Winter is coming. And our overly-large school district is planning for the disruptions that even a little bit of snow can cause in the DC area.
Sorta.
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Last fall, our overly-large school district starting looking for a new superintendent. Last week, the school board announced their decision.
And, as just about anyone could have predicted, the choice did not please everyone.
According some education “experts”, the SAT isn’t as vital as it used to be since the number of colleges requiring students to submit scores with their application is in “rapid decline”.
But leadership here in the overly-large school district seems not to have gotten the message.
The new school year has only just begun and, despite optimistic Returning Strong pronouncements, the best laid plans of school administrators are starting to fray at the edges.
There’s little real news in reporting that COVID is also coming into classrooms, although thankfully with far fewer cases than in other areas. But maybe we should be surprised in the fact that “districts have been left flat-footed as they figure out how to provide quarantined students an education from home”.
Our overly-large school district has completed two weeks of the new academic year, opening with the very positive “Returning Strong” as the official PR department slogan. The superintendent’s many email messages emphasize that all will be normal (sorta), with everyone in-person, five days a week.
I suppose there is some justification for that optimism.