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Seriously? Now we've had enough dead people to get used to it, so we should just be ticking along?[/quote]

I don't think that's what they are saying.  I think they are saying that we need to start assuming that DL will be part of our routine in the fall and proactively adjust to that reality.

Everyone is on edge.  There has been a lot of confusion.  Teachers don't know what parents have been doing and parents don't know what the teachers have been doing.  The oppositional and holier than thou crap from both sides needs to stop.  Neither group is the other group's servant.  Both groups have the same goal.[/quote]

Okay, I think that's fair. (And thank you for de-escalating.)

I think there's a difference between what distance learning looks like for the next three weeks and what a more principled and thought-out version of it might look like in fall. And I really don't believe it's reasonable to expect dramatic changes to practices before the end of the school year.

I'm reacting to what I see as pretty vocal criticisms of educators who are (like all of us), doing their best, and I wish we could cut them some slack. When I think about what's "good enough" I'm also thinking about it from the perspective of the teacher with three kids who is juggling a full time job with childcare and figuring out how to do that in a small space with limited resources. And I think if parents DO want to speak up about improvements to distance learning, they also need to speak up about ensuring educators have resources to do it -- if that means hiring technology support for the district, or providing teachers with more equipment, supplementing teaching staff to accommodate folks who have caregiver roles (in a way that is fair to everyone). [/quote]

I agree, there's not much that can be changed for this school year.  I know that I as a parent have been holding my tongue about the many problems both technical and substantive because I empathize with the difficulties everyone is facing.  But these things do need to be fixed going forward because it has been a lost three months.  It is what is and we need a lot more communication and collaboration over the summer.  Yes it's more work for everyone but there is no other way to make this successful.  [/quote]

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