Originally Posted by
Chicken lady
I am not admin. The on site administrative staff makes day to day small scale decisions - which is how I got an exception to bring in a few kids from one group this week. We have a non-coercive, consensus driven philosophy. What that means in practice is that the administrators survey parents, teachers, and students and look at the numbers in the community, then they make a presentation and recommendations to our board. The board is made up of general members and at least one parent and one teacher. I don’t know who those people are. The board makes the final decision. Last time they called a special session on the weekend and cancelled in person classes with an email that went out at 11:00 at night. Virtual is always an option for students, and we will not force teachers to return to their classrooms.
We have classroom aides to facilitate in person instruction for those students who are in the classroom while their teacher is teaching on a large screen. One problem we have right now is that we don’t have enough aides to cover all the teachers who won’t come back and the aides are expensive - we still pay the teachers.
So, if I want my 1:00 class, they can drive in during lunch, but I have to figure out where they are going to go at 2:15 and who is going to supervise them. (Which is what I did for the kids I brought in - they took class basically in the lobby where the receptionist could see them with noise cancelling headphones.)