DL: How many hours a day?

[Anonymous]

I think some of the reason parents want in person so much is they have a incorrect vision of what school will be like for kids. Kids will not be returning to the same loving, caring place they left. It will feel sterile. Kids in rows, no group work, no socializing, no sitting with friends, no laughing and giggling during lunch, no fun time in gym or art. It’s going to be wildly different. I think some parents (NOT ALL) are counting on DCPS or some schools not following all the rules so their kids will have a semblance of what school used to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

This was us! In second grade! Creative Minds PCS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think some of the reason parents want in person so much is they have a incorrect vision of what school will be like for kids. Kids will not be returning to the same loving, caring place they left. It will feel sterile. Kids in rows, no group work, no socializing, no sitting with friends, no laughing and giggling during lunch, no fun time in gym or art. It’s going to be wildly different. I think some parents (NOT ALL) are counting on DCPS or some schools not following all the rules so their kids will have a semblance of what school used to be.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think some of the reason parents want in person so much is they have a incorrect vision of what school will be like for kids. Kids will not be returning to the same loving, caring place they left. It will feel sterile. Kids in rows, no group work, no socializing, no sitting with friends, no laughing and giggling during lunch, no fun time in gym or art. It’s going to be wildly different. I think some parents (NOT ALL) are counting on DCPS or some schools not following all the rules so their kids will have a semblance of what school used to be.

I've seen this popping up in various places (facebook and internet content farm sites like ScaryMommy). Some are even claiming that it would be "traumatic" to have kids return with having to observe social distancing and wear masks. I think that's absurd. Kids are resilient, and being in school learning directly will have a lot more benefit on the whole than staying home. Social distancing does not mean kids can't play together or that teachers can't love and care for their kids. This seems to be the new line of a particularly annoying group of moms who are attached to "play based learning!" etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

Our school had two, 25-min live sessions per week. Insane. It all fell to the parents. We’ve already been engaging the chancellor’s office to make sure our principal doesn’t pull this stunt again.

Was this Hearst?

I’m a NP, my kids go to Hearst and this sounds like what they got! It was really horrific and better not happen again.

At our DCPS elementary school, we had NO live teaching. AT ALL.

My oldest child also had 2 25 minute sessions per week, but it wasn’t teaching. It was utter chaos where the teacher asked a question and each kid was supposed to answer. But it was nothing academic, more like “what did you do this weekend.” Not Hearst, but nearby. But I got lots of emails from the teacher about my kid not appropriately checking off that she’d completed assignments on the list in one note after she did them. We had a ton of trouble using one note with our old ipad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think some of the reason parents want in person so much is they have a incorrect vision of what school will be like for kids. Kids will not be returning to the same loving, caring place they left. It will feel sterile. Kids in rows, no group work, no socializing, no sitting with friends, no laughing and giggling during lunch, no fun time in gym or art. It’s going to be wildly different. I think some parents (NOT ALL) are counting on DCPS or some schools not following all the rules so their kids will have a semblance of what school used to be.

I've seen this popping up in various places (facebook and internet content farm sites like ScaryMommy). Some are even claiming that it would be "traumatic" to have kids return with having to observe social distancing and wear masks. I think that's absurd. Kids are resilient, and being in school learning directly will have a lot more benefit on the whole than staying home. Social distancing does not mean kids can't play together or that teachers can't love and care for their kids. This seems to be the new line of a particularly annoying group of moms who are attached to "play based learning!" etc.

No teacher I know is preparing to allow the children to socialize in their room. Especially not at lunch when all students will have their masks off...it will be silent lunch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think some of the reason parents want in person so much is they have a incorrect vision of what school will be like for kids. Kids will not be returning to the same loving, caring place they left. It will feel sterile. Kids in rows, no group work, no socializing, no sitting with friends, no laughing and giggling during lunch, no fun time in gym or art. It’s going to be wildly different. I think some parents (NOT ALL) are counting on DCPS or some schools not following all the rules so their kids will have a semblance of what school used to be.

I've seen this popping up in various places (facebook and internet content farm sites like ScaryMommy). Some are even claiming that it would be "traumatic" to have kids return with having to observe social distancing and wear masks. I think that's absurd. Kids are resilient, and being in school learning directly will have a lot more benefit on the whole than staying home. Social distancing does not mean kids can't play together or that teachers can't love and care for their kids. This seems to be the new line of a particularly annoying group of moms who are attached to "play based learning!" etc.

There will be no recess, I’m not sure what you’re imagining.

