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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I ask how schools would have gathered input in 5 days? My school had the teachers make the schedule and it took a week, the district gave schools a week to turn in a plan...

Also how did you plan on getting all kids instruction done by 12? Some kids would always have to be later.

What I would have liked is if DCPS allowed each classroom to make their own schedule. But they needed a mass schedule so if a parent complains because the teacher tweaked the schedule to help them they will be at fault and not dcps. [/quote]

Where do you get 5 days?  Anyone who reads a newspaper knows that virtual instruction was coming - if not in Sept, then in winter months.  The schools literally had MONTHS to think this through. [/quote]

As someone involved in the scheduling for our school it’s true we had five days. We had to receive from the district all of the requirements and guidelines before we could proceed. Five days. And it was such a complicated puzzle we were lucky to get even one decent version![/quote]

So explain why the first 3 weeks aren't just two 1-hour chat SEL sessions and meaningful planning for actual learning? I understand it's ridiculous, but truly you all should have been planning since MARCH.[/quote]

Your reply was disrespectful. Many people spent countless hours sweating over what would be best for you, your child, and all parties. Those who did that planning were mandated to start as we meant to go on. So you are barking up the wrong tree. I’m sorry this situation has been so hard on families. Trust me that it’s been hard on teachers and administrators too. I promise you, though, that everyone had children’s best interest front and center in their approach to planning, even if it is less than perfect. Please ask yourself as you post in an anonymous forum whether your mother would be proud of your approach? I wish you and your family well.[/quote]
How is this disrespectful? I'm advocating for you all to have the appropriate time to actually plan to teach. And how does 40 hours (one week, as you say) count as "countless hours"? My young kids' schedule is like this:

8:30 (x2)
9:00
9:30 (x2)
10:30
11:15 (x2)
12:30
1:00
1:30 (x2)
2:30
3:00

So that's helping one of them get all their supplies and logon because he just turned 5. And it's helping the other through a lot of confusion, remembering to check all the channels so he submits his assignments on time. Checking back on at least 3 subjects where videos haven't been working. Etc etc.

And did you notice? There isn't a long enough break for us to get outside.

How is that schedule working for anyone? I am not currently working and it's still infuriating. Why can't the teachers just live teach for 90 minutes twice a day? Why does my 7 year old who is doing more advanced math have to spend an entire hour on the computer doing number bonds for 10s in order to get a good grade? What an awful, soul sucking thing. Why can't he use her paper book? Or worksheets? Or have decent enough software that he can advance?

I guess my kids are learning how to manage frustration, but that's about it. We all hate it. I'm absolutely and thoroughly disappointed that this is what they landed on after March.[/quote]

+ 1

DCPS failed little kids (Kindergarten)
Doing ok with the 2nd grade +  (Not always ideal, but manageable)

In failing little kids, they failed families.   It's really inexcusable because some schools (those with A blocks and B blocks) got it right.[/quote]

Whine and complain, gosh then don’t have your child attend all the blocks! The subjects they’re better at just ask the teacher for supplemental info and teach it.

There’s no such thing as a schedule to please everyone. Many parents work, as a teacher I can only make 1 lesson with my child at lunch so I just hired a facilitator. We all have to make sacrifices we shouldn’t have to make right now.[/quote]

"There’s no such thing as a schedule to please everyone"  ≠ "Shouldn't even attempt to make it work for large swathes of the community"[/quote]

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