![]() ![]() Not exactly a confidence-builder as we head into the 2020-21 school year. Yet, what has happened is: Deja Vu All Over Again. To date, I’ve not seen the report, and to my knowledge it hasn’t been released. Northam’s, VDOE’s, and FCPS’ Staff on “Distance Learning”“) Reminds me a bit of that old children’s rhyme There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.Īnd then FCPS launched again-and Hannah wrote another article for the Post, parents emitted a collective groan across the county, and kids cheered as they would for a snow day.įCPS advised that it was bringing in a law firm that specializes in tech (and failed to mention this firm is also on the job for other high-profile FCPS-related lawsuits) and that a report on what went wrong would be forthcoming. This debacle caught the eye of a Governor Cuomo staffer, who contacted a Governor Northam staffer, who contacted a Virginia Department of Education staffer, who contacted Fairfax County Superintendent Scott Brabrand with an offer of help with messaging. The division is working with Blackboard to add “enhanced security features.” Caldwell said the cancellation of school will also give teachers more time to “make security modifications” to their individual Blackboard accounts. Late Wednesday, superintendent Scott Brabrand emailed Fairfax families to announce he was pausing online school until Monday to allow officials time to address “a software issue” that was causing connectivity problems, as well as train teachers on software upgrades.īrabrand said staffers worked for weeks to debut the Blackboard learning program, and that there had been no indication the system would be “unable to handle the volume of participating users or … susceptible to the security issues that many of our schools encountered.”īut “as you know,” he wrote, “the start of distance learning has not gone as smoothly as hoped.” In an April 15, 2020, article, Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson wrote: Not only was their online launch a disaster, their online re-launch was a disaster.Īnd now, just a week before FCPS launches for the 2020-21 school year. This Spring, FCPS’ tech failures made national news. 2, 2020, that FCPS is again running into tech issues. Īt least one principal in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), VA sent notice Sept. ![]() Just when you thought it was safe to start school again. ![]() ~Yogi Berra, New York Yankees Hall of Famer ![]()
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