Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 10:20     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS is run by absolute clowns.


I am not usually a fan but these decisions are reasonable considering the forecast. But you can keep shaking your little ineffectual fist at Mother Nature if you like.


It’s because of bootlickers like you that a simple idea such as opening schools more or less on time turns out to be impossible. As has been mentioned, it does not take two days to distribute tests. Not to mention that the whole upload logistics are poorly designed.


Nice name-calling.

Do you think it’s realistic to plan to distribute 50,000 tests in one day? Do tell us how you would accomplish this. Have you volunteered to help at your child’s school?

No, I didn’t think so.


They originally thought they could distribute tests over 11 hours. I'm not sure the three hours is meaningful here. They already have multiple libraries and firehouses that are distributing tests. Are the libraries and firehouses closed today?
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 10:17     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hi! It’s me again. Every few weeks I show up to remind you that the school as childcare model is a thing of the past. Then someone calls me a barrage of names- and demands that I hate women/working moms.

One day you all will get it.


Plus one


You are not a teacher or you didn't pay attention to your M.Ed. classes. Education is always childcare. Sorry you hate it.

The logic is really, really simple.

Children need congregate childcare. So, you put a bunch of children into a room together. Probably the children shouldn't be feral all day. Maybe they should be engaged in activities. Possibly educational ones.

So now you have a bunch of children grouped together in rooms, doing educational activities. That's a classroom, you wobbly peanut. Eventually we made them public so everyone could have it.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 10:08     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?


Yes, they will likely push everything back another day.


Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 10:01     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Hi! It’s me again. Every few weeks I show up to remind you that the school as childcare model is a thing of the past. Then someone calls me a barrage of names- and demands that I hate women/working moms.

One day you all will get it.


We all knew you were just one lone voice of the wilderness (see what I did here?). I hope you don't consider yourself a liberal or progressive.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 09:33     Subject: Re:Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wow! This is nuts. Should have just done virtual for the first week or two of January


IDK about your school, but our children haven’t been issued devices, there aren’t teams or classrooms or anything set up, so unless we want virtual learning to look like the jungle of March 2020, it’s not a matter of just “doing virtual.”


Setting up virtual classrooms takes 5-10 minutes.


Are you out of your mind? Maybe sending out a Teams link takes that long, but creating a Canvas page and uploading materials in a beast!! I was up past midnight several days a week last year uploading and copying materials.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 08:02     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS is run by absolute clowns.


I am not usually a fan but these decisions are reasonable considering the forecast. But you can keep shaking your little ineffectual fist at Mother Nature if you like.


It’s because of bootlickers like you that a simple idea such as opening schools more or less on time turns out to be impossible. As has been mentioned, it does not take two days to distribute tests. Not to mention that the whole upload logistics are poorly designed.


Maybe you should ally for the no if you feel so strongly that you could do it better. Though I’m a teacher rather than an admin, I can foresee that having half a day’s notice on potentially large staff absences would not allow enough time for plans to be made. It’s hard enough for teachers to turn on a dime and switch to Canvas. But it will depend on WHO is absent. If coverage can be found for classes from within the school and there are enough healthy students, a school can open. But if there’s nobody to run the cafeteria or empty garbage or administer medications or respond to emergencies, you cannot open the building. Students need to test the day before going back to limit the potential for infection between testing and starting school. This plan makes sense to me if we’re worried about omicron (I, personally, am not super worried about it, but I understand that others are and we need to slow transmission so we’re not overwhelming our healthcare system).


I agree - but given there is no oversight in giving the tests on Wed - how do we know? The same people who sent their kids in with a dose of of advil are going to get a negative rapid test (maybe not test the child with the sniffled? - and share the neg of a sibling)
There has been so much learning loss - the week before Thanksgiving was a joke as was the week before Christmas. Now we have 3 more days of no school and NO plan to make them up. There is a reason for 180 days - and there is a reason for Carnegie Units. And you wonder why DC has challenges year over year with high school students dropping out. The message is clear - 180 is optional - a "credit" Carnegie Unit is an optional measure - you do not need a teacher to teacher you French or Physics etc.


So you have masters French and physics then?
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 07:59     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS is run by absolute clowns.


I am not usually a fan but these decisions are reasonable considering the forecast. But you can keep shaking your little ineffectual fist at Mother Nature if you like.


It’s because of bootlickers like you that a simple idea such as opening schools more or less on time turns out to be impossible. As has been mentioned, it does not take two days to distribute tests. Not to mention that the whole upload logistics are poorly designed.


Maybe you should ally for the no if you feel so strongly that you could do it better. Though I’m a teacher rather than an admin, I can foresee that having half a day’s notice on potentially large staff absences would not allow enough time for plans to be made. It’s hard enough for teachers to turn on a dime and switch to Canvas. But it will depend on WHO is absent. If coverage can be found for classes from within the school and there are enough healthy students, a school can open. But if there’s nobody to run the cafeteria or empty garbage or administer medications or respond to emergencies, you cannot open the building. Students need to test the day before going back to limit the potential for infection between testing and starting school. This plan makes sense to me if we’re worried about omicron (I, personally, am not super worried about it, but I understand that others are and we need to slow transmission so we’re not overwhelming our healthcare system).


