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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't understand how anyone can think that MCPS is doing a good job with distance learning. I understand this was an incredibly abrupt shift, and it was not going to be perfect. But my relatives' kids in NY public schools have been in live classes 4-5 hrs/day since 1 week after they closed the schools.  How is possible that a school system with tens of thousands of homeless kids has been providing more instruction than MCPS?

Whatever the explanation, MCPS has to do better in the fall. It's inconceivable that we're going to be able to return to meaningful in-classroom learning until there's a vaccine, so someone has got to figure out how to provide multiple hours of instruction every day for all kids. MCPS has 23k teachers. There's simply no reason they can't figure out a way to teach our kids in an extended period of distance learning.

My elementary kid gets 30 minutes of teaching per day. Without any structure (and since both parents work) he spends WAY too much time on videogames and Youtube. My HS kid has periodic "check-ins" but no instruction whatsoever. Luckily we already had a few tutors and will be adding to that roster just so he actually learns something. But it infuriates me that I'm [i]paying an MCPS teacher to tutor him in math during school hours[/i]. Shouldn't she be teaching her students during that time? Shouldn't my son's MCPS teacher be actually teaching her students during the school day?

But hey, I live in Bethesda, so my kids are worthless snowflakes and I have no right to expect that they actually learn something, right DCUM?[/quote]

They are getting paid to tutor during MCPS school hours?  Wow.  Just, wow.[/quote]

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