DC charters - which ones are open? hybrid model? plans of reopening?

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Anonymous wrote:A friend said Yu Ying is opening Feb. 16th for hybrid (2 weeks home, 1 week in person). DCI is also planing to bring more kids back next month. If there's a will, there's a way.

YY is 3 weeks home, 1 week in person. I’m surprised they aren’t striving for more in-person time because Chinese is such a difficult language to learn

Why, because you think that YY admins and most of the parents care if kids become proficient in Chinese, let alone fluent? What evidence could you possibly have of this?

OMG give it a rest already. Find a different thread or start yet another one to discuss your issues with YY. This thread is about schools reopening.

Yes. Let's restrict this thread and the 100 just like it to complaining about the WTU, accusing teachers of not working, acting like all these decisions are really easy, and acting like we're all virologists. Puleeze. You've all been saying the same thing over and over again for 10 months. I'd rather listen to some YY inside baseball weirdness; it would be a nice break.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how self centered ECE parents are. (We al were, it is an observation not an indictment). Sure 80% of ES school students are not in ECE but to hear ECE parents talk you'd think having a small cohort of PK3 kids going back is somehow a solution for COVID.

I don’t have a child in ECE but in a language immersion program, absolutely the ECE and younger kids in K and 1st should go back and be top priority. They cannot stay focused on zoom for any extended period of time. It is also not developmentally appropriate.

For the older kids 2nd-5th, they are able to stay more focused.

No one said anything about a complete solution for all the kids at this point. But at least MV has taken definitive steps to start a safe hybrid program in a limited group of kids who are best served with in person learning. I hope that this might help motivate other charters to do the same as the PP above who asked for details so she could push her school.

Once you have a running hybrid program in place for a limited number of students and it does well, then it’s much easier to get buy in from more teachers to expand.

It makes no sense to prioritize PK over other grades. K-5 in that order should be the priority of every public school and public charter immersion included. PK is NOT mandatory and shouldn’t be prioritized.

Well they are prioritizing K and 1st also.

You obviously don’t have a child in language immersion, and specifically at MV. Please tell me how a child is going to learn to read and write in K next year when all instruction and learning is given in Spanish, and the child can hardly understand Spanish. It will be very difficult and the children will struggle.

Grade level Spanish proficiency expectations are high at MV, especially starting in 1st. I know this from having a child at MV who did not start in PK.

Wrong. I have a child in an immersion program and we did not start in PK. What happens to the poor kids in grades 2 -5 who are missing out on live instruction in subjects they are tested on while 3 and 4 year olds get free day care? Mandatory grades should be the priority. Kids start immersion in K and catch up just fine. It’s irresponsible of any public school to prioritize non mandatory grades not to mention it’s harder to enforce good hygiene, social distancing and mask wearing with 3-4 year old kids.

Not really, a number of immersion schools who start in PK don’t let kids in for K/1st because it is so difficult for many kids to catch up.

Neighbors kid in upper elementary and are doing fine.

Sounds like it’s a phase in so it’s not like 2-5 are not coming back.

What school is your child in and when are they starting hybrid?

You are flat out wrong. Most of immersion schools (I'd bet all but I don't have time to research them) accept kids at K including Mundo Verde (we were offered a seat for K) -- even Yu Ying takes kids up to 2nd grade. New kids started at our school in K and catch up fine. I agree that some upper ES kids (grades 4-5 ) are doing better with DL but many are not. We know some who are struggling. Kids in K-5 are expected to learn and our tested on new more complex material. Schools should start with K and move up to 5. Once these kids are back they can start providing free day care again.

Oh give it a rest.

At least they are moving forward with hybrid for some students and phasing in students while you sit and make judgement without saying what school your kid is at.

Let me guess, Stokes or DCB both of which have no plans for hybrid.

What's the problem? You can't take it that someone caught you making stuff up?

No because I said some immersion schools don’t let kids in K/1st which IS true. I don’t lie and make stuff up.

BTW it’s really petty to attack a school that is going hybrid just because they are not staring with the kids who you think they should, especially when you don’t even have a kid at the school. Even worst when your school has no plans for hybrid at all.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend said Yu Ying is opening Feb. 16th for hybrid (2 weeks home, 1 week in person). DCI is also planing to bring more kids back next month. If there's a will, there's a way.

