Anonymous wrote:It is remarkable that this is even a question. The mayor and chancellor have lost all credibility on their talk of equity and closing the achievement gap. I would not be surprised if this exercise in distanced learning is doing more in 6 months to widen the achievement than the past 30 years in this city. To think that it would be acceptable to keep kids out of school for 18 months is so depressing. Those who are already on the upward side of the gap are going to do relatively fine in distanced learning. It is those students who already are behind who are falling further behind.

What is particularly frustrating is that I have the full expectation that the Chancellor will use this as another reason to divert money from the overpopulated 4 and 5 star schools and throw that money at the problem that the school district has exasperated this year. Because the only possible way of closing the achievement gap now will be to bring down the top.

This! My SN kids are falling through the cracks and the gap is expanding. I've stopped working and turned into a FT teacher for my 3 kids, and it's not good enough. I'm not a qualified teacher, plus it's soooo much better if a qualified professional/not the parent provides the interventions. So I'm killing my relationship with my kids while they fall behind. Two of them cry almost every day because remote therapies aren't working and they hate virtual learning. We're further behind where we were one year ago, and the backslide started when we went virtual in March. It's a constant struggle and we're still losing ground.

And I have a masters degree and spending 10+ hours a day on school and homework. I can't even imagine what it's like for low achieving kids without a parent to spend this kind of time on their education. Meanwhile, parents with non-SN MC/UMC kids can plop them in front of the computer, spending only an hour or two on schoolwork with them and they advance.

This is insanity.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Spring 2022. I think we are in this mode through 2021.

NOOOOOOO... Sorry! Nothing meaningful to add. I work in the school system and what we are doing now is not sustainable. I'd rather go back with strict safety measures. I think as many teachers will quit if we stay in this mode as will quit if we go back. Seriously.

Yes, teachers are unhappy. They are working harder than they've ever worked in their life and they are loosing their students. Their students are in tears daily. Any teacher who cares at all about their students and their students' academic progress and emotional health will advocate hard for getting back to school. I imagine we'll be hybrid after Christmas break but absolutely no later than fall 2021. It is possible we'll be fully in person with masks and no touching rules, special teachers come to classroom rules, eat in your classroom rules in fall 2021.

I’m unhappy but I’m working as hard as usual, I didn’t realize so many teachers aren’t doing so well. Perhaps because I’m a self contained teacher I’m already used to any kind of emergency and have a plan B,C, and D. The new platforms were also very easy for me to figure out. My kids aren’t crying or their parents, of course we all want normal but understand the circumstances.

I imagine hybrid through fall 2021, guess we’ll see. Hope the future isn’t as difficult as I’m imagining.

Are you sure? Just twice we've told my daughter's teacher that she cried though she has cried every single day. My son has cried just a coupe of times and we haven't told his teacher. His work is terribly done and late or missing. So she sees that. I cannot poison my relationship with him by riding him harder than I already am.

It is awful here and I can't imagine teachers don't see this.

+1. I know teachers who had to quit because their kids were too young to manage distance learning on their own, and their spouse couldn't do it either. Lots of teachers are parents too.

I think public schools are done. Working class families really depend on public schools for childcare. They, and their advocates, used to be able to appeal to MC/UMC families who were using the schools. What these families are realizing is that they can switch to a exclusive pod based home schooling system where they can hire a tutor/teacher to watch over a carefully selected group of friends.

Couple that with pressure from conservatives for school choice and the UMC+ families who go the private route and there is not going to be a real push to reopen schools.

Local governments will be able to lower taxes and talk about how distance learning will allow everybody to have access to the same schooling and will result in diversification of neighborhoods and I do not see how schools survive.

A lot depends on who wins the elections. If we get a president that actually listens to science and gives a shit about people.... then maybe it will slowly get better.

Anonymous wrote:Yes school will open in person for 21-22. It will open with a hybrid plan by/about February 2021. My opinion on February hybrid is informed from what we are seeing from other countries/schools that are open which show low school transmission rates if the population is kept low and there is strict compliance for masks, social distancing and not mixing cohorts. My opinion is further informed by knowing that our closures in DC are heavily influenced by the status of surrounding school districts. If PG and Montgomery go back after the current virtual semester ends on January 29, then DC will go back.

Sure other countries with people and students that follow the rules. Have paid leave and healthcare so they can stay home when their kids are sick. But we don't have any of that here. So, it will just continue to cycle open closed more people get sick and die. But, we are so obvious to the sick, poor and death... You are right a lot of people will probably be in school all too soon. If Trump win he will probably make some mandatory thing about it with his new authoritarian government

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I predict self-contained in November, hybrid 2 days a week (optional) in January lasting the rest of the year. And then back to a more normal schedule in the fall if a vaccine is available.

Wait are you talking about 21-22 (next year) or 20-21 (current year)

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Anonymous wrote:I think Spring 2022. I think we are in this mode through 2021.

NOOOOOOO... Sorry! Nothing meaningful to add. I work in the school system and what we are doing now is not sustainable. I'd rather go back with strict safety measures. I think as many teachers will quit if we stay in this mode as will quit if we go back. Seriously.

Yes, teachers are unhappy. They are working harder than they've ever worked in their life and they are loosing their students. Their students are in tears daily. Any teacher who cares at all about their students and their students' academic progress and emotional health will advocate hard for getting back to school. I imagine we'll be hybrid after Christmas break but absolutely no later than fall 2021. It is possible we'll be fully in person with masks and no touching rules, special teachers come to classroom rules, eat in your classroom rules in fall 2021.

