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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shut up.  I have a lot of problems with MCPS and whiny teachers, but seriously:  They are learning brand new skills.  They are trying to figure out a new way to educate our kids.  They may be trying to do their work with their own children underfoot.  The world has changed in completely unexpected ways in the last 2.5 weeks.  Give everyone including teachers a break.  Your kids, and mine, and everyone else's, will catch up later.  [/quote]
DP... I work in high tech and have been wfh for a while. I was just thinking today that I'm used to working remotely, dealing with zoom, google chat, email... etc.. it's not hard. BUT, I realized that most people, especially teachers, probably aren't used to doing that much online, and so their learning curve is a lot higher.

Have patience, people. I  know everyone is frazzled and frustrated. Believe me.. I've lost my cool with my kids several times, and I'm not super happy with the lack of learning, either.[/quote]

not being disrespcteful

But teaching 130+ kids online isn't the same as managing a conference call and multitasking by answering emails.

I've been on both sides, and teaching is a hell of a lot harder.  I know three LMS for that matter.[/quote]
I didn't compare teaching kids to conference calls.  I agree teaching is harder. I admire those teachers who are in it for the love of teaching kids. My kids have had some really great teachers.

But the point was not about whether teaching was harder, but that teachers are not that tech savvy.  If I were to be really nasty, I would say that it's not hard to do a web conference where you talk through  your lesson while presenting whatever you were going to present online.  You then use chat features for questions, and/or you create a shared trix doc to put the questions/comments for you to review.

We've had large scale web conferences (think 100+ people) with Q&A as well as doing training via these web conferences.  Not exactly the same as teaching kids, but the mechanism isn't that dissimilar.

Again, I don't blame teachers.  It's a huge learning curve for most of them.  I told my kids to be patient.[/quote]

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