YY is 3 weeks home, 1 week in person. I’m surprised they aren’t striving for more in-person time because Chinese is such a difficult language to learn

Why, because you think that YY admins and most of the parents care if kids become proficient in Chinese, let alone fluent? What evidence could you possibly have of this?

OMG give it a rest already. Find a different thread or start yet another one to discuss your issues with YY. This thread is about schools reopening.

Yes. Let's restrict this thread and the 100 just like it to complaining about the WTU, accusing teachers of not working, acting like all these decisions are really easy, and acting like we're all virologists. Puleeze. You've all been saying the same thing over and over again for 10 months. I'd rather listen to some YY inside baseball weirdness; it would be a nice break.

Well then goggle YY and read those posts. I don’t have a kid at YY but PP is right. This thread is about school openings.

Your post is irrelevant to this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how self centered ECE parents are. (We al were, it is an observation not an indictment). Sure 80% of ES school students are not in ECE but to hear ECE parents talk you'd think having a small cohort of PK3 kids going back is somehow a solution for COVID.

I don’t have a child in ECE but in a language immersion program, absolutely the ECE and younger kids in K and 1st should go back and be top priority. They cannot stay focused on zoom for any extended period of time. It is also not developmentally appropriate.

For the older kids 2nd-5th, they are able to stay more focused.

No one said anything about a complete solution for all the kids at this point. But at least MV has taken definitive steps to start a safe hybrid program in a limited group of kids who are best served with in person learning. I hope that this might help motivate other charters to do the same as the PP above who asked for details so she could push her school.

Once you have a running hybrid program in place for a limited number of students and it does well, then it’s much easier to get buy in from more teachers to expand.

It makes no sense to prioritize PK over other grades. K-5 in that order should be the priority of every public school and public charter immersion included. PK is NOT mandatory and shouldn’t be prioritized.

Well they are prioritizing K and 1st also.

You obviously don’t have a child in language immersion, and specifically at MV. Please tell me how a child is going to learn to read and write in K next year when all instruction and learning is given in Spanish, and the child can hardly understand Spanish. It will be very difficult and the children will struggle.

Grade level Spanish proficiency expectations are high at MV, especially starting in 1st. I know this from having a child at MV who did not start in PK.

Wrong. I have a child in an immersion program and we did not start in PK. What happens to the poor kids in grades 2 -5 who are missing out on live instruction in subjects they are tested on while 3 and 4 year olds get free day care? Mandatory grades should be the priority. Kids start immersion in K and catch up just fine. It’s irresponsible of any public school to prioritize non mandatory grades not to mention it’s harder to enforce good hygiene, social distancing and mask wearing with 3-4 year old kids.

Not really, a number of immersion schools who start in PK don’t let kids in for K/1st because it is so difficult for many kids to catch up.

Neighbors kid in upper elementary and are doing fine.

Sounds like it’s a phase in so it’s not like 2-5 are not coming back.

What school is your child in and when are they starting hybrid?

You are flat out wrong. Most of immersion schools (I'd bet all but I don't have time to research them) accept kids at K including Mundo Verde (we were offered a seat for K) -- even Yu Ying takes kids up to 2nd grade. New kids started at our school in K and catch up fine. I agree that some upper ES kids (grades 4-5 ) are doing better with DL but many are not. We know some who are struggling. Kids in K-5 are expected to learn and our tested on new more complex material. Schools should start with K and move up to 5. Once these kids are back they can start providing free day care again.

Oh give it a rest.

At least they are moving forward with hybrid for some students and phasing in students while you sit and make judgement without saying what school your kid is at.

Let me guess, Stokes or DCB both of which have no plans for hybrid.

What's the problem? You can't take it that someone caught you making stuff up?

No because I said some immersion schools don’t let kids in K/1st which IS true. I don’t lie and make stuff up.

BTW it’s really petty to attack a school that is going hybrid just because they are not staring with the kids who you think they should, especially when you don’t even have a kid at the school. Even worst when your school has no plans for hybrid at all.

LOL! Good response.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, it looks like WTU and teachers in DCPS are not going back Monday. What a disaster and sh*tshow. WTU has moved the goalpost again. Some are saying they want the children vaccinated too.

I’m glad that some charters are moving forward with hybrid and leading the way at least.

LOL "I'm glad that some charters are moving forward with hybrid and leading the way at least." Not Stokes which won't even commit to live instruction in a hybrid model for fall 2021. At least they finally got the K-2 kids school issued computers last week. What a joke. Kuddos however to the charters and public schools who are thinking creatively and working hard to get ES kids some in person learning this year.

