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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PG just announced that it is enrolling 12,000 kids in all-virtual. [/quote]

There are over 136,000 students in PG County public schools. And they granted every request for virtual (via a centralized academy). DCPS is only 50k kids total. Yes they are offering a more robust virtual program, but it’s not as stark a contrast as you might think. Also, as a smaller school district with fewer total resources, it’s harder for DCPS to scale this offering.

I will say PGPS has been much more proactive than DCPS throughout the pandemic— better leadership all around. But I also think you have to careful with an apples to apples comparison because they are pretty different in a number of ways.[/quote]

The virtual program is for K-6 (vaccine inaccessible), so it doesn’t cover the entire 136k school system. My kid is going in-person, but this is a significant late-stage development. I have to wonder if this will put pressure on DC to do the same. [/quote]

Pressure to do what? Build a DL option in literally two days? PG has been working on this a while.

Just think about this. You can’t easily expand a 100 person virtual academy to one meant to accommodate thousands.  Budgeting, finding the actual source of funds, choosing a team to put together the school, hiring teachers and admin, finding at least some commercial space to lease, creating an administrative structure, finding students to enroll, actually enrolling those students, probably expanding software leases, orienting teachers, adopting curricula, etc.

I’m sure I am not even close to thinking of everything, but this is a logistical nightmare. You can’t throw this together in days, let alone a month, and to make it halfway decent that quickly would require a huge dedicated team at central with a clear vision. All of us know central isn’t going to be able to do that. [/quote]

Oh I completely agree that it will be a disaster and logistical nightmare at this point. I just wanted to point out that the virtual school option is gaining significant momentum in the area. [/quote]

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