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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man, I know that there are some pandemic-era parents whose kids had a hard time and are kind of scarre from those days, but can y'all try to step back and be rational rather than react emotionally from a "I hated the COVID year" place?  The rest of us are tired of our kids losing multiple days of education every year due to snow days and would like our kids to actually get some learning in rather than those useless last few days of school. We get it, not all kids learn well online, but you guys act like it's the end of the world .. pretty clearly some kind of trauma response, and again, I get it, but fake a breath and try to move through it. [/quote]

You must be an online learner as you've failed to read this thread where it has been pointed out that:

1) Virtual learning didn't just fail during the pandemic. It also failed during summer school, which is why MCPS is dramatically scaling back on virtual summer school options this year
2) It tried to do an asynchronous learning day in the 2023-2024 school year. It went so poorly the state said MCPS cannot pivot to virtual instruction again with a robust, pressure tested, approved plan and structure to do so.

Insisting MCPS should do something, despite multiple failed attempts at doing so, just because you want them to is definitely a trauma response on your part. Or maybe it's just ignorance. I don't know. But you need to look in the mirror before you start psychoanalyzing anyone else.[/quote]

Can you show us the data?  Summer school fails because they are putting a semester into 2-3 weeks.  In person or virtual its impossible.  The issue with virtual was that parents didn't require their kids to go to school or do the work.  You need to look at the MVA data which MCPS refuses to release.  And, kids are failing in person.  So, where is the excuse for that?  In person isn't much better given the test scores and data provided.[/quote]

MCPS's data on virtual summer school failure can be found in the Jan. 8 presentation to the board: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DPTUAZ7B2FE7/$file/IGNITE%E2%80%94Summer%20School%202026%20260108%20PPT.pdf

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So because MCPS virtual summer school is a failure, snow day virtual school would be a failure and worse than the current status quo of no education for these snow days.

I hope you’re not a teacher, because you have problems with critical thinking.  [/quote]

Critical thinking seems to be your dilemma, not mine. You can't read or keep track of the conversation.

Virtual learning in MCPS specifically has failed:

1) During the COVID pandemic
2) During the Asynchronous Learning Day they tried in the 2023-2024 school year
3) In summer school last year

In baseball, three strikes means you're out.

But you want us to keep going and somehow expect different results. Why?[/quote]

You haven't shown us any data that supports your argument that virtual learning is worse than providing no education at all during these snow days.   
1) You have not cited data that MCPS virtual learning during the pandemic failed relative to the available option of providing no education at all.
2) The asynchonous learning day "evidence" someone cited upthread was a magazine article that had students and parents complaining that their Jewish student was forced to do assignments on a Jewish holiday and that teachers didn't post the assignments on time.  That's not evidence of a systematic failure of virtual learning.
3) Summer school is a narrow swath of MCPS students who are not representative of the whole of MCPS.  A very small percentage of MCPS students are summer school students.  And people upthread have pointed to design implementation issues (trying to cram in a full semester course into two weeks) as reasons of failure, not an indictment of virtual learning overall.

School districts all over the Northeast have moved to virtual learning because it's a major snowstorm and the best available option.  Somehow they can manage to get virtual learning approved quickly and deploy it.  MCPS can not.[/quote]

We are both without data.

You don't have data that proves virtual instruction on snow days is meaningfully better than no instruction, nor do I.

All we have is our opinions. So we're both in the same boat.

I do have evidence of several virtual instructional failures in the district, which I already cited.

May the best opinion win.[/quote]

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