This doesn’t surprise me. How was DCPS going to hire, background check, and get into classrooms the hundreds of people needed to staff these CAREs rooms by November 9? Not possible.

Also, I would not at all be surprised if they end up with situations where so many teachers are eligible to not come back that the school can’t even staff the one real classroom per grade, particularly in the smaller schools that only have one or two teachers per grade as is. Imagine you teach high school calculus and now you get reassigned to teach an in person K classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:I for one think it’s hilarious that our APs might actually have to work. 85% of their days in a building involve managing kid behavior or supervising lunch/recess. They’ve not had anything substantive to do for months.

They are still doing that work. It just looks different - chasing down kids who aren't attending class, calling parents, managing student problems. You seem really callous to the actual issues of secondary students.

This. The admin side of schools has INCREASED not decreased during covid. Are there really staffers outside of maintenance who aren't working FT?

Anonymous wrote:I for one think it’s hilarious that our APs might actually have to work. 85% of their days in a building involve managing kid behavior or supervising lunch/recess. They’ve not had anything substantive to do for months.

They are still doing that work. It just looks different - chasing down kids who aren't attending class, calling parents, managing student problems. You seem really callous to the actual issues of secondary students.

I work at an elementary school and I 100% support re-opening schools. I don't support having staff, new to buildings, who perhaps don't want to be there, working with children.

I would also like a rational plan for the holidays when we know both staff and families will travel.

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes parents, you get what you ask for.
You said ES teachers were replaceable. You said it was a ‘child abuse’ to keep kids at home. You said teachers should come in our quit. So we did.

One day- you’ll learn. That working WITH teachers actually benefits your kids. Youll understand that identifying barriers to what you want and helping find splitting is better than threatening to move and making your kids ‘fully the schools’ responsibility.

And until then- have an awesome time in November. Pride comes before the fall.

Do you seriously think parents have had any influence on these plans? More than the WTU? Where? Where is this evident?

The only people getting anything close to what they want right now are the teachers. It’s been eye-opening to see how far down the list of teacher priorities for s actual teaching. Your post is just another illustration.

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes parents, you get what you ask for.
You said ES teachers were replaceable. You said it was a ‘child abuse’ to keep kids at home. You said teachers should come in our quit. So we did.

One day- you’ll learn. That working WITH teachers actually benefits your kids. Youll understand that identifying barriers to what you want and helping find splitting is better than threatening to move and making your kids ‘fully the schools’ responsibility.

And until then- have an awesome time in November. Pride comes before the fall.

Parents are to blame for this mess, for the hybrid plan crashing? Christ, what idiocy.

The mayor and the WTU have clashed mightily ever since the former was elected. This is mostly a political problem not of parents' making!

I for one think it’s hilarious that our APs might actually have to work. 85% of their days in a building involve managing kid behavior or supervising lunch/recess. They’ve not had anything substantive to do for months.

Anonymous wrote:Oh, you’ll also learn that you need to stand up up the LOUD pre-K moms. They have literally made it worse for everyone. Online classes will be larger, MS and HS are losing staff all due non compulsory education.

One day....

What? What did “Pre-K moms” do?

Also, sort of rich to tell parents “you need to support teachers” and then immediately turn around and call out specific parents.

I agree parents and teachers need to unite to deal with the mayor/central office idiocy with this terrible plan. But telling parents “stop listening to the parents who are vocal about how much they’re struggling is not unity.

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't say anywhere that they will be non-teaching staff. In fact, in the article, it says this:

The plan would take staff members — including assistant principals, secretaries and counselors — away from their work for middle and high schools and place them in non-teaching roles supervising children in elementary schools.

Note that the interpretation of what it means to be a staff member is Stein's...not wording from the policy. And the adendum says "including" not "limited to". As in, TEACHERS too...who are staff members.

Additionally, later in the article, it says:

Jackson said principals have been asked to select the staff members who will be dispatched to CARE classrooms.

So which is it, principals are picking or it's non-teaching staff? There are only so many secretaries and counselors per school

If I were a secretary, hired under the job description of a secretary, and was suddenly told that I was going to be forced into a classroom which isn't safe enough for teachers or for the administrative staff who balked when told they would be pulling this duty -- unless it meant living in a cardboard box under the freeway overpass (which it doesn't, for many married school staff), I would quit so fast their heads would spin.

There's absolutely no way that I'm alone in that. Good luck with this plan.

Oh, you’ll also learn that you need to stand up up the LOUD pre-K moms. They have literally made it worse for everyone. Online classes will be larger, MS and HS are losing staff all due non compulsory education.

One day....

Sometimes parents, you get what you ask for.
You said ES teachers were replaceable. You said it was a ‘child abuse’ to keep kids at home. You said teachers should come in our quit. So we did.

One day- you’ll learn. That working WITH teachers actually benefits your kids. Youll understand that identifying barriers to what you want and helping find splitting is better than threatening to move and making your kids ‘fully the schools’ responsibility.

And until then- have an awesome time in November. Pride comes before the fall.