DCPS survey
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Anonymous
| The new DCPS survey for teachers provides 4 options. 1) 100% virtual work b/c of personal health, Cares and/or school aged children. 2) 100% virtual b/c of public transport and/or care of non school aged dependents 3) 100% virtual b/c of preference 4) part time in person. I want to teach full time. This isn't listed as an option. I feel like DCPS phrased it this way to further alienate teachers. |
Anonymous
So theoretically any teacher could select Option 1 if they are simply worried about catching Covid? I don’t see Nov 9th happening anymore.. |
Anonymous
| no worries. The union will send out an email saying not to respond |
Anonymous
The already did |
Anonymous
They already did |
Anonymous
I think you have to provide documentation for 1 or 2. It says 3 and 4 aren’t guaranteed. |
Anonymous
It does require you to submit documentation that follows CDC guidelines. |
Anonymous
The Mayor needs to play hardball here. If you don't respond, you're Option 4 or you lose your job. She can't let the WTU hold her hostage again. Anyone who thinks the DC public won't support crushing WTU after this is completely wrong if this effort to gather crucial planning info fails. I don't think WTU realizes quite how much it's squandered any public support or sympathy it may have had. |
Anonymous
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What a useless jumbled mess.
Why are they lumping together "personal health, Cares and/or school aged children" in one option? Personal health vulnerabilities and many CARES act leaves of absence are set in stone. I someon has a Covid vulnerability or is using CARES to deal with a Covid-related family health or financial crisis, that teacher cannot be in the classroom and DCPS needs to know that (it is ridiculous they don't already have a headcount of these individuals, frankly). But if a teacher is reluctant to return because they have school-age children at home, the district actually has lots of tools for addressing that. Ensure teachers will be on the same hybrid schedule as their kids if you can. If you can't provide on-site rooms for teacher's kids, potentially even with some DL-assistance (this might be an upgrade for teachers currently trying to teach from home while overseeing their own kids on DL). Some teachers will still say it doesn't work for them, which is fine, but at least then you'd get an accurate picture of what the obstacles to in-person school for teachers are. The same with #2. A transportation problem is a solvable problem, in most cases, if you just provide resources (transportation is one of the few things that a city has lots of resources for). Caring for a non-school age dependent might be solvable (on-site daycare or assisting teachers with finding childcare for very young children) and it might not be (if a teacher is caring for an adult child or a parent, for instance, the district would have few resources to assist with this). And yes, there should be an option for teachers who want to teach full-time in person to say that. It would help the district understand what resources are available for in-person teaching. They aren't even trying. They'll send this out, the teachers will either not respond (because it's a terrible survey) or even if they do the results won't mean anything, and then when schools aren't back in person in November, they'll say it's due to the teacher's unwillingness. But this survey couldn't even show that if it was true! |
Anonymous
What? They phrased it this way because full time in person isn't an option. (I want it and I wish it was, but clearly the Mayor isn't going there. The survey options are the same options parents got over the summer in terms of DL v part time. This has nothing to do with alienating teachers.) But also, if you're a teacher who wants to go back in person? Hallelujah! And thank you. If they published a list of names of those teachers, I would personally help take up a collection. |
Anonymous
Read the room. This isn’t your audience. |
Anonymous
Oh take your union crushing hatred back to your charter school |
Anonymous
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Is DCPS going to pay for my Uber everyday? I don’t drive.
How does the bus and metro look? |
Anonymous
Fine. Ride is daily. Wear a mask. |
Anonymous
You sure? Do they let people on without a mask? Especially the bus, the metro I could avoid those people |