They don’t have all the class offerings so you have to be a bit flexible with electives but they have classes our home school does not have and the one we choose has been really good.  The stability has been really nice.  Things were chaotic for the first month as they kept moving the kids around to reduce class sizes  as more staff was hired but after that it’s been very smooth.   We had one teacher leave mid year and had some subs but they quickly hired a replacement.  It’s been really rare for us to have a sub.  It’s very different in terms of academics and class time than last year.   It has equal class time this year with the bonus being that the teachers offer extra support after the last class of the day which has been really helpful.  Many of the teachers are also very responsive.  My kids made a lot of progress this year.[/quote]

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