What are your school’s term 3 plans??

[Anonymous]

Our principal held a pathetic mockery of a forum to discuss term 3 options, which was essentially just some teachers saying they didn’t want to do anything in person. Has your school given any indication of what they are thinking about and their consideration process? Worth comparing what different principals are saying so we can try to get info and also to hold the principals accountable for what they are saying and what they may or may not be able to do.

[Anonymous]

LOL there is no plan and the teachers are almost all unwilling to do anything in person. It's a non-unionized HRCS btw.

[Anonymous]

No idea. I haven't heard from our school's admin in months (about CARES, about DL, about anything) and if there is a play for Term 3 I assume it is terrible and will be announced in late January with no thought given to how it will impact families.

[Anonymous]

Our teachers also saying they don't want to come back until they get a vaccine. So there will be few in person classes until they strike a deal with the WTU or DCPS otherwise figures out a way to force them back.

[Anonymous]

No plan. DL will continue and the 20-21 school year will be completely remote for all but CARES classroom type situations. Possible return in fall 2021 if we’re lucky.

[Anonymous]

Hardy Middle School sounds serious about returning a group of high needs students to in person. They will come up with a plan through the community corps.

[Anonymous]

Brent is offering some in-person classes in most grades as of this week, with very strict safety protocols (no mixing of cohorts etc.). Around 15% of the kids as returning. If the classes go well, they hope to add new ones in Feb.

[Anonymous]

Zero from Deal. We are planning on DL through till the fall.

[Anonymous]

I thought there was a requirement for each school to create a plan such that not less than 25% of the student body returned to the building and while in the building at least 1 class was taught in person [This is for High School]

[Anonymous]

Every principal has been asked to submit a plan for bringing 25% of students back to school starting term 3. They have some flexibility in what they are planning. They are supposed to be consulting with teachers and parents before submitting, but I think many may be using LSATs to satisfy this requirement, which means only about 4 parents get to give feedback. I have students at 2 different DCPS schools and the general parent population has received no updates from either principal, but i understand through the grapevine that the LSAT of one school was consulted.

[Anonymous]

Our school had an open LSAT meeting to inform of the directive and the community to share questions / comments

[Anonymous]

Key Elementary has been great about keeping parents posted, so each grade had information session on Term 3 possibilities. The school does not have any definite answers on how many in-person and cares classrooms will be available unfortunately, but my understanding was the plan is to have at least one of each for each grade (so pretty much what the plane was for Term 2).

My understanding is, hybrid as in each student gets 2 days in person in school is still off the table, and on the one hand I get that they need to provide full time in class for whoever is in need the most, but I don’t see how they will transition to having more kids in school in this case

[Anonymous]

I’m on the reopening corps for my school. The the information sent out from DCPS is ridiculous. Every school can come up with what ever they want. Within the school, each grade can have a different schedule. So DCPS will most likely have 100 schools doing 100 different schedules. There may even be 5 schedules within a school. Schools CAN chose to do hybrid. They can choose to do half days 5 days a week.the only requirement is kids need to be in the school building a total for two days a week. But you can choose to just have your el and kids with ieps in the building or you can choose to try and incorporate all students.

This plan is going to pit school community against school community. You will have one school just opening for high risk and a school 4 blocks away opening for five 1/2 days for everyone. It’s a mess

[Anonymous]

Plan is for some committee of teachers to meet and then consult with some parents (which means share their plans and expect agreement) in January. Decision to stay closed I expect will be announced days before the new term starts.

I am sure teachers don't want to come back (I wouldn't given rising numbers and ability to stay home) but admin seems most interested in keeping the building closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m on the reopening corps for my school. The the information sent out from DCPS is ridiculous. Every school can come up with what ever they want. Within the school, each grade can have a different schedule. So DCPS will most likely have 100 schools doing 100 different schedules. There may even be 5 schedules within a school. Schools CAN chose to do hybrid. They can choose to do half days 5 days a week.the only requirement is kids need to be in the school building a total for two days a week. But you can choose to just have your el and kids with ieps in the building or you can choose to try and incorporate all students.

This plan is going to pit school community against school community. You will have one school just opening for high risk and a school 4 blocks away opening for five 1/2 days for everyone. It’s a mess

well, WTU and the principals and some teachers refused the uniform DCPS plans and screamed that they needed to be consulted. So that’s what’s happening now.