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Anonymous wrote:Wow, y’all really need to find some bigger problems to be so outraged about. At this point, your anger seems performative and really out of scale to the severity of the issue.

It's just grating how smug the ITS administration is about its own excellence and how they think they're so woke. Really they DGAF.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, y’all really need to find some bigger problems to be so outraged about. At this point, your anger seems performative and really out of scale to the severity of the issue.

It's just grating how smug the ITS administration is about its own excellence and how they think they're so woke. Really they DGAF.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, y’all really need to find some bigger problems to be so outraged about. At this point, your anger seems performative and really out of scale to the severity of the issue.

Anonymous wrote:Correction: they have acknowledged that they *received* the parent feedback they did not ask for. They do not acknowledge that they maybe should have done anything differently.

How dare we not trust them!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look another email from the administration making it crystal clear that they DGAF about parent input. And scolding us for thinking their email saying they can't promise half day childcare might mean there is not going to be childcare. What a joke.

Didn’t get an email. Confused.

We got one that seemed like it was to the whole school from K. K. She still has not answered the one I sent to her providing feedback, and reading this one, seems like I shouldn't expect anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look another email from the administration making it crystal clear that they DGAF about parent input. And scolding us for thinking their email saying they can't promise half day childcare might mean there is not going to be childcare. What a joke.

Didn’t get an email. Confused.

Anonymous wrote:Oh look another email from the administration making it crystal clear that they DGAF about parent input. And scolding us for thinking their email saying they can't promise half day childcare might mean there is not going to be childcare. What a joke.

Anonymous wrote:Oh look another email from the administration making it crystal clear that they DGAF about parent input. And scolding us for thinking their email saying they can't promise half day childcare might mean there is not going to be childcare. What a joke.

Anonymous wrote:Let be very clear here. Itds did NOT release a full calendar then change it. They did changed the start date by moving it up 3 days.
So everyone complaining they "changed the calendar" you are creating a false narrative. The full calendar was not released and changed only the start date.

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Anonymous wrote:Many charters have half days one day a week.

Among them:
DC Bilingual
Bridges

Most of the rest we applied to.

I don't really care one way or the other that they changed the calendar. With all due respect, this is in no way a "last minute change." It's March.

You all are sounding kind of entitled.

By the way, at Inspired Teaching we don't usually air our dirty laundry on DCUM. We talk directly to each other and to the administration. If you need this much control, you may not be cut out for Charters.

Count me as another parent who hopes the administration doesn't cave on this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many charters have half days one day a week.

Among them:
DC Bilingual
Bridges

Most of the rest we applied to.

I don't really care one way or the other that they changed the calendar. With all due respect, this is in no way a "last minute change." It's March.

You all are sounding kind of entitled.

By the way, at Inspired Teaching we don't usually air our dirty laundry on DCUM. We talk directly to each other and to the administration. If you need this much control, you may not be cut out for Charters.

Count me as another parent who hopes the administration doesn't cave on this.

But is there a charter that has half days with no aftercare? Because until ITS announces that there is aftercare, there isn't.

If the administration would respond to my emails I might be able to talk with them. The IFA is "trying" to figure out a way to work this into their obviously very busy and important meeting agenda. But they'll never stand up to the administration or question anything they're told.

This isn't about control. It's about the administration's rudeness in changing the calendar without an apology for their mistake, and for their indifference to the inconvenience they're imposing on parents. ITS already has the most inconvenient back-to-school phase-in week that I've been able to find in any DCPS elementary school that isn't Montessori. I was fine to put up with that, but this change is such a pain I feel I have to speak up.

Parents on DCUM are applying to ITS and should know that this is how the administration treats the families.

My DCPS PK kid’s schedule is even worse. Especially with older kid. I’d rather have at least have days than no school at all the first 3 days of school, well after camps are out.

What is the schedule exactly at your school and how is it worse?

All DCPS PK kids don’t start until 3 days after school starts for rest of students, Wed. Sept 3. For those of us with older kids that start 8/31, it’s not like we can be on vacation. We have to take 3 full days off of work just to be home with PK kids. If it were half days like ITS, at least I could try to figure out a telework situation or work half days.

Hmm. OK. So I have to take off Monday and Tuesday completely because there is no school at all those days at ITS and then there’s two days when I’m shuttling back and forth at 8:30, then 12:15, and then again at 3:30 to pick up my older kid and that’s better somehow??? Ok.