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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Virtual learning requires preparation. While our school did an excellent job of providing online instruction during COVID (I had several kids participating in online learning), that was the result of months of planning and communicating to parents. Telling parents on a Wednesday that their students will learn virtually when the school has no plan is setting everyone up for a very frustrating day. If people want virtual learning to be an option in these cases, they should reach out to the principal and express their desire to develop a plan. 
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This is less hard than you’d think. Our NOVA k-8 Catholic school sent the kids home with all of their materials last week Friday. It was quite clear a major storm was coming, so this ensured the kids had books etc at home with them. Teachers assigned work daily via email or the school’s Schoology platform, class by class. I believe teachers had until 10am each day to assign work for the day. There weren’t any Zoom classes or anything like that, but all of the kids had work across all of their classes, including across specials like STEM, Music, Art, and Foreign Languages. In most classes it was worksheet type work, reading comprehension work, or writing prompts. My older kids had a few lighter weight projects to do. As another poster said, Middle School kids had to submit completed work the day it was assigned, and my Lower School kids will take their work back to school when they return… hopefully Monday! My kids are 7th grade, 5th grade, and 2nd grade and they all had enough to keep them going.

I don’t have the impression that our school had much of a ‘plan’ in place, other than to set the expectation with parents and teachers that this was the kind of work they would be doing to get us ‘back to school’ after one snow day. The kids still had plenty of time in the snow this week, and the bonus is that we didn’t have to wipe out a full week with snow days.

Based on what I’ve read here about St. Mary’s, I think you all need to encourage the school to realize they can do much more with even baseline level planning (sending materials home with students). It isn’t much harder than that.[/quote]

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