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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why aren’t we doing virtual?[/quote]

What do you picture when you say “virtual”? Are you thinking purely asynchronous work? Synchronous instruction?

People keep bringing this up. If you are going to do virtual instruction it needs to be planned ahead of time. You can’t just flip a switch and do it. Students and teachers both need to be prepped on expectations, especially if any type of synchronous instruction is going to happen. You’d have to make sure to send their laptops and Chromebooks home before the storm. [/quote]

Not the person you are responding to, but I think if you warned students [b]in advance[/b] that they need to have laptops in case of virtual and you remind them then of rules, then it can be done. You remind them again when the virtual session starts of rules. You don't even need to use all the class time. Just have a check in, teach something so when you revisit it, it is not the first time they heard it, but if people don't join they don't completely lose out. Then have a little asynchronous work that they can self-check. Sure some will just cheat, but quite a few won't and it will only help them when they return to schol. In the case of AP classes I would definitely have some zoom classes.[/quote]

Exactly. In advance. That hasn’t been done. Keep in mind that what you are suggesting probably won’t be so simple with ES students. Maybe the expectations will be different for those in ES, but that all has to be understood beforehand. You can’t just say, “Online instruction begins tomorrow”. [/quote]

Yes virtual learning is not a simple thing at all, as everyone should remember.  We're at, what, day 3.5?  This seems like a massive overreaction.[/quote]

I probably wouldn’t be so put off by this if a five day week was the standards and not exception.  For a lot of working parents, the calendar is such a mess and we do everything we can to make it work. But when things like this happen and there’s no apparent effort to problem solve, it feels like a bridge too far for me.  I’m glad you might not feel like this, it’s not a nice feeling to fear that my kids aren’t getting the education I thought they would when we chose to live here.  Not based on a couple of snow days but on the culmination of a lot of factors. [/quote]

It's this.  [/quote]

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