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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few reasons:

[b]State doesn’t allow virtual days to count as part of the minimum 180 day requirement.[/b]

Only HS students have individual chromebooks. Most MS and ES schools have Chromebooks on carts and cannot be taken home.  The software is not set up for it.

Something, something equity.[/quote]

It does if school districts submit a virtual learning plan in advance, but MCPS opted not to submit one for this year.[/quote]

I can’t understand why they didn’t. It just does not make any sense to me that when a viable back up plan is available why it would not be utilized.

Is this a decision the superintendent, board of Education, or teachers union make?[/quote]

MSDE had a rule that public comments had to be allowed on the plan. Looking at DCUM, why would MCPS want to do that? [/quote]

What a bizarre comment.  In Maryland, Baltimore county and Anne Arundel have virtual learning going on today and tomorrow. They also have more than one snow day built into their calendar unlike McPS .  Somehow their central offices managed to get through the MSDE requirement and put together a functional plan to deal with the snow.

Outside of Maryland but nearby, Alexandria VA and DC Public Schools both had virtual learning going on yesterday (DC is back in person today.).

Why is it that MCPS is the one which has so many excuses for  why it can’t do anything? [/quote]

And there are school districts that aren't. You're making an assumption that virtual is a good idea when our actual experience with it demonstrates otherwise.[/quote]

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