Schedule - full day!?!?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread pretty much sums it up. A bunch of bitter parents sniping at each other barely able to hide their jealousy about what others have or are able to do.

Jealousy? I believe we can all agree that a pandemic sucks for all and that we all have to make sacrifices. It’s clear that different approaches work for different families because we all have different kinds of jobs and kids! I was hoping the DL plan would be a bit more accommodating to the vast array of situations we are all facing. We are essential workers, others work in customer facing and in-person roles. It just seems like DCPS is out of touch with the reality many of us are facing.

The problem is that different people want different things. People complained that there wasn't enough live instruction, so they added some, and now people are complaining that there is too much. People complained about a lack of a consistent schedule, so they made one, and now people are complaining about the specific schedule. They can't please everyone. The schedule was created to be more like the in-person schedule, with a mix of whole-class instruction, small-group and independent work time, online work using apps, etc., and with movement breaks included because ES kids can't sit still and stare at a screen for three hours at a time.

Trying to accommodate everyone's personal situation isn't logistically feasible. This isn't ideal, but they did listen to feedback and try to address some of the issues we saw in the spring, to create something that was consistent and workable.

Different people want different things, but DCPS has clearly chosen an option that responds primarily to their interests (to show that they're providing the same hours of butts-in-seats as they did before). NOBODY asked for synchronous learning to be spread out over 5 logins in 6 hours. Nobody.

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Anonymous wrote:You can ask your school or the teacher to have all the live lessons you can’t attend with your kid recorded.

I’d do that for families who couldn’t always make a certain lesson. Then I could follow up with your child later.

I know it’s not ideal but this whole setup really isn’t at all.

They can't record lessons due to privacy at least according to our principal.

I’m sure this will be our schools position too. Privacy. Liability. Teacher captures parent argument in background, mandatory reporting, who knows what and now you’ve got it on tape.

And our principal said we should always record to post for the kids who can’t make it to the live sessions. DCPS needs to publicly release a policy!

Why am I not surprised that a DCPS principal would be ignorant of FERPA and media rights ... No, do not record. You don't have permission to record my child. If DCPS wants to provide an asynchronous option, then they need to do that.

When a recording starts on Teams it alerts each person in the meeting. It gives you an option to click a button if you do not consent and leave the meeting. If you don’t want to be recorded, watch the recorded lesson at a later time.

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Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

This is so sad.
The one time in life when you’ll actually be able to be active in your child’s education & you are showing them off.
I’m always unclear what jobs the DCUM types have where they are actively in meetings or calls all day...
I’m married to a lawyer & was a consultant myself, & now run my own business. Still can’t relate to the on all day jobs of this crew. Guess you all are all just big deals.

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Some of us have core hours. Which just happen to be during the school day. Which makes it impossible to both do your job and be available to direct the education of a young elementary student. While I’m not actively in calls or meetings all day, I am expected this o be available during my work hours when my manager calls me. Blowing him off so I can log my 6 year old into yet another distance learning session is not acceptable. Plus, I’m actually expected to produce a work product. When the distance school day is all day long with 5-10 minute breaks plus a lunch period, it looks like I would need to facilitate logging into sessions every 15-45 minutes throughout the day. I don’t generally work in 15-45 minute increments, but maybe you do?

How hard is it to help a first grader log into DL?

You walk over, while on the phone and point to the link you made during non core hours. Or if you're at your computer, you drop the link into a hangout when you have a moment, then hit return on your phone and it pops on his screen at the right moment.

How does that involve blowing your boss off? It's less time than walking to the sink to fill your water glass.

well for starters I can’t access Google hangout from my work computer. And a lot of us have kids that won’t just click the link. Plus my job involves stretches of intense focus - research and writing. multitasking at all is a big problem for my focus.

I’m sorry about your focus being damaged - so sad for you.