I agree - but given there is no oversight in giving the tests on Wed - how do we know? The same people who sent their kids in with a dose of of advil are going to get a negative rapid test (maybe not test the child with the sniffled? - and share the neg of a sibling)
There has been so much learning loss - the week before Thanksgiving was a joke as was the week before Christmas. Now we have 3 more days of no school and NO plan to make them up. There is a reason for 180 days - and there is a reason for Carnegie Units. And you wonder why DC has challenges year over year with high school students dropping out. The message is clear - 180 is optional - a "credit" Carnegie Unit is an optional measure - you do not need a teacher to teacher you French or Physics etc.


This is another reason why Wilson’s 4x4 schedule is nuts. So many days have been wasted. How are AP classes even finishing their curriculum by mid Jan?
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 07:58     Subject: Re:Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wow! This is nuts. Should have just done virtual for the first week or two of January


IDK about your school, but our children haven’t been issued devices, there aren’t teams or classrooms or anything set up, so unless we want virtual learning to look like the jungle of March 2020, it’s not a matter of just “doing virtual.”


Setting up virtual classrooms takes 5-10 minutes.


Yes you can set it up in 10 minutes, but if kids don’t have devices what is the point?
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 07:57     Subject: Re:Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wow! This is nuts. Should have just done virtual for the first week or two of January


IDK about your school, but our children haven’t been issued devices, there aren’t teams or classrooms or anything set up, so unless we want virtual learning to look like the jungle of March 2020, it’s not a matter of just “doing virtual.”


Setting up virtual classrooms takes 5-10 minutes.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 07:41     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS is run by absolute clowns.


I am not usually a fan but these decisions are reasonable considering the forecast. But you can keep shaking your little ineffectual fist at Mother Nature if you like.


It’s because of bootlickers like you that a simple idea such as opening schools more or less on time turns out to be impossible. As has been mentioned, it does not take two days to distribute tests. Not to mention that the whole upload logistics are poorly designed.


Maybe you should ally for the no if you feel so strongly that you could do it better. Though I’m a teacher rather than an admin, I can foresee that having half a day’s notice on potentially large staff absences would not allow enough time for plans to be made. It’s hard enough for teachers to turn on a dime and switch to Canvas. But it will depend on WHO is absent. If coverage can be found for classes from within the school and there are enough healthy students, a school can open. But if there’s nobody to run the cafeteria or empty garbage or administer medications or respond to emergencies, you cannot open the building. Students need to test the day before going back to limit the potential for infection between testing and starting school. This plan makes sense to me if we’re worried about omicron (I, personally, am not super worried about it, but I understand that others are and we need to slow transmission so we’re not overwhelming our healthcare system).


I agree - but given there is no oversight in giving the tests on Wed - how do we know? The same people who sent their kids in with a dose of of advil are going to get a negative rapid test (maybe not test the child with the sniffled? - and share the neg of a sibling)
There has been so much learning loss - the week before Thanksgiving was a joke as was the week before Christmas. Now we have 3 more days of no school and NO plan to make them up. There is a reason for 180 days - and there is a reason for Carnegie Units. And you wonder why DC has challenges year over year with high school students dropping out. The message is clear - 180 is optional - a "credit" Carnegie Unit is an optional measure - you do not need a teacher to teacher you French or Physics etc.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 07:27     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS is run by absolute clowns.


I am not usually a fan but these decisions are reasonable considering the forecast. But you can keep shaking your little ineffectual fist at Mother Nature if you like.


It’s because of bootlickers like you that a simple idea such as opening schools more or less on time turns out to be impossible. As has been mentioned, it does not take two days to distribute tests. Not to mention that the whole upload logistics are poorly designed.


Maybe you should ally for the no if you feel so strongly that you could do it better. Though I’m a teacher rather than an admin, I can foresee that having half a day’s notice on potentially large staff absences would not allow enough time for plans to be made. It’s hard enough for teachers to turn on a dime and switch to Canvas. But it will depend on WHO is absent. If coverage can be found for classes from within the school and there are enough healthy students, a school can open. But if there’s nobody to run the cafeteria or empty garbage or administer medications or respond to emergencies, you cannot open the building. Students need to test the day before going back to limit the potential for infection between testing and starting school. This plan makes sense to me if we’re worried about omicron (I, personally, am not super worried about it, but I understand that others are and we need to slow transmission so we’re not overwhelming our healthcare system).
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 06:43     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Hi! It’s me again. Every few weeks I show up to remind you that the school as childcare model is a thing of the past. Then someone calls me a barrage of names- and demands that I hate women/working moms.

One day you all will get it.


Plus one
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 06:41     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
What’s your point?
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 06:40     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Hi! It’s me again. Every few weeks I show up to remind you that the school as childcare model is a thing of the past. Then someone calls me a barrage of names- and demands that I hate women/working moms.

One day you all will get it.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 03:27     Subject: Will the snow impact the test distribution tomorrow?
Anonymous wrote:Oh my god Ferebee just tweeted that because of this, schools are closed on WEDNESDAY


Yes, this was already established on Page 1 of this thread