What are your school’s term 3 plans??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m on the reopening corps for my school. The the information sent out from DCPS is ridiculous. Every school can come up with what ever they want. Within the school, each grade can have a different schedule. So DCPS will most likely have 100 schools doing 100 different schedules. There may even be 5 schedules within a school. Schools CAN chose to do hybrid. They can choose to do half days 5 days a week.the only requirement is kids need to be in the school building a total for two days a week. But you can choose to just have your el and kids with ieps in the building or you can choose to try and incorporate all students.

This plan is going to pit school community against school community. You will have one school just opening for high risk and a school 4 blocks away opening for five 1/2 days for everyone. It’s a mess

well, WTU and the principals and some teachers refused the uniform DCPS plans and screamed that they needed to be consulted. So that’s what’s happening now.

Oh I’m sure there will be absolute OUTRAGE on this board when some schools are back and done are not. At my school we are looking at 1/2 day PreK-2. Two day a week hybrid 3-5 chosen by ell/sped status. The rest stay home full dl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m on the reopening corps for my school. The the information sent out from DCPS is ridiculous. Every school can come up with what ever they want. Within the school, each grade can have a different schedule. So DCPS will most likely have 100 schools doing 100 different schedules. There may even be 5 schedules within a school. Schools CAN chose to do hybrid. They can choose to do half days 5 days a week.the only requirement is kids need to be in the school building a total for two days a week. But you can choose to just have your el and kids with ieps in the building or you can choose to try and incorporate all students.

This plan is going to pit school community against school community. You will have one school just opening for high risk and a school 4 blocks away opening for five 1/2 days for everyone. It’s a mess

well, WTU and the principals and some teachers refused the uniform DCPS plans and screamed that they needed to be consulted. So that’s what’s happening now.

Oh I’m sure there will be absolute OUTRAGE on this board when some schools are back and done are not. At my school we are looking at 1/2 day PreK-2. Two day a week hybrid 3-5 chosen by ell/sped status. The rest stay home full dl.

I fully expect the dog-in-the-manger parents to object to anything that at all alters conditions for their kids, using any possible argument, including “equity.”

[Anonymous]

What is a dog in the manger parent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is a dog in the manger parent?

A parent (or teacher) who attacks and and all plans to reopen even though they have no plan to send their kid in person. see also: concern troll.

[Anonymous]

It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

[Anonymous]

I think this is great.
We need to personalize it because this will get things going.

This way it's not some abstract even union that is keeping kids out of school; it's each schools unique group of teachers.
My school's teachers are primarily in their 20s. There is nothing preventing the vast majority of them from coming back (outside of the few that have a hidden medical condition).
They just don't want too. Do you blame them? Who would want to commute in when you can teach in your PJs?
This will put massive pressure on the school to change this.

Signed,
Healthcare worker who has been working alongside 100's of peers, daily since April.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is great.
We need to personalize it because this will get things going.

This way it's not some abstract even union that is keeping kids out of school; it's each schools unique group of teachers.
My school's teachers are primarily in their 20s. There is nothing preventing the vast majority of them from coming back (outside of the few that have a hidden medical condition).
They just don't want too. Do you blame them? Who would want to commute in when you can teach in your PJs?
This will put massive pressure on the school to change this.

Signed,
Healthcare worker who has been working alongside 100's of peers, daily since April.

I don’t think it’s going to cause more schools to open. You are thinking like a monolith. If it is up to the school, I bet most will just open care classrooms. I the worst possible outcome here is to leave it to individual schools. I think it will cause more parents to be pissed.

Signed,

A Dr with a PhD who has been working in person everyday since March. Who also thinks full in person learning is a pipe dream until 2021-2022 school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is great.
We need to personalize it because this will get things going.

This way it's not some abstract even union that is keeping kids out of school; it's each schools unique group of teachers.
My school's teachers are primarily in their 20s. There is nothing preventing the vast majority of them from coming back (outside of the few that have a hidden medical condition).
They just don't want too. Do you blame them? Who would want to commute in when you can teach in your PJs?
This will put massive pressure on the school to change this.

Signed,
Healthcare worker who has been working alongside 100's of peers, daily since April.

I don’t think it’s going to cause more schools to open. You are thinking like a monolith. If it is up to the school, I bet most will just open care classrooms. I the worst possible outcome here is to leave it to individual schools. I think it will cause more parents to be pissed.

Signed,

A Dr with a PhD who has been working in person everyday since March. Who also thinks full in person learning is a pipe dream until 2021-2022 school year.

Person you're responding to. Why are you being an ass and calling me a monolith? You think this is a pipe dream for ANY kids to go back in ANY form?
Why?
Certainly we can't get all kids in full time. But what is preventing some teachers from returning?
Eager to here why you think why this can't work when I have two kids who live in NW DC and have been attending a (non-DCPS) school for the past 2 months.

