Any charter schools confirm they are ending school year early?

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LAMB's schedule is unchanged. Ends June 17th, begins next year Aug. 31.

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Inspired teaching will do distance learning thru June 12

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Anonymous wrote:Inspired teaching will do distance learning thru June 12

So that's closing 1 week early?

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Anonymous wrote:Inspired teaching will do distance learning thru June 12

So that's closing 1 week early?

Roughly. Original last day was a half day on June 18

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I hope DCI follows LAMB - "Normal" schedule both for the end of the year and the beginning of next year. Minimum disruption...

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Anonymous wrote:Inspired teaching will do distance learning thru June 12

So that's closing 1 week early?

Roughly. Original last day was a half day on June 18

So, really they are only closing like 3 days early. Assuming Health, Safety and social distancing can be in place they are using the last week for students and teachers to pick up their belongings. As well as packing up class rooms like most school the class rooms were pretty much left as they were the last day in March.

I am actually glad they are keeping up with the distance learning. Over all the teachers have done a great job. I would rather finish this school year now vrs putting another thing up in the air for fall. But, then I am not sure if we will have in the classroom school in the fall-full time or part-time.

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Anonymous wrote:Inspired teaching will do distance learning thru June 12

So that's closing 1 week early?

Roughly. Original last day was a half day on June 18

So, really they are only closing like 3 days early. Assuming Health, Safety and social distancing can be in place they are using the last week for students and teachers to pick up their belongings. As well as packing up class rooms like most school the class rooms were pretty much left as they were the last day in March.

I am actually glad they are keeping up with the distance learning. Over all the teachers have done a great job. I would rather finish this school year now vrs putting another thing up in the air for fall. But, then I am not sure if we will have in the classroom school in the fall-full time or part-time.

The distance learning has been as good as we could reasonably expect. But I'm not sure any distance learning it's really worth the effort or cost that it takes. Who even knows.

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Anonymous wrote:My charter surveyed families this week if they'd prefer online learning through the 29th or through the planned end of year.

That would be nice. I don't think our school did this

I can also understand why a school would NOT do this. Once people give their input/opinion, they can often be really salty when it isn't followed.

That is a bad reason not to seek out input when input would help weigh the decision making.

We are years from DCI but I am impressed hearing this is their approach.

but seriously: what would a school administration do if they hear back and there is no clear "winning" direction? what if it's a 50/50 split? what if all the UMC families want it to stop, but higher needs, lower income families need all the distance learning days a school can provide? or vice versa? How do they juggle all of these data points and make a decision without all of the families whose perspective was not the one agreed to feeling slighted/not listened to?

In my personal and professional experience, if you ask people for their input and opinion and then don't go that way, you end up with a lot of upset people.

Totally disagree. So school leaders should do whatever they want without input from families, their needs, what would work for them and what would not?

You can’t please everyone but you can get a sense of what the majority would agree or want and this can influence your decision moving forward to best meet those needs.

It’s not a economic class division of lower or middle class sum game. So for those who justify their school’s failing in not getting input from families as a class war is nonesense. We see thru it. You can easily reach the majority of families like our school does thru email and phone text links.

Dcps did what they wanted without impute. Why would PUBLIC charters be any different??
I don't expect to have impute on this type of thing. I expect the school to do the what they think is the best for their program, staff and students. I don't expect a vote in the schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:My charter surveyed families this week if they'd prefer online learning through the 29th or through the planned end of year.

That would be nice. I don't think our school did this

I can also understand why a school would NOT do this. Once people give their input/opinion, they can often be really salty when it isn't followed.

That is a bad reason not to seek out input when input would help weigh the decision making.

We are years from DCI but I am impressed hearing this is their approach.

but seriously: what would a school administration do if they hear back and there is no clear "winning" direction? what if it's a 50/50 split? what if all the UMC families want it to stop, but higher needs, lower income families need all the distance learning days a school can provide? or vice versa? How do they juggle all of these data points and make a decision without all of the families whose perspective was not the one agreed to feeling slighted/not listened to?

In my personal and professional experience, if you ask people for their input and opinion and then don't go that way, you end up with a lot of upset people.

Totally disagree. So school leaders should do whatever they want without input from families, their needs, what would work for them and what would not?

You can’t please everyone but you can get a sense of what the majority would agree or want and this can influence your decision moving forward to best meet those needs.

It’s not a economic class division of lower or middle class sum game. So for those who justify their school’s failing in not getting input from families as a class war is nonesense. We see thru it. You can easily reach the majority of families like our school does thru email and phone text links.

Dcps did what they wanted without impute. Why would PUBLIC charters be any different??
I don't expect to have impute on this type of thing. I expect the school to do the what they think is the best for their program, staff and students. I don't expect a vote in the schedule.

You are upset that a school you don't attend surveyed their own parents? Yeesh.

DCPS just surveyed parents, btw.

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Anonymous wrote:My charter surveyed families this week if they'd prefer online learning through the 29th or through the planned end of year.

That would be nice. I don't think our school did this

I can also understand why a school would NOT do this. Once people give their input/opinion, they can often be really salty when it isn't followed.

That is a bad reason not to seek out input when input would help weigh the decision making.

We are years from DCI but I am impressed hearing this is their approach.

but seriously: what would a school administration do if they hear back and there is no clear "winning" direction? what if it's a 50/50 split? what if all the UMC families want it to stop, but higher needs, lower income families need all the distance learning days a school can provide? or vice versa? How do they juggle all of these data points and make a decision without all of the families whose perspective was not the one agreed to feeling slighted/not listened to?

In my personal and professional experience, if you ask people for their input and opinion and then don't go that way, you end up with a lot of upset people.

Totally disagree. So school leaders should do whatever they want without input from families, their needs, what would work for them and what would not?

You can’t please everyone but you can get a sense of what the majority would agree or want and this can influence your decision moving forward to best meet those needs.

It’s not a economic class division of lower or middle class sum game. So for those who justify their school’s failing in not getting input from families as a class war is nonesense. We see thru it. You can easily reach the majority of families like our school does thru email and phone text links.

Dcps did what they wanted without impute. Why would PUBLIC charters be any different??
I don't expect to have impute on this type of thing. I expect the school to do the what they think is the best for their program, staff and students. I don't expect a vote in the schedule.

You are upset that a school you don't attend surveyed their own parents? Yeesh.

DCPS just surveyed parents, btw.

Right, but dcps didn't ask families anything until after they already decided to close and stop distance learning early.
They are getting feedback from so many schools and grade levels where as most Charters have a smaller target audience.
Pretty sure dcps is gonna do whatever dcps wants to do. Much like the calendar asking is really just about optics.