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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Article by well known, experienced reporter: charters did not fully open, partially due to low demand from some members of the community.

DCUM posters: that’s not possible because it’s not what I want! Someone must have gotten to Perry Stein[/quote]

It's the "due to low demand" question that deserves MUCH better reporting than we got.  How did she assess demand? How many school parents did she talk to? Did she talk to any homeless parents at Roots?  Did she look at the research that indicates that demand is driven by the school's actions, and parents take their cues from the school?  And how about the "due to" part.  Was it "due to" parent demand, or was it "due to" self-interested decisions by adminstration and teachers?  And how about challenging that absoutely absurd quote by the Roots adminstrator at the end suggesting that online learning is just as good as in person?

I mean, it's like you want us to all collectively ignore the the fact that a) there is tons of evidence that DL is terrible for kids, especially at risk kids and b) schools can reopen safely and c) private/parochials/and other urban publics are open.  [/quote]

This is the most important question. Our school continues to say that demand was low, but all the parents I know at the school wanted kids back in person. The survey our charter sent did not even have an option for 4 days a week, full full day (9-3:30), which is the only way it could be workable for most dual-working or single parent homes. They designed the survey to get the result they wanted - no IPL - by only offering options that were completely impossible logistically for almost anyone, like two mornings a week. [/quote]

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