When will in-person and CARES slots "winners" be notified? And how?

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Anonymous wrote:Well PK4 at my DCPS will not have an in person classroom. It was my understanding that teachers could qualify to remain virtual due to health conditions. I can respect that but it makes me wonder if that grade will ever have in person school this school year. That's if DCPS ever finds a way to bring all kids back to school.

How did you find out? Did you get an email about it today?

Different parent here but I’m assuming we’re at the same school. We were informed by the principle. In the same email where he told us that we’ll get an email from central office today if we’ve been offered an in-person spot.

OK that is nuts. What school? They can't find anyone to teach 6 kids in person?

There are only two classes per grade. If both teachers take CARES leave they have no one to teach in person.

I think we might be at the same school. I'm pretty darn sure we won't have any in-person for our grade too.

What grade is that? It sounded like every grade but PK4 would have in-person.

Yes, do tell which grade since I'm sure I'm at that school too. Which other grade do you think won't have a teacher in person?

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Anonymous wrote:Well PK4 at my DCPS will not have an in person classroom. It was my understanding that teachers could qualify to remain virtual due to health conditions. I can respect that but it makes me wonder if that grade will ever have in person school this school year. That's if DCPS ever finds a way to bring all kids back to school.

How did you find out? Did you get an email about it today?

Different parent here but I’m assuming we’re at the same school. We were informed by the principle. In the same email where he told us that we’ll get an email from central office today if we’ve been offered an in-person spot.

OK that is nuts. What school? They can't find anyone to teach 6 kids in person?

There are only two classes per grade. If both teachers take CARES leave they have no one to teach in person.

I think we might be at the same school. I'm pretty darn sure we won't have any in-person for our grade too.

What grade is that? It sounded like every grade but PK4 would have in-person.

My guess is school principals will be on the hotseat to make in-person for each grade happen. So if none of his/her teachers in a certain grade is willing to work in-person and can claim acceptable reasons to remain DL my guess is the principal will force a teacher from another grade to do it. That's one way to completely blow up staff morale and cohesiveness. At the end of this there will be such derision among staffs.

They should also be in the hotseat to make virtual for each grade work. And we should also all accept that Elementary virtual for a class larger than 25 kids will work poorly.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m probably from the same school as the above posters (whose Principal said there’d be no Pk4).

In the same email he said parents would have two days to accept or decline their spot. (Unsure if those are two working days.)

He also stressed that we would not learn about teacher placements (and that we should not ask).

Sorry, but that's ridiculous. Parents are having to make really important decisions and one enormous factor about whether or not a family will take an in-person spot is who that teacher will be! Sorry, but there are great teachers, good teachers and lousy teachers. We all know that. I would happily follow our amazing DL teacher into the classroom if that is where she is going to be. If she's going to remain as a DL teacher (because she has proven she rocks at it) then we will stay put. To act like who the teacher is shouldn't influence our decision making is just wrong. Your principal is a coward.

He CAN'T tell you. DCPS won't release which teacher is doing DL vs. in person! Thus they can't tell families either.

That tells me that by withholding this information, DCPS is betting on lots of people NOT taking in-person spots because the unknown about the teacher will be enough for some families to stay put in DL. This rollout is the worst.

The point of this is not to provide for teacher shopping. It's to provide in person instruction for the kids for whom DL is not working, regardless of how great the teacher might be.

I don't mind not knowing if they can guarantee me it's a teacher in the school who teaches that grade level. Then it is akin to normal and I don't need to teacher shop. However, if there's actually a chance this is a teacher from a different grade, it matters to me if it's a teacher who teaches an adjacent grade/has ever taught this grade or if they're just like pulling in a music teacher or 5th grade math teacher to teach PK3. Then I don't think it's unreasonable that parents should be able to factor that into the decision.

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I’m wondering if thats partially why teachers haven’t been notified of their assignments. So parents have to say yes or no blindly.

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WHEN ARE WE GOING TO FIND SOMETHING OUT? It’s 3pm ffs.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m wondering if thats partially why teachers haven’t been notified of their assignments. So parents have to say yes or no blindly.

It's dumb, though, because you can always rescind your acceptance. Just adds to the chaos.

Although I believe that the real reason is a dispute between DCPS and the WTU.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m wondering if thats partially why teachers haven’t been notified of their assignments. So parents have to say yes or no blindly.

I absolutely do think this is a purposeful, calculated decision. More proof of what an awful f-ed up plan it is. No matter how much trickery DCPS throws at parents, they will not be strong armed into putting their children in a class with a bad teacher or a teacher with no experience with that grade. As a parent, I won't sign or agree to a thing. If I find out after Ive accepted a spot that my child gets a teacher that is known to be bad (like my older child's 2nd grade teacher) we'll bail. You can't strongarm us into it. I'll lie and say someone is sick in our house.

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Haven’t heard a peeps

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Exactly! Hitting refresh on email is getting seriously old... Our Principal told our school that they don't have enough teachers who will teach in person so only some grades will have in-person teaching!

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly! Hitting refresh on email is getting seriously old... Our Principal told our school that they don't have enough teachers who will teach in person so only some grades will have in-person teaching!

Central Office will not accept that. So I wonder if it will be the principal's responsibility to solve or Central Office's.

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Just heard from an insider friend at central. There is complete chaos behind the scenes. Mayor is pulling all the strings. Principals are furious and feel powerless. They are scared to push back at all after the Walls principal was fired.

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I smell lawsuits. All kinds.

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Anonymous wrote:Just heard from an insider friend at central. There is complete chaos behind the scenes. Mayor is pulling all the strings. Principals are furious and feel powerless. They are scared to push back at all after the Walls principal was fired.

I wouldn't be surprised if our principal quits. he's retiring at the end of the year anyway. Wish someone like him would just take a stand and push back. I'm sure the mayor will blink first.

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Anonymous wrote:I work at DCPS and I got an email saying I had until 5pm to turn down my spot (which I am).

That is a totally different situation - they're offering you a CARES seat, not in-person, and you have to confirm that you want it today because of that. CARES for the youngest kids doesn't even start until the 16th. They have to notify the in-person seat assignments before they do CARES, because in-person starts the 9th. (I also work for DCPS and got the same e-mail but my kid doesn't attend DCPS so obviously I don't want the seat.)

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Anonymous wrote:Just heard from an insider friend at central. There is complete chaos behind the scenes. Mayor is pulling all the strings. Principals are furious and feel powerless. They are scared to push back at all after the Walls principal was fired.

Not surprising. Feel free to keep us updated as you hear things...