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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, for clarity:

K-2 hybrid means kids come in two days a week and are spread between 2 physical classrooms.  The teacher is in 1 rom half the time while the assistant is in the other room.  On their home days, those students are taught by the same teacher online.  Families who chose virtual will have a virtual only teacher.  Some students will change teachers.

3-5:  Hybrid means kids will still be in person two days a a week, but the class will be split into two in-person groups so they aren't using 2 physical classrooms for each group.  On home days, the in-person students will be taught online along with the rest of the class (hybrid or virtual) by the same teacher who is teaching everyone at the same time.  The teacher may or may not be in the building.

Do I understand this correctly?  If so, it sounds like a physical space problem as much as a staffing problem.  It sounds like more families in the upper grades chose hybrid than expected and there just wouldn't be space for the same model as the k-2 plan.  I know my school has zero extra classrooms, so this doesn't surprise me.[/quote]

Part of the problem is also that they are realizing they don't want to reassign kids and teachers at this point in the year, and try to create virtual-only and hybrid-only classes.  Hard both because at this point the classrooms are bonded to a certain extent, and also that in upper grades the teachers team-teach unlike lower grades.  Likely also when you reassign classes you have to appropriately cluster SN kids, ESOL kids, GT kids.  Basically all things they should have handled over the summer when the principals had time to reassign homerooms but they didn't.

I need to go watch the video but did anyone on SB follow up with Loft that if this wasn't appropriate whey on earth were they moving forward with it rather than either staying full virtual when they know this is bad for kids?[/quote]

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