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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We took a 4.5 day/week 5th grade in-person spot where most of the kids have IEPs for a kid without and the experience has been a lot better than 100% DL.

There are only 10 kids in the group, meaning that the teacher who's coming in to teach can differentiate much better than in a normal classroom.  Better experience than I expected.  Kid's motivation has increased a lot since 100% DL ended.

We're on the fence about leaving for the burbs for next year. Our DCPS is only around 5% at-risk, and we expect enrollment to drop.  Impossible to predict how much enrollment will drop, but the principal sounds serious about re-opening 5 days a week.  I wouldn't rule out her renting extra space for classrooms, outdoor classrooms in tents, morning and afternoon shifts, anything that works to offer 5-day week school.[/quote]

Maddening that ES DCPS principals still play an outsize role in deciding who gets to attend school for how long. This is not the case in Arlington, MoCo, Fairfax etc. No wonder that some DCPS parents of means are searching for greener pastures....more certainty and fair pandemic attendance policies.[/quote]

I couldn’t agree more.[/quote]

Right. Your child may or may not get an education based on the random and totally unscientific whim of a principal. Absurd. [/quote]

I thought everyone loved this because it was the only way to get schools to open. Now you don't like the super local control your school has.[/quote]

Over the winter, some of us argued on DCUM for delayed openings as a bridge to re-opening across the board for hybrid.  This is mostly what's happened in the burbs: nobody could attend school in January, but everybody can attend at least two days a week from March with teachers in classrooms.  The whim-of-principals approach to re-opening has outstayed its welcome for all but a lucky minority, along with DL at school masquerading as bona fide in-person learning.  We're fed up with Ferebee's cynical, timid, lazy ass prerogative to get bragging rights to across-the-board reopening. [/quote]

Well, what should now be happening as the next step in the “whims of principals” approach is that DCPS should be guiding the lagging schools to adopt the solutions used by the successful schools.[/quote]

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