Schedule - full day!?!?

[Anonymous]

This is simple: just don’t do all of it. DCPS isn’t going to kick them out. I’d like to see DCPS try.

[Anonymous]

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Employers need to be understanding, I suggest you gather parents and let the employer know. That is what we did at my company when they made no mention. They quickly sent out a staff email to employees asking if they needed reasonable accommodations.

Sounds like you have a great workplace!

I work for a federal agency where they decisively decided NOT to allow employees to take the 10 hours a week of admin. leave OPM had suggested be granted to parents of school aged children. They said "America needs you, now isn't the time to work less" and generally would be happy if all of us parents (women, whom should really be sahm anyway) would quit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Employers need to be understanding, I suggest you gather parents and let the employer know. That is what we did at my company when they made no mention. They quickly sent out a staff email to employees asking if they needed reasonable accommodations.

Sounds like you have a great workplace!

I work for a federal agency where they decisively decided NOT to allow employees to take the 10 hours a week of admin. leave OPM had suggested be granted to parents of school aged children. They said "America needs you, now isn't the time to work less" and generally would be happy if all of us parents (women, whom should really be sahm anyway) would quit.

Pp here
How utterly disgusting, companies should not be able to do this! And it’s not working less, my company isn’t letting us work less hours they are just adding some flexibility. For example non-negotiable meetings are scheduled towards the end of the day. We often have later working hours and if we don’t finish our work because of our child we have to finish it later in the evening.

I really hate that attitude some companies have, the goal is to make money but there has to be a balance...especially during this time.

[Anonymous]

You can ask your school or the teacher to have all the live lessons you can’t attend with your kid recorded.

I’d do that for families who couldn’t always make a certain lesson. Then I could follow up with your child later.

I know it’s not ideal but this whole setup really isn’t at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

This is so sad.
The one time in life when you’ll actually be able to be active in your child’s education & you are showing them off.
I’m always unclear what jobs the DCUM types have where they are actively in meetings or calls all day...
I’m married to a lawyer & was a consultant myself, & now run my own business. Still can’t relate to the on all day jobs of this crew. Guess you all are all just big deals.

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Some of us have core hours. Which just happen to be during the school day. Which makes it impossible to both do your job and be available to direct the education of a young elementary student. While I’m not actively in calls or meetings all day, I am expected this o be available during my work hours when my manager calls me. Blowing him off so I can log my 6 year old into yet another distance learning session is not acceptable. Plus, I’m actually expected to produce a work product. When the distance school day is all day long with 5-10 minute breaks plus a lunch period, it looks like I would need to facilitate logging into sessions every 15-45 minutes throughout the day. I don’t generally work in 15-45 minute increments, but maybe you do?

How hard is it to help a first grader log into DL?

You walk over, while on the phone and point to the link you made during non core hours. Or if you're at your computer, you drop the link into a hangout when you have a moment, then hit return on your phone and it pops on his screen at the right moment.

How does that involve blowing your boss off? It's less time than walking to the sink to fill your water glass.

well for starters I can’t access Google hangout from my work computer. And a lot of us have kids that won’t just click the link. Plus my job involves stretches of intense focus - research and writing. multitasking at all is a big problem for my focus.

You don't have a phone? Have you tried teaching your kid to just click the link? Or incentivizing it? Or have you just decided that whatever the schools do you're going to complain and make no effort to help your kid?

Because you've had months to get a six year old to be able to click a link.

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Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

This is so sad.
The one time in life when you’ll actually be able to be active in your child’s education & you are showing them off.
I’m always unclear what jobs the DCUM types have where they are actively in meetings or calls all day...
I’m married to a lawyer & was a consultant myself, & now run my own business. Still can’t relate to the on all day jobs of this crew. Guess you all are all just big deals.

?

Some of us have core hours. Which just happen to be during the school day. Which makes it impossible to both do your job and be available to direct the education of a young elementary student. While I’m not actively in calls or meetings all day, I am expected this o be available during my work hours when my manager calls me. Blowing him off so I can log my 6 year old into yet another distance learning session is not acceptable. Plus, I’m actually expected to produce a work product. When the distance school day is all day long with 5-10 minute breaks plus a lunch period, it looks like I would need to facilitate logging into sessions every 15-45 minutes throughout the day. I don’t generally work in 15-45 minute increments, but maybe you do?

