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DCPS just needs to cancel the professional development day for teachers
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Anonymous
i don't have a dog in this race, for the record and i walked around adams morgan quite a bit today and i would describe it as barely passable, esp the intersections, which were a collossal mess that my 4yo couldn't navigate. |
Anonymous
Then we were walking in exactly the same place with our children and took away entirely contradictory impressions. There's very little out there that pedestrians absolutely can't navigate. It was a messy walk, but there was no point at which we were stuck or slipping or buried alive. |
Anonymous
| Though really, do these teacher training really help the teachers more than they inconvenience the parents??? |
Anonymous
| Our street is two blocks from Wisconsin /Tenleytown and has not been plowed in any of these snowstorms. It is walkable due to the shoveling efforts of all, but not easily drivable-- many DCPS teachers come from MD. Are all their side streets plowed? |
Anonymous
| The Federal government has a two hour delay tomorrow - rather than canceling the day (or preferably making it a school day with a 2 hour delay) they could give the teachers a two hour delay for their professional development day |
Anonymous
| it's not the sidewalks that are the problem, it's the corners where they've piled up 5 foot drifts of snow. |
Anonymous
That is going to take weeks to melt - should the kids stay out of school until then? |
Anonymous
indeed i was buried alive and am writing this post from my cell phone. send help! |
Anonymous
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Kind of OT, but storm aside, why have PD on a Friday before a holiday? Just curious how scheduling works. Seems like too much time out of school is one of Rhee's issues. So why force a 4 day weekend? If PD is worthwhile, shouldn't it be done on a Monday for teachers to practice what they learn that week?
What do parents prefer? |
Anonymous
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Kind of OT, but storm aside, why have PD on a Friday before a holiday? Just curious how scheduling works. Seems like too much time out of school is one of Rhee's issues. So why force a 4 day weekend? If PD is worthwhile, shouldn't it be done on a Monday for teachers to practice what they learn that week?
What do parents prefer? |
Anonymous
Yes, I like this idea! 
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Anonymous
perhaps overthinking here? I'd mental effort directed to getting PD that is actually worth the day--apart from whether it is a Monday or Friday... |
Anonymous
I'm pretty sure the PD days are scheduled before holidays for the convenience of the parents. That way if you want to take a little vacation to see grandma, you can leave on Friday and have a four day weekend. I have no kids in DCPS yet, but our daycare generally does the same thing, teacher training days are scheduled for the day before three day weekend b/c those are the days when the fewest number of kids are in school anyway. Our PD days are selected by the board -- who are all parents -- so I'm pretty sure the days are selected or parents convenience. I'd venture the same is true of the DSPC PD days. (Now, do teachers take advantage and call in sick on those days to get a three day weekend? I don't know.) |
Anonymous
| For the record, it took 1hr to get to my school yesterday (typically 15min), less than 1/3 of the staff were able to make it in, and "PD" was working in our classrooms. Always appreciate time for that, but was pretty much a wasted trip in, IMO. |
Anonymous
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DCPS teachers
Was the PD day productive? |