Anonymous
05/06/2021 08:59
Subject: Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:We were really looking forward to the summer math acceleration at Deal. But to ask kids who have been sitting in front of a screen for a full academic year to spend a full month of their summer doing the same is not reasonable. Especially after a year of receiving only 2/5 of the regular instructional time in the previous math course. What are they building on
A year of restricting access to education and pretending like everything was normal - as long as it could be shifted to an online/virtual format.
Anonymous
05/06/2021 08:49
Subject: Deal ipl
We were really looking forward to the summer math acceleration at Deal. But to ask kids who have been sitting in front of a screen for a full academic year to spend a full month of their summer doing the same is not reasonable. Especially after a year of receiving only 2/5 of the regular instructional time in the previous math course. What are they building on?
Anonymous
05/06/2021 08:45
Subject: Re:Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And the latest starting next week. This is BS. Stop saying you have welcomed back 700 kids. This is so disingenuous. And they didn’t even try to open Rise in person when summer calls all over the city are open. I’d Deal is doing sports, they can figure out in person Rise!!
To date, we have welcomed over 700 students back into the building. Beginning next week, students who are back in the building on Mondays will also come to school on Thursday (A-days). Students who are back in the building on Tuesdays will also come to school on Fridays (B-days).
This is a perfect example of the school's ongoing resistance to reopening. Summer acceleration academies and remediation programs are going to be going on with stated purpose that they will be in person and Deal continues with this online BS.
Agree.
Janney (for example) is offering all in-person summer-acceleration programming and they have been on the slower side to get all kids back this school year. But summer is all in-person. Full steam ahead.
Anonymous
05/06/2021 08:07
Subject: Re:Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:And the latest starting next week. This is BS. Stop saying you have welcomed back 700 kids. This is so disingenuous. And they didn’t even try to open Rise in person when summer calls all over the city are open. I’d Deal is doing sports, they can figure out in person Rise!!
To date, we have welcomed over 700 students back into the building. Beginning next week, students who are back in the building on Mondays will also come to school on Thursday (A-days). Students who are back in the building on Tuesdays will also come to school on Fridays (B-days).
This is a perfect example of the school's ongoing resistance to reopening. Summer acceleration academies and remediation programs are going to be going on with stated purpose that they will be in person and Deal continues with this online BS.
Anonymous
05/05/2021 22:45
Subject: Re:Deal ipl
And the latest starting next week. This is BS. Stop saying you have welcomed back 700 kids. This is so disingenuous. And they didn’t even try to open Rise in person when summer calls all over the city are open. I’d Deal is doing sports, they can figure out in person Rise!!
To date, we have welcomed over 700 students back into the building. Beginning next week, students who are back in the building on Mondays will also come to school on Thursday (A-days). Students who are back in the building on Tuesdays will also come to school on Fridays (B-days).
To date, we have welcomed over 700 students back into the building. Beginning next week, students who are back in the building on Mondays will also come to school on Thursday (A-days). Students who are back in the building on Tuesdays will also come to school on Fridays (B-days).
Anonymous
05/05/2021 21:29
Subject: Re:Deal ipl
Yes, DCPS needs to be on the record for why it's defying CDC guidance and giving no in-person instruction while most states and cities have been back full-time for months. Also, they need to commit explicitly to what they're actually going to deliver in the Fall now so parents can make other plans if possible. Not sure how DC's abysmal school approach isn't getting more heat - where is the ADCA?
Anonymous
05/05/2021 14:29
Subject: Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hi there! Evan Lambert from FOX 5. We are looking into this. If any parents want to voice their concerns about IPL at Deal or other DCPS schools, please reach out. Thx. Evan.Lambert@fox.com or find me on Twitter or IG @evanlamberttv.
Glad to see someone is going to try to get DCPS on the record... though I doubt it will do any good.
Embarrassing the mayor and DCPS on national television for the disaster that are the public schools in DC right now may be the only way to get some response and responsibility from them.
