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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The pro-virtual learning people just need to admit that they have anxiety about not seeing their kids doing SOMETHING that looks academic.

They don't care if the worksheets are busy work that doesn't lead to genuine learning.

They don't care if the kids' eyes glaze over from staring at the screen on Zoom for hours at a time.

Forcing their kids to perform school-like activities is more important than impact and outcome.

I disagree, obviously, but those parents should be honest that their panic is more about assuaging their own anxieties and not their kids' development and well-being.[/quote]

It’s unfortunate you don’t prioritize academics.  This is why kids are failing and struggling. [/quote]

I prioritize GENUINE and EFFECTIVE instruction and learning. Which data thus far says happens best with in-person, face-to-face instruction.

Synthetic, virtual “learning” is not real education. It’s a crude imitation that yields weak academic results at best, and many emotional and developmental harms at worst.[/quote]

Snow day virtual learning doesn't need to be comparitive to a real full day of instruction. It need to be compared to the alternative of a day tacked on to the end of the school year, which is notoriously just a daycare day. Both are subpar to a true instructional day, but those are the options for make up currently. So those are the options to compare and decide between.

There is another option though which I think is superior. Begin the school year earlier in August (no sense in adding those days on at the end of the year since time prior to state testing and AP testing is more useful). Then we can keep our breaks and have built in snow days, plus the students will have less of a gap in learning. 7 weeks of summer vacation is enough. [/quote]

I don’t think you’re gonna have a lot of company in supporting a 7 week summer. In Georgia and other places that start in early August, students finish before Memorial Day.[/quote]

Students in McPS currently have a 9 week summer vacation.  In nearby Virginia, FCPS starts a week earlier in August, has more snow days built into the calendar, celebrates similar holidays as MCPS and its community didn’t die of horror over having 8 weeks of summer vacation.

Or you just accept that your child is unlikely to get 180 full days of school per year as required because even next year, MCPS only put 1 snow day into the calendar. [/quote]

Parents in FCPS hate that calendar. It's full of 1-2 off days that are disruptive. Like MCPS but worse. I posted this elsewhere, but Baltimore City, subject to the same mandates as us, goes from 8/25 - 6/13 this year.[/quote]

I am a FCPS parent and I like the calendar, my kids get a proper 2 week winter break, plenty of days off during school year to recharge and don’t have to worry about snow days.8 weeks of summer is plenty for us, I hope they continue the same way.[/quote]

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