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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, I don't think anyone (except) one troll is suggesting teachers not be paid.

What people ARE suggesting is that they work, which would mean making an uncomfortable and possibly clumsy transition to online learning. That is still better than the alternative. [/quote]

We WANT to work, but we need to be trained in how to teach online. It’s not as simple as Zoom on your laptop in your living room. We also need to get computers to teachers who also have children at home but only one device. And figure out how to manage childcare for teachers whose children are too young to not interrupt.[/quote]

This is where MCPS needs to show some leadership. We have a week and a half left in which MCPS could be training teachers and distributing Chromebooks (maybe at the same locations currently hosting free food pickup). [/quote]

Other teachers at other jurisdictions are finding ways to figure it out.  If MCPS could buy the program to do the online review they can buy a program to do it.  There are many or you can just do Skype, FaceTime or the many other there depending on the computers available.   At least make the upcoming curriculum available and allow kids to be able to email teachers for help.  Or, send a list of what is needed to learn, especially for the elementary and middle school kids.  I am concerned about math, the other stuff not so much.[/quote]

Omg

You all have no clue. I don't mean to be rude, but you can't tell kids to email their teachers. At the HS level, teachers would be anchored to their screens all day long as 130+ kids could potentially ask all sorts of questions.

MSDE and the counties should allow every secondary kid to be on Apex Learning for core classes. That would solve many of the problems.

One platform and a few teachers behind the scenes to guide and to grade
 
If you think the other counties have it so good, you have no idea what well-run online programs look like.
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