MV parent here. Sorry to hear PP. But maybe once a number of charters go hybrid, the PTA/parents at your school can put pressure on Stokes to open.

Why don’t you touch base with the PTA at your school to begin some type of parent led re-opening initiative. There is strength in numbers if many parents are on board.

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Our charter hasn't done anything to open. Maybe we will hear something next week. But I doubt they will push teachers to return pre vaccines

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter hasn't done anything to open. Maybe we will hear something next week. But I doubt they will push teachers to return pre vaccines

You do realize there is no more pre-vaccine, right? In person teachers already have begun to get theirs. A school which hasn’t announced plans needs at least the rest of February to get ready, so that will be fully vaccinated.

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MV parent here. Sorry to hear PP. But maybe once a number of charters go hybrid, the PTA/parents at your school can put pressure on Stokes to open.

Why don’t you touch base with the PTA at your school to begin some type of parent led re-opening initiative. There is strength in numbers if many parents are on board.

Does MV have a strong PTA? We are at DCB and the PTA would have no sway with the school when it came to reopening.

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I am a Stokes parent and did not get any email about a plan would anyone be willing to post the email? I f*ucking love that school but if they don't open in the fall I will lose all respect.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a Stokes parent and did not get any email about a plan would anyone be willing to post the email? I f*ucking love that school but if they don't open in the fall I will lose all respect.

No letter about fall. Just another survey question (and statement about how they are unsure what fall will look like) in the intent to enroll form

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Anonymous wrote:A friend said Yu Ying is opening Feb. 16th for hybrid (2 weeks home, 1 week in person). DCI is also planing to bring more kids back next month. If there's a will, there's a way.

YY is 3 weeks home, 1 week in person. I’m surprised they aren’t striving for more in-person time because Chinese is such a difficult language to learn

Why, because you think that YY admins and most of the parents care if kids become proficient in Chinese, let alone fluent? What evidence could you possibly have of this?

OMG give it a rest already. Find a different thread or start yet another one to discuss your issues with YY. This thread is about schools reopening.

Yes. Let's restrict this thread and the 100 just like it to complaining about the WTU, accusing teachers of not working, acting like all these decisions are really easy, and acting like we're all virologists. Puleeze. You've all been saying the same thing over and over again for 10 months. I'd rather listen to some YY inside baseball weirdness; it would be a nice break.

Well then goggle YY and read those posts. I don’t have a kid at YY but PP is right. This thread is about school openings.

Your post is irrelevant to this thread.

PP, you don't get to decide whose posts are irrelevant to which threads.

Language immersion is hard to do well at the best of times, unless a kid consistently has at least one native-speaking adult in the home, a bunch of native-speaking peers, an ethnic community in the neighborhood as a resource and preferably all of the above. That's the inconvenient truth. Immersion DL is obviously that much less effective.

When I read about YY opening 1 week in the month shortly, I'm skeptical, deeply skeptical, wondering why they'd bother. Go ahead and flame me.

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YY has tiny classrooms- it might not be safe to have more kids per classroom and have them come on campus more frequently

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Anonymous wrote:I love how self centered ECE parents are. (We al were, it is an observation not an indictment). Sure 80% of ES school students are not in ECE but to hear ECE parents talk you'd think having a small cohort of PK3 kids going back is somehow a solution for COVID.

I don’t have a child in ECE but in a language immersion program, absolutely the ECE and younger kids in K and 1st should go back and be top priority. They cannot stay focused on zoom for any extended period of time. It is also not developmentally appropriate.

For the older kids 2nd-5th, they are able to stay more focused.

No one said anything about a complete solution for all the kids at this point. But at least MV has taken definitive steps to start a safe hybrid program in a limited group of kids who are best served with in person learning. I hope that this might help motivate other charters to do the same as the PP above who asked for details so she could push her school.

Once you have a running hybrid program in place for a limited number of students and it does well, then it’s much easier to get buy in from more teachers to expand.

It makes no sense to prioritize PK over other grades. K-5 in that order should be the priority of every public school and public charter immersion included. PK is NOT mandatory and shouldn’t be prioritized.

Well they are prioritizing K and 1st also.

You obviously don’t have a child in language immersion, and specifically at MV. Please tell me how a child is going to learn to read and write in K next year when all instruction and learning is given in Spanish, and the child can hardly understand Spanish. It will be very difficult and the children will struggle.

