Charter and DCPS awkward in a crisis.

[Anonymous]

Having so many school authorities seems awkward during this crisis. Makes the responses bumbling in some places. What do you guys think?

[Anonymous]

I think this exposed the weaknesses in our system. Surely we can have innovation where it matters and coordination where it makes sense, but not with the current setup. We should really consolidate the coordination piece in one place.

[Anonymous]

It really seems like the charters have been strongly encouraged to come along for the ride here, for better or worse. At our school (CCPCS) they started this crisis by saying they were going to monitor DCOs moves but follow their own path. That lasted about three days and now we just do whatever the mayor says DCPS is going.

[Anonymous]

I think it's encouraging that the Chancellor wants to not only align calendars and policies with charters, but also with NVA and MD for the coming school year.

[Anonymous]

I think they kind of have to. So many teachers have children in a school that's not the one they work in. And so many DCPS teachers live in Maryland. Coordination is the only way this makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really seems like the charters have been strongly encouraged to come along for the ride here, for better or worse. At our school (CCPCS) they started this crisis by saying they were going to monitor DCOs moves but follow their own path. That lasted about three days and now we just do whatever the mayor says DCPS is going.

It is really hard in a health emergency to have "different" information. One choice CCPCS could have made was not to not follow the end date - no need to align with DCPS on that.

[Anonymous]

But if kids are only going to be in school 1-2 days a week, what’s the point of alignment? It’s going to be a shit show anyhow in terms of child care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It really seems like the charters have been strongly encouraged to come along for the ride here, for better or worse. At our school (CCPCS) they started this crisis by saying they were going to monitor DCOs moves but follow their own path. That lasted about three days and now we just do whatever the mayor says DCPS is going.

It is really hard in a health emergency to have "different" information. One choice CCPCS could have made was not to not follow the end date - no need to align with DCPS on that.

The charter my kids attend has a different end date. It's certainly no big deal since it is still earlier than the end date would have been on the regular schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having so many school authorities seems awkward during this crisis. Makes the responses bumbling in some places. What do you guys think?

it's actually worked out well except when DCPS announced that grades wouldn't matter. That messed things up with motivation for my charter kids. Other than that, I find that when the Mayor says there is going to be a DCPS announcement, we quickly get comparable charter information.

[Anonymous]

I haven't seen anything awkward or bumbling (kids attend a charter).

What specifically are you referring to OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But if kids are only going to be in school 1-2 days a week, what’s the point of alignment? It’s going to be a shit show anyhow in terms of child care.

I was wondering this too.

[Anonymous]

I am wondering if charters will offer more seats to staff kids in the future. As well as just not offer any more lottery seats and keep class sizes smaller or be encouraged to make them larger to max out the 7-9 kids in a classroom on any given day.

Our charter runs 22-25 kids in a class will the hold at 24 for next year?? 8 per day or week?? IDK.

I do know they want to follow dcps closely. So they can lobby for the days and students to count for funding. They can't get too far off of dcps plan if they want to be able keep funding and have DL and IP days count the same.

[Anonymous]

Has the board of education signed off yet?? Aren't they the ones that control funding and accreditation??

Just waiting for Trump to put some s&!t on that one and try to force all the kids back regardless of safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has the board of education signed off yet?? Aren't they the ones that control funding and accreditation??

Just waiting for Trump to put some s&!t on that one and try to force all the kids back regardless of safety.

lol. New here, huh? SBOE has little to no role in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It really seems like the charters have been strongly encouraged to come along for the ride here, for better or worse. At our school (CCPCS) they started this crisis by saying they were going to monitor DCOs moves but follow their own path. That lasted about three days and now we just do whatever the mayor says DCPS is going.

It is really hard in a health emergency to have "different" information. One choice CCPCS could have made was not to not follow the end date - no need to align with DCPS on that.

The charter my kids attend has a different end date. It's certainly no big deal since it is still earlier than the end date would have been on the regular schedule.

+1 My kid’s charter is going through their original end date, they’ve kept up with their curriculum, are doing end of year assessments to see how all of this has been going, and they didn’t miss any days after the transition to dl. They’ve been amazing.