Anonymous
05/05/2021 13:51
Subject: Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:Hi there! Evan Lambert from FOX 5. We are looking into this. If any parents want to voice their concerns about IPL at Deal or other DCPS schools, please reach out. Thx. Evan.Lambert@fox.com or find me on Twitter or IG @evanlamberttv.
Glad to see someone is going to try to get DCPS on the record... though I doubt it will do any good.
Anonymous
05/05/2021 13:41
Subject: Deal ipl
Hi there! Evan Lambert from FOX 5. We are looking into this. If any parents want to voice their concerns about IPL at Deal or other DCPS schools, please reach out. Thx. Evan.Lambert@fox.com or find me on Twitter or IG @evanlamberttv.
Anonymous
05/04/2021 18:43
Subject: Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can anyone name a middle school in DC that is giving more in person instruction than Deal?
If they are not in person in the fall, I will happily sign on to the lawsuit but I think it is too easy too throw sticks when you do not have to solve the problem.
Adams. My middle schooler attends Adams 4 days/week (Wednesday is asynchronous). It’s a full day (~8:45 am to 3 pm), and all of her classes (except specials) are taught in person by her regular teachers. Specials are taught via a distance learning format.
Thank you. How big is the school? The Oyster Adams profile page says 731 kids for Pk-8th. I think this is great and I think Deal could do more but I do not think they could do this given their numbers.
Thanks for letting us know!
Are kids in set cohorts and if so do you know how many cohorts of students interact with a given teacher? And if they are maintaining 3 ft of space b/t students? (Trying to figure out if schools can make the choice not to follow the cohort and spacing guidance)
Yes, there are set cohorts, and there are 15 students in her class/cohort. I believe that each teacher interacts with 4 cohorts. They maintain 3 ft. of space, and they cannot come within 6ft. of the other classes (strictly enforced by teachers, according to my daughter).
Anonymous
05/04/2021 18:01
Subject: Deal's Rise is Virtual...doesn't bode will for Fall
Reading through some Deal posts...no way we're going back in Full in the Fall.
Anonymous
05/04/2021 17:52
Subject: Re:Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bureaucratic inertia is a helluva thing
THIS! I said back in the November that we're screwed after the teachers went on strike to protest 11 of the most vulnerable kids per grade returning and the mayor caved, because everyone will just get used to staying home and the inertia will become entrenched. Look where we are now . . .
The mayor did not cave, the PERB ruled in favor of the union that the staffing survey violated the CB agreement. DCPS had no staffing plan to serve those kids. Well, I guess she did sort of cave because she could have used mayoral control to force back every teacher. Hindsight 20/20 but I wonder how that would've played out.
No argument on where we are now, our kids are completely screwed.
Anonymous
05/04/2021 17:36
Subject: Re:Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:Bureaucratic inertia is a helluva thing
THIS! I said back in the November that we're screwed after the teachers went on strike to protest 11 of the most vulnerable kids per grade returning and the mayor caved, because everyone will just get used to staying home and the inertia will become entrenched. Look where we are now . . .
Anonymous
05/04/2021 17:34
Subject: Deal ipl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can anyone name a middle school in DC that is giving more in person instruction than Deal?
If they are not in person in the fall, I will happily sign on to the lawsuit but I think it is too easy too throw sticks when you do not have to solve the problem.
Adams. My middle schooler attends Adams 4 days/week (Wednesday is asynchronous). It’s a full day (~8:45 am to 3 pm), and all of her classes (except specials) are taught in person by her regular teachers. Specials are taught via a distance learning format.
Thank you. How big is the school? The Oyster Adams profile page says 731 kids for Pk-8th. I think this is great and I think Deal could do more but I do not think they could do this given their numbers.[/quote
Stop it. Pyle in MOCO is doing more. Much more and is 1500 kids. Deal is unique in size for DC but not in the area or around the country. This isn't rocket science.[/quote]
+1. Deal's not a unicorn. Lots of middle schools the same size that have been back this whole school year.
Anonymous
05/04/2021 16:41
Subject: Re:Deal ipl
Bureaucratic inertia is a helluva thing