honest question - what do we do with our kids after May 29?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I knew this was coming and I'm still SO ANGRY. The work from school and the connections to the other kids is what is keeping my kid in a routine and alleviating anxiety. This just leaves us all to fend for ourselves and is totally abandoning the kids.

You do realize they’re doing this so they can open school up weeks earlier, right? Duh.

No, they are not. They have no legal obligation to make up any of these days. They said they would try to make up the learning which could include opening early for some students, SOME students. The Chancellor said they would let people know WHICH Students are going to be included in summer school or catch up lessons.
Teachers nor the Union is going to accept extra weeks with no extra pay. Also, it is unlikely it will be safe to open early, on time is debatable as well.
If s/he is angery now just wait until it happens again next year. Or DCPS does what some states are planning with part-time in the class room school and part-rime at home school for next year! Lol

This is a lot of BS. How on earth, if they remove three weeks, are they unable to add three weeks to next year for the same teachers? I know it may be unprecedented but it's not like anyone is being asked to work EXTRA days.

Gosh I'm really starting to dislike the teacher's union.

+1

I'm a teacher and I think the optics of stuff like this are so bad. We look so spoiled in this unprecedented time.

-teacher with toddlers at home

[Anonymous]

Teachers’ last day will be May 29th and their first day back will be July 27th, regardless of if students on Aug 3rd will be starting virtually or in the buildings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers’ last day will be May 29th and their first day back will be July 27th, regardless of if students on Aug 3rd will be starting virtually or in the buildings.

Where are you getting this?? No official release has been made about next year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers’ last day will be May 29th and their first day back will be July 27th, regardless of if students on Aug 3rd will be starting virtually or in the buildings.

Where are you getting this?? No official release has been made about next year.

The mayor’s official announcement on May 15 will be the final step in sharing the information. Meetings planning around this return date have been taking place all week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers’ last day will be May 29th and their first day back will be July 27th, regardless of if students on Aug 3rd will be starting virtually or in the buildings.

This wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Which is why I’ll be going on FMLA until my kid is back in school.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think July 27th is right. That’s 5 weeks before the scheduled start date for the 20-21 school year. Where is the mayor coming up with an extra two weeks of pay for teachers? Either that or she expects to close early again next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think July 27th is right. That’s 5 weeks before the scheduled start date for the 20-21 school year. Where is the mayor coming up with an extra two weeks of pay for teachers? Either that or she expects to close early again next year.

Not sure if July 29 is correct, but folks are being fools if they don’t think we’ll close again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think July 27th is right. That’s 5 weeks before the scheduled start date for the 20-21 school year. Where is the mayor coming up with an extra two weeks of pay for teachers? Either that or she expects to close early again next year.

Not sure if July 29 is correct, but folks are being fools if they don’t think we’ll close again.

Paul Kihn said this week that he anticipates schools will open but monitor students and staff health, maybe one school will have a positive COVID test and that school will go virtual for 2-3 weeks and then return. Waves like that.

I think July 29 is way too early for a start date. Many schools have barely finished hiring their teachers by then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think July 27th is right. That’s 5 weeks before the scheduled start date for the 20-21 school year. Where is the mayor coming up with an extra two weeks of pay for teachers? Either that or she expects to close early again next year.

Not sure if July 29 is correct, but folks are being fools if they don’t think we’ll close again.

Paul Kihn said this week that he anticipates schools will open but monitor students and staff health, maybe one school will have a positive COVID test and that school will go virtual for 2-3 weeks and then return. Waves like that.

I think July 29 is way too early for a start date. Many schools have barely finished hiring their teachers by then.

How does that even work? A school has an outbreak and then closed for a couple of weeks? What about the schools nearby...what happens if principals aren’t honest? They don’t want to make the news. When I works EOTP we didn’t have heard of a week in the bitter cold but my school wouldn’t close because the principal didn’t want the attention. The kids has to wear fits, hats and gloves. This was an elementary school. When teachers called in sick the principal would grill you about how sick you were, say you could still come in and that you were failing your students and it would be reflected in your impact score. Actions like this will only make the outbreaks next year worse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think July 27th is right. That’s 5 weeks before the scheduled start date for the 20-21 school year. Where is the mayor coming up with an extra two weeks of pay for teachers? Either that or she expects to close early again next year.

Not sure if July 29 is correct, but folks are being fools if they don’t think we’ll close again.

Paul Kihn said this week that he anticipates schools will open but monitor students and staff health, maybe one school will have a positive COVID test and that school will go virtual for 2-3 weeks and then return. Waves like that.

I think July 29 is way too early for a start date. Many schools have barely finished hiring their teachers by then.

How does that even work? A school has an outbreak and then closed for a couple of weeks? What about the schools nearby...what happens if principals aren’t honest? They don’t want to make the news. When I works EOTP we didn’t have heard of a week in the bitter cold but my school wouldn’t close because the principal didn’t want the attention. The kids has to wear fits, hats and gloves. This was an elementary school. When teachers called in sick the principal would grill you about how sick you were, say you could still come in and that you were failing your students and it would be reflected in your impact score. Actions like this will only make the outbreaks next year worse.

That should say heat for a week. I could also point out the times when we didn’t have air conditioning for weeks and instead of calling attention to the school, the principal no longer allowed parents in the building at all so they wouldn’t be able to see how hot it was. Early pickups were don’t in the entry way between the two doors

[Anonymous]

Curious how the teachers living in Maryland and Virginia will swing childcare for their own kids if they are now forced to return to work July 27th and their kids don’t start school until September 8th.

[Anonymous]

No one is going back to school in July or the first week of August. All the school calendars are going to stay EXACTLY the same as they have been, with the exception that we are likely to be offering online education only for part or all of the 20-21 school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is going back to school in July or the first week of August. All the school calendars are going to stay EXACTLY the same as they have been, with the exception that we are likely to be offering online education only for part or all of the 20-21 school year.

Lol according to whom?

[Anonymous]

August 3rd is more than 3 weeks early. I don’t think there’s any chance of that, just being realistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious how the teachers living in Maryland and Virginia will swing childcare for their own kids if they are now forced to return to work July 27th and their kids don’t start school until September 8th.

Do what many other families who work do- camp, grandparents, take leave, etc.