Virginia suburbs are rolling out hybrid - can DCPS resist once surrounding districts do this

[Anonymous]

DCPS plan is all year (2020-2021) of DL for all but 11 students per grade. But if surrounding districts go hybrid where all kids who want it get 2 days a week of in-person teaching, can they hold out? I'm hoping not, but it will be incredibly disruptive to change from this plan to a hybrid one, perhaps so disruptive they won't try.

The social/emotional/academic losses of DC students after a year of DL will be HUGE compared to those who have gotten 2 days week in school. Will DC cave and change again in February or march?

[Anonymous]

we aren't in DCPS but....11 students per grade? Is that a typo? Why 11?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we aren't in DCPS but....11 students per grade? Is that a typo? Why 11?

Don’t even bother asking. The plan is so stupid, it’s hard to explain.

[Anonymous]

I hope DC and MoCo stay distance learning all year. I’m glad they have so far. My children are learning just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope DC and MoCo stay distance learning all year. I’m glad they have so far. My children are learning just fine.

So nice for you. Sad for so many others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope DC and MoCo stay distance learning all year. I’m glad they have so far. My children are learning just fine.

You are welcome to stay DL if you want. Mine aren't learning just fine (except perhaps learning to hate school) and are miserable. A care classroom would only help marginally to not at all - giving them a little socialization and a little normalcy but no actual learning.

[Anonymous]

So, if we want to move from this nonsense to hybrid, the in-person teacher gets her 13 of her reassigned students back in February and her 11 in-person students now go 1/2 week. But they just got 3 months of full-time teaching when everybody else got 0, so they can't complain.

It is likely under the DL to crazy-cares-plus-plan to hybrid that some students will be on their 3rd teacher in February. I wish they'd just put off hybrid till February instead of taking this stressful intermediate step, but my greatest fear is that it isn't an intermediate step but the final solution for this academic year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, if we want to move from this nonsense to hybrid, the in-person teacher gets her 13 of her reassigned students back in February and her 11 in-person students now go 1/2 week. But they just got 3 months of full-time teaching when everybody else got 0, so they can't complain.

It is likely under the DL to crazy-cares-plus-plan to hybrid that some students will be on their 3rd teacher in February. I wish they'd just put off hybrid till February instead of taking this stressful intermediate step, but my greatest fear is that it isn't an intermediate step but the final solution for this academic year.

Well, besides the few real in-person classes, the classrooms will be filled with CARE classes. The CARE parents will get used again to having their kids at school 5 full days, do they’d have to lurch them back to part-time if they ever offer hybrid to everyone else.

Most of us are just plain screwed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, if we want to move from this nonsense to hybrid, the in-person teacher gets her 13 of her reassigned students back in February and her 11 in-person students now go 1/2 week. But they just got 3 months of full-time teaching when everybody else got 0, so they can't complain.

It is likely under the DL to crazy-cares-plus-plan to hybrid that some students will be on their 3rd teacher in February. I wish they'd just put off hybrid till February instead of taking this stressful intermediate step, but my greatest fear is that it isn't an intermediate step but the final solution for this academic year.

Well, besides the few real in-person classes, the classrooms will be filled with CARE classes. The CARE parents will get used again to having their kids at school 5 full days, do they’d have to lurch them back to part-time if they ever offer hybrid to everyone else.

Most of us are just plain screwed.

Yea - they would have to go part-time. The trade off is that they'll get real teaching/learning those two part-time days, but I suspect that for many parents of cares classroom kids who have come to rely on the full-time childcare, that will be hard pill to swallow. I wish they they'd go part-time on the cares classrooms now - just two days a week - so it will be easier (possible?) to transition to hybrid. But I suspect they think hybrid is a no go this whole year because teachers won't do it so this is the best they could come up with.

But imagine when everyone around us is hybrid?! Now THAT will be a bitter pill.

[Anonymous]

I have no idea what’s going to happen with middle and high school, but they should just bring every k-3 or even k-5 back that wants to with a distance learning option. Hybrid to maintain social distancing is stupid. The kids are wearing masks and will be sitting in a room all day with the other kids — why does it matter if they are 4 feet or 6 feet? Preschoolers are all over each other and the data shows those kids aren’t infecting each other or their teachers. Mask up and get back to school. Open the windows if there are some and/or turn on the overhead fans. Sure, throw some hand sanitizer stations in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea what’s going to happen with middle and high school, but they should just bring every k-3 or even k-5 back that wants to with a distance learning option. Hybrid to maintain social distancing is stupid. The kids are wearing masks and will be sitting in a room all day with the other kids — why does it matter if they are 4 feet or 6 feet? Preschoolers are all over each other and the data shows those kids aren’t infecting each other or their teachers. Mask up and get back to school. Open the windows if there are some and/or turn on the overhead fans. Sure, throw some hand sanitizer stations in there.

What they *should* do is bring 1/2 back for AMs and 1/2 back for PMs. Shorter time means less viral load if contagion happens. That would make most sense education- and conoravirus-wise.

But DCPS will never do that because that would be too competent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, if we want to move from this nonsense to hybrid, the in-person teacher gets her 13 of her reassigned students back in February and her 11 in-person students now go 1/2 week. But they just got 3 months of full-time teaching when everybody else got 0, so they can't complain.

