Anonymous wrote:Does nobody else think it is INSANITY that this is being executed on a building by building basis?

you can thank the union

Anonymous wrote:Don’t worry. Dcps has rejected my schools plan. And according to friends at three other schools, their plans have been rejected as well.

what was the plan?

Don’t worry. Dcps has rejected my schools plan. And according to friends at three other schools, their plans have been rejected as well.

Does nobody else think it is INSANITY that this is being executed on a building by building basis?

EL Haynes announced they will remain fully virtual through the 3rd term.

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Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.

No one is going to go five full days. It’s hybrid for sped and ell. Everyone else is dl. Unless you are PreK-2, then you get five 1/2 days. No one is getting 5 days. We are getting rid of the care rooms.

Not at my school, none of this has been decided and it's certainly not going to be only sped and ell kids the building. We have significant parent request for in person learning and the principal is responding.

But does your principal have the building space to meet the demand while following CDC guidelines? Therein lies the problem

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Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.

No one is going to go five full days. It’s hybrid for sped and ell. Everyone else is dl. Unless you are PreK-2, then you get five 1/2 days. No one is getting 5 days. We are getting rid of the care rooms.

Not true, my school has 3 main ways we are talking about and one is everyday and Wednesday is a half day. (like one of the plans DCPS suggested) It's possible some schools will do 5x a week.

How many kids who aren’t sped, ell, high risk are going to get 5 days?

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Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.

No one is going to go five full days. It’s hybrid for sped and ell. Everyone else is dl. Unless you are PreK-2, then you get five 1/2 days. No one is getting 5 days. We are getting rid of the care rooms.

Not true, my school has 3 main ways we are talking about and one is everyday and Wednesday is a half day. (like one of the plans DCPS suggested) It's possible some schools will do 5x a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Key Elementary has been great about keeping parents posted, so each grade had information session on Term 3 possibilities. The school does not have any definite answers on how many in-person and cares classrooms will be available unfortunately, but my understanding was the plan is to have at least one of each for each grade (so pretty much what the plane was for Term 2).

My understanding is, hybrid as in each student gets 2 days in person in school is still off the table, and on the one hand I get that they need to provide full time in class for whoever is in need the most, but I don’t see how they will transition to having more kids in school in this case

Are you kidding? It was a lobbying gimmick by some of the teachers (and Landeryou who wants to do nothing like always) to convince parents that any coming back in would be horrible. Parents weren’t allowed to talk. And then they sent out a skewed closed answer survey implying that if kids go back they’d be assigned random teachers from around the city - trying to scare parents into saying they did not want their kids to go back in.

No teacher wants to take unpaid time to create a presentation for parents who are pissed off and directing their frustration towards school staff (especially when they really have no power) and I am pretty sure the committee that came up with that survey is mostly parents. My student's teacher hadn't even seen it before it was sent out. Landeryou was also able to put together a CARES classroom with an actual teacher, something most schools have not been able to do.

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Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.

No one is going to go five full days. It’s hybrid for sped and ell. Everyone else is dl. Unless you are PreK-2, then you get five 1/2 days. No one is getting 5 days. We are getting rid of the care rooms.

Not at my school, none of this has been decided and it's certainly not going to be only sped and ell kids the building. We have significant parent request for in person learning and the principal is responding.

Well correct. Every school is doing it different.

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Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.

No one is going to go five full days. It’s hybrid for sped and ell. Everyone else is dl. Unless you are PreK-2, then you get five 1/2 days. No one is getting 5 days. We are getting rid of the care rooms.

Not at my school, none of this has been decided and it's certainly not going to be only sped and ell kids the building. We have significant parent request for in person learning and the principal is responding.

what school?

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Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.

No one is going to go five full days. It’s hybrid for sped and ell. Everyone else is dl. Unless you are PreK-2, then you get five 1/2 days. No one is getting 5 days. We are getting rid of the care rooms.

Not at my school, none of this has been decided and it's certainly not going to be only sped and ell kids the building. We have significant parent request for in person learning and the principal is responding.

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Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.

No one is going to go five full days. It’s hybrid for sped and ell. Everyone else is dl. Unless you are PreK-2, then you get five 1/2 days. No one is getting 5 days. We are getting rid of the care rooms.

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Anonymous wrote:It is an interesting approach. It puts the power in the hands of the schools. At my childrens' es the principal is close to retirement and i think is in a position with DCPS to keep the school as closed as possible. Also we simply do not have many at risk kids as a smaller sample to start reopening with. I assume DCPS will put more pressure on schools with high at risk populations. Perhaps DCPS thinks that pitting school comunities against one another by creating unfairness will build pressure for schools to open. Without being able to bargain with the union it seems this is the best they can up with. The communication around this at the school level is very non-transparent.

This is going to be school specific. We have high parent demand and low at-risk population. Teachers have been told that they will build classroom around teachers that volunteer first and the balance of the classrooms (based on demand) will have a teacher who will be assigned from the lottery. A couple of our grades have more than 60% of families responding that they want in person school starting term 3.

Stay tuned for how the WTU responds this week to the bolded part in my response.

Does what you are saying imply that every child needing an in person spot will be accommodated five days per week? Or is this only for at-risk children? Thanks. You are right the lottery idea is sure to make waves.

Not at all, the implementation of in person learning is going to vary at every school and likely at every grade level. Also keep in mind that the school will have to manage logistics associated with having a lot of people in the building. What I am saying is that our school is setting it sights on accommodating the demand with a plan that can actually be implemented, whether its 2 days, 5 days, simulcast, whatever. Keep in the mind if you take some randmon 3rd grade class, only 11 students can be in the actual classroom at a time. If the class is already 25 kids and every single parent says they want in person there still needs to be an action plan - do 11 kids get assigned randomly and then the other 14 are DL indefinitely? Do 11 come in M/T, 11 more TH/F and then the other 3 are rotated in and out?

Those are the challenges schools are faced with. There is is no model that is being implemented district, school or grade level wide.

Our school sent out a survey asking what parents preferred, what their concerns were, etc., but I haven't heard anything since then. They said they were trying to gauge demand for in-person/hybrid learning so they could figure out what kind of staffing they were looking at. The impression I got was that they planned to bring back ECE first, and they wanted to get a sense of whether parents of kids in grades 3-5 were interested in in-person or not.