Individual School Plans?

[Anonymous]

I saw the mass email from Ferebee that families will start getting contacted this week with seats available for inperson. Then our principal emailed us and said they would be sharing their return plan sometime later next week. Not sure what is going to happen first. This is a mess.

[Anonymous]

We are a Lafayette family and lots of us started getting calls today for in-person seats. Just accepted for our kids. Sorry to hear this isn't happening everywhere.

[Anonymous]

According to the other thread, Lafayette has more kids going back in one grade than the entire Hearst community? Is that true? Complete sham.
The whole Hearst and DCPS lot should be canned for trying to pass this off as a real plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the other thread, Lafayette has more kids going back in one grade than the entire Hearst community? Is that true? Complete sham.
The whole Hearst and DCPS lot should be canned for trying to pass this off as a real plan.

Please show your face on camera and say that tonight in the Town Hall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a Lafayette family and lots of us started getting calls today for in-person seats. Just accepted for our kids. Sorry to hear this isn't happening everywhere.

How big are the class sizes and how many days a week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a Lafayette family and lots of us started getting calls today for in-person seats. Just accepted for our kids. Sorry to hear this isn't happening everywhere.

How big are the class sizes and how many days a week?

https://www.lafayettehsa.org/announcing-our-reopen-models-and-staffing/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a Lafayette family and lots of us started getting calls today for in-person seats. Just accepted for our kids. Sorry to hear this isn't happening everywhere.

How big are the class sizes and how many days a week?

https://www.lafayettehsa.org/announcing-our-reopen-models-and-staffing/

That’s a great plan! Makes sense for a huge school like Lafayette.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a Lafayette family and lots of us started getting calls today for in-person seats. Just accepted for our kids. Sorry to hear this isn't happening everywhere.

How big are the class sizes and how many days a week?

https://www.lafayettehsa.org/announcing-our-reopen-models-and-staffing/

That’s a great plan! Makes sense for a huge school like Lafayette.

+1

That plan isn’t all too dissimilar from Hearst- the main difference is Lafayette has enough classes and teachers per grade to do that at every grade. Hearst has a smaller staff so is doing that will ELL and SPED rooms instead. It’s 1/2 the day getting live instruction and 1/2 the day in virtual lessons with your teacher. The kids at home are doing 1/2 asynch and 1/2 in virtual live lessons. The plan is very similar. The differences are driven by the amount of staff available.

Lafayette has about 105 staff members and 5-7 classes per grade.
Hearst has about 60 staff members and 2-3 classes per grade.

You’re comparing apples and oranges here.

A lot on this thread focusing on the 50/50 data point of parents wanting virtual or in person instruction. I’d like to see the data point of how many wanted to stay with their teacher. To make Lafayette’s exact plan happen at Hearst, taking into account available and unavailable staff, teachers would be shuffled across grades and classes. 4-5 would have to stop departmentalization. The majority of Hearst students would have a new teacher and be in a much larger virtual class receiving less individual attention and support and potentially instruction from someone who has never taught that subject or grade before.




To any Hearst teachers who are reading this thread: my family appreciates you and supports you. I know how many additional hours you’ve put in this year. Thank you for doing your best to teach my child. I am sorry for this lack of support and lack of appreciation. I hope and believe that the comments in this thread do not represent all of us parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the other thread, Lafayette has more kids going back in one grade than the entire Hearst community? Is that true? Complete sham.
The whole Hearst and DCPS lot should be canned for trying to pass this off as a real plan.

Please show your face on camera and say that tonight in the Town Hall.

THIS- can’t wait to see you reveal your identity tonight!

Lafayette has 887 students. Hearst has 331. So that comparison is a bit ridiculous when they have more than double our students- they have 566 more students to be exact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the Hearst re-opening plan for real? I just looked at several other elementary school's plans on their websites (including my own kid's school) and they are bringing back a lot more students. Some elementary schools even have at least one in person class per grade. And Hearst's principal could only bring back 10 kids in K for in person learning, according to what was shared above? She completely prioritizes teachers over students and families. Virtual learning does not work for most elementary students, and she is bringing back 10 out of 330+ kids because one Hearst teacher agreed to go back. ONLY ONE! What happened to the Teacher's Union recalling teachers when more students wanted to go back?

Yes, it is for real according to the principal's newsletter that went out today. How is 1 teacher coming back acceptable?

Did you miss the part about the room with the Special Ed teacher ("Care +") and the other room with the ELL teacher (another Care +")? Those students will have presumably to their SPED and ELL pull outs with live instruction from teachers. But you know, let's just be outraged without stating the full picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the Hearst re-opening plan for real? I just looked at several other elementary school's plans on their websites (including my own kid's school) and they are bringing back a lot more students. Some elementary schools even have at least one in person class per grade. And Hearst's principal could only bring back 10 kids in K for in person learning, according to what was shared above? She completely prioritizes teachers over students and families. Virtual learning does not work for most elementary students, and she is bringing back 10 out of 330+ kids because one Hearst teacher agreed to go back. ONLY ONE! What happened to the Teacher's Union recalling teachers when more students wanted to go back?

Yes, it is for real according to the principal's newsletter that went out today. How is 1 teacher coming back acceptable?

Did you miss the part about the room with the Special Ed teacher ("Care +") and the other room with the ELL teacher (another Care +")? Those students will have presumably to their SPED and ELL pull outs with live instruction from teachers. But you know, let's just be outraged without stating the full picture.

Their kid doesn’t get that. So they don’t care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

To any Hearst teachers who are reading this thread: my family appreciates you and supports you. I know how many additional hours you’ve put in this year. Thank you for doing your best to teach my child. I am sorry for this lack of support and lack of appreciation. I hope and believe that the comments in this thread do not represent all of us parents.

Thank you for saying this. I am not a teacher at Hearst but I work at a nearby DCPS. The entitlement of the community is astounding. It's amazing that Lafayette, for example, is able to get so many kids back. But not all schools are able to do this, and I can imagine at smaller schools it's even harder. Thank you to the teachers and admin who have tried so hard to make this work.

[Anonymous]

Can you Hearst people start your own thread? This is a discussion about what all schools are doing, not just yours.

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcT6mThvl2k

Dcps reopen video. Your Hearst principal makes a large cameo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This principal just 100% prioritized teachers over parents. If s/he has capital to burn with parents (long track record of happy parents at the school), it’s the easier approach since s/he has to see the teachers every day. If s/he doesn’t have that capital, this will get her/him run out of the school. Frankly, parents at my school would revolt.

THIS

The principal is protecting the people that really matter: the teachers. Good on them. The teachers make the school. The last time I checked, my kid has 20 classmates, but only one teacher. The teacher makes the class and does the teaching. If the teacher gets COVID-19, sick, and heaven forbid dies, then that will be a tragedy that could have been prevented. Be glad you have at least a virtual teacher. Under the DCPS plan, eventually a teacher will get infected. I hope not, but with this DCPS plan, it will be inevitable.