Oh Dcps headquarters...

[Anonymous]

Dcps dropped updated cohorting guidance tonight, backdated it to April 9, and said that secondary schools should be giving teachers 4 cohorts. This is all dropped a week into the quarter after schedules have been meticulously made. I’m happy for the change, but it’s just shady to act as if schools have had this info for weeks.

[Anonymous]

There is no plan and there is little planning.

DCPS Central has been late to the party this whole year. They started the school year with NO PLAN for what would happen if cases rose.

Other districts (I’m familiar with NY) had this plan done by last summer.

Vote the mayor out, and let Ferebee take the job he’s aiming for to sell out at a big charter firm.
And for God’s sake find some people with vision and organizational competence (and this does NOT MEAN education bureaucrats) to run DCPS. Argh.

[Anonymous]

Dcps central office has been absolutely awful. It’s really a shame the position they’ve put schools in with reopening guidance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dcps dropped updated cohorting guidance tonight, backdated it to April 9, and said that secondary schools should be giving teachers 4 cohorts. This is all dropped a week into the quarter after schedules have been meticulously made. I’m happy for the change, but it’s just shady to act as if schools have had this info for weeks.

If they really backdated it then there will be emails where they talk about what date to put on it and/or the first time it was published. A FOIA request should expose that.

Hey Perry Stein! Look, an opportunity to do some actual reporting.

[Anonymous]

Holy cow. They couldn’t really back date it, could they?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no plan and there is little planning.

DCPS Central has been late to the party this whole year. They started the school year with NO PLAN for what would happen if cases rose.

Other districts (I’m familiar with NY) had this plan done by last summer.

Vote the mayor out, and let Ferebee take the job he’s aiming for to sell out at a big charter firm.
And for God’s sake find some people with vision and organizational competence (and this does NOT MEAN education bureaucrats) to run DCPS. Argh.

I would gladly vote for a better candidate, but any WTU endorsed candidate would be even worse for students and reopening.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s ineptitude. They may have written this weeks ago but just bothered to send it out last night (links in an email from Ferebee).

[Anonymous]

Do we expect any different from DCPS? This mayor needs to be voted out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we expect any different from DCPS? This mayor needs to be voted out.

and Ferebee with her.

I would support any candidate who understands that the role of chancellor needs to be eliminated and schools/ our children's education is too important to continue to run the way that they are.

Example - the ward 3 new schools should not be a conversation without rethinking ALL of the feeders. Maybe you are creating a solution for the wrong problem.

[Anonymous]

Are you saying that the rule is now four cohorts per teacher? Is that going to change anything for middle and high schools?My daughter who is in middle school has one in person class once per week where the teacher talks into a computer from the back of the classroom facing the opposite direction from the students. The next period, the same teacher is the classroom monitor while the kids are in a different class, but simultaneously teaches a new DL class. No one is admitting how absolutely non sensical this system is and the school is starting to push for parents to enroll for the coming year (we did) offering first dibs on course selection. It is surreal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you saying that the rule is now four cohorts per teacher? Is that going to change anything for middle and high schools?My daughter who is in middle school has one in person class once per week where the teacher talks into a computer from the back of the classroom facing the opposite direction from the students. The next period, the same teacher is the classroom monitor while the kids are in a different class, but simultaneously teaches a new DL class. No one is admitting how absolutely non sensical this system is and the school is starting to push for parents to enroll for the coming year (we did) offering first dibs on course selection. It is surreal.

I hope it will change but am afraid that it won’t. Had schools actually had this 2 weeks ago (as the backdating states), changes would have been possible for the 4th quarter. I openly discussed this week with my middle schoolers how absurd I think my school’s plan is in hope that a parent makes some noise. My admin is much more anti opening than the teachers are.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for caring 💗. I do hope as well that things will change.

[Anonymous]

And yet this idiotic guidance still says that students in middle and high school can only have 1 school cohort. Which means there is no way to really expand student access to in person education. So stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we expect any different from DCPS? This mayor needs to be voted out.

I think she's doing ok for the city but NOT at all for DCPS. It's time to end mayoral control of schools here. She literally knows nothing about education, has never taught before, and has no investment in public schools.

They still have NO plan for the Fall. It's almost May, I hope they are quietly planning on how they can do full in person and make a little online school for families who want it.

[Anonymous]

My childrens' teacher has been in DCPS since pre-myaoral control and says it is better post-mayoral control. It was abominable before it sounds like. I do think that we need a new mayor. It is not excusable that more is not being done to salvage the school year.