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[quote=Anonymous]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![/quote]

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