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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why there isn't capacity for K-2 kids who want to be in person.  If each class is cut in half (between AM and PM cohorts), and they have the physical space plus all the teachers that they advertised as in person last week, why can they not have enough capacity for all the kids who want to be in person?  Class size is capped to begin with and that is school-wide so the K-2 classes shouldn't be any bigger than the other grades. SOOOO frustrated. [/quote]

Because they don't have the teachers, at least for kindergarten. Three of the six kindergarten teachers are remaining virtual.[/quote]
Actually, they have a 4th teacher now for in-person learning ("IPL"), but one of them is only doing a p.m. cohort (the other three are doing an a.m. and p.m. cohort). Two teachers are remaining virtual. The principal claims they could only get these teachers to teach in person and there are no other K teachers available and none to hire, hence the inability to meet the demand. And they settled on a model where every in-person student attends four half-day sessions each week (M, T, Thu, F) which, given the 10 student limit precludes them from being able to accommodate about 50 kids (around 20 of whose families have said they don't want IPL at all). I just wish they would have looked at all options to get all ~100 kids through somehow, so there isn't this divide and we now have to explain to our 5 year-old why her friend gets to be with their beloved teacher in class every day and she doesn't get to at all.

Hoping and praying so hard that we can turn a corner with the virus in the next few months. Hugs to everyone else in this boat.[/quote]

Not sure I understand your logic - they are getting 20 kids live each day, 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon. It's the same number as the older grades, but instead of going every other week for the full day, it's every day for 1/2 of the day.

Anyhow, I am sorry you didn't get a spot and echo your prayers. [/quote]
Yes, the model is clearly to try to preserve the same workload for the IPL teachers, who will continue to have about 20 students who they will see in split cohorts. If they had done a hybrid 2 on/2 off model they would have had 30+ students to teach and would have to coordinate at least minimally with other teachers - however - that would have cycled everyone through so there wasn't this drastic inequity amounting to about 50% more instruction per week for the IPL students. Now the virtual students change teachers and will have 4 or 5 more kids in their class, so they will receive even less individualized attention. It's such a community-oriented school with most families living in the neighborhood, so our kids will see and feel the divide. It's really lopsided and so unfair to these kids. I can only hope the rest of the school year flies by and we get back to regular school by the fall.[/quote]

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