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Did the DoE really tell principals they are on their own? Yes | JD2718

Did the DoE really tell principals they are on their own? Yes | JD2718

Did the DoE really tell principals they are on their own? Yes


How should principals schedule for the fall? After a powerpoint, a letter, and a list of “guiding questions” the best the DoE has is “As we develop guidance on how to create your school’s schedule for the fall, updated resources will be posted”
Keep reading.
This is the letter that the principals received. I’ve un-linked all links. Sorry.
The attached capacity estimates were often wrong. In some cases, every room was wrong. In most cases the number of usable administrative rooms was wrong; their capacities were pretty universally wrong. Many of the registers were wrong.
But what’s worst, there is no guidance. There was no workable guidance in the DOE Planning Overview for Principal Meetings (the powerpoint).
There is a list of Guiding Questions for Principals. I’ve posted it at the end. They provide no guidance. In fact, they look like some idiots around a table batted around ideas, and every time they hit something way too hard for them to answer, they said, “That’s too hard for us. Let’s ask the principals.”
There are promises that the “guidance” will be updated. I do not believe that they will update, or if they CONTINUE READING: Did the DoE really tell principals they are on their own? Yes | JD2718