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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still don’t exactly understand how the decisions from Q3 meant that the offerings for Q4 were so slim. Can someone spell it out? Kids couldn’t switch teachers? But they did at Lafayette. [/quote]

Lafayette is not following the 3ft rule.  I wouldn’t be surprised if they were not following this rule.  Lafayette is also failing to provide teachers with proper breaks. Under contract teachers are to receive 45 min lunch breaks.  At best they are getting 25 mins and are in the classroom unable to leave for bathroom breaks the rest of the day.  [/quote]

OMG. If teachers are complaining about not getting 45 minute breaks at this point, they should leave the profession.

DCPS is hemorrhaging students and will continue to do so if it cannot educate its students. Applications were down 20% to myschooldc -- and that's the first statistic in.

They are going to have to lay off a ton of teachers. And if this is the attitude of those teachers, I applaud those pinkslips.[/quote]

Don’t worry, a lot of teachers are planning on leaving.  Teachers have a right to what their contract says.  You have no idea what conditions are in the building.   [/quote]

Contracts were not written with a pandemic in mind. In unusual times, professionals need to offer some grace and flexibility.[/quote]

Oh shut up. As a self contained teacher I need my FULL lunch. ALL teachers deserve their full lunch, the fact that you think we should be 'flexible' for such a thing is disgusting.

And oh, if we are going to play the pandemic game then 'oh it's a pandemic so you can have DL, why don't you be flexible and keep your kid at home UNTIL it's over?'
After all, one has to be 'flexible.'

I feel so thankful my parents aren't nasty like this. I am flexible about my planning time, I should have 45 min a day but I have 2 hours on Wednesday. That's fine, I knew IPL would have some kinks because we have no specials.
A 25 minute lunch everyday is not fine and illegal BTW. Not due to teacher contracts but actual labor laws that base how much break time one gets, based on the number of hours worked a day.[/quote]

I think teachers should get the regular amount of time for lunch.

My MSer gets less than 3/5ths of the live instructional time (DL or IPL) than in a normal year.  Where does that extra 2/5ths go? What are teachers doing during the time they usually spend teaching?  Does that all go to planning?  [/quote]

The other students! Why do parents ask this question when you know the answer? When I taught DL last year students got less time only because I had to break up groups and do 1:1’s. 
I do realize some teachers are smarmy but it’s also because your school is likely smarmy too. My admin literally popped up on teachers to make sure we were in the appropriate place at the appropriate times.

How is your child getting less time in IPL? Just because of half day Wednesdays? My school is out 12:15 Wednesdays then I have lunch until 1. LEAP at 1-2pm then planning 2-4 lol or lately stupid SEL staff meeting 3-4pm.  The day is then done, it’s not like I got planning 8-4pm...[/quote]

My kid doesn’t get IPL. She gets 2 hours and 15 mins of instructional time per day or 9 hrs per week. 9. There is no in-class time on Wednesdays for any student in her school. Some students get pullouts; others get none. Are teachers doing over 20 hours of 1:1 and planning every week?[/quote]

I also don't understand all this time going to 1:1s and not class time.

Why is this happening - this 1:1 time wasn't available nor was it where teachers were spending their time when kids were in actual school.

I'm aware it is an option but my kids grades are fine and he and his teachers claim everything is fine even though we are skeptical our kid is learning much of anything but our kid is a tweener - he is neither a trouble maker nor an outstanding student so he isn't going to get noticed and flagged for extra attention at either end of the spectrum (and I suspect this is probably where 80% of the kids are) but he is barely in school to accommodate all of this 1:1 time?

I continue to be baffled that 13 months into this the kids don't have full schedules and are off on Wednesdays - my work is all virtual now and we don't have hours of time between meetings and extra planning time for those meetings - I often have days where I go from virtual call to virtual call.

Meanwhile my kids are lucky to get 3 hours of virtual learning a day and have nothing on Wednesdays.[/quote]

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