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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids can’t be in a school building without adequate heat and staff can not work in those conditions. My own employer (non-profit) has sent us home periodically because of heat problems in the building. Shit happens.[/quote]

I completely agree with this and that those schools that were closed last week for testing, retrospectively (given snow etc. etc.) didn't make a bad choice.

What worries me is that now, and relatively newly, schools can just close and instead of being required to make up the lost instructional days, then instead say they will be virtual and those days are counted just like an in person school day. There is now PLENTY of evidence that asking kids to look at some materials at home and dialing in with their teachers over zoom for a small portion of the day is not really educating them.

What I'd like to see is closures like this treated as they were in the past ... as lost school days that need to be made up. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

+100. Virtual is not 1:1 in person. [/quote]

Same. I'm another Cap City parent who doesn't want kids or staff freezing at the school, but they just seem to see virtual as something that is no problem to pivot to, repeatedly and for long periods of time, and that worries me.  So while each event makes sense in isolation, it adds up to a lot of lost time in school for kids, and its showing in lack of progress this year. [/quote]

EXACTLY. This school is delusional about the quality of their virtual option. There needs to be an investigation. There need to be consequences. The kids are definitely pay the price. [/quote]

You should get right on that.[/quote]

I wish i could! The best I can do is advise families to avoid this school if at all possible. [/quote]

Sounds like a really hard position to be in.  Have you tried writing directly to Cap City's board of directors? Or, seeing if you can participate in their meetings, which are now required to be open to the public? [/quote]

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