DL: How many hours a day?

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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.

What school? why shouldn't we name names! I don;t understand why so little live teaching. You have my kid normally for 7 hours a day? So now you are telling me they can learn all this BS in 2 hours a week of live teaching with another 2 hours of awful you tube videos? Stop using equity as the excuse. Every kid gets a device.

[Anonymous]

there is zero chance of hybrid, They wll string us along like they did during the first shut down. Oh, just DL until Oct, no wait, Nov, Ok maybe 2021 is our year. Im looking at privates now.

[Anonymous]

I wish parents would stop complaining about not having any live teaching. DCPS made it very clear that we were not allowed to do any live teaching due to equity. Teachers were allowed to have live check ins, live meetings, live help, live read alouds, and live small group sessions. I don't know if DCPS will continue to have this policy. We'll find out on Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish parents would stop complaining about not having any live teaching. DCPS made it very clear that we were not allowed to do any live teaching due to equity. Teachers were allowed to have live check ins, live meetings, live help, live read alouds, and live small group sessions. I don't know if DCPS will continue to have this policy. We'll find out on Friday.

I hope we'll find out on Friday! I'm worried we won't actually get much information, and I would really like more info so I can start really planning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish parents would stop complaining about not having any live teaching. DCPS made it very clear that we were not allowed to do any live teaching due to equity. Teachers were allowed to have live check ins, live meetings, live help, live read alouds, and live small group sessions. I don't know if DCPS will continue to have this policy. We'll find out on Friday.

Yea, and you know what? Some principals and teachers chose to IGNORE that directive because they knew it was wrong. It is WRONG to deprive kids of actual teaching for months.

[Anonymous]

There probably won’t be live learning so all these teachers can double dip and teach in pods.

[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.

That may be true in your neighborhood, but it is not true in my neighborhood. We see kids playing together regularly with not a mask in sight. Mixed ages, and I’m guessing the kids don’t all attend the same PCS or DCPS.

This is both affluent families who I assume think they’re “safe” because the working parent is working from home, and families on the way other end of the income spectrum.

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Hope I don't see any of our teachers at the grocery store or any store for that matter. You know, because they are so scared for their health.

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Anonymous wrote:Hope I don't see any of our teachers at the grocery store or any store for that matter. You know, because they are so scared for their health.

I’m a teacher and you don’t see me at any grocery store or any other store. I have everything delivered and I tip very generously. I haven’t been to a store since March 13th.

But I guess we could turn it around and say I hope we see all these parents back at work in the office since it was a-okay to open schools. We wouldn’t want people to think it isn’t safe to ride metro and you just wanted your kid out of the house.....right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hope I don't see any of our teachers at the grocery store or any store for that matter. You know, because they are so scared for their health.

I’m a teacher and you don’t see me at any grocery store or any other store. I have everything delivered and I tip very generously. I haven’t been to a store since March 13th.

But I guess we could turn it around and say I hope we see all these parents back at work in the office since it was a-okay to open schools. We wouldn’t want people to think it isn’t safe to ride metro and you just wanted your kid out of the house.....right?

Actually I never left work. I'm a doctor at a local hospital.

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Anonymous wrote:Hope I don't see any of our teachers at the grocery store or any store for that matter. You know, because they are so scared for their health.

I’m a teacher and you don’t see me at any grocery store or any other store. I have everything delivered and I tip very generously. I haven’t been to a store since March 13th.

But I guess we could turn it around and say I hope we see all these parents back at work in the office since it was a-okay to open schools. We wouldn’t want people to think it isn’t safe to ride metro and you just wanted your kid out of the house.....right?

Actually I never left work. I'm a doctor at a local hospital.

So is my husband! Which is why I am so so careful as we are already at an increased risk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hope I don't see any of our teachers at the grocery store or any store for that matter. You know, because they are so scared for their health.

I’m a teacher and you don’t see me at any grocery store or any other store. I have everything delivered and I tip very generously. I haven’t been to a store since March 13th.

But I guess we could turn it around and say I hope we see all these parents back at work in the office since it was a-okay to open schools. We wouldn’t want people to think it isn’t safe to ride metro and you just wanted your kid out of the house.....right?

Actually I never left work. I'm a doctor at a local hospital.

I thought doctors should be worried about a person's health. I think the person is being wise by minimizing outings and staying home. If others had taken this more sriously we wouldn't be the laughing stock of the world. Other countries have managed the virus so much better. As a parent, I don't care how many hours my children get of DL. They will stay at home for the time being and i am going to cherish every minute of it.

[Anonymous]

Schools in Asia and Europe are all re-opening. There are strict protocols in place with masking and distancing. They are making it happen. They are prioritizing their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools in Asia and Europe are all re-opening. There are strict protocols in place with masking and distancing. They are making it happen. They are prioritizing their kids.

They’re also providing adequate supplies for their students in non-COVID times, and necessary cleaning supplies, etc. I saw a photo of a school in Singapore where they’d installed plexi shields around every desk, like we have to protect cashiers at the grocery stores. And it doesn’t take 2 weeks to get test results.

The protocols are not just masking and distancing. It’s a comprehensive approach throughout the community of testing and tracing and providing the means to achieve the protocols.

Hell yeah they’re prioritizing their kids. The US isn’t doing that, but that isn’t new with COVID.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools in Asia and Europe are all re-opening. There are strict protocols in place with masking and distancing. They are making it happen. They are prioritizing their kids.

They’re also providing adequate supplies for their students in non-COVID times, and necessary cleaning supplies, etc. I saw a photo of a school in Singapore where they’d installed plexi shields around every desk, like we have to protect cashiers at the grocery stores. And it doesn’t take 2 weeks to get test results.

The protocols are not just masking and distancing. It’s a comprehensive approach throughout the community of testing and tracing and providing the means to achieve the protocols.

Hell yeah they’re prioritizing their kids. The US isn’t doing that, but that isn’t new with COVID.

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