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[quote=Anonymous]Most of a given school day consists of crowd control, even with well-oiled routines and lessons there are ALWAYS interruptions. Plus, time is spent transitioning. My 5th grader goes to an immersion school where she has to transition 8 times per day! That’s easily 45 minutes of lost instructional time. Add lunch, recess, specials, band, and FLES and that’s another two hours away from her main teachers.

So, three hours of lost time plus interruptions (someone gets sick, someone’s misbehaving, someone’s bringing the teacher a message) brings us to about 3.5 hours of instructional and independent work for students. Do you know what teachers have to do to maximize that time and provide personalized feedback, remediation, enrichment, AND introduce new content? It takes a lot of time and expertise.

Teachers work damn hard during the regular school year and DL was anything but a “break”. If we’re going into another round of DL, you should feel immensely grateful that the well-educated, skillful, caring, and competent teachers will be there for YOUR kids. They are not people without other career options; they’re people who chose to do the work they’re doing. [/quote]

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