More in person slots to be offered early April

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do they even know which families are interested in IP? The last survey I filled out for my school was months and months ago. I definitely want my kids IP now.

Our school did a survey a couple of weeks ago.

Ours did, too, for all students not already in IPL.

So they did surveys, but not lotteries. So how will they figure out who gets a spot if demand exceeds supply?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do they even know which families are interested in IP? The last survey I filled out for my school was months and months ago. I definitely want my kids IP now.

Our school did a survey a couple of weeks ago.

Ours did too. At our EOTP ward 4 school, 69% wanted to return.

Ours too- might be the same school though (Shepherd?)

[Anonymous]

Why is this left up to each school?

[Anonymous]

My child with a robust IEP is already back. Great that teachers are vaccinated. That said I’m not vaccinated yet.

Having my child’s classroom increase dramatically in size terrifies, especially with spring break coming up. I’ll see how this plays out but I may debate pulling my kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want my kids for in person instruction. It is important that it is not sitting in a classroom watching a device but rather the teacher (not an aid) is instructing them.

also - we want in person - but if that means I need to pick up my kid at 11:30 it does not work! I am working and if that is the option being offered I need to default to distance.

AND - it is ridiculous to expect teachers to now figure out how to teach simulcast.

So you want it exactly as you want and only in the way most convenient to you?

If in person is that important to you, figure out a way to make 11:30 work. Most people can take a short break to pick up kids. If you can't, see if you can hire someone to bring them back to your house. You may even have someone who lives nearby who would be happy to let your kid walk back with them.

The pandemic has caused all sorts of logistical hurdles for people to simply figure out.

Is saying what you want wrong now? I don't think so. We have been living in a world where people paralyzed with fear have been imposing exactly what they want on the rest of us for quite some time now. Look around the country. At this point, DC is way behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Janney is offering kids two mornings per week for quarter 2.

This is great and the principal has been working tirelessly to get these logistics figured out, given the cohort restrictions.

however, this IS NOT MEETING ALL DEMAND. Meeting "all demand" is normal length school days. It's 4-5 days per week. "Meeting all demand" is not 7 hours of live school per week.

+100000. My first grader goes IP for 2.75 hours. This is not having demand met- like I’m supposed to be satisfied by this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child with a robust IEP is already back. Great that teachers are vaccinated. That said I’m not vaccinated yet.

Having my child’s classroom increase dramatically in size terrifies, especially with spring break coming up. I’ll see how this plays out but I may debate pulling my kid.

I don’t mind having more people in my kids’ classes, but I sure wish they would test more than 10%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want my kids for in person instruction. It is important that it is not sitting in a classroom watching a device but rather the teacher (not an aid) is instructing them.

also - we want in person - but if that means I need to pick up my kid at 11:30 it does not work! I am working and if that is the option being offered I need to default to distance.

AND - it is ridiculous to expect teachers to now figure out how to teach simulcast.

So you want it exactly as you want and only in the way most convenient to you?

If in person is that important to you, figure out a way to make 11:30 work. Most people can take a short break to pick up kids. If you can't, see if you can hire someone to bring them back to your house. You may even have someone who lives nearby who would be happy to let your kid walk back with them.

The pandemic has caused all sorts of logistical hurdles for people to simply figure out.

Is saying what you want wrong now? I don't think so. We have been living in a world where people paralyzed with fear have been imposing exactly what they want on the rest of us for quite some time now. Look around the country. At this point, DC is way behind.

+1

It’s time to allow more reasonable risk assessment and make decisions for those who are more middle of the road. People can choose to keep their kids home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child with a robust IEP is already back. Great that teachers are vaccinated. That said I’m not vaccinated yet.

Having my child’s classroom increase dramatically in size terrifies, especially with spring break coming up. I’ll see how this plays out but I may debate pulling my kid.

And that's a choice that you will have to make for your family. But I hope you don't feel they should keep class size small (thereby preventing other kids from getting IPL your kid now enjoys) to reduce the risk to families lucky enough to have IPL now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child with a robust IEP is already back. Great that teachers are vaccinated. That said I’m not vaccinated yet.

Having my child’s classroom increase dramatically in size terrifies, especially with spring break coming up. I’ll see how this plays out but I may debate pulling my kid.

And that's a choice that you will have to make for your family. But I hope you don't feel they should keep class size small (thereby preventing other kids from getting IPL your kid now enjoys) to reduce the risk to families lucky enough to have IPL now.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want my kids for in person instruction. It is important that it is not sitting in a classroom watching a device but rather the teacher (not an aid) is instructing them.

also - we want in person - but if that means I need to pick up my kid at 11:30 it does not work! I am working and if that is the option being offered I need to default to distance.

AND - it is ridiculous to expect teachers to now figure out how to teach simulcast.

So you want it exactly as you want and only in the way most convenient to you?

