Did any DCPS middle/high schools have in person learning last year?

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to see which DCPS schools had in person learning last year? I know the charter board published a status list every month but could not find anything for DCPS.

[Anonymous]

At Deal, they had IPL 2 days/week in the late spring. And to DC, IPL meant taking your laptop to school and learning virtually in a classroom that had a teacher in it. That teacher was teaching virtually & people from many different classes were in a single classroom (Chinese, Algebra, Spanish, etc.). That teacher was not teaching the kids in the room (other than by chance). DC has promised they won't do this again in the fall. I wish they had been called out for it in the spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At Deal, they had IPL 2 days/week in the late spring. And to DC, IPL meant taking your laptop to school and learning virtually in a classroom that had a teacher in it. That teacher was teaching virtually & people from many different classes were in a single classroom (Chinese, Algebra, Spanish, etc.). That teacher was not teaching the kids in the room (other than by chance). DC has promised they won't do this again in the fall. I wish they had been called out for it in the spring.

Central approved that plan as well as Deal's plan to not require any teachers to come back into the building until they wanted to. It was a terrible plan but Central knew exactly what was happening, Deal's PTA ADCA and the LSAT inexplicably aligned with the principal and signed off on pretend school, and the Council (Mendelson) was never going to get involved in school reopening at that level. The only stakeholders left were parents and they had/have exactly zero influence on the matter as evidenced by what happened last spring.

[Anonymous]

School Without Walls HS did not have a single class in person the entire year. Shameful.

Wilson HS had some teachers who went above and beyond once they got vaccinated and offered some in person slots for classes. But kids were only allowed to take one class per week. One.
Given that they were making the teachers also teach the kids at home at the same time even those classes were excruciating for the kids who were in person. Again, just shameful.

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the country had figured out how to offer in person school again long before. DC was among the very worst places in the nation for getting kids (esp MS and HS kids) back to school. I can't imagine what the learning loss long-term for so many of those kids will be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At Deal, they had IPL 2 days/week in the late spring. And to DC, IPL meant taking your laptop to school and learning virtually in a classroom that had a teacher in it. That teacher was teaching virtually & people from many different classes were in a single classroom (Chinese, Algebra, Spanish, etc.). That teacher was not teaching the kids in the room (other than by chance). DC has promised they won't do this again in the fall. I wish they had been called out for it in the spring.

WOW. That is shockingly awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to see which DCPS schools had in person learning last year? I know the charter board published a status list every month but could not find anything for DCPS.

No. Best to just talk to the school and ask. No list was published.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to see which DCPS schools had in person learning last year? I know the charter board published a status list every month but could not find anything for DCPS.

No. Best to just talk to the school and ask. No list was published.

OP here thank you, and thanks to all the pps. I did talk to the school in question and was surprised to learn they did not have any IPL (just CARES). I was interested in seeing if this scenario was common across the city. It’s pretty sad if Deal and Wilson’s versions of IPL described here were actually the top offerings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Deal, they had IPL 2 days/week in the late spring. And to DC, IPL meant taking your laptop to school and learning virtually in a classroom that had a teacher in it. That teacher was teaching virtually & people from many different classes were in a single classroom (Chinese, Algebra, Spanish, etc.). That teacher was not teaching the kids in the room (other than by chance). DC has promised they won't do this again in the fall. I wish they had been called out for it in the spring.

WOW. That is shockingly awful.

Yes. Deal's principal bragged about this "reopening" like it was some kind of achievement.

And the 2 days a week of zoom in a room wasn't even two full days. It was two hours each day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Deal, they had IPL 2 days/week in the late spring. And to DC, IPL meant taking your laptop to school and learning virtually in a classroom that had a teacher in it. That teacher was teaching virtually & people from many different classes were in a single classroom (Chinese, Algebra, Spanish, etc.). That teacher was not teaching the kids in the room (other than by chance). DC has promised they won't do this again in the fall. I wish they had been called out for it in the spring.

Central approved that plan as well as Deal's plan to not require any teachers to come back into the building until they wanted to. It was a terrible plan but Central knew exactly what was happening, Deal's PTA ADCA and the LSAT inexplicably aligned with the principal and signed off on pretend school, and the Council (Mendelson) was never going to get involved in school reopening at that level. The only stakeholders left were parents and they had/have exactly zero influence on the matter as evidenced by what happened last spring.

It was an absolute disgrace that the leaders of Deal's ADCA and LSAT were so supportive of this fake in-person learning. They did not in any way represent Deal's families who wanted their kids back in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At Deal, they had IPL 2 days/week in the late spring. And to DC, IPL meant taking your laptop to school and learning virtually in a classroom that had a teacher in it. That teacher was teaching virtually & people from many different classes were in a single classroom (Chinese, Algebra, Spanish, etc.). That teacher was not teaching the kids in the room (other than by chance). DC has promised they won't do this again in the fall. I wish they had been called out for it in the spring.

It was 2 morning a week, so 6 hours total unless they went in Wednesdays for extra help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to see which DCPS schools had in person learning last year? I know the charter board published a status list every month but could not find anything for DCPS.

No. Best to just talk to the school and ask. No list was published.

OP here thank you, and thanks to all the pps. I did talk to the school in question and was surprised to learn they did not have any IPL (just CARES). I was interested in seeing if this scenario was common across the city. It’s pretty sad if Deal and Wilson’s versions of IPL described here were actually the top offerings.

Not sure what you mean by "top" offerings, but different schools definitely did different things. Many schools especially EOTR, were driving primarily by what the community wanted. Many families did not want to send their students in, so the school didn't have big IPL plans. Deal and Wilson may have been different because (it seems at least some) families wanted IPL, but there is a large student population so maybe they felt they couldn't accommodate everyone equally.

[Anonymous]

Oyster Adams’ middle school had four (4) full days of school/ week. Wednesday was asynchronous. Under the circumstances, OA did a great job overall. The school offered a full day (~8:45 am to 3:15 pm), and all of the classes, except specials, were taught in person by regular teachers. Specials were usually taught via a distance learning format.

Oyster Adams has incredibly dedicated and hard working teachers. Many of them go above and beyond.