April 28th, 2021

We are asking families to make a decision for the entire school year.

We do recognize that this is a difficult decision for parents to make especially when they are basing it on information they have today and have no way of knowing what September will look like.

We are asking for the decision to be made for the entire school year because
staffing a school system for 65,000 students is a very complex process and we are already behind schedule. If we don’t start the process now, we run the very real risk of not having all our classes staffed at the start of the school year.

In addition, feedback from parents, staff, and teachers was that the providing options for families to switch was very disruptive and had a negative impact on student and staff well-being and learning. Requests for changes often resulted in a teacher change for students, or in some cases, a change of classroom for students.