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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Principal Neal said that her hope is to bring more kids into the building at Deal as teachers get vaccinated and volunteer to return.[/quote]

This is the key. Vaccines for all teachers and staff so they can return, which will lead to more IPL. Pretty simple solution. Sadly, only teachers who started this week, or had been teaching, got the vaccine last week, some just days before they started IPL.[/quote]

A simple solution and a dismal situation at the same time. At some point teachers are going to have to go back to work in person even if a Principal like Neal gave them all the flexibility for term 3. There is probably a core group of DCPS educators that would like never to return to school, something will have to give although it's more likely to be DCPS than at the individual school level. Some schools decided to meet (or try to meet) parent demand while others did not. All the flexibility at the school level created the disparity of what is being offered. But there didn't appear to be another choice after the staffing survey from September was ruled invalid.[/quote]

I think DCPS has an expectation that most students will be in school in Term 4, and the public health numbers should support that, but I don’t see any pathway that Deal gets there, and there is no accountability.  [b]Neal admitted in one of the video calls that way more parents want their kids in school[/b] than she is willing to allow and so she just made a call.  And she sent us down a pathway that keeps kids out of school for nearly 1.5 school years. She could have started down a hybrid road that cohorted kids within their teams and aligned their schedules, and started to bring back some kids.  But instead she alone decided to mostly ignore the needs of more than 1300 kids and focus on a smaller figure.  I don’t argue that those who are failing middle school should get extra support, but I object to doing that at the expense of the other 90%.[/quote]

Yes, something like 70% want their kids back in school. If the end result was going to be based solely on teacher willingness to return, why even ask parents?[/quote]

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