If in person is that important to you, figure out a way to make 11:30 work. Most people can take a short break to pick up kids. If you can't, see if you can hire someone to bring them back to your house. You may even have someone who lives nearby who would be happy to let your kid walk back with them.

The pandemic has caused all sorts of logistical hurdles for people to simply figure out.

This post is preposterously dripping with privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perry Stein reporting that Mary Cheh pushing DCPS on in person options; most but not all demand expected to be met at elementary level:

https://twitter.com/PerryStein/status/1374794612594839563

Please note that DCPS already claims to meet "most of the demand for in person learning". DME said that recently. This is because East of the park schools IPL classrooms are not full. The unmet demand is mainly in northwest. Another thing to look out for it is to DCPS "meeting the demand" meant offering IPL for term 3 at a time when cases were surging post holiday. Our school claims certain grade levels have "met the demand" because all parents were already offered a spot in IPL and now the classrooms are full. However, it never informed parents that by refusing the spot they were forfeiting any opportunity for IPL for the entire school year. To meet the demand for IPL, DCPS must make an offer to every child regardless of whether they already turned down an offer for term 3. I find this way of saying "we almost met the demand" non transparent.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want my kids for in person instruction. It is important that it is not sitting in a classroom watching a device but rather the teacher (not an aid) is instructing them.

also - we want in person - but if that means I need to pick up my kid at 11:30 it does not work! I am working and if that is the option being offered I need to default to distance.

AND - it is ridiculous to expect teachers to now figure out how to teach simulcast. [/quote]

So you want it exactly as you want and only in the way most convenient to you?

If in person is that important to you, figure out a way to make 11:30 work. Most people can take a short break to pick up kids. If you can't, see if you can hire someone to bring them back to your house. You may even have someone who lives nearby who would be happy to let your kid walk back with them.

The pandemic has caused all sorts of logistical hurdles for people to simply figure out.[/quote]

We have figured things out for a year. Scientists and the CDC say it’s time for schools to leap forward. We can return to school full time like kids all around the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perry Stein reporting that Mary Cheh pushing DCPS on in person options; most but not all demand expected to be met at elementary level:

https://twitter.com/PerryStein/status/1374794612594839563

Please note that DCPS already claims to meet "most of the demand for in person learning". DME said that recently. This is because East of the park schools IPL classrooms are not full. The unmet demand is mainly in northwest. Another thing to look out for it is to DCPS "meeting the demand" meant offering IPL for term 3 at a time when cases were surging post holiday. Our school claims certain grade levels have "met the demand" because all parents were already offered a spot in IPL and now the classrooms are full. However, it never informed parents that by refusing the spot they were forfeiting any opportunity for IPL for the entire school year. To meet the demand for IPL, DCPS must make an offer to every child regardless of whether they already turned down an offer for term 3. I find this way of saying "we almost met the demand" non transparent.

Not sure I agree- they made you an offer for term 3, which is still going on so presumably not that long ago. Now you ar saying that they are not meeting demand because they won't offer you a spot again? In my kid's grade 11 kids were offered a spot and one turned it down while 15 that wanted spots were not offered spots. THAT is not meeting demand.

Am curious if you told them while turning it down that you might want a spot in the future- seems would be hard for them to plan around parents maybe wanting spots after turning them down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perry Stein reporting that Mary Cheh pushing DCPS on in person options; most but not all demand expected to be met at elementary level:

https://twitter.com/PerryStein/status/1374794612594839563

Please note that DCPS already claims to meet "most of the demand for in person learning". DME said that recently. This is because East of the park schools IPL classrooms are not full. The unmet demand is mainly in northwest. Another thing to look out for it is to DCPS "meeting the demand" meant offering IPL for term 3 at a time when cases were surging post holiday. Our school claims certain grade levels have "met the demand" because all parents were already offered a spot in IPL and now the classrooms are full. However, it never informed parents that by refusing the spot they were forfeiting any opportunity for IPL for the entire school year. To meet the demand for IPL, DCPS must make an offer to every child regardless of whether they already turned down an offer for term 3. I find this way of saying "we almost met the demand" non transparent.

Not sure I agree- they made you an offer for term 3, which is still going on so presumably not that long ago. Now you ar saying that they are not meeting demand because they won't offer you a spot again? In my kid's grade 11 kids were offered a spot and one turned it down while 15 that wanted spots were not offered spots. THAT is not meeting demand.

Am curious if you told them while turning it down that you might want a spot in the future- seems would be hard for them to plan around parents maybe wanting spots after turning them down

I did get the spot and accepted it in Term 3. I take issue with DCPS claiming it "met most of the demand", because families turned down spots during a spike. It also never informed those families that they were forfeiting all rights to IPL for the entire school year for their child. To me they don't get bragging rights for having "met the demand" for the ridiculously small-scale reopening that they did.