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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, true, but it's a start, a much less than perfect return to in-person learning to work out some of the kinks before mass enrollment.

[b]Nothing to stop DCPS from adding more in-person learning over time, but they've got to start somewhere.[/quote][/b]

Sigh.  For the 99th time:  Yes, there is something to stop DCPS from adding more in-person learning!

Once they have filled the classrooms all day, 5 days/week, with the in-person classes and the CARE groups, there is no space to bring other students back, even PT, without reducing the 5-dayers from FT to PT and rejiggering the classes once again.

[b]This plan is not scalable.  It is a dead end.[/b]  It is a bad plan.[/quote]

Yes. This. Who is going to teach the DL kids if DCPS forces all the teachers back into classrooms with maximum 11 kids five days a week? If they bring everyone back, they can't maintain the small class sizes for social distancing AND go five days a week. So the few kids who are in school five days a week for Term 2 will either have that switched back to hybrid two days a week (or something) or they can't bring back any more kids because there isn't room in the school buildings for all of them. (Please don't say they should bring everyone back without social distancing - what a freaking nightmare!)

I also want to mention that the priorities in THIS country are vastly different from those in Europe, which is also experiencing a large resurgence in cases - they are shutting down everything BUT the schools in Germany, for example. But that is also because they propose to pay the people who will not be working as a result of the COVID-related closures, again, not like the US. 
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I agree that the plan is not scalable IF the CARES classrooms go forward, so I hope they won't (although my family might benefit).  What's to stop DCPS filling some classrooms 5 days/week for the 2nd quarter, then bring ALL the kids back for hybrid in the 3rd Quarter??  There are no fait accomplis yet, just a proposal to get a good many of the neediest kids back into classrooms full-time temporarily, as damage control.  It's not such a horrible idea under the circumstances, at least not if hybrid goes forward in 2021.  [/quote]

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