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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

What a pointless digression. Kids are STILL stuck online - everyone knows that is low quality instruction. We don’t need to be experts. [/quote]

From a WaPo article about low demand in charters.

“Do we want to be inconsistent in the instruction quality or do we want to develop a really high-quality virtual instruction?” Hodge said. “Many schools made the decision to develop high-quality virtual learning this year and focus on reopening next year.”

Link below
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-charter-schools-online-learning/2021/05/23/7e5816d2-ba2f-11eb-a6b1-81296da0339b_story.html?outputType=amp
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why is that posed as an either/or choice
? not in a charter, but from conversations with a neighbor who is relatively happy with their charter, the charter invested early on in delivering good online instruction (mainly by having small groups) and then when vaccines became available, pivoted to in person. I think they should have gone in person earlier, but to claim that schools had to choose one or the other is just incorrect. [/quote]

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