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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone with high schoolers can scream all you want, but virtual doesn't work for younger elementary kids. They don't have chromebooks. They don't have textbooks. Lessons aren't available to parents.[/quote]

You’re adorable. My high schooler was actually a 3rd grader when the pandemic started and we used our own devices in the beginning. They didn’t issue Chromebooks and teachers didn’t know how to set up documents so we were printing out worksheets emailed by the central office, scanning them in and uploading them. Now teachers at least know how to set this stuff up and your kids definitely know how to use zoom. [/quote]

My kids have never used zoom. And my son certainly isn't going to sit at a laptop without a paraeducator.

They don't have textbooks. We don't even get lessons for how to do the homework they send home now, nor do the teachers respond to questions about how to it (other than saying to just skip it). Virtual would be a disaster if they tried to cover anything new.[/quote]

None of our kids had used zoom before the pandemic.  They learned because they had to, and no, no one sent a paraeducator to our houses to teach them.

Every single kid in MCPS did virtual learning for a year. It’s not a big flex to do it for a few snow days as an imperfect alternative to having no educational opportunities at all. [/quote]

The alternative isn't "no educational opportunities"! It's using the make-up days in the calendar.[/quote]

There’s only 1 snow day in the MCPS calendar.  What would those makeup days be?

Would they be in end June and would MCPS send out that same email that says “we know families already made plans during these days and no instruction will be going on during these days.”

My kids attended all 3 June makeup days last week and they watched videos and did teacher assigned puzzle worksheets.  [/quote]

There are a set of additional make-up days already identified in the calendar. Take a look.

While there are much better options in the calendar, the  bad make up days in June aren't great, but they wouldn't actively do harm like virtual would do now. And there's no reason we should accept the awful implementation of make-up days that was done last year. Full school days, using the make-up days in order in the calendar.[/quote]

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