You have 120 kids not passing or attending live sessions?
lol. As a parent reading that your chart says, āI have done enoughā means that there is more that could be done, but you donāt have to do it. Unless that Guidance referral thing is going to handle the hundreds of issues families have going on nowadays.
Not saying that is the case in any way. My kids are not doing great with their Hybrid model.
2 days in school. 1 online short day where all classes are done in 3 hours or so.
My sons grades and motivation are way down and my daughters workload and stress are way up, because she is actually keeping her grades up.
Getting assignments essentially after hours on things that were only discussed during in person classes of kids that were there on the opposite schedule is getting very tiresome.
Oh. and the college board is trashy cash grab.
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Itās a mixed bag of shit this year for us.
The inconsistency of this school year from a policy standpoint has been the main issue. Weāve changed our learning model 5 times, and in each change we also started and stopped policies on a weekly basis. Our administration also is tone deaf to the issues teachers are experiences, as far as reaching out to parents, reaching out to students, tracking data, grading assignments, grading late assignments, creating new assignments, etc. Itās a perfect storm of shit for us. Iām in the āI would not want to be a student this yearā group. As much as I would like to think I have a say in the way I do my job, this year has proven that I am merely a cog in a broken system.
Oh, and I teach engineeringā¦so let me tell you how fun it has been trying to implement all the hands-on learning and projects we do normally to āonlineā. Itās a disaster.
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Shameless plug btw, but I started a podcast earlier this school year to talk about teaching from a non-fluffy and no BS standpoint.
Check it out, we cover pretty much every topic you probably are dealing with.
Christ. What a nightmare. Clearly decided by the people who dont actually have to do anything.
Im glad my kids district has only used one model for the entire year (2 days in person). They will likely finish it out as such unless the state allows them to truly open up - fat chance.
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If it shows at all how little we have a say in anything, Iām department chair for my department K-12 and in our monthly meeting with admin, one of our other chairs looked at the news on his phone and saw that the thing we were all working on that day had been changed by the state. Literally an hour after trying to figure out what we needed to do, we found out from the news before our administration or board.
Back to the drawing board, just like that.
We had dinner over the weekend with one of my teacher friends from Amherst district and heard more of the administrative horror stories. We were also sharing our terrible experience with hybrid from a student/parent side. Much wine was consumed drowning our shared frustrations.
Youāve always had good and bad teachers but this year has really amplified the disparity between them. This year is terrible, we all know it, but the good teachers are putting in the effort and getting through it while the bad teachers are just phoning it in and and treating this like a year vacation. Thatās my observation anyway from someone with a student in the Williamsville school system with several friends who work there and as someone who has probably been more involved than a lot on the student advocacy side of things. Thereās a lot of behind the scenes work being done right now to really shake up the Williamsville school board at the next election. If ever there was a year where the turnout has a chance to make the union endorsed candidates not be a guaranteed win itās this year.
@JayS When you run, donāt forget to mail me a ballot. Ignore the not statistically important return address from Niagara County.
I remember when I was involved in my kids school PTA. My wife was president and I was a delegate something or other.
When the school board president came to our school meeting and met my wife he said. " Oh. you are married to the asshole" LOL good times.
Now that I donāt have classes anymore, I entertained the thought of participating in their education againā¦ but the school is almost 20 minutes from my house soā¦ 
LOLā¦ I wonāt be running for school board, but Iām getting involved with a group that is finding some people to run against the union endorsed candidates so we can make the board back into the entity that represents the kids like itās supposed to be. There are supposed to be three sides at the table, the superintendent representing the school, the union representing the teachers and the board representing the kids/parents. In Williamsville today you have a board that was hand picked by the union and an interim superintendent that was hand picked by that same board. So the union has all three seats at any negotiation.
From everything Iāve heard from teachers who worked/work in Williamsville, itās not itās all cut out to be for employment because of the politics at play.
No thanks, my job is already utter bullshit, I just want to be a teacher.
My wife is pretty involved at the school and the PTA meetings are spent arguing over what statement the PTA should make over accusations of racism on school trustee members by 8 year olds.
It did make the newspaper. and the front page of CBC newsā¦
Still full time for my kids 
Almost justifies my ludicrously insane property taxes!
@Motocrossx23 I put on your podcast and next thing I knew 30min had passed, lol.
Man I donāt envy you guys/gals right now.
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@Motocrossx23
Gave the podcast a pity follow 
Listened to #1.
You guys are so corporate, you donāt even know it.
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You have 100+ little company projects/employees.
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You cannot choose your employees
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Your employees are not paid enough
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Your employees struggle with motivation and time management
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Your employees are accountable to 5-8 different employers the same day
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Your employees get new managers every single year that all have very different management styles
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You get a new batch of employees every year
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Covid has destroyed work/life balance for many. Donāt forget, the kids new perspective is that they now live at school. Good luck getting your minions past that one
I think I just started down the path of creating an educational consulting methodology.
Linking parents work life, to kids āworkā life.
Note: the make people teachable/trainable is a pretty cool way to build sheep.
Kids need problem solving, networking and basic MS office skills. Finding the right problemer to solve is hard. Your network/friends chooses your future. Office tools are universal for documenting/sharing everything. Google office is trash, unless you want to build team deliverable draft.
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My wife had the 2nd shot yesterday. So far sheās not espousing the virtues of the Chinese communist party, so weāre probably in the clear. Definitely has some fatigue & joint / muscle soreness though.
I hear that the 2nd is worse than the 1st. The stories are about basically being sick for ~2 days and not able to do much of anything.
The Jerk in me says: Enjoy having zero new privileges
The normal person in me says: I hope it actually works and provides some sense of relief.
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Canada needs to open back up so I can build my house already. These lumber prices are really stupid hence the hold off.
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I have no doubt that privileges will come.