And it depends if people believe that children just can’t get that love at home, where it will not just be verbal but physical as well.
There won’t be close socialization, no I don’t think this is traumatic but just a little too sterile for my kiddo. So DL/pod it is.

At school I’m sure everyone will make every effort to make sure kids don’t touch anyone.

[Anonymous]

My kids, like everyone else's kids, has been distance learning and keeping safe since mid-March. Keeping safe in the pandemic has been grilled into them since mid-March. They are used to wearing a mask now. They know to keep a safe distance from people including their friends. They see their friends around the neighborhood and say hi and know not to run up to them and touch them. This is not a new issue- they will have over 5 months of experience with this when school starts.

Teachers and principals will need to lay down the law with parents. If kids misbehave, disrupt class, start monkeying around, don't wear a mask properly...they will be booted out of school fast. Parents and kids need to understand that this is a zero-tolerance time.

I think schools can safely operate with lower occupancy numbers, masks for everyone, no movement between classrooms. I think teachers can safely do their jobs under these conditions. I will happily get them a face shield and N95 mask if that is what they need to do their job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids, like everyone else's kids, has been distance learning and keeping safe since mid-March. Keeping safe in the pandemic has been grilled into them since mid-March. They are used to wearing a mask now. They know to keep a safe distance from people including their friends. They see their friends around the neighborhood and say hi and know not to run up to them and touch them. This is not a new issue- they will have over 5 months of experience with this when school starts.

Teachers and principals will need to lay down the law with parents. If kids misbehave, disrupt class, start monkeying around, don't wear a mask properly...they will be booted out of school fast. Parents and kids need to understand that this is a zero-tolerance time.

I think schools can safely operate with lower occupancy numbers, masks for everyone, no movement between classrooms. I think teachers can safely do their jobs under these conditions. I will happily get them a face shield and N95 mask if that is what they need to do their job.

Teachers and principals will need to lay down the law with parents. If kids misbehave, disrupt class, start monkeying around, don't wear a mask properly...they will be booted out of school fast. Parents and kids need to understand that this is a zero-tolerance time.

This, plus fresh PPE every day. And new ventilation systems for each school.

Sadly, not happening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids, like everyone else's kids, has been distance learning and keeping safe since mid-March. Keeping safe in the pandemic has been grilled into them since mid-March. They are used to wearing a mask now. They know to keep a safe distance from people including their friends. They see their friends around the neighborhood and say hi and know not to run up to them and touch them. This is not a new issue- they will have over 5 months of experience with this when school starts.

Teachers and principals will need to lay down the law with parents. If kids misbehave, disrupt class, start monkeying around, don't wear a mask properly...they will be booted out of school fast. Parents and kids need to understand that this is a zero-tolerance time.

I think schools can safely operate with lower occupancy numbers, masks for everyone, no movement between classrooms. I think teachers can safely do their jobs under these conditions. I will happily get them a face shield and N95 mask if that is what they need to do their job.

Teachers and principals will need to lay down the law with parents. If kids misbehave, disrupt class, start monkeying around, don't wear a mask properly...they will be booted out of school fast. Parents and kids need to understand that this is a zero-tolerance time.

This, plus fresh PPE every day. And new ventilation systems for each school.

Sadly, not happening.

You’ll need David Grosso’s inane discipline bill revoked. If kids can punch a teacher unprovoked without being kicked out of school, removing a mask won’t affect them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a DCPS teacher, and I don't have any inside information on the schedule, but from conversations with my colleagues I think we are all planning to do more and require more from students than we did in the spring. For example, in the spring I had live sessions 2-3 times per week, and in the fall they will be 4-5 times per week. In addition, I am planning to pull more small groups and do more individual meetings than I did in the spring. I am expecting that the experience for students will be significantly more robust.

Curious- were your 2-3 live sessions available for all students to log in, if they had access and wanted to? Or was that 2-3 sessions and you divided up your 25 kids, so really they each got 1?

I did 2-3 whole group sessions in the spring, but this fall I am planning to do daily whole group sessions plus small groups (most of which will meet 2-3 times per week) and every other week individual meetings.

[Anonymous]

I can’t wait until Friday. They better outline everything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait until Friday. They better outline everything

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Are you taking about DCPS?!?!?!?!?!?!? Hahahahaha

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait until Friday. They better outline everything

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Are you taking about DCPS?!?!?!?!?!?!? Hahahahaha

Shhhhh! Let me have hope!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait until Friday. They better outline everything

I'm totally feeling the same way, that I have a million questions that I want them to answer. And I'm trying to accept that if I am lucky I will know if we are starting DL or hybrid, and I almost definitely won't get any of my other questions answered.