Anonymous
Post 01/11/2022 04:31     Subject: How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
People don’t want these jobs. I don’t know what to tell you. You can’t make people apply for a crappy job and teaching is a crappy job. So there’s few teachers and fewer subs. Open school in a pandemic with a virus that evades vaccines means teachers will get sick. It’s going to happen. Your kid has missed like 3 days of math OP. That’s not going to make or break college admissions.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2022 00:44     Subject: Re:How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Anonymous wrote:Hate to break it to you but my kid had a sub for almost an entire semester and there was a lot of lost time and lost instruction. Nobody did anything about it.


+1 My 8th grader hasn’t had a science teacher for 3 months and many, many days there has been no sub. Other teachers have to sit in the classroom during their planning period to cover the class. My dc’s class has to complete the same assignments as the other 8th grade science classes, but without any instruction. I don’t know who is grading the assignments.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2022 00:13     Subject: How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You are exhausting.


Seriously? Do you have a high school junior who is trying to put together as good as a transcript as they can for college applications? Life is still marching on and these things still matter.


Complaining parents need to step up and teach.

+1000

Let's see if that happens
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 22:57     Subject: Re:How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Hate to break it to you but my kid had a sub for almost an entire semester and there was a lot of lost time and lost instruction. Nobody did anything about it.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 22:53     Subject: How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You are exhausting.


Seriously? Do you have a high school junior who is trying to put together as good as a transcript as they can for college applications? Life is still marching on and these things still matter.


Complaining parents need to step up and teach.


+1 everytime we screw up at work we just look at each other and say "complaining customers should step up and do it themselves "

Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 22:51     Subject: How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
If your kid can't get over 3 days of "learning loss " maybe she should go to Montgomery College and develop some grit before moving on to adulthood.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 22:47     Subject: Re:How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
I think they aren't. Pretty sure they will assume that EVERYONE understands we are in the middle of a global pandemic and that the first priority is human lives, not your kid's math progess. Your question tells me how many awful entitled people there are and how we will never climb out of this because of all the hubris and lack of basic understanding.

Here's an idea- do your best at home and model resilience. Develop some empathy and critical reasoning. If you can't, your kids won't make progress at any point in their developmental stages. This year and these sick teachers who also have families are not your problem. You are.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 22:40     Subject: How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
they aren't. You will be on your own. Just like we all have been with the learning loss from virtual for 1.5 years.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 22:27     Subject: Re:How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People are so adamant about schools being open in person, well this means teachers are going to get sick and children might not get the best instruction for a few days. Teachers are sick now and going to continue to get sick.


Ok. So what’s the plan? Will the curriculum be taught? If so, how? And will they have time to take tests and quizzes before the end of the semester? Or is the grade they have now pretty much the grade they’ll have for the quarter?


This is something to ask your school not DCUM
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 22:10     Subject: Re:How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Anonymous wrote:People are so adamant about schools being open in person, well this means teachers are going to get sick and children might not get the best instruction for a few days. Teachers are sick now and going to continue to get sick.


Ok. So what’s the plan? Will the curriculum be taught? If so, how? And will they have time to take tests and quizzes before the end of the semester? Or is the grade they have now pretty much the grade they’ll have for the quarter?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 22:03     Subject: Re:How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
People are so adamant about schools being open in person, well this means teachers are going to get sick and children might not get the best instruction for a few days. Teachers are sick now and going to continue to get sick.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 21:53     Subject: Re:How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Anonymous wrote:MCPS is in the toilet because there’s no leadership and planning at the top. This disaster falls on Dr. McKnight and Central Office.

Who thought it was a good idea to give all school administrators extra paid leave so they could take vacation during the most serious uptick in COVID during the pandemic?

There have been staffing shortages the entire year. What has Dr. McKnight and Central Office done to attract new employees to MCPS?

There was learning loss that MCPS never addressed from online learning. There will be learning loss from not meeting staffing needs at schools. Will MCPS make up for these learning losses? Probably not because educating students is not the priority.


Do you know of another public school system in the DC area that has done a better job of addressing staffing shortages? Genuinely asking here.

Mcps gets a lot of criticism but I just wonder if its really that different from any of the surrounding school systems.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 21:49     Subject: Re:How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
MCPS is in the toilet because there’s no leadership and planning at the top. This disaster falls on Dr. McKnight and Central Office.

Who thought it was a good idea to give all school administrators extra paid leave so they could take vacation during the most serious uptick in COVID during the pandemic?

There have been staffing shortages the entire year. What has Dr. McKnight and Central Office done to attract new employees to MCPS?

There was learning loss that MCPS never addressed from online learning. There will be learning loss from not meeting staffing needs at schools. Will MCPS make up for these learning losses? Probably not because educating students is not the priority.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 21:39     Subject: How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You are exhausting.


Seriously? Do you have a high school junior who is trying to put together as good as a transcript as they can for college applications? Life is still marching on and these things still matter.


Complaining parents need to step up and teach.



But only if they get paid a teacher's salary so they can experience the full effect.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2022 21:38     Subject: How is MCPS going to address the learning loss from teacher absences?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You are exhausting.


Seriously? Do you have a high school junior who is trying to put together as good as a transcript as they can for college applications? Life is still marching on and these things still matter.


Complaining parents need to step up and teach.