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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's wrong with offering a remote option from DCPS?  How's does that harm you in any way?  Go in-person if that's what you want.[/quote]

[b]It’s an issue of resources.  The way DCPS is offering remote is by each school making a plan.[/b]  That is incredibly ineffective and a waste of manpower.  There are also issues around who would choose virtual school and those kids missing two and a half years of education, but that is a lot to explain on an anonymous forum.[/quote]

Yes, this is the problem.  If central office offered one virtual academy that would be great.  But as usual they are putting it on individual schools... which means potentially each school would need a teacher in each grade to work with the very small handful of kids who actually qualify for the remote learning.  Of course, they could do simulcast, but that makes it much harder on the teacher and makes the quality of instruction lower for the in person and virtual kids.  [/quote]

But this “virtual school” is exactly what they are doing for kids with a medical need. The in person waiver form says that kids may not be taught by the teachers at the child’s school.[b] So why not extend that option beyond kids with medical needs?[/b] [/quote]

Because while you might take virtual learning very seriously and your child may login in every single day, there are plenty of parents who will choose it because it means that they don't have to parent their kid.  They don't have to get their kid to school and their kid 
can just sit at home and do nothing or run the streets.  There were several thousand kids that this happened to this year--kids who were enrolled in a school but who only showed up 10 times all year.  Then there are the extremes to this scenario: parents who are abusive to their kids and don't want another adult laying eyes on them.  
[b]The harsh reality is that many parents do not make decisions that are in the best interest of their kids and in-person school is protective for them--either because of abuse or some degree of neglect (including educational neglect).  [/b]
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