Reply to Individual School Plans?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Individual School Plans?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did any of you Hearst complainers actually attend the grade-level meetings that solicited feedback from parents about reopening?[b] Most parents said they did not want class size to dramatically increase or to change teachers or to get rid of departmentalization at the upper grades[/b] -- all of which would be necessary to open in-person classes in all grades. K is different because there are 3 teachers, so the other two classes can absorb the extra kids without making class sizes huge. Until all teachers and all kids are required to go back, I think this is where we're stuck because we have only 2 teachers per grade in most grade levels. The only other option is hybrid, where teachers teach live and online at the same time, and most parents said they thought that would not work well for anyone. Hearst has no good options, and this plan seems like it was the least disruptive to most people, while still allowing the neediest kids to get some in-person instruction in ELL and SPED. Most people I know are fairly happy with the virtual learning at Hearst because the cohorts are small and our teachers have been awesome. Obviously some kids are not doing well, but the school has to do what works for the majority of kids, and making virtual classes huge does not work for the majority of kids.[/quote]

This.  I recognized that something has to give -- either my kid loses her teacher, or her virtual class is huge, or she loses specialized ELA/math instruction, or they continue all-virtual.  You can't have everything, because space and staffing are limited.  And a lot of parents want everything.  You have to decide what the priority is.  For us, it was keeping our kid's homeroom teacher, which we acknowledge might mean that she doesn't get an in-person slot.  Someone else might decide on a different tradeoff.  But demanding no tradeoffs is unreasonable.  And if that's the feedback that Hearst got from parents, then their decision is actually pretty reasonable.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics