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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The principal who my fellow Janney parents chased away with their constant demands did actually already answer the exact question in this thread when the Q4 plans were announced: It had to do with what the Q3 model was, in addition to the health and safety protocols. And the local school advisory team was involved in the decisions for both Q3 and Q4.

I realize it may be more satisfying emotionally to just assert that the principal is somehow not doing her job or that the teachers are being obstinate for no reason, but in reality, there's an explanation for this decision. Disliking the results of the decision doesn't also require you to pretend there was no reason for it.[/quote]

I certainly am not one of the parents who chased her away, as I never complained to her about anything, but it seems pretty clear that poor decisions were made in Term 3, which now constrain their plans in Term 4. Otherwise it is hard to explain why Lafayette and Murch have achieved such radically more expansive and equitable reopenings than Janney.[/quote]

Except that when the Q3 decision was made, it wasn't at all clear that Q4 would be able to be so different. And I preferred the Q3 options Janney had — most of the younger kids in person almost every day, keeping homerooms for most older students even if they couldn't come in person, no weird hybrid schedules, no "simulcasting" — to the ones at Lafayette and Murch. I also wonder if Janney had fewer teachers willing to come back before they were vaccinated and fewer available rooms, period, than the other schools (it's a smaller building than Lafayette, isn't it?).

Obviously, in hindsight, it's easy to say they should have set things up differently then so they'd be different now, but I'm not sure that means they were the wrong decisions at the time. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome, but at this point after the last year, I'm happy to have more in-person instruction than I initially expected and am not all that fired up one way or the other about whether Q4 could have had slightly more. There's just not that much school left this year, period. Why be angry about exactly how little or how much there is in the remaining six or seven weeks?[/quote]

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