Did your school seek parent feedback on possible distance learning schedules?

[Anonymous]

I’m at a school where parents fought about having the kinder split into A & B groups and now crying that the kinder class is too big. Well, duh!

My admin has roped in another teacher- who is ignoring her real job , to put another pacifier in these dummies mouths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

Hard to argue with a parent poll.

You all didn't do the prep work needed to make this Fall as successful as it could be. You shouldn't consider yourself a professional. You aren't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm growing increasingly irritated that our school didn't seek any type of feedback from parents.

Did this happen elsewhere? What form did it take?

Sure would have been nice to send three feasible schedules to parents and have allowed them to vote for the one that would have best served their child and family during this challenging time.

Yes, but then they completely ignored what people said.

Same! They went against the wishes of 90% of the parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

Hard to argue with a parent poll.

You all didn't do the prep work needed to make this Fall as successful as it could be. You shouldn't consider yourself a professional. You aren't.

Then leave, homeschool or go to a new city where the ‘professionals’ can help you Karen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can I ask how schools would have gathered input in 5 days? My school had the teachers make the schedule and it took a week, the district gave schools a week to turn in a plan...

Also how did you plan on getting all kids instruction done by 12? Some kids would always have to be later.

What I would have liked is if DCPS allowed each classroom to make their own schedule. But they needed a mass schedule so if a parent complains because the teacher tweaked the schedule to help them they will be at fault and not dcps.

Where do you get 5 days? Anyone who reads a newspaper knows that virtual instruction was coming - if not in Sept, then in winter months. The schools literally had MONTHS to think this through.

As someone involved in the scheduling for our school it’s true we had five days. We had to receive from the district all of the requirements and guidelines before we could proceed. Five days. And it was such a complicated puzzle we were lucky to get even one decent version!

So explain why the first 3 weeks aren't just two 1-hour chat SEL sessions and meaningful planning for actual learning? I understand it's ridiculous, but truly you all should have been planning since MARCH.

Your reply was disrespectful. Many people spent countless hours sweating over what would be best for you, your child, and all parties. Those who did that planning were mandated to start as we meant to go on. So you are barking up the wrong tree. I’m sorry this situation has been so hard on families. Trust me that it’s been hard on teachers and administrators too. I promise you, though, that everyone had children’s best interest front and center in their approach to planning, even if it is less than perfect. Please ask yourself as you post in an anonymous forum whether your mother would be proud of your approach? I wish you and your family well.

How is this disrespectful? I'm advocating for you all to have the appropriate time to actually plan to teach. And how does 40 hours (one week, as you say) count as "countless hours"? My young kids' schedule is like this:

8:30 (x2)
9:00
9:30 (x2)
10:30
11:15 (x2)
12:30
1:00
1:30 (x2)
2:30
3:00

So that's helping one of them get all their supplies and logon because he just turned 5. And it's helping the other through a lot of confusion, remembering to check all the channels so he submits his assignments on time. Checking back on at least 3 subjects where videos haven't been working. Etc etc.

And did you notice? There isn't a long enough break for us to get outside.

How is that schedule working for anyone? I am not currently working and it's still infuriating. Why can't the teachers just live teach for 90 minutes twice a day? Why does my 7 year old who is doing more advanced math have to spend an entire hour on the computer doing number bonds for 10s in order to get a good grade? What an awful, soul sucking thing. Why can't he use her paper book? Or worksheets? Or have decent enough software that he can advance?

I guess my kids are learning how to manage frustration, but that's about it. We all hate it. I'm absolutely and thoroughly disappointed that this is what they landed on after March.

+ 1

DCPS failed little kids (Kindergarten)
Doing ok with the 2nd grade + (Not always ideal, but manageable)

In failing little kids, they failed families. It's really inexcusable because some schools (those with A blocks and B blocks) got it right.

I think this is right. We're barely doing ok with 3rd grade because the teachers are making heroic efforts to do tech support and not bother parents. (In fact I overheard the teacher discouraging one girl from getting her dad today, in case he was working!) I still think that some of their choices don't make sense (overly long full-class meetings) but it is working out better than expected and with not that much interruption of my day. One thing that really helped me psychologically is that the teachers and principal actually made very clear that they were going to work hard to get the kids self-sufficient.

But for the younger kids (probably including 2nd?) it seems hopeless to try to expect the kids to be able to manage on their own. They really needed to have a schedule that minimized synchronous big-group time, and compressed it all into no more than 2 sessions/day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

Hard to argue with a parent poll.

You all didn't do the prep work needed to make this Fall as successful as it could be. You shouldn't consider yourself a professional. You aren't.

Then leave, homeschool or go to a new city where the ‘professionals’ can help you Karen.

You don't get it. You're the Karen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

Hard to argue with a parent poll.

