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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is the in-person only crowd absolutely refuses to see how virtual can benefit some students. Not all students (aka their students), but guess what? In person doesn’t work for all students either. In-person only crowd only considers their children’s needs, so they bash anyone who thinks differently. It’s juvenile and immature, but they want to continue to be selfish. If they spent a second in classrooms across the US right now, they’d see the complete disaster current classroom conditions are. They’d still refuse to listen to any alternatives though because they are stuck on an ideal from when they were kids. The world is changing….. not all students learn in the same environments…time to grow up. [/quote]

Virtual is simply on balance an inferior form of education even for those kids who can technically get by. Public school districts have zero obligation to offer a learning model that is expensive and has poor results. It only makes sense for kids who actually cannot go to school.[/quote]

Thanks for your opinion.  However, not all kids are happy or want to go to in person.  Sometimes the family over personal situation doesn't allow it.  Some kids do better virtual.  Why do you care if its offered?[/quote]

I think we should [b]all[/b] care if a specific methodology is producing worse outcomes than the traditional model. We live in a society, and in a society we should care whether young people are receiving an appropriate education. The data shows that the most vulnerable learners (EML and/or FARMS) are doing much worse in the VA model, but also that kids who belong to groups that statistically do very well also lag behind their peers.

If we look at the VA model like a pilot, we can see that it is underperforming. Now, MCPS can make some choices here. They can tweak the model in hopes of producing a better VA outcome or they can decide that this particular experiment is not working.

Also, if you are the parent of a typically developing kid who is thriving in VA, and you had your child sit out the standard MAP testing that would have shown whether they are meeting their grade-level targets, you are part of the problem. This was never a permanent institution, and everyone needed to take it seriously and try to demonstrate that it was working. [/quote]

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