DC just announced all virtual

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She is NOT happy with the union. "40% of DC government is already back at work"

My husband works for DCgov. 40% is being very generous. Pretty much the only people working are DPW abs and libraries (which rumor has it are about to close)

I'm DC government and am surprised to hear this. Potentially lots of bodies in DPW? My agency is largely public facing and have modified operations to keep the work force remote. Possibly that's our Director's effort and not DC government wide?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excellent!

The Hybrid was going to be a mess. Teachers would get sick, no subs, half-assessed or no learning on the home days, etc.

Are you a teacher? If so, did you teach live lessons? I don't know any teachers that were teaching live in the spring that want to go back to that - it was a horrible experience. Not until today did I consider applying for leave, this changes my outlook about going back to school completely.

Wait, so there's a whole host of teachers who want to quit based on DL? On what grounds could you apply for leave?

In my teaching community I do not know one person who taught live lessons in the spring that wasn't holding onto their sanity by the time May 29th rolled around and couldn't wait for it to be over. It is thankless, frustrating and emotionally draining. I would guess the majority of teachers were not doing live lessons.

Any other teachers around that can speak favorably about live learning? I need some hope.

[Anonymous]

I guess DC's small children didn't donate as much to her campaign coffers as the restaurant lobbyists did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:K-2, 2 hours of live instruction daily.
3-5, 2-3 hours of live instruction, starts earlier.

Incorrect!!

PK-5 1-3 hours

Middle-HS 4-5 hours


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0HlgnZ9DI&feature=youtu.be

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excellent!

The Hybrid was going to be a mess. Teachers would get sick, no subs, half-assessed or no learning on the home days, etc.

Are you a teacher? If so, did you teach live lessons? I don't know any teachers that were teaching live in the spring that want to go back to that - it was a horrible experience. Not until today did I consider applying for leave, this changes my outlook about going back to school completely.

Wait, so there's a whole host of teachers who want to quit based on DL? On what grounds could you apply for leave?

In my teaching community I do not know one person who taught live lessons in the spring that wasn't holding onto their sanity by the time May 29th rolled around and couldn't wait for it to be over. It is thankless, frustrating and emotionally draining. I would guess the majority of teachers were not doing live lessons.

Any other teachers around that can speak favorably about live learning? I need some hope.

Teacher here...I found the whole group wayyy to much and unsustainable. It went a lot better when I did a pivot around mid-April to small groups (no more than 12 kids) and some smaller 20-30 min groups of 5 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K-2, 2 hours of live instruction daily.
3-5, 2-3 hours of live instruction, starts earlier.

Incorrect!!

PK-5 1-3 hours

Middle-HS 4-5 hours


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0HlgnZ9DI&feature=youtu.be

Did anyone figure out when each grade band starts school? All of the diagrams show a clock with 8:00-3:00, but Ferebee kept referring to "as you can see" it is later for older kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excellent!

The Hybrid was going to be a mess. Teachers would get sick, no subs, half-assessed or no learning on the home days, etc.

Are you a teacher? If so, did you teach live lessons? I don't know any teachers that were teaching live in the spring that want to go back to that - it was a horrible experience. Not until today did I consider applying for leave, this changes my outlook about going back to school completely.

Wait, so there's a whole host of teachers who want to quit based on DL? On what grounds could you apply for leave?

In my teaching community I do not know one person who taught live lessons in the spring that wasn't holding onto their sanity by the time May 29th rolled around and couldn't wait for it to be over. It is thankless, frustrating and emotionally draining. I would guess the majority of teachers were not doing live lessons.

Any other teachers around that can speak favorably about live learning? I need some hope.

Teachers seem to want to be paid not to work at all.

Please spare me. I've spent 20+ hours this week filming lessons and labs already this week.

[Anonymous]

AU, GU and GWU have all gone virtual this week for this fall (all residence halls closed).

DCPS is not alone in the District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excellent!

The Hybrid was going to be a mess. Teachers would get sick, no subs, half-assessed or no learning on the home days, etc.

Are you a teacher? If so, did you teach live lessons? I don't know any teachers that were teaching live in the spring that want to go back to that - it was a horrible experience. Not until today did I consider applying for leave, this changes my outlook about going back to school completely.

Wait, so there's a whole host of teachers who want to quit based on DL? On what grounds could you apply for leave?

In my teaching community I do not know one person who taught live lessons in the spring that wasn't holding onto their sanity by the time May 29th rolled around and couldn't wait for it to be over. It is thankless, frustrating and emotionally draining. I would guess the majority of teachers were not doing live lessons.

Any other teachers around that can speak favorably about live learning? I need some hope.

Teachers seem to want to be paid not to work at all.

Please spare me. I've spent 20+ hours this week filming lessons and labs already this week.

. Sorry about the redundancy...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K-2, 2 hours of live instruction daily.
3-5, 2-3 hours of live instruction, starts earlier.

Incorrect!!

PK-5 1-3 hours

Middle-HS 4-5 hours


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0HlgnZ9DI&feature=youtu.be

Not what he said and not what is on the handout.

