Will DCPS require desks 3 feet or 6 feet apart in the Fall?

[Anonymous]

It’ll be 3 ft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS is losing students fast. Watch it continue. Haven’t been to church in 7 years but now we considering catholic school to get OUT!

+1. We moved our kids to catholic school this year to avoid this mess. Keeping them there next, if we stay in DC (may move altogether to be somewhere open with activities etc)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP that is a lot of wishful thinking. 6ft and max 3 days a week in the fall is my bet.

why? DC will likely be 70% vaccinated. That's enough for herd immunity. No more excuses WTU. you are all going back to work.

Yes, but to actually need to do stuff that takes effort to open schools and apparently everyone running and teaching in DCPS have gotten too comfy in their PJs on their couch with four hour works days to be bothered with such things

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP that is a lot of wishful thinking. 6ft and max 3 days a week in the fall is my bet.

Someone needs to lead us out of this mass hysteria now that we have extremely effective vaccines.

+1000. Everyone should be able to get the vaccine by fall. School should be back full time in person.

It’s not gonna be our useless Mayor. She has shown zero leadership. DC is so upside down. How can schools still be closed?! but bars, restaurants and nail salons business as usual? My friends/family in Massachusetts (as liberal/blue as it gets) can’t believe schools are not open.

Massachusetts has a Republican governor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP that is a lot of wishful thinking. 6ft and max 3 days a week in the fall is my bet.

why? DC will likely be 70% vaccinated. That's enough for herd immunity. No more excuses WTU. you are all going back to work.

Yes, but to actually need to do stuff that takes effort to open schools and apparently everyone running and teaching in DCPS have gotten too comfy in their PJs on their couch with four hour works days to be bothered with such things

Gen Ed teachers in DCPS right now do not have 4 your work days. Maybe support staff and other people like deans of students and behavior technicians. But not gen Ed teachers. People saying this have no idea what teachers do, are having their own 4 hour work days, and are hypocritically ascribing that to teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP that is a lot of wishful thinking. 6ft and max 3 days a week in the fall is my bet.

why? DC will likely be 70% vaccinated. That's enough for herd immunity. No more excuses WTU. you are all going back to work.

Yes, but to actually need to do stuff that takes effort to open schools and apparently everyone running and teaching in DCPS have gotten too comfy in their PJs on their couch with four hour works days to be bothered with such things

Gen Ed teachers in DCPS right now do not have 4 your work days. Maybe support staff and other people like deans of students and behavior technicians. But not gen Ed teachers. People saying this have no idea what teachers do, are having their own 4 hour work days, and are hypocritically ascribing that to teachers.

I can tell you that what our K teacher is doing during live instruction cannot be considered work. She literally plays videos all class and chitchats about makeup, her children, and travel....with her <1year old on her lap and her 7 year old constantly asking her for things.... that’s not work.

[Anonymous]

DCPS is never going back to 5 days a week. Teachers currently have Wednesdays off and will never tolerate going back to full time teaching having had a taste of Netflix Wednesdays. It’s time to move.

[Anonymous]

Maybe, maybe not. You can't be certain what the fall holds in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP that is a lot of wishful thinking. 6ft and max 3 days a week in the fall is my bet.

Someone needs to lead us out of this mass hysteria now that we have extremely effective vaccines.

+1000. Everyone should be able to get the vaccine by fall. School should be back full time in person.

It’s not gonna be our useless Mayor. She has shown zero leadership. DC is so upside down. How can schools still be closed?! but bars, restaurants and nail salons business as usual? My friends/family in Massachusetts (as liberal/blue as it gets) can’t believe schools are not open.

Massachusetts has a Republican governor.[/quote

And teachers are not in a priority category for vaccination yet schools are open.

[Anonymous]

The desire to open schools is not political.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The desire to open schools is not political.

It's not science based either or DC schools would be open.

[Anonymous]

Can someone speak to how teacher contracts factor into this? All I know is that teachers who are returning sign contracts in the spring for the following year - this lets schools figure out how many slots they have to fill for the following year. Is it possible for DCPS to make in-person teaching a requirement in the 2021-22 contracts? At least this way schools would know in the spring if they have a staffing problem for opening in the fall.

I fear that DCPS is going to leave this issue to the summer and then start negotiating a new MOU with the WTU. At that point the WTU holds significant leverage because they can refuse to show up when school opens and the prime window for hiring teachers has closed. Wouldn't it be better to know that earlier?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone speak to how teacher contracts factor into this? All I know is that teachers who are returning sign contracts in the spring for the following year - this lets schools figure out how many slots they have to fill for the following year. Is it possible for DCPS to make in-person teaching a requirement in the 2021-22 contracts? At least this way schools would know in the spring if they have a staffing problem for opening in the fall.

I fear that DCPS is going to leave this issue to the summer and then start negotiating a new MOU with the WTU. At that point the WTU holds significant leverage because they can refuse to show up when school opens and the prime window for hiring teachers has closed. Wouldn't it be better to know that earlier?

This is a really good point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone speak to how teacher contracts factor into this? All I know is that teachers who are returning sign contracts in the spring for the following year - this lets schools figure out how many slots they have to fill for the following year. Is it possible for DCPS to make in-person teaching a requirement in the 2021-22 contracts? At least this way schools would know in the spring if they have a staffing problem for opening in the fall.

I fear that DCPS is going to leave this issue to the summer and then start negotiating a new MOU with the WTU. At that point the WTU holds significant leverage because they can refuse to show up when school opens and the prime window for hiring teachers has closed. Wouldn't it be better to know that earlier?

This is why it is pivotal to start agitating for next Fall now. Because in the summer essentially nothing will happen. So we've got 3.5 months to make a plan for Fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone speak to how teacher contracts factor into this? All I know is that teachers who are returning sign contracts in the spring for the following year - this lets schools figure out how many slots they have to fill for the following year. Is it possible for DCPS to make in-person teaching a requirement in the 2021-22 contracts? At least this way schools would know in the spring if they have a staffing problem for opening in the fall.

I fear that DCPS is going to leave this issue to the summer and then start negotiating a new MOU with the WTU. At that point the WTU holds significant leverage because they can refuse to show up when school opens and the prime window for hiring teachers has closed. Wouldn't it be better to know that earlier?

This is why it is pivotal to start agitating for next Fall now. Because in the summer essentially nothing will happen. So we've got 3.5 months to make a plan for Fall.

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