WP Article on LAMB's failure to re-open

[Anonymous]

Parent at another dual language charter here. Having read that article know more about LAMB's decisionmaking process than what is going on at my charter. I also know more about what LAMB teachers want than my own. I don't envy the school leaders here, but I see no harm in sharing the information they have before them. If most teachers don't want to come back to a school before a vaccine, then they should be telling parents ASAP. I can't keep waiting for news every quarter about what are options are. And it's frustrating that it seems that hybrid is out the window across the city. I have no hopes that we'll see options beyond DL at our school, except for some social hour playdate type arrangements for PK students. And if that's the case, I hope our school just comes right out and says it.

[Anonymous]

Did everyone missed that at risk and minority families are not willing to send the kids back to school? To all who say schools are not working on any plans, you are so wrong. DCPCB has requested detailed plans from every school, OSSE is overseeing this and the is coordination between LEAs. If anything, they are working more now than they were before. It’s like saying parents are lazy and they should just do what they need to do.. no?

[Anonymous]

I don't think people are saying that schools aren't working on plans. They are saying that schools aren't communicating with parents about their plans. At my school, the results of our summer survey were not shared, so I have no idea who at our school is or is not willing to send kids back.

No one is calling teachers lazy. Youre just trying to find a reason to be offended by this thread.

If schools are working with DCPSB, then that should be shared with parents, too!

[Anonymous]

Ditto. I just want to know what the plans are.

The lack of concern for the parent perspective is to be expected, I guess. They've got nothing to lose if they just string us along indefinitely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent at another dual language charter here. Having read that article know more about LAMB's decisionmaking process than what is going on at my charter. I also know more about what LAMB teachers want than my own. I don't envy the school leaders here, but I see no harm in sharing the information they have before them. If most teachers don't want to come back to a school before a vaccine, then they should be telling parents ASAP. I can't keep waiting for news every quarter about what are options are. And it's frustrating that it seems that hybrid is out the window across the city. I have no hopes that we'll see options beyond DL at our school, except for some social hour playdate type arrangements for PK students. And if that's the case, I hope our school just comes right out and says it.

My concern is that teachers won't even come back with a vaccine, or they won't deem one safe enough.

[Anonymous]

Teachers are refusing to work, and schools are refusing to force teachers to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are refusing to work, and schools are refusing to force teachers to work.

This is not the case at LAMB. They are working, just differently.

Distance learning seems like a lot more work than in person- I have 3 kids at LAMB and I’ve observed how hard the teachers are working- some teachers are more effective than others but all six of my kids’ classroom teachers seem to be working extraordinarily hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are refusing to work, and schools are refusing to force teachers to work.

This is not the case at LAMB. They are working, just differently.

Distance learning seems like a lot more work than in person- I have 3 kids at LAMB and I’ve observed how hard the teachers are working- some teachers are more effective than others but all six of my kids’ classroom teachers seem to be working extraordinarily hard.

True. They work a few hours per day, four days a week.

[Anonymous]

I wonder what happens if DCPS reopens (maybe even for hybrid) and the charters don't. Do you see parents dumping the charters for public? Could that happen mid-year? Would the charters care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are refusing to work, and schools are refusing to force teachers to work.

This is not the case at LAMB. They are working, just differently.

Distance learning seems like a lot more work than in person- I have 3 kids at LAMB and I’ve observed how hard the teachers are working- some teachers are more effective than others but all six of my kids’ classroom teachers seem to be working extraordinarily hard.

True. They work a few hours per day, four days a week.

I saw in another comment here that one teacher was like "I'm ALREADY on Zoom 6 hours a day and 3 on Wednesdays! What more could they want?!"

[Anonymous]

Maybe they think they will use the time for lesson planning, but based on what I've seen, they're not doing a whole lot of that.

[Anonymous]

Another Perry Stein hack-job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another Perry Stein hack-job.

I dont know what you're complaining about it. The story summarized everything Charis has told parents. Charis blamed teachers for not allowing LAMB to reopen.

[Anonymous]

I'm amazed that given LAMB's past issues with transparency, that they would not try to implement that regarding DL and re-opening. That can't be a good look to the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed that given LAMB's past issues with transparency, that they would not try to implement that regarding DL and re-opening. That can't be a good look to the board.

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