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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rising PK3-- I'm not feeling good about DL at all- it's basically impossible for that age to keep their attention for longer than 10-20 minutes on a zoom call. If they do anything, it should be 2 days in person 3 days off so we don't have to pretend to log-in to DL 3 days a week.

I also hope they make an accommodation so that families who want to keep their kid home or get some other full-time care (nanny, preschool actually in session etc.) can do that without losing their spot and are guaranteed a spot at that school for PK4 the following year (if we're through this by then, which at this rate...who knows!) [/quote]

If a family is getting a nanny or a parent at home you should be able to do the 20-45 minutes per day of writing practice, readalouds, art projects, weekly class meetings, etc rather than ask a school to not serve you and possibly lose out on their per pupil funding when they need all the resources they can get. [/quote]

This. We have no idea how much DL we will do with our PK3 child this fall, but we definitely enrolled and will stay enrolled simply because we don't want to negatively impact the school by withdrawing.

[b]I really don't like the idea that a parent could choose to send their kid to an in-person daycare for this year but retain their spot in a school program because of the pandemic. It would be different if a family opted out of in-person because of concerns about health and safety, but if they are willing to send their kid to in-person care elsewhere (so obviously not that concerned about health/safety), I think they should give up their spot to another family who cannot afford private care. Come on[/b].[/quote]

I strongly disagree with this. I'm an essential worker. My kid has been going to daycare since April.  The daycare is extremely careful (temperature checks, masks, lots of outdoor time). It's been 3 months, and there have been absolutely no issues. So I strongly disagree with your assertion that people who send their kid to places like this and would consider also sending their kid to any in-person days don't care about health and safety. I'd argue that my kid going to this daycare is probably safer than many other arrangements other families will make for distance learning days (hiring a nanny, whose off-hour movements you can't know or control; creating a pod with kids who are in other classes; having older and thus at-risk grandparents step in).

Your opinion comes from a place of privilege and no evidence.[/quote]

I don't think anyone can make assumptions about other people's commitment to safety or concerns, especially since some people don't have a choice about having to go back to work outside the house.  [b]But [/b]I think the question remains: does that mean you get to keep a spot at your school which isn't your in boundary if your kid is at a daycare?  If they "keep your spot" can they serve another kid in your place? Would both kids be enrolled when we get back to in person learning? Or, does the school just serve fewer kids because yours is at daycare?  Do they still get the per pupil $?  lots of questions. [/quote]

If there are in-person days, my kid will attend. So yes, we would be keeping the spot and opting out of the distance learning days.

If there are no in-person days, I think we should still get to keep the spot, even if we opt out of all distance learning. The teacher gets to focus on distance-teaching one fewer student. That's better for the teacher (smaller class size) and for the other kids participating in distance learning. One could argue that we're taking a spot from a new student, but our school has accepted I think ONE kid at K each year the past several years. And the kids who join at K may have none of the target language, while my kid does. So yes, I think we should get to keep the spot. We will keep supporting the target language at home and return to school when they have in-person days. Distance learning is not a developmentally appropriate substitute for in-person learning for a 5-year-old. The school is not missing out on the chance to distance-teach a 5-year old 5 days a week because that isn't "serving" the 5-year-old or the parent(s) if there are no in-person days.[/quote]

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