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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TO be fair to Central, a lot of the disorganization is coming from the top. The Mayor. She didn't want distance learning, she didn't want city money spent on technology, she wanted to find private funding for technology, she wanted to ignore COVID and get people back to work, she wanted to ignore the requests of the teachers union, etc.  The Chancellor, doing what the Mayor told him to do, tells the Board of Education/City Council that DCPS doesn't need money, that the situation is under control, etc.  All roads lead to the Mayor.  The Chancellor, if he wants to keep his job, does whatever she tells him to do. Even if it isn't in the best interest of the schools/children. He is completely worthless- the Mayor's mouthpiece.

Central Office staffers are just as confused as the teachers/schools. They are being told different things on a daily basis.  Their managers do not know any more information.  Everything is changing constantly.  The technology team is worthless... in a time when they are most needed to shine. The good ones are working insane hours, are stressed out of their minds, and doing their best to help the situation- to the detriment of their own physical and mental well being. Burn-out is rampant. It is a mess...all the way up the organization and to the top.

So yes, Central Office is problematic.  But let us lay the blame squarely where it belongs.  The Mayor.[/quote]

Accurate. Also, can you give schools a break on not having schedules done yet? You may remember the mayor just announced the remote plan 8 days ago which require schools to build entirely new schedule types they have never done before in just a few weeks when they normally have months. Everyone complaining about why they should have schedules already has NO idea how complicated it is. No idea. [/quote]

What I don't understand is why schools, Central office and the Mayor or whomever didn't spend less time fighting over in-person vrs DL.  And just build plans for each concurrently.  
It isn't hard make 2 teams- 1) plans DL only outline - then meets with school administrators to figure out how to practically apply that plan.  Has a outline of rules, how much how long etc.
AT THE SAME TIME
Team 2 works on the hybrid plan and again meets with schools to figure out how to best apply this
MAYBE 3 that figures out the transition between the two.

ALL of this should have been well under way and ground work figured out in the spring. The summer should have mailed down the details.  Not that freaking hard... Just takes actual planning. I mean we live in a city with TONS of government and military...  Having a fully vested plan A, B,C shouldn't be a new concept.[/quote]

I agree. There should have been an A team and a B team planning separately.[/quote]

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