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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do agree on the class lists because that is what my kids care most about. While there could have been more comms and evidently the caveats needed to be bolded I did think things were relatively clear and transparent in terms of the process they were going to take, who was going to be involved etc... if parents were really interested and had talents to contribute they could have volunteered to take part in those committees. It looks like lots of parents were in fact on them.

I do a also agree that comms around the pivot and rationale for what happened have not been forthcoming, but I assume that will be part of the scheduled town hall. Also, based on my experience in other orgs, I imagine that this was a complex mix of l reasons (Safety, HR, quality and child mental health which I hadn’t thought of but someone mentioned in here somewhere) and that many involve sensitivities that can’t fully be discussed and if they can be discussed take time to prepare. I am in the task force for my own company related to our response and it is a hot sticky mess in a much more heavily resourced org with far fewer complexities. Knowing the likely factors, particularly around what I assume from the WaPo letter are HR and equity related, we may not get full answers. Knowing how organizations function and the tensions they face I’m going to have to be okay with that. I also really just don’t feel that means teachers were prioritized over families for heartless reasons. I’m sorry your experience has not been positive. I think there are very real organizational tensions in a situation like this that it’s a shame if we can’t recognize that. Totally fair for people to flag management and communications missteps and issues you see or note where things could have gone better, but I think unfair that people are assigning motivations to any of this without the facts or even assumptions that are based on how any business or school would be run. I don’t love to final plan either, but I love that I feels like September can be an experimental month with gradual ramp up to more. We shall see though.

I’m grateful for the discourse and sorry people are feeling so hurt. I don’t mean to discount that at all. Those are real feelings, they just happen to be different from mine. I started mentally prepping for this a few weeks ago when more schools  started closing and the stories of school and camp infections started popping up, but would probably be really upset too if this was fresher. [/quote]

A big contibuting factor for many who feel duped is the fact that we were told that JK -1 would be on campus barirng a spike or local/regional change in the pandemic. Since there hasn't been a big change locally, we were expecting JK - 1 to start on campus, as promised. [/quote]

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