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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do they have to say re schools being closed for a week?[/quote]

What are you expecting them to say? There was a significant weather event, case closed![/quote]

You forgot the part about being horribly managed by MCPS leadership. I think that's worth the BoE addressing.[/quote]
I've got a few questions for the BoE:
1) Why did MCPS build in only 1 snow day into the calendar when we had 4 snow days last year, that resulted in loss of instructional time as they were made up as half-days in June?
2) Why isn't there more automatic action in the school calendar, to instruct MCPS to use the next available makeup days built into the calendar earlier in the school year when kids can benefit from instructional time, rather than allowing so much discretion to add them as half-days in June?
3) Why didn't MCPS submitted the Virtual Learning Plan for Snow Emergencies that it proposed to the Board that it would do in 2024?  Why didn't BOE follow up on the lack of submission to MSDE, given that other school districts in Maryland like Baltimore and Anne Arundel have had plans approved and submitted that allowed them to deploy virtual learning last week when MCPS was closed? 
4) Given that there was over a week's warning for this storm, why didn't MCPS central office instruct schools to ensure students took home their Chromebooks?
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There are lots of good reasons for (3) and (4). (1) and (2) are obvious cases of incompetence, though.[/quote]

I pay reasonably close attention to these things and have no idea what the good reasons would be for failing to submit a Virtual Learning Plan. Can you enlighten us? [/quote]

DP. The tried a virtual learning plan a couple years ago, which led to that Asynchronous Learning Day, and that was unsuccessful, so they decided to drop it the following year, in favor of extending the school year if necessary instead.[/quote]

If kids don't log in, they get marked absent and cannot make up the work, simple.[/quote]

Not really simple. Many of these kids have child care responsibilities. If school is closed they are responsible for their siblings. School actually IS child care so when it is closed everyone else has to adjust and many people can't do other things, like participate in a virtual class.[/quote]

Theoretically, the younger siblings are ALSO supposed to learning, though. I had a first grader during covid, and they did not require full-time care while engaged online.

Without bus routes, they could also align the school days so all of the kids in the house are working at the same time. [/quote]

My current first grader would absolutely need supervision during virtual learning. Also remember that MCPS closures also impact their pre-k programs and many if not most daycares close when MCPS offices are closed (Monday to Friday of last week)[/quote]

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