Excerpts below from Bethesda Magazine article ‘42% of MCPS parents say they would send children to in-person classes‘ (July 14, 2020).

Results of surveys about the Montgomery County school district’s approach to fall classes show a divide between parents’ and teachers’ preferences as the COVID-19 pandemic

The results, shared during [an MCPS] school board meeting on Tuesday, [July 16, 2020] showed that 42% of [the 55,839] parents who responded [to the survey] plan to have their children participate in face-to-face learning. Another 22% said they plan to have their children in virtual-only lessons and 35% were undecided.

However, only 25% of educators said they’d like to return to school buildings when the 2020-21 academic year begins.

About 22% of the 16,965 teachers who responded said they “were not yet sure about in-person work or working virtually,” while 52% said they would like to have the opportunity to work remotely.

The surveys were administered in June [2020], before MCPS released its draft plan for the fall semester.

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