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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether isolating or by choice, can a student simply join class by zoom? This would facilitate a measure of safety for all. [/quote]

No. MCEA demanded a prohibition on concurrent teaching in their agreement with MCPS for this school year.  I think this could have been a good way to deal with quarantined/isolated students. It's too bad the teachers blocked it.[/quote]

No, concurrent is horrible for everyone, the teacher, the in-person students, and the virtual ones. It takes a highly trained teacher with the right technology, and MCPS has not trained their teachers and has not offered them the right technology.

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Even training can't make up for the fact that concurrent requires two different skill sets, two different modes of presentation, two different ways of delivering interactive materials, and two different audience contact styles...at the exact same time, while also modulating one's voice and physical presentation to try to work both spaces at once.  Putting a tech aide in the room doesn't fix it.  Making the Zoom kids watch passively while the in-person kids participate doesn't fix it.  And breaking the kids into groups that alternate working with the teacher means that there is no actual concurrent instruction going on anyway.  It is not a reasonable expectation to place on anyone.  All students need and deserve the best teaching they can get.  Concurrent ruins that for everyone involved, including the teacher.[/quote]

The problem is, without concurrent, quarantined kids very often get **no** teaching.  Particularly at the schools that didn't join the pool.[/quote]

Homeschool.  Problem solved. [/quote]

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