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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a charter teacher and half days are common the charter world. We need them in order to do all the many things necessary in order to have consistently high-quality instruction. We wouldn’t have time otherwise without having an entire day off every month.[/quote]

Get back to me about “high quality instruction” when you are actually teaching all kids in school 5 days/week. [/quote]

Oh so you mean right now?[/quote]

right now would be good. [/quote]

NP but allow me to digress for a second and talk about the lunacy of non - teachers defining high quality instruction. On this thread alone, there are several posts where teachers are called entitled, but I can’t think of too many fields where non experts think they are qualified to judge and assess the quality of somebody’s work. [/quote]

There is a relatively deep and rigorous evidence base that suggests online instruction is not effective, with the exception of some very (very) rare circumstances. This has been studied for years. To think DCPS or DC charter schools would have been able to, on the fly, figure out what very few -- if any -- have figured out over the past 10-15 years simply isn't in line with what we know about this mode of learning. And, then there were schools that barely tried. Calling 2 youtube videos a sufficient day of learning. [/quote]

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