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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ITDS never expressed regret about Zoom school and acted as if it were entirely normal to teach young children that way. In the 2020-2021 school year, it was as if word had gone out to the staff to act as if in-person school had never existed. They were asynch two days a week and the teacher's assistant played Candy Crush during class time. You could hear the jingle when she failed to mute.

We withdrew our child mid-year.

We kept tabs on the school into the Spring of 2021 when parents petitioned to open two days a week. The school declined, offering one day of "in-person learning opportunities" per week -- how Orwellian is that?

I'm glad to see more parents are coming to the conclusion we did. The school may never return to normalcy. If masks aren't optional now, when we know Covid poses almost no risk to children, vaccines are available, almost every other school in the country is mask optional, most kids have had Covid, and Covid burden in the community is low, then when?

Unfortunately, many other charters are not doing any better. I suspect we'll see a return now of the old days when middle and upper-middle income families left the city for suburban schools. This will have a ripple effect on everything. As tax collections decline, public services will get worse and crime will rise. The downward spiral has begun.

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That's really sad. For the record, our DCPS opened to kids with IEPs and other needs in Feb 2021, and then there were spots for almost everyone who wanted in April 2021 for the final term.  I think almost 75% of the school was back in person by April 2021, if not more.  Really, I fault OSSE for not being on top of charters here.  I struggle to understand the pyschology behind ITDS's decisions and certainly will never send my kid there.  (They had been a back-up middle school option.)[/quote]

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