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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my school specials except PE will be virtual but those teachers are still working at school multiple days per week, they are just live in a classroom space. They don’t want one person to see hundreds of kids each week and be a vector.

For departmentalizing grades it’s likely similar. My school typically departmentalized upper grades in pairs. This year we are all not doing that because of virtual so now homeroom teachers do all subjects other than specials. That was up to each principal.

Just because a teacher is teaching your kid virtually doesn’t mean they aren’t in the building. Some things need to give.[/quote]
Yes, the principal is choosing to keep departmentalization even if it means kids in K-5 won't receive half their core content in person and will be on their iPad for even more time.  This is the decision that is the most objectionable.

We were told that PE would be virtual in the classroom with kids at their desks.  No physical movements would be permitted because kids are only 6' apart.  No materials can be provided to kids because there is no way to disinfect materials.  This is also a really bad decision.[/quote]

JFC. You complained when the kids were virtual. Now you complain when they are back.

It’s a FCKING pandemic. Your kid will be fine. YOU need to deal with it. 
[/quote]They're not back.  They're still getting most instruction virtually because Glebe has decided in person education isn't important for K-5.  It's a farce.[/quote]For months all we've heard is that the RTS will be different.  Why didn't you pay any attention to that.  It astounds me that you are surprised by this.  Your kids ARE back in the school building.  Stop complaining.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

+2[/quote]Oh come on.  One school in all of Arlington is making decisions that are unnecessary and far worse for students learning.  APS administration should step in and tell Glebe to fall in line with other APS schools.  There's no reason for the stupid made up rules the principal is putting in place.[/quote]

Does the Glebe class changing allow for more differentiation? Or not? [/quote]No.  It allows for much less dofferentiation because students are on their iPads for most classes.  In person is better for differentiation.[/quote]

You don't get it.  100% of the teacher's attention needs to be on conducting the class via DL.  There will not be any differentiation between RTS kids and the DL kids.  That has been very clear from the get-go.  Stop making up stuff.  If you want differentiated then you need to homeschool or find a private school that will take you.  Otherwise stop beating this dead horse.

You think that you can bully your kid's teacher and principal into doing what you want.  I support them 100% in holding firm.

-Signed, A Parent[/quote]

We are in FCCPS, who uses a concurrent model, kind-of- e.g. only students who want to be remote learn that way- everyone else comes in in-person 4 days a week.  Being in person is a dramatic and significant educational improvement for my children.  Yes, they get to use paper when kids are chose to be only remote do everything on their computers.  
Also- I think people are using 'differentiation' in really different and lose ways- I see at least three different uses.
1. Glebe has elementary students switching to different teachers for subjects- e.g. Mrs. A teaches math multiple times a day, Mr. B teaches language arts multiple times a day.   There was a question of whether this was better for differentiation.   I took the question to mean, will advanced math students get better teaching with the switching?  We were at an APS school that used to do this, but didn't do it this year b/c of the pandemic.   The way I have seen this done- the whole class switches, so you get better subject matter expertise, but not 'advanced math' differenentation.   This is different than my childhood when we went to different teachers for different levels of math.  
2. Another parent stated that being in person was better for differentiation- meaning that the teacher could see that the child was either struggling and tailor work, or finishing in 2 seconds and board, and tailor work.  This is true in my experience in FCCPS.  Being back in person has been a wonderful wonderful thing for my kids.
3. A third parent took parent 2 to be saying that a teacher would be differentiating between in person and virtual students and got offended.  [/quote]

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