It's going to be bumpy. Be patient and kind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I found the homework helpful last year to stay engaged as I was working during their school sessions and was not involved at all.

This was for fourth and fifth grades.

Okayyyyyy....

I think she posted on wrong thread.

[Anonymous]

Sheer incompetence. Dcps should have had a plan for the full DL scenario, full in-person scenario and hybrid scenario. They clearly did not fully tease out all of the details in their contingency planning.

Our school has run out of devices. It hasn’t received its shipment of workbooks. It doesn’t know how substitute teachers will work. It’s a mess and leadership is looking the other way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty mad, and I’m usually a calm person. But I’m mad that the school district has had the summer to prepare and seemed to mostly dick around. I’m mad that they are still doing morning meeting with 20 8 year olds on a screen, when it was obviously a colossal failure in the spring. I’m mad that they didn’t consider for a moment breaking the kids into smaller groups and trying to meet outside. I’m mad that my kids don’t read actual books. I’m mad that they are assigned Video lessons. I’m mad that the school district is offering soccer and football teams but not offering outside English or math instruction. I’m mad that I could pay $800 a week to day care workers to do school in person, but my district that gets $25k a kid can’t pull ANY in person learning off in person. Meanwhile, grocery store workers and nurses and almost everyone else who had to earn a living is back to work.

I’ll try to keep it quiet, but I am angry and a lot of my neighbors are too.

This! I'm mad that as a parent- I'm the one who has to cover and compensate for all the other societal/governmental/school failings in this.

Yes. We all should be pissed and vocal about this. It’s expensive too and only the richest will be doing remotely ok this year.

[Anonymous]

Mad here too. Not with our teachers who were also screwed by the charter school leadership but with the leadership's lack of competence these last several weeks.

There has been all sorts of outward facing communication but information has been wrong or the information parents actually want (like SCHEDULES) has been missing. The school is going a lot to look good (virtual town halls etc.) but no one knows what is happening.

I know its hard but I'm frustrated and losing sympathy fast.