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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Excellent, probably because CARES classrooms are taught by a regular classroom teachers at our school.  The arrangement is only around 50% DL.  We're at Brent where there's at least one CARES classrooms taught by a teacher for almost every grade, with more planned to open in Feb.[/quote]

Huh? This is an AMA. [/quote]

This Brent poster Keeps posting to showboat.  It’s getting old. [/quote] No, what’s getting old is that most DCPS schools haven’t done their best to get teachers back in classrooms like Brent has. I want to know why not.[/quote]

DP here, but the answer is the Principals. It's easier for them to suck up to teachers rather than have issues with WTU. At our school, the Principal made it very clear that she supported WTU efforts to keep schools closed and she thought that DCPS was wrong to try to reopen. She went so far as saying she was in the middle of teacher evaluations and she had trouble coming up with any areas for improvement for them due to their amazing performance. Our school has some of the most entrenched WTU teachers with conduct and performance issues that go unaddressed, and has horrible test scores to prove it. Our Principal spoke as if all parents agreed with WTU and thanked us for being so supportive of the teachers. She never even solicited our input. Then the parent survey came out and showed that most parents wanted in person learning for their children. She no longer acts like parents don't want schools to reopen. However, she already set the tone with teachers that they're entitled to stay home, so of course they're not volunteering. Some grades don't even have an IPL class for 2/1/21, only CARE classrooms. She did a crappy job of setting expectations for how a school should support educating children. She runs our school like a jobs program for teachers, not an educational institution for children. Our PTA President actually sent pro-WTU propaganda urging parents to join forces with WTU to keep schools closed, so no one is holding the Principal accountable.

That said, this is ultimately the Mayor's fault for not reopening schools despite WTU pressure to keep schools closed.[/quote]

What school is this PP?[/quote]

I'd also like to know what school this is! I've been through 3 principals at my school and have yet to have one who sucks up to the teachers. The ones I've had never seemed to care much at all about what teachers think.[/quote]

I’m curious too. [/quote]

Also curious, I've only been at 2 schools but I have many teacher friends. Principals do not generally care about the WTU or teacher's opinions. They may drop a survey or look at the insight survey we receive but they just 'look' at it, no action.

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