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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everything the above poster said is true. Especially for HS students, AP's are long done and by adding those days onto June, nothing is accomplished...I hate to say that virutal may be the way to go in the future. I get "let kids have a snow day", but when extended or prolonged, virtual may be the only way to go.[/quote]

My NY friend says that for this snow storm, the first day was a snow day, and then every student was expected to be online the second day (except for really little kids maybe).  They just used the virtual learning set up they have from COVID and kids are expected to have their school laptops at home.

For a school district that is so dependent on Chromebooks, I'm surprised there's been no talk about using them...even if the elementary school younger years don't have them.[/quote]

They broke the Chromebooks and we don’t have the money to replace them.

Parents argued they were so addictive and dangerous that we shouldn’t use them every day.

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Funny.  My kid and all his classmates have their Chromebooks at home.  My kid even broke out IXL today without any in asking him to do so, and worked on math. This is a lot of wasted time that McPS should have planned to use more intelligently like other school districts did.  It’s not like this snowstorm was unexpected.  [/quote]

Mcps gave elementary schools the option of either doing the cart model which means the Chromebook stay at school or the one-to-one model which means the Chromebooks for the kids. Some teachers who are in one-to-one schools just have the kids keep the Chromebooks at school anyway. Most of the teachers at my school hate the one-to-one model because it just creates a lot more work trying to track down missing Chromebooks. We don't really have a lot of evidence that students are using any of the educational websites at home. I suppose the benefit is that the kids are not really goofing around on Chromebooks at school as much.

In any case , for schools that keep all their products in the cart those schools would have to do a big just Chromebook distribution prior to the storm in order to do virtual learning.

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