I’m unhappy but I’m working as hard as usual, I didn’t realize so many teachers aren’t doing so well. Perhaps because I’m a self contained teacher I’m already used to any kind of emergency and have a plan B,C, and D. The new platforms were also very easy for me to figure out. My kids aren’t crying or their parents, of course we all want normal but understand the circumstances.

I imagine hybrid through fall 2021, guess we’ll see. Hope the future isn’t as difficult as I’m imagining.

Are you sure? Just twice we've told my daughter's teacher that she cried though she has cried every single day. My son has cried just a coupe of times and we haven't told his teacher. His work is terribly done and late or missing. So she sees that. I cannot poison my relationship with him by riding him harder than I already am.

It is awful here and I can't imagine teachers don't see this.

I’ve cried, but haven’t seen my 3rd graders cry or even get upset. They are absolute champs dealing with this. I also manage the expectations with a lot of “I know it's hard, it’s ok if you can’t get it!” I’m more of a cheerleader than I’ve ever been. I don’t want the kids stressing about anything right now. School needs to remain the safe space for them to feel successful just like always.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I predict self-contained in November, hybrid 2 days a week (optional) in January lasting the rest of the year. And then back to a more normal schedule in the fall if a vaccine is available.

But, your kids will only be in class like 2-4 days a month at best because cold and flu season. And if course lots of people will visit with family and travel for the holidays and then probably lie about it and come to schoool without 2 weeks quarantine. So, then more of us will get sick and the cycle shall start over.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Spring 2022. I think we are in this mode through 2021.

NOOOOOOO... Sorry! Nothing meaningful to add. I work in the school system and what we are doing now is not sustainable. I'd rather go back with strict safety measures. I think as many teachers will quit if we stay in this mode as will quit if we go back. Seriously.

Yes, teachers are unhappy. They are working harder than they've ever worked in their life and they are loosing their students. Their students are in tears daily. Any teacher who cares at all about their students and their students' academic progress and emotional health will advocate hard for getting back to school. I imagine we'll be hybrid after Christmas break but absolutely no later than fall 2021. It is possible we'll be fully in person with masks and no touching rules, special teachers come to classroom rules, eat in your classroom rules in fall 2021.

I’m unhappy but I’m working as hard as usual, I didn’t realize so many teachers aren’t doing so well. Perhaps because I’m a self contained teacher I’m already used to any kind of emergency and have a plan B,C, and D. The new platforms were also very easy for me to figure out. My kids aren’t crying or their parents, of course we all want normal but understand the circumstances.

I imagine hybrid through fall 2021, guess we’ll see. Hope the future isn’t as difficult as I’m imagining.

Are you sure? Just twice we've told my daughter's teacher that she cried though she has cried every single day. My son has cried just a coupe of times and we haven't told his teacher. His work is terribly done and late or missing. So she sees that. I cannot poison my relationship with him by riding him harder than I already am.

It is awful here and I can't imagine teachers don't see this.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Spring 2022. I think we are in this mode through 2021.

NOOOOOOO... Sorry! Nothing meaningful to add. I work in the school system and what we are doing now is not sustainable. I'd rather go back with strict safety measures. I think as many teachers will quit if we stay in this mode as will quit if we go back. Seriously.

Yes, teachers are unhappy. They are working harder than they've ever worked in their life and they are loosing their students. Their students are in tears daily. Any teacher who cares at all about their students and their students' academic progress and emotional health will advocate hard for getting back to school. I imagine we'll be hybrid after Christmas break but absolutely no later than fall 2021. It is possible we'll be fully in person with masks and no touching rules, special teachers come to classroom rules, eat in your classroom rules in fall 2021.

I’m unhappy but I’m working as hard as usual, I didn’t realize so many teachers aren’t doing so well. Perhaps because I’m a self contained teacher I’m already used to any kind of emergency and have a plan B,C, and D. The new platforms were also very easy for me to figure out. My kids aren’t crying or their parents, of course we all want normal but understand the circumstances.

I imagine hybrid through fall 2021, guess we’ll see. Hope the future isn’t as difficult as I’m imagining.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Spring 2022. I think we are in this mode through 2021.

NOOOOOOO... Sorry! Nothing meaningful to add. I work in the school system and what we are doing now is not sustainable. I'd rather go back with strict safety measures. I think as many teachers will quit if we stay in this mode as will quit if we go back. Seriously.

Yes, teachers are unhappy. They are working harder than they've ever worked in their life and they are loosing their students. Their students are in tears daily. Any teacher who cares at all about their students and their students' academic progress and emotional health will advocate hard for getting back to school. I imagine we'll be hybrid after Christmas break but absolutely no later than fall 2021. It is possible we'll be fully in person with masks and no touching rules, special teachers come to classroom rules, eat in your classroom rules in fall 2021.

Anonymous wrote:I think Spring 2022. I think we are in this mode through 2021.

NOOOOOOO... Sorry! Nothing meaningful to add. I work in the school system and what we are doing now is not sustainable. I'd rather go back with strict safety measures. I think as many teachers will quit if we stay in this mode as will quit if we go back. Seriously.

Hybrid until beginning of 2022. I think sometime in 2022 it will be full in school.

I think Spring 2022. I think we are in this mode through 2021.

Yes school will open in person for 21-22. It will open with a hybrid plan by/about February 2021. My opinion on February hybrid is informed from what we are seeing from other countries/schools that are open which show low school transmission rates if the population is kept low and there is strict compliance for masks, social distancing and not mixing cohorts. My opinion is further informed by knowing that our closures in DC are heavily influenced by the status of surrounding school districts. If PG and Montgomery go back after the current virtual semester ends on January 29, then DC will go back.