It’s back to class virtually Monday for hundreds of thousands of students in some of the D.C. region’s largest school systems.
Typically on the first day of school, students would be putting on their new school clothes and would be heading to school bus stops.
But in a historic change, you won’t see buses on the roads like you would as in years past. With the arrival of coronavirus six months ago, school life moved to distance learning platforms.
This is the first school year to start completely online.
Students in Maryland’s Montgomery, Prince George’s, Frederick, Charles and St. Mary’s counties will log on to their computers, as will students in D.C.
In Virginia, Manassas City Public Schools and Stafford County Public Schools return.
Many school systems issued laptops to all students to ensure they have the equipment they need. Students will be online for about 5 1/2 hours of instruction.
“We are beginning our first day of school today welcoming 163,000 students back. And we will, in fact begin in a virtual environment, which is what we planned and what we prepared our students to do for opening school of this year,” Montgomery County Deputy Superintendent of Schools Monifa B. McKnight told WTOP Monday morning.
McKnight told WTOP that MCPS learned a lot after it quickly moved classes online last spring during the pandemic, and those lessons will be applied to this school year.
Teachers have undergone more professional training to teach online.
“We’re providing the virtual experience and parents should expect to see all of our subjects, math literacy, special education needs, all services, social studies, science, art, music, P.E. — you name it, every extracurricular activity, everything that we’ve been able to offer the traditional school year. We are doing that this fall, and we’re excited about it. And we’ve invested a lot of time and commitment into providing professional learning for our teachers to prepare them for this,” she said.
In Prince George’s County, the school system has come up with a list of etiquette tips for parents during distance learning, reminding parents that online classroom time not time for parents to ask teachers questions or to interrupt teachers. The school system also launched other resources to help parents, including a hotline to help troubleshoot problems.
A number of other school systems in Maryland and Virginia head back to virtual classes after Labor Day.
For kids the transition to a new school year online may be frustrating or upsetting. Counselors, like Erin VanLuven, a licensed clinical social worker with Kaiser Permanente in Maryland, suggests staying calm and establishing a regular routine.
That regular routine could include breaking bad habits at the start of the year and planning a menu.
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