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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The Miami-Dade County School Board voted unanimously early Thursday morning to stop using its current online learning platform, My School Online, following two weeks of issues during the start of the 2020-2021 school year, Dr. Steve Gallon confirmed to Local 10 News.
Gallon is the vice chair and elected District 1 School Board member for Miami-Dade County Schools.
He said the school district will stop using the platform immediately.
“I’m proud of the unanimous support of my colleagues of both agenda items I proffered, which not only immediately ended the vexing, almost nightmarish use of the K12 platform by teachers, parents, and students, but also made a significant policy amendment which would preclude such a no-bid purchase without School Board approval in the future," Gallon said in a statement to Local 10. "This decision would immediately enable teachers to utilize district approved platforms for online learning that they are familiar with, trained on, and that parents are accustomed to that will ensure an improved, more enhanced teaching and learning experience during these already challenging times.”
Students and teachers will now use other platforms, like Microsoft Teams. School officials said there is no financial consequence to the change because the contract with My School Online was never fully executed.
Members of the School Board received an earful Wednesday about the K12 failure and the chaos that has been the first two weeks of school before voting the platform out just before 2 a.m. Nearly 400 parents and teachers submitted comments.
Some parents were livid and allowed their frustrations to be heard.
At the first full board meeting since Miami-Dade’s virtual learning meltdown and subsequent finger pointing, there are lots of decisions to be made.
But before they could get down to business, a large chunk of the meeting was all public venting and unloading.
Parents and teachers let it fly at the virtual meeting, using words like “disaster” and even “injustice” to describe a roster of issues with the $15 million no-bid platform K12 that proved inaccessible, untenable and unusable district-wide for students from kindergarten to 12th grade countywide, leaving teachers to scramble for a way to provide effective virtual learning in this time of COVID-19.
Those parents and teachers want answers, and some want heads to roll.
“Show cause why should the board members not be put on unpaid administrative leave along with the superintendent,” said parents Mayra Joli. “Show cause why the complete board should not be dismantled for malfeasance.”
Four of the nine board members added emergency items to the agenda this week, called “good cause” items, from ditching the K12 platform to demanding accountability.
Teachers were initially told to expect decisions about the platform Friday, meaning they would have had an unpaid work weekend.
“I really wish you could make a decision by Wednesday so we can have lesson plans created for students for Monday,” said teacher Alicia Thompson.
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