You all didn't do the prep work needed to make this Fall as successful as it could be. You shouldn't consider yourself a professional. You aren't.

Then leave, homeschool or go to a new city where the ‘professionals’ can help you Karen.

You don't get it. You're the Karen.

I’m not White but nice try. You don’t believe the professionals here are ones so go to a city where you’ll fit in better and be happier.

PS.teachers don’t have to prep over the summer for you. I have another job then, also not all teachers made the schedule admin did. And they were not allowed to do so until central office gave them the green light.

This is why you are a Karen, you act like you know more that everyone yet you have none of the details. You feel entitled to be given an opinion and think you should and always are the priority. Times are changing, thank god.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

Hard to argue with a parent poll.

You all didn't do the prep work needed to make this Fall as successful as it could be. You shouldn't consider yourself a professional. You aren't.

Then leave, homeschool or go to a new city where the ‘professionals’ can help you Karen.

You don't get it. You're the Karen.

I’m not White but nice try. You don’t believe the professionals here are ones so go to a city where you’ll fit in better and be happier.

PS.teachers don’t have to prep over the summer for you. I have another job then, also not all teachers made the schedule admin did. And they were not allowed to do so until central office gave them the green light.

This is why you are a Karen, you act like you know more that everyone yet you have none of the details. You feel entitled to be given an opinion and think you should and always are the priority. Times are changing, thank god.

This is why you're a Karen. You think because you have the title "teacher" that you are good at your job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

Hard to argue with a parent poll.

You all didn't do the prep work needed to make this Fall as successful as it could be. You shouldn't consider yourself a professional. You aren't.

Then leave, homeschool or go to a new city where the ‘professionals’ can help you Karen.

You don't get it. You're the Karen.

I’m not White but nice try. You don’t believe the professionals here are ones so go to a city where you’ll fit in better and be happier.

PS.teachers don’t have to prep over the summer for you. I have another job then, also not all teachers made the schedule admin did. And they were not allowed to do so until central office gave them the green light.

This is why you are a Karen, you act like you know more that everyone yet you have none of the details. You feel entitled to be given an opinion and think you should and always are the priority. Times are changing, thank god.

This is why you're a Karen. You think because you have the title "teacher" that you are good at your job.

I’d love your validation but I get plenty of validation from parents, administrators, students, and my impact score.
Also are you a Boomer too? It seems you don’t know what ‘Karen’ means. It’s not a big deal, we all get old and irrelevant one day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

Hard to argue with a parent poll.

You all didn't do the prep work needed to make this Fall as successful as it could be. You shouldn't consider yourself a professional. You aren't.

Then leave, homeschool or go to a new city where the ‘professionals’ can help you Karen.

You don't get it. You're the Karen.

I’m not White but nice try. You don’t believe the professionals here are ones so go to a city where you’ll fit in better and be happier.

PS.teachers don’t have to prep over the summer for you. I have another job then, also not all teachers made the schedule admin did. And they were not allowed to do so until central office gave them the green light.

This is why you are a Karen, you act like you know more that everyone yet you have none of the details. You feel entitled to be given an opinion and think you should and always are the priority. Times are changing, thank god.

This is why you're a Karen. You think because you have the title "teacher" that you are good at your job.

I’d love your validation but I get plenty of validation from parents, administrators, students, and my impact score.
Also are you a Boomer too? It seems you don’t know what ‘Karen’ means. It’s not a big deal, we all get old and irrelevant one day.

One must at one point be relevant to “become irrelevant”.

I would love to be a boomer still invested public education. Sounds like a compliment to me!

[Anonymous]

DCPS needs SurveyMonkey STAT!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think that the school would have been able to solicit input from parents - the mayor did not make a decision on Distance Learning until July 30th, and schools were not permitted to make plans for a distance learning schedule until then. The district then provided schools with guidelines on August 10th, which pretty much mandated everything that needed to happen. They demanded a finalized schedule by the end of the week.

Yes, this. Be mad at the Mayor for deciding on fully distance learning a month after all the surrounding school districts had already made the call. For all the schools knew until the end of July, they were going to have hybrid learning, and they were trying to figure out how to split the classes into the appropriate sizes for social distancing! Then again, if the mayor had called for DL in June, we would have gotten the same screeching about how dare she make a decision so early when the case counts were x or y and so on. Truthfully, on DCUM, there are some people for whom NO possible schedule or plan would have made them happy. If we had full-time, five days a week school, they would be bellyaching about mask mandates or no field trips or SOMETHING.

And the DCUM Screechers would have also then claimed that the surrounding districts made their decisions only because of Bowser (notwithstanidng how much bigger than DCPS they are).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS needs SurveyMonkey STAT!

Lol so they can ignore the results?