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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My own two cents...I hope FCPS is already thinking about this. And I mean thoughtfully and seriously. I think the main reason we have concurrent now is because FCPS failed in planning this year promising too many things locking themselves into concurrent 2 days a week being the only way to try to deliver.

They cannot seem to both offer 5 days a week in person (or even 4 for that matter) of in-person schooling safe enough for the people that really want it to have it and also offer full time virtual at each grade level and school across the district to everyone who wants that. Something has to give. For this school year, in-person had to give and that makes sense given the state of the pandemic. Next school year it will be the all virtual people who have to give and that makes sense given the state of the pandemic. Whether that means VV or some centralized FCPS-specific (but not individual school specific) solution is what they should be considering now. I know the all virtual people won’t be thrilled. But the in-person people have also not been thrilled, and neither is best served by concurrent.[/quote]

Teacher here. I think at the Elementary level it will be easy to offer a centralized DL program. You just need to find out how many kids in each grade and AAP. I am sure they would have 1-2 classes per pyramid. It is middle/high school where it gets complicated due to course offerings. But more courses are offered with Virtual VA for high school. You are correct. They need to start planning now. [/quote]

I am the quoted PP and I agree. Thank you teacher for sharing your thoughts.. MS/HS has many more options and moving parts making it even harder to try to offer both virtual and in person families all options the same as they are used to. Maybe that even means the plans for ES are not exactly the same as those for MS/HS which would make sense for many reason (virus-related and distancing-related, not just course-related) but they seem all along reluctant to consider it differently. I hope considering them differently is at least on the table though.[/quote]

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