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[quote=Anonymous]I got a grade-level survey for upper elementary asking about three options - 100 percent in person; four half-days per week or two full days per week. I have the impression that the school is entertaining the possibility of a hybrid model for all students who want to go back. This is just a hunch, but I am wondering if DCPS is pushing schools to adopt hybrid models for Term 3 in accordance with families' demand. Maybe DCPS is putting it on the principals to make it happen, but then holding them accountable rather than having a city-wide mandate. This would be easier to achieve politically because DCPS could say that it came from the schools, and it may make it easier to bypass the union. It is also possible that the grade-level team at my child's school is simply a very forward-thinking one. Personally half-days makes a lot of sense to me. Though logistically half days are more difficult with drop-off and pick-up, they might make sense learning-wise. One could even imagine a teacher teaching a distance learning class in the morning and an in-person class in the afternoon, so that everyone keeps the same teacher. Distance learning is currently only synchronous for half of the day anyway with the homeroom teacher, and specials are asynchronous. Quality would actually increase for DL learners, because the class-size would be smaller in that case. DL versus in-person preference I think splits down the middle 50/50. If the kids could come to school having already eaten lunch that would take out a major potential risk for transmission, because that is when the kids take off their masks. Maybe before-care could be provided. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that teachers might get vaccinated in February. They are not the first priority to be vaccinated, but I believe that they are in the second group. This might help in opening the schools as well.[/quote]

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