One day of asynchronous learning (or even, God Forbid, no school at all) is not going to have any measurable impact. And if it does, your kid is in way more trouble than one day of in-person learning can fix.

And I say this as a parent of a magnet hs kid. If your kid can't cope without a babysitter and someone explaining every little thing for *one day* you need to rethink their future.

Elem kids should just be told to read and then play outside.

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo Show has the MCEA email

https://mocoshow.com/2024/02/16/mcea-communicates-to-teachers-that-monday-april-22-will-be-the-make-up-day-asynchronous-learning-for-students/

There's no Feb 7th meeting on the board's calendar, so how were they able to discuss and approve the makeup day?

MCEA made the decision, not the school board. Illegal, yes, but no one is going to stop them.

Clearly illegal.

If this is true, it seems more a violation of the board's requirement to have open meetings.

No, because the union was involved. The teachers could have provided input on a personal basis, but the moment MCEA became involved this became an illegal negotiation.

Depends on what the difference is between negotiation and advocacy

Don't be obtuse. MCPS leadership met privately with MCEA on at least two occasions to discuss the selection of the make-up day. That was obviously a negotiation with the union, which is clearly illegal under state law.

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo Show has the MCEA email

https://mocoshow.com/2024/02/16/mcea-communicates-to-teachers-that-monday-april-22-will-be-the-make-up-day-asynchronous-learning-for-students/

There's no Feb 7th meeting on the board's calendar, so how were they able to discuss and approve the makeup day?

MCEA made the decision, not the school board. Illegal, yes, but no one is going to stop them.

Clearly illegal.

If this is true, it seems more a violation of the board's requirement to have open meetings.

No, because the union was involved. The teachers could have provided input on a personal basis, but the moment MCEA became involved this became an illegal negotiation.

Depends on what the difference is between negotiation and advocacy

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo Show has the MCEA email

https://mocoshow.com/2024/02/16/mcea-communicates-to-teachers-that-monday-april-22-will-be-the-make-up-day-asynchronous-learning-for-students/

There's no Feb 7th meeting on the board's calendar, so how were they able to discuss and approve the makeup day?

MCEA made the decision, not the school board. Illegal, yes, but no one is going to stop them.

Clearly illegal.

If this is true, it seems more a violation of the board's requirement to have open meetings.

No, because the union was involved. The teachers could have provided input on a personal basis, but the moment MCEA became involved this became an illegal negotiation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo Show has the MCEA email

https://mocoshow.com/2024/02/16/mcea-communicates-to-teachers-that-monday-april-22-will-be-the-make-up-day-asynchronous-learning-for-students/

There's no Feb 7th meeting on the board's calendar, so how were they able to discuss and approve the makeup day?

MCEA made the decision, not the school board. Illegal, yes, but no one is going to stop them.

Clearly illegal.

If this is true, it seems more a violation of the board's requirement to have open meetings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo Show has the MCEA email

https://mocoshow.com/2024/02/16/mcea-communicates-to-teachers-that-monday-april-22-will-be-the-make-up-day-asynchronous-learning-for-students/

There's no Feb 7th meeting on the board's calendar, so how were they able to discuss and approve the makeup day?

MCEA made the decision, not the school board. Illegal, yes, but no one is going to stop them.

Clearly illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo Show has the MCEA email

https://mocoshow.com/2024/02/16/mcea-communicates-to-teachers-that-monday-april-22-will-be-the-make-up-day-asynchronous-learning-for-students/

There's no Feb 7th meeting on the board's calendar, so how were they able to discuss and approve the makeup day?

MCEA made the decision, not the school board. Illegal, yes, but no one is going to stop them.

Anonymous wrote:MoCo Show has the MCEA email

https://mocoshow.com/2024/02/16/mcea-communicates-to-teachers-that-monday-april-22-will-be-the-make-up-day-asynchronous-learning-for-students/

There's no Feb 7th meeting on the board's calendar, so how were they able to discuss and approve the makeup day?

MCEA made the decision, not the school board. Illegal, yes, but no one is going to stop them.

MoCo Show has the MCEA email

https://mocoshow.com/2024/02/16/mcea-communicates-to-teachers-that-monday-april-22-will-be-the-make-up-day-asynchronous-learning-for-students/

There's no Feb 7th meeting on the board's calendar, so how were they able to discuss and approve the makeup day?

Anonymous wrote:This decision totally tracks with the increase in anti-semitism in the district. Well done MCPS.

How? Teachers were already supposed to be working. Check the calendar. It was already earmarked as a possible make up day.

Anonymous wrote:This decision totally tracks with the increase in anti-semitism in the district. Well done MCPS.

How? Instead of making staff go in person for a mandatory all day PD day, they now made it an online PD day that will probably take a few hours.

Seems like they gave a benefit, even though non instructional days are not supposed to be solely for religious holidays.

This decision totally tracks with the increase in anti-semitism in the district. Well done MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:But what's the negotiation that supposedly took place? April 22nd was already on the calendar as "Professional Development/Possible Make up Day," and that hasn't changed.

You think MCEA just made this up? Or do you think MCPS started, and effectively finished, negotiations with them?

What was negotiated? And how do you know?

Again, are you under the impression the MCEA made this up? Otherwise that's pretty clear evidence this was negotiated with them before it was decided and announced.

Sure, if you say so.

I'm really at a loss here. What are you suggesting? MCEA made this up?

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Anonymous wrote:But what's the negotiation that supposedly took place? April 22nd was already on the calendar as "Professional Development/Possible Make up Day," and that hasn't changed.

You think MCEA just made this up? Or do you think MCPS started, and effectively finished, negotiations with them?

What was negotiated? And how do you know?

Again, are you under the impression the MCEA made this up? Otherwise that's pretty clear evidence this was negotiated with them before it was decided and announced.

Sure, if you say so.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But what's the negotiation that supposedly took place? April 22nd was already on the calendar as "Professional Development/Possible Make up Day," and that hasn't changed.

You think MCEA just made this up? Or do you think MCPS started, and effectively finished, negotiations with them?

What was negotiated? And how do you know?

Again, are you under the impression the MCEA made this up? Otherwise that's pretty clear evidence this was negotiated with them before it was decided and announced.