Can we talk for a minute about the total failure of Chicago Public Schools to offer realistic choices for Fall–and local media totally missing this story? (1/12)

CPS has been a slow motion train wreck as they’ve insisted for the last 3 weeks that they’re doing a “hybrid” model – 2 days in class, 1 day online, 2 days “self-instruction”. (2/12)

Or you can choose all remote, but, as my kid’s principal admitted in an email today, we are “unsure what this will look like at this time”. All we’re told is kids get *one day* of instruction. That’s it. (3/12)

So, basically, there is no real remote option at CPS. Either you’re going to possibly expose your kid to COVID, or you’re going to get bupkis. Why is there no real option? Why hasn’t CPS been planning for remote all along? (4/12)

Why, when Covid is surging in Illinois, and four MLB teams with billions of dollars at stake can’t keep themselves virus-free, do we imagine Chicago Public Schools will be safe? (5/12)

School administrators I talk to say the in-school requirements–6ft apart, keeping kids in pods, no pod mixing at school start and finish–are logistically impossible, especially in the MANY schools built 100 years ago. (6/12)

What CPS does sets the tone for area school districts, area private schools AND business. That’s right. If CPS goes all remote, you can be sure every local biz will struggle to respond to their pre-occupied employees. (7/12)

Why isn’t this story front page, above the fold news every day? Yes, it’s caught a story here and there, but what about the total mismanagement of schools? What about the shitty position schools have put parents into? (8/12)

More angles: What are the consequences for business if schools go remote? Since there seems to be no remote plan ready, if virus gets worse, how much more burden will this be for parents? Think of this as a blizzard story, but with months of impact, not days. (9/12)

Who the heck gave the green light to push for the hybrid model and not plan for a remote school option first? This smells like a 5th floor decision to me. This is the kind of crappy decision that will ruin hundreds of thousands of lives. (10/12)

Here’s where I stand: I know parents at my kid’s school will splinter off: Ones with big money will create remote pods w/ full-time teachers. Medium money will do remote teaching w/ part-time teachers. No money will do in-school, because no choice. (11/12)

And there you go. CPS’ terrible planning has divided CPS into even more of a have vs. have-not situation. Great job. This school year is going to suck. (12/12)