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Anonymous wrote:At our charter, if you simply ask about re-opening, school leadership brands you as a Karen. I think that's partly the reason why parents haven't been very vocal about re-opening.

Hell, I got told by the PTA that pods were "disgusting" at my charter.

Anonymous wrote:At our charter, if you simply ask about re-opening, school leadership brands you as a Karen. I think that's partly the reason why parents haven't been very vocal about re-opening.

Anonymous wrote:At our charter, if you simply ask about re-opening, school leadership brands you as a Karen. I think that's partly the reason why parents haven't been very vocal about re-opening.

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Anonymous wrote:In summary, so far schools opening include:

Sela
MV
YY
LAMB - not definite, dependent on numbers

Anyone else?

What about some of the non-immersion schools such as ITDS, TR, SWW?

So it looks like list above has not changed with hybrid. 3 schools for real hybrid with IPL with teachers, not just a CARE classroom here and there.

LAMB should know by now if they are going hybrid or not by March 1st. What is it LAMB parents?

Anonymous wrote:In summary, so far schools opening include:

Sela
MV
YY
LAMB - not definite, dependent on numbers

Anyone else?

What about some of the non-immersion schools such as ITDS, TR, SWW?

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Anonymous wrote:The charters will see the demand when families don't re-enroll this spring. But, I think despite all the bluster, families will come back to our HRCS. I don't see families opting to go to their inbound.

Seriously. What option do they have. And honestly, the parents who have worked themselves up into a mighty frenzy on this? I hope they leave. Because I don't really want to deal with them on the PTA and as room parents.

They seem to be entitled brats and might be better off in Bethesda where they won't get any more change out of Montgomery County than they do out of DCPS, but I won't have to deal with their anger.

What school are you at, PP? Just wondering if this level of nastiness is at all charters.

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Anonymous wrote:The charters will see the demand when families don't re-enroll this spring. But, I think despite all the bluster, families will come back to our HRCS. I don't see families opting to go to their inbound.

Seriously. What option do they have. And honestly, the parents who have worked themselves up into a mighty frenzy on this? I hope they leave. Because I don't really want to deal with them on the PTA and as room parents.

They seem to be entitled brats and might be better off in Bethesda where they won't get any more change out of Montgomery County than they do out of DCPS, but I won't have to deal with their anger.

Anonymous wrote:The charters will see the demand when families don't re-enroll this spring. But, I think despite all the bluster, families will come back to our HRCS. I don't see families opting to go to their inbound.

Anonymous wrote:The charters will see the demand when families don't re-enroll this spring. But, I think despite all the bluster, families will come back to our HRCS. I don't see families opting to go to their inbound.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the charters who are not doing any hybrid in the spring can’t commit to hybrid in the fall?

That makes absolutely no sense when other charters and DCPS are already doing hybrid, our numbers are trending down, more people are getting vaccinated every week, and everyone who wants to will be vaccinated by then.

The minimum should be we will be doing hybrid in the fall. If numbers contribute to trend down and thing go well, then hopefully IPL for all.

Anonymous wrote:I agree 100% about committing to hybrid in the fall with the goal of IPL for all as vaccination rates got up and cases go down. Our charter won’t commit to any of this. No concrete plans - or even a vision for moving forward! - have been shared with families. They are stuck and seem to think their DL program is so great that this is a long-term solution even though their own internal assessments are showing serious learning regression. It is one thing to claim to be devoted to educating black and brown kids but this is where the rubber hits the road and the talk does not match the actions. I would love to poll teachers to find out if they have isolated themselves and not been eating in restaurants, traveling to other states, having indoor gatherings, etc. or is it just showing up for work in a school building with kids that they view as risky. We have done NOTHING for almost a year now in order to keep our family safe and do our small part to help end the pandemic. We will also get our vaccinations as soon as we can but we are not in any priority group. I wonder how many school staff can say they have done this kind of isolation and sacrifice. And how many are willing to get vaccinated now, since they are a priority group.

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Anonymous wrote:Charter parents with no IPL this year: you might want to start NOW putting pressure on your admins about Fall, 2021.

We are at one of the charters (not sure if there are more than one or not) that have kept the kitchen running but nothing else (they get money being a food distribution site). We (parents at townhalls) have asked about fall and have been told ... we'd love to be open but of course it's up to OSSE and the rules/regulations. Which makes me fearful they'd happily continue not serving students and collecting per pupil allocations until the end of days.

NP here—this has been my fear also. But it’s surprising to me that NO other (or very few) parents seem to be questioning the situation.

I'm sure there are plenty of parents emailing your principal/HOS. I know of so many parents who think they are the first to send our head of school the NYT primal scream article and other articles and CDC reports about the safety of in-person schooling for elementary. Just because your school isn't opening school now doesn't mean that parents aren't asking for it. I think schools should be open, but I also don't think those who e-mail the most/yell the loudest should determine whether we open or not.

Of course not, but, you need to somehow show demand, since many schools are claiming it isn't there. There are not too many ways to do that other than many parents emailing the head of the school with whatever article, etc.

What concerns me about charters is that there is really no public accountability. The Mayor is hands-off. The union isn't even part of this. It's just a lot of opaque decision making, and if you could be in the room, you might be completely bowled over at the ways the decisions are being made - a handful of people, assessing their own feelings of fear and maybe a few teachers. Of course, you can't be.

All this talk in the news about Biden and CDC and governors - no one is telling the charters they need to have a plan, so, they don't.

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Anonymous wrote:Charter parents with no IPL this year: you might want to start NOW putting pressure on your admins about Fall, 2021.

We are at one of the charters (not sure if there are more than one or not) that have kept the kitchen running but nothing else (they get money being a food distribution site). We (parents at townhalls) have asked about fall and have been told ... we'd love to be open but of course it's up to OSSE and the rules/regulations. Which makes me fearful they'd happily continue not serving students and collecting per pupil allocations until the end of days.

NP here—this has been my fear also. But it’s surprising to me that NO other (or very few) parents seem to be questioning the situation.

I'm sure there are plenty of parents emailing your principal/HOS. I know of so many parents who think they are the first to send our head of school the NYT primal scream article and other articles and CDC reports about the safety of in-person schooling for elementary. Just because your school isn't opening school now doesn't mean that parents aren't asking for it. I think schools should be open, but I also don't think those who e-mail the most/yell the loudest should determine whether we open or not.