Grade level Spanish proficiency expectations are high at MV, especially starting in 1st. I know this from having a child at MV who did not start in PK.

Wrong. I have a child in an immersion program and we did not start in PK. What happens to the poor kids in grades 2 -5 who are missing out on live instruction in subjects they are tested on while 3 and 4 year olds get free day care? Mandatory grades should be the priority. Kids start immersion in K and catch up just fine. It’s irresponsible of any public school to prioritize non mandatory grades not to mention it’s harder to enforce good hygiene, social distancing and mask wearing with 3-4 year old kids.

Not really, a number of immersion schools who start in PK don’t let kids in for K/1st because it is so difficult for many kids to catch up.

Neighbors kid in upper elementary and are doing fine.

Sounds like it’s a phase in so it’s not like 2-5 are not coming back.

What school is your child in and when are they starting hybrid?

You are flat out wrong. Most of immersion schools (I'd bet all but I don't have time to research them) accept kids at K including Mundo Verde (we were offered a seat for K) -- even Yu Ying takes kids up to 2nd grade. New kids started at our school in K and catch up fine. I agree that some upper ES kids (grades 4-5 ) are doing better with DL but many are not. We know some who are struggling. Kids in K-5 are expected to learn and our tested on new more complex material. Schools should start with K and move up to 5. Once these kids are back they can start providing free day care again.

Oh give it a rest.

At least they are moving forward with hybrid for some students and phasing in students while you sit and make judgement without saying what school your kid is at.

Let me guess, Stokes or DCB both of which have no plans for hybrid.

What's the problem? You can't take it that someone caught you making stuff up?

No because I said some immersion schools don’t let kids in K/1st which IS true. I don’t lie and make stuff up.

BTW it’s really petty to attack a school that is going hybrid just because they are not staring with the kids who you think they should, especially when you don’t even have a kid at the school. Even worst when your school has no plans for hybrid at all.

Aren't Yu Ying and LAMB the only two that stop letting in kids in older grades? And LAMB always said it was because of Montessori, not Spanish. I know a few families who entered immersion as late as 4th! Their kids struggled, and honestly, it watered down the program for everyone else. My kid got assigned to be a "translation buddy" and spent over half of the year speaking English to help the new kids instead of getting to practice the target language. I feel bad for the immersion teachers expected to teach in a school that throws them kids with no experience that late.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend said Yu Ying is opening Feb. 16th for hybrid (2 weeks home, 1 week in person). DCI is also planing to bring more kids back next month. If there's a will, there's a way.

YY is 3 weeks home, 1 week in person. I’m surprised they aren’t striving for more in-person time because Chinese is such a difficult language to learn

Why, because you think that YY admins and most of the parents care if kids become proficient in Chinese, let alone fluent? What evidence could you possibly have of this?

OMG give it a rest already. Find a different thread or start yet another one to discuss your issues with YY. This thread is about schools reopening.

Yes. Let's restrict this thread and the 100 just like it to complaining about the WTU, accusing teachers of not working, acting like all these decisions are really easy, and acting like we're all virologists. Puleeze. You've all been saying the same thing over and over again for 10 months. I'd rather listen to some YY inside baseball weirdness; it would be a nice break.

Well then goggle YY and read those posts. I don’t have a kid at YY but PP is right. This thread is about school openings.

Your post is irrelevant to this thread.

PP, you don't get to decide whose posts are irrelevant to which threads.

Language immersion is hard to do well at the best of times, unless a kid consistently has at least one native-speaking adult in the home, a bunch of native-speaking peers, an ethnic community in the neighborhood as a resource and preferably all of the above. That's the inconvenient truth. Immersion DL is obviously that much less effective.

When I read about YY opening 1 week in the month shortly, I'm skeptical, deeply skeptical, wondering why they'd bother. Go ahead and flame me.

Chinese is only part of what kids are learning at YY - other subjects and the social aspects are plenty enough reason to go back. I think every school should be trying to go back in person, whether they teach Chinese, Hebrew, the arts, whatever. Get kids back in school!

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Anonymous wrote:I am a Stokes parent and did not get any email about a plan would anyone be willing to post the email? I f*ucking love that school but if they don't open in the fall I will lose all respect.

No letter about fall. Just another survey question (and statement about how they are unsure what fall will look like) in the intent to enroll form

No school can predict what the fall will look like without knowing what the social distancing guidelines will be. I think they are just being honest in that regard.