There is ZERO reason why teachers can't return for small groups of children.
I think putting this on individual schools will massively accelerate this vs. having to move as one large district.

Personally I'll be writing to my principal weekly, asking for an update on why her teachers are unable to teach in person now that I know that it's up to them to stay home.
Please give your thoughts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m on the reopening corps for my school. The the information sent out from DCPS is ridiculous. Every school can come up with what ever they want. Within the school, each grade can have a different schedule. So DCPS will most likely have 100 schools doing 100 different schedules. There may even be 5 schedules within a school. Schools CAN chose to do hybrid. They can choose to do half days 5 days a week.the only requirement is kids need to be in the school building a total for two days a week. But you can choose to just have your el and kids with ieps in the building or you can choose to try and incorporate all students.

This plan is going to pit school community against school community. You will have one school just opening for high risk and a school 4 blocks away opening for five 1/2 days for everyone. It’s a mess

well, WTU and the principals and some teachers refused the uniform DCPS plans and screamed that they needed to be consulted. So that’s what’s happening now.

Oh I’m sure there will be absolute OUTRAGE on this board when some schools are back and done are not. At my school we are looking at 1/2 day PreK-2. Two day a week hybrid 3-5 chosen by ell/sped status. The rest stay home full dl.

Given the radio silence from our school, I am pretty sure I’m about to be pissed. It’s going to be great when all the schools around us with more money open their PK classrooms for half days and we can’t even get a CARES classroom going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m on the reopening corps for my school. The the information sent out from DCPS is ridiculous. Every school can come up with what ever they want. Within the school, each grade can have a different schedule. So DCPS will most likely have 100 schools doing 100 different schedules. There may even be 5 schedules within a school. Schools CAN chose to do hybrid. They can choose to do half days 5 days a week.the only requirement is kids need to be in the school building a total for two days a week. But you can choose to just have your el and kids with ieps in the building or you can choose to try and incorporate all students.

This plan is going to pit school community against school community. You will have one school just opening for high risk and a school 4 blocks away opening for five 1/2 days for everyone. It’s a mess

well, WTU and the principals and some teachers refused the uniform DCPS plans and screamed that they needed to be consulted. So that’s what’s happening now.

Oh I’m sure there will be absolute OUTRAGE on this board when some schools are back and done are not. At my school we are looking at 1/2 day PreK-2. Two day a week hybrid 3-5 chosen by ell/sped status. The rest stay home full dl.

Is this janney?
The principal has been completely inept regarding covid.
Given the radio silence from our school, I am pretty sure I’m about to be pissed. It’s going to be great when all the schools around us with more money open their PK classrooms for half days and we can’t even get a CARES classroom going.

[Anonymous]

didn't ferabee randomly fire the principal of janney?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m on the reopening corps for my school. The the information sent out from DCPS is ridiculous. Every school can come up with what ever they want. Within the school, each grade can have a different schedule. So DCPS will most likely have 100 schools doing 100 different schedules. There may even be 5 schedules within a school. Schools CAN chose to do hybrid. They can choose to do half days 5 days a week.the only requirement is kids need to be in the school building a total for two days a week. But you can choose to just have your el and kids with ieps in the building or you can choose to try and incorporate all students.

This plan is going to pit school community against school community. You will have one school just opening for high risk and a school 4 blocks away opening for five 1/2 days for everyone. It’s a mess

well, WTU and the principals and some teachers refused the uniform DCPS plans and screamed that they needed to be consulted. So that’s what’s happening now.

Oh I’m sure there will be absolute OUTRAGE on this board when some schools are back and done are not. At my school we are looking at 1/2 day PreK-2. Two day a week hybrid 3-5 chosen by ell/sped status. The rest stay home full dl.

Is this janney?
The principal has been completely inept regarding covid.
Given the radio silence from our school, I am pretty sure I’m about to be pissed. It’s going to be great when all the schools around us with more money open their PK classrooms for half days and we can’t even get a CARES classroom going.

It can’t be Janney. They have tons of money. I bet this is Hearst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Key Elementary has been great about keeping parents posted, so each grade had information session on Term 3 possibilities. The school does not have any definite answers on how many in-person and cares classrooms will be available unfortunately, but my understanding was the plan is to have at least one of each for each grade (so pretty much what the plane was for Term 2).

My understanding is, hybrid as in each student gets 2 days in person in school is still off the table, and on the one hand I get that they need to provide full time in class for whoever is in need the most, but I don’t see how they will transition to having more kids in school in this case

Are you kidding? It was a lobbying gimmick by some of the teachers (and Landeryou who wants to do nothing like always) to convince parents that any coming back in would be horrible. Parents weren’t allowed to talk. And then they sent out a skewed closed answer survey implying that if kids go back they’d be assigned random teachers from around the city - trying to scare parents into saying they did not want their kids to go back in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.