Anonymous wrote:Another Hearst parent here. Our kids got 1 hour total of teacher instruction per week in the spring. And yes, I blame it on the principal. Lack of leadership or outright telling teachers not to provide instruction. Not sure which but either way, I blame her.

But why not look to the district... that offered zero guidance so each school just made it up?
DCPS planning is like Trumps federal response to the pandemic... non existent.

Another Hearst parent here. Our kids got 1 hour total of teacher instruction per week in the spring. And yes, I blame it on the principal. Lack of leadership or outright telling teachers not to provide instruction. Not sure which but either way, I blame her.

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Anonymous wrote:It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

Our school had two, 25-min live sessions per week. Insane. It all fell to the parents. We’ve already been engaging the chancellor’s office to make sure our principal doesn’t pull this stunt again.

Was this Hearst?

Hearst parent here, and we had a learning packet plus check-ins with teachers as needed. Although not every kid got that -- because not every kid had access to a device.

I would have been challenged to manage a great deal of on-line time for my kid; I had connectivity problems with my own job if we were both on conference calls at the same time, and I can't jump off my call to troubleshoot his device. I can tell him to wait and I'll help him with a math problem in a half hour, though.

But I think the bottom line is that if folks want more synchronous learning, then advocate for DCPS to distribute devices. You can't really set up a class that is 5 hours a week via a video call if 5 kids in the class don't have access to a video call device.

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Anonymous wrote:We have not been given any guidance.
Honestly, what has DCPS been doing since March? Holding press conferences to speak in riddles & acting like chromebooks are something you should suffer for?
Demand more!

I also think this is crazy. We know, at a minimum, there will be a distant learning option. Those details should be finalized as to how that works.

I’m really wondering if THIS will be the moment where parents realize that the emperor has no clothes. I’m not holding my breath for you all. But man- it’d be nice if you all actually fought for organization/structure and accountability for the total lack of their ability to make decisions.

There’s a big difference between a kid spending 2 hours on work tailored to their exact needs and 2 hours doing all sorts of non-tailored meetings such as morning meetings.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.popsugar.com/family/homeschool-hours-by-grade-chart-47384958/amp

Studies behind this? Kids spend more time on tv and games than this!

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Anonymous wrote:It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

Our school had two, 25-min live sessions per week. Insane. It all fell to the parents. We’ve already been engaging the chancellor’s office to make sure our principal doesn’t pull this stunt again.

Was this Hearst?

I’m a NP, my kids go to Hearst and this sounds like what they got! It was really horrific and better not happen again.

That is just unacceptable. Every classroom teacher should be checking in on the students in their class every day, just like if in-person. Shame on anyone thinking two, 25-min live sessions per week was even remotely close to being enough.

NP. This was our Hearst experience. Two FT working parents, two students and one home from daycare. Checking in isn’t enough. It didn’t happen but even if it did, it wouldn’t be enough. Someone had to go through the packet work and review the math and do the reading. And that fell entirely to us parents. It was terrible. I know it was hard on the teachers too, but they should be teaching. It’s their job. We parents have jobs too. And then for DCPS not to collect the packets and to just pretend the spring didn’t happen. Very frustrating experience.

Anonymous wrote:It was a directive from DCPS not to do synchronous learning because of equity issues (not everyone could tune in at the same time.) Our school principal explained this and also asked what were good times (you know because we were also working?) and my children’s teachers checked in with us every day, whether it was the homeroom teachers or the specials teachers or SOMEONE!

I heard this a lot. Maybe my school’s admin skipped over this..but they REQUIRED us to do synchronous lessons each day OR NO PAY. We also had to log it in each and every day...

It was a directive from DCPS not to do synchronous learning because of equity issues (not everyone could tune in at the same time.) Our school principal explained this and also asked what were good times (you know because we were also working?) and my children’s teachers checked in with us every day, whether it was the homeroom teachers or the specials teachers or SOMEONE!

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Anonymous wrote:It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

Our school had two, 25-min live sessions per week. Insane. It all fell to the parents. We’ve already been engaging the chancellor’s office to make sure our principal doesn’t pull this stunt again.

Was this Hearst?

I’m a NP, my kids go to Hearst and this sounds like what they got! It was really horrific and better not happen again.

That is just unacceptable. Every classroom teacher should be checking in on the students in their class every day, just like if in-person. Shame on anyone thinking two, 25-min live sessions per week was even remotely close to being enough.

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Anonymous wrote:It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

Our school had two, 25-min live sessions per week. Insane. It all fell to the parents. We’ve already been engaging the chancellor’s office to make sure our principal doesn’t pull this stunt again.

Was this Hearst?

I’m a NP, my kids go to Hearst and this sounds like what they got! It was really horrific and better not happen again.

Anonymous wrote:We have not been given any guidance.
Honestly, what has DCPS been doing since March? Holding press conferences to speak in riddles & acting like chromebooks are something you should suffer for?
Demand more!

I would like to know the same thing, what have they been doing since March. Also, what did they spend all the extra $$$ they received. Demand more!

The guidance will likely be a 1 hr live minimum each day and the rest up to schools to add more.

I highly highly doubt they’ll give a blanket time, just a minimum.

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Anonymous wrote:It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

Our school had two, 25-min live sessions per week. Insane. It all fell to the parents. We’ve already been engaging the chancellor’s office to make sure our principal doesn’t pull this stunt again.

Was this Hearst?