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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ by social workers, you mean CSFA, right? We’ve gotta start calling a spade a spade. If a child is unsafe in your home it is not a school social worker issue. It is a child & family services issue.

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Not teleschooling (or whatever you want to call it) and being in really rough family situations can be two very different things. I have a handful of elementary school kids who are not doing any work because there isn't anyone at home holding them accountable. These are kids that live in stable, safe homes and all appear to be higher SES families. It's shocking to me.[/quote]

Same here. I have a lot of kids with parents also at home right now working (just like me) who have stable homes and have done no work at all. I of course have a select few students who lived in unstable homes who are also not doing the work.

I do wonder, if the main concern is bringing students to school due to their home environment, why was this not an issue before the pandemic? People are okay with them being at home (or not if they’re homeless) after school and on weekends? This has ALWAYS been an issue, but suddenly now people are using it as an excuse to open up schools when it isn’t safe, probably because they don’t want to deal with their own kids at home.[/quote]

Yes, I have parents who are doing nothing to enforce the work. These are wealthy families.[/quote]

What? Are you people mental? People can not adequately do their jobs and be full-time teaching. They can probably/ maybe squeeze in 1-2 hrs/ day outside of work. Some are choosing to not do their jobs or to only do the minimum, and that is an extremely valid choice. But many of us actually need our incomes, have meetings all day, and cannot oversee remote learning during the workday. People cannot do two things well at once. There are no good choices here and I feel for all teachers. But blaming parents for being lazy is not the answer and you need to cut it out right now. [/quote]

I’m a parent, and I don’t feel these teachers were trying to shame parents.  I think they were highlighting that this non participation in telelearning is not limited to disadvantaged families.  I think that’s an interesting point of view, especially in this forum, where (I’ll stop here bc I don’t want to go negative.)

This forum is a potential opportunity to pinpoint what’s working and what works less well.   Obviously, extent of parental facilitation expected is a key element of any telelearning program.[/quote]

I agree that I didn't see any parent shaming. The fact is that we're all struggling in our own way. No one knows what the Fall will look like and there are no easy answers at this time, and that is frustrating for everyone. [/quote]

Thanks for this thoughtful comment. I think there actually has been a little bit of parent shaming, but agree to disagree. The point is, this is hard on everyone. If teachers get called back to school in an unsafe situation, it is not the fault of exhausted parents who "failed" to make distance learning a resounding success. If anything, in my very humble opinion, it's the fault of abysmal policymakers who failed to keep us safe, or absent that, failed to provide us the chance to support DL by keeping us economically stable.

I for one am full of guilt all day, every day, for being simultaneously bad at all the things I'm trying to juggle. I think my kids' teachers are doing an amazing job, but like a PP noted, my DC just hates zoom and I don't have the bandwidth to enforce. So the teachers are sitting there dealing with kids who aren't engaged or even present, and everyone is losing. I hope DCPS learns from its survey and other parental engagement and takes that feedback to continue to evolve their thinking about what works and what doesn't. I've been really impressed so far, but sadly, exactly zero of that hard work that the school and teachers are putting in has made it into my child due to the other factors at play. Thus for the younger grades at least I genuinely don't know that there's a good DL solution out there. [/quote]

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