Why is GDS unable to lead on Covid??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the current HS schedule? Are students really doing Zoom classes from the building? Trying to decide whether to accept a HS offer and this is making me very nervous about next year.

PP, ask admissions some hard questions about this. Ask what the school is committing to for next year, specifically regarding amount of time to be spent in asynchronous classes and how many teachers will be back in the classroom.

Remember that at this point, you hold the cards. If you're an accepted family, they are trying now to get you to sign and return the contract. They should be very upfront at this point about what you are signing up for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the current HS schedule? Are students really doing Zoom classes from the building? Trying to decide whether to accept a HS offer and this is making me very nervous about next year.

Look at the attitude of the teachers. Yes, the students are doing Zoom classes from the building. It's a lot like what publics are doing in HS.

And I hope that when/if you turn down GDS, you tell them why.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the current HS schedule? Are students really doing Zoom classes from the building? Trying to decide whether to accept a HS offer and this is making me very nervous about next year.

PP, ask admissions some hard questions about this. Ask what the school is committing to for next year, specifically regarding amount of time to be spent in asynchronous classes and how many teachers will be back in the classroom.

Remember that at this point, you hold the cards. If you're an accepted family, they are trying now to get you to sign and return the contract. They should be very upfront at this point about what you are signing up for.

No, the school holds the cards. Have you seen the length of the waitlist? They can tell you whatever they want but if it’s not in the contract - and you better believe it’s not - they can do whatever they want. FWIW, I think they will be back IPL five days next fall but they are never going to guarantee it.

[Anonymous]

Who cares. It’s so overrated at this point and underperforming at this point it’d be laughable if it wasn’t so sad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the current HS schedule? Are students really doing Zoom classes from the building? Trying to decide whether to accept a HS offer and this is making me very nervous about next year.

PP, ask admissions some hard questions about this. Ask what the school is committing to for next year, specifically regarding amount of time to be spent in asynchronous classes and how many teachers will be back in the classroom.

Remember that at this point, you hold the cards. If you're an accepted family, they are trying now to get you to sign and return the contract. They should be very upfront at this point about what you are signing up for.

No, the school holds the cards. Have you seen the length of the waitlist? They can tell you whatever they want but if it’s not in the contract - and you better believe it’s not - they can do whatever they want. FWIW, I think they will be back IPL five days next fall but they are never going to guarantee it.

No one can guarantee, but I would feel better if I thought that was their goal -- and I'm no longer sure that it is.

[Anonymous]

Just received an email that HS will be 4-days/week after spring break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just received an email that HS will be 4-days/week after spring break.

In person, that is. Seniors will start 4-days/ week right after the break. Then the rest starting in May.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the current HS schedule? Are students really doing Zoom classes from the building? Trying to decide whether to accept a HS offer and this is making me very nervous about next year.

Look at the attitude of the teachers. Yes, the students are doing Zoom classes from the building. It's a lot like what publics are doing in HS.

This is not what our public HS is doing. They are going two days a week in person, with all teachers in the classroom with the students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an email that HS will be 4-days/week after spring break.

In person, that is. Seniors will start 4-days/ week right after the break. Then the rest starting in May.

Why not 5? If there is now space for everyone to be on campus at the same time, why must Wednesdays still be a day off? That's what makes me nervous about next year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an email that HS will be 4-days/week after spring break.

In person, that is. Seniors will start 4-days/ week right after the break. Then the rest starting in May.

What does "in person" mean? With teachers in the classroom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wednesdays are a joke. They were initially free bc that was supposed to be the day when the school was closed for cleaning. When we went all virtual, suddenly Wednesdays were free bc students needed a break from screens. If the school did a survey about what kids actually did in Wednesdays the school would find out that most kids, like mine, are on screens socializing with their friends. If Wednesdays are a problem, then minimize homework. Do a survey GDS, and find out instead of just relying on self-serving anecdotes.

If you did a survey in my house, you’d find that my high schooler are using wednesdays to do homework and long term projects to keep up with the workload. Maybe the real problem is in your house PP.

Maybe your kids are slow? Or procrastinate? Or can’t focus, so they take way too long? Or their anxiety is exacerbated by obnoxious parents?
Anyway, I don’t see anything in your post that would prevent a survey to find out what the majority of families actually want on Wednesdays - not just yours. Nor do I see any refutation about the original intent of the Wednesdays off.

It's clear you and your brilliant children are too good for the school. You definitely should go somewhere else where your needs can be better served.

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Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Most of us who agree with that poster or make similar posts are not teachers. We're parents.

When you snap back with the predictable 'thank you, teacher," you sound like a fool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

You don't have clients. You outed yourself as a teacher when you said Trumper.

Again, please stop embarrassing yourself. Other parents disagree with you. When you repeat tired Right wing talking points, people will call you a Trumper. It doesn't make them teachers.

You're reaching and you sound desperate.

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Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

You don't have clients. You outed yourself as a teacher when you said Trumper.

Again, please stop embarrassing yourself. Other parents disagree with you. When you repeat tired Right wing talking points, people will call you a Trumper. It doesn't make them teachers.

You're reaching and you sound desperate.

Wanting to open schools, with mitigation and when adults are vaccinated, are not right wing talking points.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

You don't have clients. You outed yourself as a teacher when you said Trumper.

Again, please stop embarrassing yourself. Other parents disagree with you. When you repeat tired Right wing talking points, people will call you a Trumper. It doesn't make them teachers.

You're reaching and you sound desperate.

Wanting to open schools, with mitigation and when adults are vaccinated, are not right wing talking points.

At GDS, they are.