Kids need to be proactive. If they are stuck in quarantine, they should email their teachers and ask for what they missed. Most of the work is available on canvas anyway. There are plenty of online resources available to learn content. Google is your friend. It is unrealistic to expect individual teachers to have to also tutor individual kids who are not even in school.

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Anonymous wrote:In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

That is a damn good question. My magnet kid has been quarantined twice. (both times negative but both times missed school.) They are vaccinated. They also have asthma. While it's safe for them to be at school that only applies when other people are behaving safely. Im appalled at the toothlessness of quarantine policies. In appalled at the human behavior. I'm appalled that our only recourse is to let them go virtual into classes that won't meet their needs

Virtual is fine. You can always homeschool.

Magnet students get admitted to a magnet program because of the specific accelerated and enriched magnet curriculum. You won't understand what magnet parents are going through right now because they do not have the luxury of having below-average kids like yours for whom MCPS virtual program is just fine.

You’re ridiculous. I feel zero sympathy for people like you.

Listen to yourself- what magnet parents are going through? Didn’t realize the teachers were teaching you.

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Anonymous wrote:In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

That is a damn good question. My magnet kid has been quarantined twice. (both times negative but both times missed school.) They are vaccinated. They also have asthma. While it's safe for them to be at school that only applies when other people are behaving safely. Im appalled at the toothlessness of quarantine policies. In appalled at the human behavior. I'm appalled that our only recourse is to let them go virtual into classes that won't meet their needs

Virtual is fine. You can always homeschool.

Magnet students get admitted to a magnet program because of the specific accelerated and enriched magnet curriculum. You won't understand what magnet parents are going through right now because they do not have the luxury of having below-average kids like yours for whom MCPS virtual program is just fine.

So if teachers quit, who exactly will fill those positions? Hundreds of positions are open and teacher prep programs do not have as many applicants as they had in the past. I’m assuming you won’t be applying?

MCPS policies are made by people behind desks who don’t know what teachers deal with on a day to day basis. That or they have forgotten what it’s like to be in the classroom. The people making these policies are the ones who should be helping to teach the quarantined students.

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Anonymous wrote:In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

Because parents put up a huge fit about hybrid.

No they did not. Parents did not like the option to select MCPS cookie cutter virtual for magnet kids.

Anonymous wrote:Again- keep blaming teachers. It serves your kids so well. Please volunteer to help teach and see a day in the life of a teacher before you make so many judgements. We are skilled in so many areas and could easily take a job elsewhere, in science or tech and make way more money. You all don’t seem to realize we aren’t tethered to the school system and can leave whenever we want. So again, keep complaining and making teachers feel badly. The best will continue to leave instead of being harassed from parents like you.

I have absolutely no problem with teachers quitting. Teachers that aren’t willing to do their jobs have no business being in the classroom. Or Zooming from home.

Most teachers are trying to do their jobs as best they can, but a small portion have made things worse for everyone. Besides the small group that previously fought reopening (some of whom are fighting to close again), there are the teachers that stopped principals from joining the quarantine teaching pool, preferring instead to simply ignore mcps policies for live instruction for quarantines students.

Again- keep blaming teachers. It serves your kids so well. Please volunteer to help teach and see a day in the life of a teacher before you make so many judgements. We are skilled in so many areas and could easily take a job elsewhere, in science or tech and make way more money. You all don’t seem to realize we aren’t tethered to the school system and can leave whenever we want. So again, keep complaining and making teachers feel badly. The best will continue to leave instead of being harassed from parents like you.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Are you asking about kids who are isolating or quarantining?

A kid who is quaranting is doing so because they refused to vaccinate. That's the natural consequence. The school system owes them nothing.

If a student is isolating, then they should get some kind of support, like clarity about assignments. It's no different than kids who were out for medical reasons prior to covid.

MCPS was clear about the in person plan with no support if your child got sick. Natural consequences is choosing in person and getting covid and/or quarantining.

Your student can email their teacher for clarification.

Except for when they wrote down the opposite of that as official policy.

Quarantine

There may be times when students need to quarantine due to possible exposure to COVID-19. In these cases, students will be marked as an excused absence and a code unique to MCPS (QUA) will be assigned. This code allows MCPS to monitor and track students who need to quarantine. While students are in quarantine, they will be provided with learning materials and a Zoom link to attend live instruction with a designated quarantine teacher. This teacher will provide direct instruction and review and will also facilitate small group instruction in reading and mathematics. In addition, students will have access to learning materials in the learning management system myMCPS Classroom (Canvas). Attendance will be monitored during quarantine.

But a lot of schools and teachers are not living up to that policy.

There are not enough staff to teach quarantined students as well as in person. Email the board and demand central office staff to fill positions, sub, and teach quarantined students. During Zoom meetings, these staff are at home and have the same backgrounds as they did last year. I attend weekly PLC’s and all they do is sit there and dictate what we should be doing. They are not in offices, school buildings, and do NOT care about your kids. We must demand more. Many continue to stay home while teachers are going above and beyond to help students stay afloat with limited resources, time, and support.

Many of my coworkers get to work an hour and a half before students arrive and stay an hour after dismissal. They respond to emails at 9 pm. So don’t sit there and say WE are refusing to DO MORE as parents sit there and complain, kids don’t listen, and admin sits in their offices while putting out fires all day long. Come to my classroom for ONE HOUR and tell me I’m not doing enough. It’s parents like you all that make me lose my passion for a profession I have poured my heart into for 12 years. You’ll all be really really sorry as the good ones keep quitting and then all you’re left with are mediocre teachers. So stop complaining on these threads and support teachers instead of tearing them down.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Are you asking about kids who are isolating or quarantining?

A kid who is quaranting is doing so because they refused to vaccinate. That's the natural consequence. The school system owes them nothing.

If a student is isolating, then they should get some kind of support, like clarity about assignments. It's no different than kids who were out for medical reasons prior to covid.

MCPS was clear about the in person plan with no support if your child got sick. Natural consequences is choosing in person and getting covid and/or quarantining.

Your student can email their teacher for clarification.

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Anonymous wrote:In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

That is a damn good question. My magnet kid has been quarantined twice. (both times negative but both times missed school.) They are vaccinated. They also have asthma. While it's safe for them to be at school that only applies when other people are behaving safely. Im appalled at the toothlessness of quarantine policies. In appalled at the human behavior. I'm appalled that our only recourse is to let them go virtual into classes that won't meet their needs

Virtual is fine. You can always homeschool.

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Anonymous wrote:In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

Because parents put up a huge fit about hybrid.

Teachers are the ones that refused to do concurrent. Instead they just wanted to do Zoom rooms.

Why don't you try teaching and let us know how easy it is?

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Our high school is not doing surveillance testing. I couldn’t even get my child tested at school after he had a close contact (several classes of contact) with a friend who had COVID.

You can get your child tested. It is your responsibility not the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Are you asking about kids who are isolating or quarantining?

A kid who is quaranting is doing so because they refused to vaccinate. That's the natural consequence. The school system owes them nothing.

If a student is isolating, then they should get some kind of support, like clarity about assignments. It's no different than kids who were out for medical reasons prior to covid.

Not all students in mcps are eligible for vaccination. And some haven’t had a chance to get second shots yet.