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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:

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Ha. I bet they are going to go concurrent. Like the godawful plan for 6-12.

Bingo. Verified by staff meeting

Can you summarize this? Is this where they sit in a classroom with a screen instead of a teacher? I didn’t pay attention to how it was described because I didn’t think it applied to my kids
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They will either sit in a room with a DL teacher on a screen, [b]or they will sit in a room with a masked teacher who is teaching DL and a live class at the same time.[/b] This means the teacher will not be able to move around the room to help any students, because the DL kids will need to be able to see what's happening. Meanwhile, students who are DL will not be able to see the teacher's face, because they will be wearing a mask.

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It better not be this! That’s not fair to the DL kids AT ALL. Teacher should be remote for all of them and unmasked. [/quote]

Our current pandemic situation sucks all around. Any decision made is going to appear unfair to someone. For instance, not allowing hybrid students to be in a room with a teacher because you don’t like the teacher being masked on camera would be unfair. Not to mention, SOMEONE would need to be in the room with the students. [/quote]

Given what the teachers have said about protocols, they don’t need to be in the room. They can’t walk around the room, meet with individual students, and so on. At that point, you just need a warm body in the room to keep kids on task and in their seats. If the teacher is remote, both DL and Hybrid students get the instruction from their actual teacher, unmasked. There’s no advantage to Hybrid students for the person in the room to be the masked teacher, and it penalizes the DL kids at the same time.[/quote]

Someone still needs to be in the room with hybrid students, so your suggestion would require twice as much staffing.  How do you think that will be funded?  [/quote]

It doesn’t have to be the main teacher in the classroom. It would maybe make more sense for assistant teachers or co-teachers to be there? Like, the math coach or reading specialist or the SpEd teacher or the SPLC? Mixed with extended day staff, who are still being paid despite not having extended day. I don’t know. But the DL kids shouldn’t be shortchanged for a hybrid plan that has a teacher who can’t even engage with kids who are physically there.[/quote]

Yep. That’s the deal. That’s how it is for middle and high too.   Not great. [/quote]

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