I am told there is a city wide attend policy in place what is it?

[Anonymous]

So, we are hearing OSSE has already put our attendance requirements with Multiple attendance checks throughout the DL Day??? Where are these requirements printed?

[Anonymous]

DCPS teacher here. We were told in June that a student needs to log in on Canvas once between 6:00 am and 11:59 pm to be marked as present for attendance. Maybe now we are really doing 100% DL, they may have changed that metric.

[Anonymous]

Not sure that true. Our charter stated you had to have one touchpoint a day to be considered present.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure that true. Our charter stated you had to have one touchpoint a day to be considered present.

Interesting ours ITDS was trying to say that kids have to be checked in on the "Live Classes" multiple times per day as well as other learning sights??? I am guessing they mean if reading or math requires 30 min on kidsAZ or whatever that will be checked??? Which I don't like I would much rather keep a list of books we are reading at home than make my kid look at a screen for even LONGER each day. But then ITDS seems to be trying to be very "EXTRA" with the screen time.. they are implying they will have a LOT more screen time than the 1-3 hours DCPS's requirement for elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher here. We were told in June that a student needs to log in on Canvas once between 6:00 am and 11:59 pm to be marked as present for attendance. Maybe now we are really doing 100% DL, they may have changed that metric.

Hearing the attendance rules have been changed from Spring and are more strict. But then some of that is also probably school by school. If a school only has 1-2 live sessions on a given day then the rest of the day isn't really counted.

[Anonymous]

So, does anyone know where to find the actual OSSE DL attendance policy?? I would like to be able to read the actual rules from the source.

[Anonymous]

OSSE guidance here, but I can’t tell if this is was for Spring it if there are more updates coming.

https://osse.dc.gov/publication/collecting-attendance-2020-21-school-year

[Anonymous]

So they are requiring "1 touch point" of attendance per day but also.

"percent (80%) of the full instructional day, or in attendance at a school-approved activity that constitutes part of the approved
school program for that student.”.
So, a school could complete allow independent work, with workbooks, reading, or other websites. There would simply need to be some type of log or sharing of the work being done with teachers.

https://osse.dc.gov/publication/collecting-attendance-2020-21-school-year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OSSE guidance here, but I can’t tell if this is was for Spring it if there are more updates coming.

https://osse.dc.gov/publication/collecting-attendance-2020-21-school-year

Well it says 2020-2021 not 2019-2020. So, it should be for this coming school year.

[Anonymous]

So the plan is to do electronic surveillance of my children?

SCREW THAT.
If someone else wants to sign up for it, I won’t deny them that. But my kids are learning right now that Facebook and other big firms surveil them and us through their phones, and we are not going to let schools “checkpoint” our kids nine times a day.

[Anonymous]

Our charter told us they will have kids create some sort of record of participation, like a small item of busywork I guess, for various parts of the day. Very depressing to have one more pointless task to inflict on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the plan is to do electronic surveillance of my children?

SCREW THAT.
If someone else wants to sign up for it, I won’t deny them that. But my kids are learning right now that Facebook and other big firms surveil them and us through their phones, and we are not going to let schools “checkpoint” our kids nine times a day.

Yes, when your child logs in to canvas, attends a teams call, turns in work - there’s a record of all of that. Did you think it was anonymous?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the plan is to do electronic surveillance of my children?

SCREW THAT.
If someone else wants to sign up for it, I won’t deny them that. But my kids are learning right now that Facebook and other big firms surveil them and us through their phones, and we are not going to let schools “checkpoint” our kids nine times a day.

Weird. Then homeschool. They aren’t tracking your movements or monitoring you, they are simply keeping track of log-in data 🙄

[Anonymous]

Bowser/Ferabee said during a press conference that attendance is mandatory according to the same rules as normal. So I guess if you don’t log-in, it becomes an unexcused absence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the plan is to do electronic surveillance of my children?

SCREW THAT.
If someone else wants to sign up for it, I won’t deny them that. But my kids are learning right now that Facebook and other big firms surveil them and us through their phones, and we are not going to let schools “checkpoint” our kids nine times a day.

Yes, when your child logs in to canvas, attends a teams call, turns in work - there’s a record of all of that. Did you think it was anonymous?

Lol, right? I wonder if PP realizes that their IP is recorded with each post on this site too and could relatively easily be linked up to them 🤷🏻‍♀️ Nothing is truly anonymous online