Anonymous
Post 02/05/2021 09:37     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching all my regular hours while doing DL plus even more and the work never ends. I am mentally drained and the students are as well. We need this summer to focus on our mental health so we can be as successful as possible in the fall.

I’m tired of people saying I’m not working. My kids who are home don’t see me unless I’m on my lunch break because I’m in front of the computer teaching ALL DAY. And then I have after school work meetings. Comments like these make it really difficult to keep going.


Please tell your colleagues to follow science and get back in the classroom so our kids can go to school. You may work all day but the kids get 12 live hours per week at our school and 30-min of addtl work each a day. And don’t get me started on asynchronous Wednesdays which is no school and 45 min of busy work. To say these kids are being educated is a lie.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2021 09:13     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching all my regular hours while doing DL plus even more and the work never ends. I am mentally drained and the students are as well. We need this summer to focus on our mental health so we can be as successful as possible in the fall.

I’m tired of people saying I’m not working. My kids who are home don’t see me unless I’m on my lunch break because I’m in front of the computer teaching ALL DAY. And then I have after school work meetings. Comments like these make it really difficult to keep going.


Agree 100%. We parents see how hard you’re working. And I definitely want a break for my kids this summer. They’ve been served a shit sandwich during the pandemic.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2021 08:40     Subject: Re:Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Just a note that extending the year for HS wouldn’t make much sense. The 4X4 schedule means kids already took 1/2 of their classes completely. Do they just take the random second set of classes longer?
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2021 06:55     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
I’ve been teaching all my regular hours while doing DL plus even more and the work never ends. I am mentally drained and the students are as well. We need this summer to focus on our mental health so we can be as successful as possible in the fall.

I’m tired of people saying I’m not working. My kids who are home don’t see me unless I’m on my lunch break because I’m in front of the computer teaching ALL DAY. And then I have after school work meetings. Comments like these make it really difficult to keep going.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2021 06:55     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who is in charge in DC? Does chancellor report to DME or mayor?



Schools in DCPS are under mayoral control.
so who reports to who?



Seriously??? Everyone reports to Bowser. She is in charge of schools and the city. That is what mayoral control is. Freebee is just a cog in the system, he follows what Boswer wants. She is in charge
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2021 06:54     Subject: Re:Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not gonna happen. Unless it is voluntary for teachers and students.


Teachers have taken a year off. They don't need the summer off too.



You may think they have taken the year off, but in terms of working days they have not. What DCPS should have done was shift to 6 weeks off around Thanksgiving/Christmas and then go to school in the summer.

DCPS can’t just decide to add more days onto the contract without paying more. It’s the same thing that happened during summer bridge (volunteer basis).


My kids used to go to school eight hours per day, five days per week. Now they get a couple hours per day, four days per week.

They now get about as much instruction per week as they used to get each and every day.


This is absolutely my experience with my 5th grader DC at YuYing. About two hours of zoom a day, and independent work that can be done in 30 mins.


I’m sorry your experience stinks YuYing parent. I’m confused what you are getting out of this thread. The mayor could never order your charter to hold mandatory summer school.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 21:57     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who is in charge in DC? Does chancellor report to DME or mayor?



Schools in DCPS are under mayoral control.
so who reports to who?
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 21:43     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yet another teacher bashing session.


and so it should be. until our teachers return and our dcps can actually reopen, i'll be bashing them. Here and to our principal. It's an outrage.



I don’t think bashing the teachers to your principal is working to your benefit.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 21:39     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is no possible way DC - mayor, chancellor, OSSE, WTU - can get its collective sh!t together enough to make this happen in any form that would be bearable for the thousands of school children who have been doing DL for an entire school year. I just don’t believe in any of them. Certainly not enough to ruin another summer. Concentrate on a full re-opening in August and stop jerking these kids around.


+1


Honestly I wish they WOULD shorten summer break here in DC to offer more instruction, but they won’t. And they won’t in Virginia, either. This is just a political ploy by Northam. He’ll boldly instruct school systems to explore summer learning, they’ll form a bunch of working groups, meeting will be held, and ultimately a few hundred underprivileged special ed kids will be invited for a summer session and parents everywhere will be expected to do backflips.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 21:14     Subject: Re:Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not gonna happen. Unless it is voluntary for teachers and students.


Teachers have taken a year off. They don't need the summer off too.


This. Time to stop scamming tax payers and get to work.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 20:51     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:Yet another teacher bashing session.


and so it should be. until our teachers return and our dcps can actually reopen, i'll be bashing them. Here and to our principal. It's an outrage.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 20:39     Subject: Re:Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not gonna happen. Unless it is voluntary for teachers and students.


Teachers have taken a year off. They don't need the summer off too.



You may think they have taken the year off, but in terms of working days they have not. What DCPS should have done was shift to 6 weeks off around Thanksgiving/Christmas and then go to school in the summer.

DCPS can’t just decide to add more days onto the contract without paying more. It’s the same thing that happened during summer bridge (volunteer basis).


My kids used to go to school eight hours per day, five days per week. Now they get a couple hours per day, four days per week.

They now get about as much instruction per week as they used to get each and every day.


This is absolutely my experience with my 5th grader DC at YuYing. About two hours of zoom a day, and independent work that can be done in 30 mins.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 20:28     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:There is no possible way DC - mayor, chancellor, OSSE, WTU - can get its collective sh!t together enough to make this happen in any form that would be bearable for the thousands of school children who have been doing DL for an entire school year. I just don’t believe in any of them. Certainly not enough to ruin another summer. Concentrate on a full re-opening in August and stop jerking these kids around.


+1
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 20:00     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Yet another teacher bashing session.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2021 19:52     Subject: Northam expanding school year into the summer -- we need the same in DC
Anonymous wrote:Who is in charge in DC? Does chancellor report to DME or mayor?



Schools in DCPS are under mayoral control.