It is likely under the DL to crazy-cares-plus-plan to hybrid that some students will be on their 3rd teacher in February. I wish they'd just put off hybrid till February instead of taking this stressful intermediate step, but my greatest fear is that it isn't an intermediate step but the final solution for this academic year.

Well, besides the few real in-person classes, the classrooms will be filled with CARE classes. The CARE parents will get used again to having their kids at school 5 full days, do they’d have to lurch them back to part-time if they ever offer hybrid to everyone else.

Most of us are just plain screwed.

Yea - they would have to go part-time. The trade off is that they'll get real teaching/learning those two part-time days, but I suspect that for many parents of cares classroom kids who have come to rely on the full-time childcare, that will be hard pill to swallow. I wish they they'd go part-time on the cares classrooms now - just two days a week - so it will be easier (possible?) to transition to hybrid. But I suspect they think hybrid is a no go this whole year because teachers won't do it so this is the best they could come up with.

But imagine when everyone around us is hybrid?! Now THAT will be a bitter pill.

Yep, it will be an even more bitter pill if charters in the city go hybrid too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, if we want to move from this nonsense to hybrid, the in-person teacher gets her 13 of her reassigned students back in February and her 11 in-person students now go 1/2 week. But they just got 3 months of full-time teaching when everybody else got 0, so they can't complain.

It is likely under the DL to crazy-cares-plus-plan to hybrid that some students will be on their 3rd teacher in February. I wish they'd just put off hybrid till February instead of taking this stressful intermediate step, but my greatest fear is that it isn't an intermediate step but the final solution for this academic year.

Well, besides the few real in-person classes, the classrooms will be filled with CARE classes. The CARE parents will get used again to having their kids at school 5 full days, do they’d have to lurch them back to part-time if they ever offer hybrid to everyone else.

Most of us are just plain screwed.

Yea - they would have to go part-time. The trade off is that they'll get real teaching/learning those two part-time days, but I suspect that for many parents of cares classroom kids who have come to rely on the full-time childcare, that will be hard pill to swallow. I wish they they'd go part-time on the cares classrooms now - just two days a week - so it will be easier (possible?) to transition to hybrid. But I suspect they think hybrid is a no go this whole year because teachers won't do it so this is the best they could come up with.

But imagine when everyone around us is hybrid?! Now THAT will be a bitter pill.

Yep, it will be an even more bitter pill if charters in the city go hybrid too.

Teacher here. I LOVED the hybrid plan and was horrified when they announced this disaster. Lots of my friends were ready to go back hybrid, but started balking at this plan. If I’m being honest, there is no way you go from every available space besides one room doing cares to hybrid. It isn’t possible. For some reason bowser and ferebee have decided hybrid won’t work here. The plan they designed won’t allow a step up to hybrid. I think this is all we are getting this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea what’s going to happen with middle and high school, but they should just bring every k-3 or even k-5 back that wants to with a distance learning option. Hybrid to maintain social distancing is stupid. The kids are wearing masks and will be sitting in a room all day with the other kids — why does it matter if they are 4 feet or 6 feet? Preschoolers are all over each other and the data shows those kids aren’t infecting each other or their teachers. Mask up and get back to school. Open the windows if there are some and/or turn on the overhead fans. Sure, throw some hand sanitizer stations in there.

I've given up on this and had resigned myself to hybrid. My kid could learn a WHOLE lot in 2 days in a 10 student classroom, but now we won't even get that. DL for a whole year whether or not we get a cares classroom and whether or not we'd take it. I am in despair here. DL is a DISASTER for mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, if we want to move from this nonsense to hybrid, the in-person teacher gets her 13 of her reassigned students back in February and her 11 in-person students now go 1/2 week. But they just got 3 months of full-time teaching when everybody else got 0, so they can't complain.

It is likely under the DL to crazy-cares-plus-plan to hybrid that some students will be on their 3rd teacher in February. I wish they'd just put off hybrid till February instead of taking this stressful intermediate step, but my greatest fear is that it isn't an intermediate step but the final solution for this academic year.

Well, besides the few real in-person classes, the classrooms will be filled with CARE classes. The CARE parents will get used again to having their kids at school 5 full days, do they’d have to lurch them back to part-time if they ever offer hybrid to everyone else.

Most of us are just plain screwed.

Yea - they would have to go part-time. The trade off is that they'll get real teaching/learning those two part-time days, but I suspect that for many parents of cares classroom kids who have come to rely on the full-time childcare, that will be hard pill to swallow. I wish they they'd go part-time on the cares classrooms now - just two days a week - so it will be easier (possible?) to transition to hybrid. But I suspect they think hybrid is a no go this whole year because teachers won't do it so this is the best they could come up with.

But imagine when everyone around us is hybrid?! Now THAT will be a bitter pill.

Yep, it will be an even more bitter pill if charters in the city go hybrid too.

Teacher here. I LOVED the hybrid plan and was horrified when they announced this disaster. Lots of my friends were ready to go back hybrid, but started balking at this plan. If I’m being honest, there is no way you go from every available space besides one room doing cares to hybrid. It isn’t possible. For some reason bowser and ferebee have decided hybrid won’t work here. The plan they designed won’t allow a step up to hybrid. I think this is all we are getting this year.

According to the last washingtonpost article, the reason was they didn't believe they could get the teaching staff to do it.