How hard is it to help a first grader log into DL?

You walk over, while on the phone and point to the link you made during non core hours. Or if you're at your computer, you drop the link into a hangout when you have a moment, then hit return on your phone and it pops on his screen at the right moment.

How does that involve blowing your boss off? It's less time than walking to the sink to fill your water glass.

well for starters I can’t access Google hangout from my work computer. And a lot of us have kids that won’t just click the link. Plus my job involves stretches of intense focus - research and writing. multitasking at all is a big problem for my focus.

You don't have a phone? Have you tried teaching your kid to just click the link? Or incentivizing it? Or have you just decided that whatever the schools do you're going to complain and make no effort to help your kid?

Because you've had months to get a six year old to be able to click a link.

Listen to yourself, defending this GARBAGE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can ask your school or the teacher to have all the live lessons you can’t attend with your kid recorded.

I’d do that for families who couldn’t always make a certain lesson. Then I could follow up with your child later.

I know it’s not ideal but this whole setup really isn’t at all.

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DCPS is only requiring you log into Canvas once in a 12+ hour period to get attendance credit. Kids cannot be penalized for not attending live class. So just sign in to Canvas every morning when you wake up to get the attendance part out of the way. Then have your child attend whatever sessions they can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can ask your school or the teacher to have all the live lessons you can’t attend with your kid recorded.

I’d do that for families who couldn’t always make a certain lesson. Then I could follow up with your child later.

I know it’s not ideal but this whole setup really isn’t at all.

Every child who participated in the learning while live will have to consent to being filmed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can ask your school or the teacher to have all the live lessons you can’t attend with your kid recorded.

I’d do that for families who couldn’t always make a certain lesson. Then I could follow up with your child later.

I know it’s not ideal but this whole setup really isn’t at all.

Every child who participated in the learning while live will have to consent to being filmed.

That’s not true. The lessons will all be recorded. Not sure if the recordings don’t include the participants, just the teachers, but the lessons will be recorded.

[Anonymous]

Where did you hear this? I am a teacher and have not heard this. I don’t care either way. But for my son in a nearby/functioning district the teacher has to read a script @ start of each recorded lesson- announcing the recoding, informing parents of their rights, and explaining what happens with each recording. It’s a boilerplate.

Sounds like dcps might want to let teachers know so we can prepare

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can ask your school or the teacher to have all the live lessons you can’t attend with your kid recorded.

I’d do that for families who couldn’t always make a certain lesson. Then I could follow up with your child later.

I know it’s not ideal but this whole setup really isn’t at all.

Every child who participated in the learning while live will have to consent to being filmed.

That’s not true. The lessons will all be recorded. Not sure if the recordings don’t include the participants, just the teachers, but the lessons will be recorded.

Under teams last year we had the option to film each lesson OR not.

[Anonymous]

Service providers have to get parental consent when working with students via TEAMS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where did you hear this? I am a teacher and have not heard this. I don’t care either way. But for my son in a nearby/functioning district the teacher has to read a script @ start of each recorded lesson- announcing the recoding, informing parents of their rights, and explaining what happens with each recording. It’s a boilerplate.

Sounds like dcps might want to let teachers know so we can prepare

DC might require this, I’m not sure. However maybe because it is a one way consent in terms of recording they don’t need permission from families. Or maybe there is a form families will sign upon registration that allows recording to happen.

[Anonymous]

As far as I know we do not need consent to record unless it will be shared with the public, as in people outside the school.

Teams informs you when it’s being recorded and it says to log off if you do not consent. By staying on the call you are legally consenting to be recorded.

I see no problem with this as a teacher but if parents feel unsafe in any way you can just let me know so I know your child won’t be on camera.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As far as I know we do not need consent to record unless it will be shared with the public, as in people outside the school.

Teams informs you when it’s being recorded and it says to log off if you do not consent. By staying on the call you are legally consenting to be recorded.

I see no problem with this as a teacher but if parents feel unsafe in any way you can just let me know so I know your child won’t be on camera.

Guys/ you can’t deny a kid public education because they don’t want to be recorded. Please understand this.
For all of you recording teachers- can you honestly say, with certainty, where those recordings went? We’re they password protected?
For the sake of your own integrity figure this out.
In a nearby district they are held on a password protected & secure website for 48 hours & then deleted.
These are the kinds of things our district should have *already thought through.