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/page_content/attachments/School-Year-20-21-Presentation_07-30-20.pdf
PK- 30-60 min
K-2 2hrs
3-5 2-3 hrs
6-12 4-5 hrs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excellent!

The Hybrid was going to be a mess. Teachers would get sick, no subs, half-assessed or no learning on the home days, etc.

Are you a teacher? If so, did you teach live lessons? I don't know any teachers that were teaching live in the spring that want to go back to that - it was a horrible experience. Not until today did I consider applying for leave, this changes my outlook about going back to school completely.

Wait, so there's a whole host of teachers who want to quit based on DL? On what grounds could you apply for leave?

In my teaching community I do not know one person who taught live lessons in the spring that wasn't holding onto their sanity by the time May 29th rolled around and couldn't wait for it to be over. It is thankless, frustrating and emotionally draining. I would guess the majority of teachers were not doing live lessons.

Any other teachers around that can speak favorably about live learning? I need some hope.

Teachers seem to want to be paid not to work at all.

Not this teacher (who you are responding to), I would volunteer to be back in the school working with my special needs kiddos tomorrow , full - time if someone would let me. But don't worry, if I think my mental health will go off the cliff in the fall I will quit, rather than take leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excellent!

The Hybrid was going to be a mess. Teachers would get sick, no subs, half-assessed or no learning on the home days, etc.

Are you a teacher? If so, did you teach live lessons? I don't know any teachers that were teaching live in the spring that want to go back to that - it was a horrible experience. Not until today did I consider applying for leave, this changes my outlook about going back to school completely.

Wait, so there's a whole host of teachers who want to quit based on DL? On what grounds could you apply for leave?

In my teaching community I do not know one person who taught live lessons in the spring that wasn't holding onto their sanity by the time May 29th rolled around and couldn't wait for it to be over. It is thankless, frustrating and emotionally draining. I would guess the majority of teachers were not doing live lessons.

Any other teachers around that can speak favorably about live learning? I need some hope.

Teacher here...I found the whole group wayyy to much and unsustainable. It went a lot better when I did a pivot around mid-April to small groups (no more than 12 kids) and some smaller 20-30 min groups of 5 kids.

Hey whole group live I only did morning meeting! But it wasn’t what I wanted so that will be asynchronous.

Small groups live are great!! That’s what I recommend as live and 1/3 group social emotional lessons. Those are fun and kids get to interact with each other.

If you can 1 on 1 are the BEST! Don’t worry live isn’t so bad, just like the classroom kids fall into routine. Just set guidelines for families, most families are very helpful in making sure their kid is in a relatively quite space.

[Anonymous]

FML. This approach is a disaster for my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excellent!

The Hybrid was going to be a mess. Teachers would get sick, no subs, half-assessed or no learning on the home days, etc.

Are you a teacher? If so, did you teach live lessons? I don't know any teachers that were teaching live in the spring that want to go back to that - it was a horrible experience. Not until today did I consider applying for leave, this changes my outlook about going back to school completely.

Wait, so there's a whole host of teachers who want to quit based on DL? On what grounds could you apply for leave?

In my teaching community I do not know one person who taught live lessons in the spring that wasn't holding onto their sanity by the time May 29th rolled around and couldn't wait for it to be over. It is thankless, frustrating and emotionally draining. I would guess the majority of teachers were not doing live lessons.

Any other teachers around that can speak favorably about live learning? I need some hope.

Teachers seem to want to be paid not to work at all.

Not this teacher (who you are responding to), I would volunteer to be back in the school working with my special needs kiddos tomorrow , full - time if someone would let me. But don't worry, if I think my mental health will go off the cliff in the fall I will quit, rather than take leave.

Hey fellow sped teacher, that person is just salty. Don’t take it to heart! I’m with you, I want to be in person with my kiddos too! Online it was really tough to get parent on board, not the kids.
If their child would have one tantrum they’d apologize and be like we are done! I’m like ‘no wait they will work, deep breaths’

This is hard for parents too, I’m sure they feel heartbroken their kiddos won’t be doing class in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excellent!

The Hybrid was going to be a mess. Teachers would get sick, no subs, half-assessed or no learning on the home days, etc.

Are you a teacher? If so, did you teach live lessons? I don't know any teachers that were teaching live in the spring that want to go back to that - it was a horrible experience. Not until today did I consider applying for leave, this changes my outlook about going back to school completely.

Wait, so there's a whole host of teachers who want to quit based on DL? On what grounds could you apply for leave?

In my teaching community I do not know one person who taught live lessons in the spring that wasn't holding onto their sanity by the time May 29th rolled around and couldn't wait for it to be over. It is thankless, frustrating and emotionally draining. I would guess the majority of teachers were not doing live lessons.

Any other teachers around that can speak favorably about live learning? I need some hope.

It seemed draining to the teachers but also to the students. How do I opt out of virtual learning? DC is way ahead and we'd rather do reading, math, Spanish, PE, writing at home and then turn it in. We do not want to leave DCPS. Sitting on Zoom taught DC nothing (was in K). Might be different this time around but I doubt.
Our teacher did let us do the bare minimum and I'm thankful for that. DC did not understand or care that Zoom is school.