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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 paying an MCPS teacher to tutor him in math during school hours. 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]

I am a teacher and I agree with the fact that we have to do a better job in the fall.  As an elementary teacher, I was surprised by the current schedule.  I am more than willing to teach more live lessons each day.  One way that I have gotten around the limited time issue, is to have more of the optional office hours.  Of course, less students come to office hours, but many do attend because they know that we will do something fun in addition to the class work.  Another issue is that the county is requiring us to have office hours in the afternoon, but we teach the lessons in the morning.  When the students sign off for a couple hours its’ hard to get them back.  I think that a teaching schedule from 9-12, lunch break from 12-1, and optional office hours from 1-3 would work out well...of course allow for flexibility...I know that there may be issues for teachers of little ones, but I know that there are some creative ways to address this too... I don’t see anything wrong with them allowing their kids to be a part of their lessons...another issue is having enough technology in student homes if there are multiple students needing devices...well let’s make sure that each child has a device!  [/quote]

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