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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s hilarious all these people who have already declared DL to be ineffective when they have literally never experienced it and they are loudly proclaiming they will only send their kid for math (because they themselves know they aren’t actually as smart as they think they are or they wouldn’t fear teaching math). And they will continue to loudly proclaim DL a failure even as they don’t participate.

So typically DC.[/quote]

Brabrand has stated that they "soared" the last two months of distance learning.  My child (1st) participated in EVERYTHING and it was a waste of time.  She learned nothing and hated it.  So, when I hear that the Superintendent say that what they offered was "soaring", please excuse my reluctance to think 2020-21 will be anything but effective.   [/quote]

Yep, as I understand it, [b]teachers haven't received their schedules yet and they haven't done professional training yet.[/b] They'll just work out those details close to takeoff and/in flight. They're definitely on track to achieve that wonderful springtime soaring experience again.[/quote]

This is true.[/quote]

It’s also true every single year. Teachers never get schedules or attend training until pre service begins and they’re back on contract. Expecting otherwise is the equivalent of me telling you you should be answering emails at 3 am if that’s when the client sends them. Or working even on your vacation days that you took off. They are still finalizing whatever training we will get when we go back to work and that’s when we will complete it.  [/quote]

Sure, but the difference is that FCPS believes (or probably not) that they will roll out a credible DL program at scale. Given they didn't appear to do any legwork this summer, what we will realistically have is the same crap, inconsistently delivered teacher to teacher, for many more hours per day. It's just a recipe for complete failure.[/quote]

My hope is that their instructional team at admin has been putting stuff together this summer and the full 3 weeks we have before kids come will be spent fully preparing for DL. I get that it can look like “nothing has been done” but that’s specifically because with teachers off contract the schools haven’t rolled anything out to us yet. The 12 month instructional employees I know in other districts have been working on stuff so I am choosing to believe the training and prep WILL be there, and teachers will jump in on day 1 of pre service. [/quote]

If these are the people who put together the packets and the idea that we need 30 min for morning meeting for 5 & 6 yos who only have about 1 hr attention span for online learning, the thought that they spent all summer developing stuff doesn't give me hope. [/quote]

This is where yuh also have to rely on your teachers’ expertise. IMO as a teacher, it is the district’s  job to give us and the kids adequate platforms, apps and resources, and teach us how to use those. They should also be the ones making expectations crystal clear. The rest after that is on the teachers. I have faith in myself to do a good job with what I’m given as long as it’s communicated to us how to use those tools, to what extent it’s expected we use them, they have appropriate bandwidth to support everyone, and the families have a good idea what the kids need to do as well. [/quote]

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