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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Sorry folks, I love it this way. Some effort but a full paycheck.[/b] Knowing MCPS I'm 100% sure they won't open for a long time.[/quote]

You're a teacher apparently? I have two friends who teach elementary and they've both said they enjoy working from home. Now that they figured out how to use Zoom, [b]they're settled in and don't want to go back[/b].[/quote]

If I were a teacher I would be embarrassed to admit to this, even anonymously online. My son is in elementary school. His work is so minimal. His math homework is usually one question. ONE QUESTION to turn in. He has learned zero in the last 2 months from his distance learning. Im doing my best to teach him what I can.

I have already started using outside programs which are set up in a better format for learning than our schools.

This has been a complete waste of 2 months and the fact that you love "teaching"  without such a large percentage of students actually learning is scary. It doesn't matter what MCPS numbers say, even if 70% of students are logging on doesn't mean they're actually learning something.

MCPS distance learning is like taking an open book test-- and we all know how well people learn from those.  :(

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Sorry I call BS on this post.  I'm an elementary school teacher who can be a bit of a smart ass cynic at times but I don't know of a single teacher in my school who doesn't wish we were all back in the building with our kids.  Like it or not, there is an art to teaching that can't really be replicated online.  At first I was bothered when my kids would join our Zoom classes having not watched the videos but two months in and I can barely bring myself to watch them either.  They're boring AF and aren't at all what a real lesson would be like for our students.  I can't even begin to think about what it's going to be like in the fall knowing it would be impossible to have us all back while adhering to the current CDC guidelines.   I will say that the real MVPs are you parents.  You all are rockstars trying to balance working your regular jobs, managing kids at home and still trying to support your kids education.  We really appreciate it and know it's not easy for anyone involved.  [/quote]

You can call BS if you want. Teachers run the gamut. Some are rockstars, some are not.[/quote]

It’s not BS. I posted earlier about a nieghbor who is an MCPS teacher who admitted she likes working from home, especially as it’s the first time she’d been able to do it in her career as a teacher. She likes having no commute and indicated she’s got more time to herself. She’s in no rush to go back to school.

I get it, but at the same time fear this nieghbor exemplifies many who are motivated to fear monger as a way to keep their work from home up.

At the very least, this is not BS. [/quote]

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