Why is Janney not fully open 4 days a week vs Murch and Lafayette?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of the teachers in third grade are doing in person this term. But because of space limitations, it's only two full days a week for each class. The children will be on their regular virtual schedule on the other days so no loss of virtual instruction the other days. I am satisfied with this situation.

2 full days is 14 hours of IPL. Some grades literally have 5 hours of IPL and their DL has been cut as well. My child has one day where she has only one instructional block (not Weds).

Seriously third grade parent. Your kid with two full days is getting more time than most kids at janney.
Most of us are getting 5 hours.

[Anonymous]

Right- I understand (from DCUM) that neither Murch nor Lafayette is doing simulcasting. If that is true, then that’s not an explanation for the difference between Janney and the other schools.

[Anonymous]

Lafayette is disregarding the 3 foot recommendation. (which I would be fine with).
They also have more teachers coming back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right- I understand (from DCUM) that neither Murch nor Lafayette is doing simulcasting. If that is true, then that’s not an explanation for the difference between Janney and the other schools.

Murch is definitely simulcasting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the teachers in third grade are doing in person this term. But because of space limitations, it's only two full days a week for each class. The children will be on their regular virtual schedule on the other days so no loss of virtual instruction the other days. I am satisfied with this situation.

2 full days is 14 hours of IPL. Some grades literally have 5 hours of IPL and their DL has been cut as well. My child has one day where she has only one instructional block (not Weds).

Seriously third grade parent. Your kid with two full days is getting more time than most kids at janney.
Most of us are getting 5 hours.

I'm sorry. My kid hasn't set foot in a school all year and honestly I didn't expect him to. Unfortunately the situation this year has sucked for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Lafayette is dispensing with the 6 FOOT rule, not 3 foot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lafayette is dispensing with the 6 FOOT rule, not 3 foot.

No, they are under 3 feet. It was discussed on here before. They are running classrooms of 22 kids in normal sized rooms.

Going from 6 feet to 3 feet only allows schools to add a handful of kids (from 11 to something like 15). If they are running rooms of 20+ (which they are) they are choosing to disregard the 3 foot recommendation.
The private schools are as well--my daughter attends a private and they are just not doing the 3 foot thing which allows them to run larger classes.
It is a recommendation, not a law.

[Anonymous]

How can we go from living under a mandated 6’ distancing rule to a “recommended” 3’ distancing rule?? These rules make NO sense.

[Anonymous]

Lafayette is NOT simulcasting. Virtual learner are in classes with only other virtual learners.

IPL and virtual learners are NOT in classes together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the teachers in third grade are doing in person this term. But because of space limitations, it's only two full days a week for each class. The children will be on their regular virtual schedule on the other days so no loss of virtual instruction the other days. I am satisfied with this situation.

2 full days is 14 hours of IPL. Some grades literally have 5 hours of IPL and their DL has been cut as well. My child has one day where she has only one instructional block (not Weds).

Seriously third grade parent. Your kid with two full days is getting more time than most kids at janney.
Most of us are getting 5 hours.

I'm sorry. My kid hasn't set foot in a school all year and honestly I didn't expect him to. Unfortunately the situation this year has sucked for everyone.

I don’t begrudge anyone whose kids have more IPL hours! I’m just really mad about some grades having a paltry 5 hours a week of IPL and reduced DL live instruction time. I get that the logistics are hard but how anyone thought what they came up with is acceptable - I don’t understand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure the principal can force staff back but it's not 4 days a week because there are teachers who are refusing to come back.

At a Lafayette Principal Broquard got the job done. The only teachers who have not come
back have an ADA exemption. The Principal shows real leadership and care for students in bringing back over 700 kids today. She has the right priorities.

Kudos to leadership but isn't facility size also a consideration? Some schools simply don't have the space. I don't know about Janney but Lafayette just underwent a huge expansion and renovation. Separate from facility size, since IPL can only be a hybrid with a few days/hours a week, some families prefer to keep their current schedule (with 3rd party tutors or child care). So there is indeed a need to keep some teachers virtual for those students (from less outspoken IPL families).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janney teachers are a dime a dozen. There is nothing special (we have been there and at other DC Schools).

Let them leave. As I reflect on my children's education, the best teachers were from a Title 1 school.

The Janney teachers are fine, sweet, mostly inexperienced. They get high impact ratings because there are few students who have behavior challenges / are not prepared for school.

I am hopeful that DC shakes up the leadership team like they did for Lafayette.

Why didn’t you stay at your Title 1?

We thought there was something behind the hype

😂🤣 Sure, Jan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right- I understand (from DCUM) that neither Murch nor Lafayette is doing simulcasting. If that is true, then that’s not an explanation for the difference between Janney and the other schools.

I read that language to mean that because Lafayette and Murch WERE doing simulcasting for some of Q3, they can bring in all the kids who were simulcasting now for in-person class without changing the class assignments -- which Janney can't do, because there was never simulcasting in the first place and so bringing in more classes would require shuffling up all the homeroom assignments, which isn't permitted. But maybe I'm misunderstanding it, the whole thing has been quite complicated.

[Anonymous]

I think schools can do what they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right- I understand (from DCUM) that neither Murch nor Lafayette is doing simulcasting. If that is true, then that’s not an explanation for the difference between Janney and the other schools.

I read that language to mean that because Lafayette and Murch WERE doing simulcasting for some of Q3, they can bring in all the kids who were simulcasting now for in-person class without changing the class assignments -- which Janney can't do, because there was never simulcasting in the first place and so bringing in more classes would require shuffling up all the homeroom assignments, which isn't permitted. But maybe I'm misunderstanding it, the whole thing has been quite complicated.

Right but I’ve read that students have switched teachers at Lafayette so this can’t be a DCPS rule.