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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what's the argument against a centralized DCPS virtually school for those of us that would choose it?

The virtual charter school is full and I don't care to rely on them to fulfill a public interest.[/quote]

There is a centralized DCPS virtual school.  You just had to apply and demonstrate a medical need to get accepted.  And this is conjecture but I wonder if they are having trouble finding teachers because I keep seeing job postings.  It’s probably because they are requiring the virtual academy teachers to report in person every day.  DCPS never ceases to amaze me![/quote]

It's a very high bar for a doctor to require it, and does nothing for those of us whose kids did well in virtual and aren't interested in the added risk.  That virtual school should be opened to anyone who wants it.[/quote]

There are so district wide realities that make a virtual option for anyone who wants it really tricky.  For every parent who has a kid who did well virtually and will continue engaging there are kids whose parents will use virtual as an excuse to not get their kids to school in the morning.  And in person school is one of the biggest social structures to detect neglect or abuse (physical, educational, etc.). That is much more difficult virtually.[/quote]
Which makes permitting short-term virtual learning from the local school that knows its students safer than establishing a centralized mega virtual school with staff that will need to be hired from who-knows-where.[/quote]

Even if this were true, it still doesn’t make it more feasible.[/quote]

It isn't just feasible, it's been done by every DCPS DCPCS school for 1 1/2 school year, and by schools around the globe. Now, yes, it does make in-person learning less optimal - for the couple of weeks in-person learning lasts before they shift to virtual as well. [/quote]

If by “done,” you mean “tried,” yes. If you mean done successfully as more than a stopgap, then no, it hasn’t been done. [/quote]

The logistics of truly offering a virtual school at every school is really difficult.  Some schools could pull it off IF the number of kids who want virtual makes up an entire class (ES).  So if a school has 40 3rd graders and 18 want virtual, that works because one teacher is virtual while the other has 22 in person.  But if at that same school only 5 want virtual then you have 35 in person with one teacher? One teacher has a laptop facing the front of the room and hopes the five kids at home can see them?  You can see the issues hopefully.

High school I can’t even logistically figure out how that would work based on kids’ varied course choices.  [/quote]

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