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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s get back to the bigger problem:

DCPS insisting on a stupid plan for reopening rather than infinitely more logical hybrid plans (like what is used by practically all other school systems) because 
1) instructional hours (as though a teacher talking to a screen = kids learning)
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2) all that stuff they were saying about SEL in recent years was just for fun; we weren’t really supposed to believe it.  Instead, we should recognize that instructional hours &gt; kids’ mental health.[/quote]

if you’re so convinced you’re smarter than DCPS, please post here the infinitely better plans used elsewhere.

one big issue is how the DL parents freaked the f out about increased class size. if they could accept an increased class size for DL, that would free up more teachers for in person.

the only other alternative (other than cutting instructional time) is concurrent, which I doubt WTU or parents would like any better. [/quote]

Concurrent or asynchronous.  Either works.

Increasing DL class sizes is absurd.  Why would they ever want to make a bad thing worse?![/quote]

well, I’m not totally sure increasing DL size would be that much worse. The teachers spend far too much time trying to duplicate in-class dynamics as it is (having each kid greet the class every day for 30 mins, kill me now!) If they focused more on delivering instruction to large groups, and then office hours/small groups, they could have bigger classes.

and I’m not sure why asynchronous would be better than that.

I’m willing to consider concurrent, but I know there are big challenges there.

Given the small and insular group that did our reopening plan, I have no doubt they may have provided unrealistic options to DCPS. They may have even come up with an impossible plan specifically so that DCPS would reject it. [/quote]

forgot to add - I feel like teachers need to be on the receiving end of more large zoom calls to understand why their approach is not working. It’s almost exactly like my managers who do an hour-long zoom staff meeting that is primarily themselves chatting and making everyone turn on their cameras to report in for 2 minutes. makes the manager feel productive, but is extremely aggravating for everyone else. [/quote]

Oh we have gotten plenty of those. DCPS PD and staff meetings are exactly that.  Teachers are in position of having to have all the kids on.  I’ve posted this before but I have gotten no less than 30 emails from about 4-5 parents complaining that I am not online with their child.  I am pulling small groups.  I see their child twice a week for small groups.  There is only so much time in the day.  So I can deal with the barrage of emails from some parents insisting that unless I am with their child on the screen, I must not be doing anything other than napping.  It’s ridiculous and it’s making a shi*tty distance learning environment even worse. [/quote]

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