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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anne Arundel county is looking pretty smart having an approved virtual learning plan for snow that they used during the last snow storm, and having built in 3 snow days into the calendar.

MCPS is the stupid Maryland county.[/quote]

Baltimore County too- but apparently special needs and equity concerns only exist in mcps[/quote]

Spare us your ignorant virtue signaling.  NYC. And many districts in Long Island and New York State.    And Boston and  thousands of school districts around the country use virtual learning for weather emergencies.

If you look at the MSDE form, there's a requirement that MCPS submit the virtual learning plan form with an extensive section on accomodations for kids with IEPs.  But yes, some less professional MCPS staffers prefer having more days off and preferring that MCPS kids get no education at all and try to ask Maryland for a waiver on the 180 days of required instruction so all MCPS kids can learn less. [/quote]

sorry my sarcasm wasn't apparent-- i assume equity and special needs exists in nyc and baltimore county.  and think switching to hours instead of days will shortchange our kids education.  [/quote]

It’s better to get some education than no education. Paras can be online and they can do services online.  [/quote]

You're obviously woefully unfamiliar with what paraeducators do. Our IEPs acknowledge that the supports can't be provided virtually. It has been a nonissue because MCPS doesn't have virtual. We're certainly not the only ones.[/quote]

I am very familiar with it as I have a SN child who did virtual for four years till it was taken away from us.  Maybe its an issue for you, but it worked very well for some of us.[/quote]

+1. There’s someone on this forum spreading lies about what special needs services kids receive and how virtual learning affects them.  You do not speak for all special needs families.  They are not a homogenous lump you can trot out as an excuse for not giving MCPS their required instructional time.  [/quote]

They're not, but common special education supports and services cannot be provided virtually, and no one has provided a clear and credible proposal for how to accommodate those kidsZ[/quote]

I would love to understand a concrete example of a special education support that would not be able to be provided for a virtual day or two, why this is such a big giant deal in the scheme of an entire school year, and why this should prevent all the other students in the district from having an opportunity to access instruction. [/quote]

The real issue is they don't want to be bothered.[/quote]

+1  Winner winner chicken dinner.  [b]MCPS could have copy and pasted their name into the plans submitted by Anne Arundel and Baltimore County. [/b] But they prefer this approach of not being expected to do virtual learning, because then they won't be required to do extra work, especially if the attitude from MCPS management is to keep seeking waivers so MCPS staff can work less than the 180 required days.[/quote]

Reading that, now I understand why the kids engage in so much academic dishonesty. Their parents promote it.[/quote]

By that analogy, your prefer that kids not turn in their assignments at all, if you want them to be like MCPS who promised a virtual learning plan for snow in 2024 and still hasn't done it.[/quote]

Well, yes, it is preferable that students turn in nothing rather than cheat.

You’d rather that your kids cheat than turn in nothing?[/quote]

You need to take a basic class on research and methods, and learn what academic dishonesty is.  MCPS is welcome to reference the many existing virtual learning plans for snow emergencies that exist for thousands of districts around the country:  Anne Arundel, Baltimore, PG County, Alexandria VA, NYC, Boston, San Francisco.

That is not cheating.  That is considered smart research, rather than wasting MoCo taxpayer resources reinventing the wheel because MoCo wants to be a "special snowflake."

It is not preferable that MoCo turns in nothing, when it said to the BOE it would turn in a virtual learning plan for weather emergencies back in 2024.[/quote]

Doing research and then tailoring the best ideas to your population is not the same as the “copy-pasting” that was suggested.
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Don't be dim.  Of course, MCPS could copy and paste if they chose, but presumably its central office staff are capable of more than that.  I'm just a parent pointing out that virtual learning plans for snow are not these impossible things to produce.  Other districts have them.  Some even have them posted online.[/quote]

The original comment literally said they should have copy pasted.[/quote]

No, it's pasted in the thread above--it says MCPS "could have" copy pasted.  Only some people on this forum would like to be pedantic and scream about how this would be "cheating" when these plans are available for all to see.  At this point, I assume the state of Maryland would happily hand deliver copies that other districts have submitted for virtual learning to  MCPS offices in Rockville, if it would end the chaos of MCPS scheduling. [/quote]

Someone needs to learn the definition of "literally" because it says "could have" not "should have."  And anyway, more importantly someone also needs to learn what constitutes cheating and why it's not applicable to a school district in this context.[/quote]

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