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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Oh come on, you can't point to the asynchronous day two years ago as evidence virtual learning doesn't work.  It was pretty clear it was supposed to work the same as the half-days in June, going through the motions of trying to count it as a day when it wasn't really going to be one.  In our ES they just printed out a few worksheets and called it a day.  Not at all comparable to teachers actually teaching regular lessons live over a computer.[/quote]

Agree. And virtual learning did not fail all or most students in the summer. It failed the ones who had already failed courses and couldn’t be bothered to log on to do their credit recovery to get to graduation. Are we supposed to eliminate an entire option because our least engaged students, who are often chronic absentees for a variety of reasons, might not log on during a snow day? [/quote]
Your privilege is showing. Your vacation is not more important than kids' education.[/quote]

So you want us to go until the end of June because you think the kids who won’t log on to virtual will definitely show up in late June for meaningful education? My kids learned plenty during virtual. They did not learn anything during those silly June days tacked on last year, where grades were already turned in and teachers literally told kids not to come. I totally value education and I don’t have a vacation planned. I’m literally coming at this thinking more can be taught now than later. [/quote]

You keep comparing some idealized notion of virtual learning against the worst possible implementation of make-up days.  Add full days, and use the ones earlier in the calendar.[/quote]

Yes you can live in la la land, but MCPS prefers to add half days in end June when all chance for meaningful instruction has gone.  Look what they did last year.  [/quote]

And look at how they've done virtual. No meaningful instruction there.

If we need to push for higher expectations somewhere, I think higher expectations for in-person make-up days are much more likely to yield a productive outcome. Full days on March 20, April 15, and June 18 is the natural way to do that.[/quote]

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