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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not actually see any issues with implementing the CARE plan. [b]Logistically it means hiring a few hundred individuals with a high school diploma and 24 hours of college credit that can pass some sort of background check. They do not have to have experience working with children. I cannot imagine it is going to be too hard to staff up CARE programs[/b].

I am not sure if they will hit their goals and get enough teachers to handle the in person learning and they did not leave themselves much wiggle room.

There will be some push back for kids that get new teachers and the change in classrooms, but DCPS is pretty good at ignoring pushback.

If you want distance learning, apart from the juggling of the classes and teachers, nothing is really changing and there is no reason that distance learning really needs to stick with traditional classroom and teacher ideas.

If you want childcare, you might be able to get a spot. That is great for the parents that need it.[/quote]

Sure, hiring a couple hundred minimally qualified people to oversee ECE and elementary school children for full days is going to go GREAT  :roll:

Listen, if we were talking about middle school or high schoolers, maybe the CARES classrooms would work. Assuming you don't have any behavioral issues (which is a massive assumption), then maybe having them in classrooms with substitute teachers all day would be okay. They would get to see their friends, and they have enough experience with school that taking instructions from someone with no experience working with kids their age might not be too bad.

But do you think someone that minimally qualified is going to be able to manage a classroom of 2nd graders all day? Not only that, but also enforce social distancing and mask requirements? No. The CARES classrooms are going to be a disaster, particularly because they will be filled with some of the kids most in need of real school right now -- kids whose parents are working full time but cannot afford childcare. Parents with other options will take them, because why would you entrust your child to a person that unqualified if you had any other choice? So they could sit in a room staring at a screen in between whatever chaos ensues with this unqualified childcare provider.

It's a big nope.

The actual in-person instruction might go okay. But it's so few kids.

Parents are on their own this year. Good luck.[/quote]

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