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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been very grateful to DCPS for figuring out something to give structure and normalcy to the kids beyond what I could give them myself. You can't be the only adult in their lives. And my introvert would NEVER set up a call on his own - virtual school at least gives him a glimpse of his friends without having to put himself out there. I'm so bummed they're calling it 3 weeks early. Our teachers are also it seems :(

And not looking forward to doing this all myself while working :/ Scared to explain this to my childless boss.[/quote]

Same, I don't get the logic DCPS is following it cutting the school year short several weeks early.  [b]Who gains? [/b] Teachers who crave a longer summer break and less contact with students?  Come June, my shy 7 year old is really going to be missing her live class sessions and the chance to see and hear her beloved classroom teacher on weekday mornings. She will then really miss her usual summer camps..  Everyone will survive, but the news about the May 29th ending isn't welcome.[/quote]

Nobody gains, it's more about preventing further losses and/or managing summer slide. Ask your 7 year old's beloved teacher if she will Zoom with her daily, set up a "tutoring" arrangement to keep you child connected to her former teacher and put some money in the teacher's pocket.[/quote]

Makes no sense.  How are you preventing further loss to her kid by cutting short the school year?  You are cutting short her learning, not increasing it.  In fact, cutting short all the kids in DCPS from learning.
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Go look up and read about equity, achievement gap & remote learning and get back to me. I am tired of spoon feeding.[/quote]

Seriously. I wrote this above but got buried in quote: Some people really don’t believe in equity. That’s what I am learning. I expect that this (closing early) is not for nothing, they will use the time gained to create better curriculum or start early next year. Why have we said this so many times as has the mayor but no one listens.

Online schooling isn't so you can work from home in another room and help as needed but have the kids out of your hair. It's supposed to be getting education to kids, and when it's not, really, then it's not working. Also, for us, online schooling is NOT babysitting my kids whatsoever, it requires a ton of parent input and support (because kids are smaller), so this is actually making it HARDER to both education (ie, keep up) and WORK. I think that is the case for a lot of families. It's actually harder to be two working parents and have a kid who needs extra help to do any assignments. That also means it's harder for all the at risk kids to keep up. You're basically growing a huge gap in achievement and privileging only the kids whose parents already would be doing tons of supplementing if no school existed. Which, obviously, is the entire readership of DCUM. [/quote]

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