School closures on Monday, Feb 3 for day without immigrants?

[Anonymous]

So they hire un documented people? No one has an issue with LEGAL immigrants…….

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Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

It won’t accomplish anything. This is DC where some insanely high percent of people voted for Biden. What is closing this school messaging to Trump or other law makers? They don’t care about DC. It’s all performative.

[Anonymous]

Underneath all of this, I think we all want things to be better. What if we started from there?

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

To recap. According to you:

It's ok for Jessica to announce this on ParentSquare

It's not ok for parents to respond to the announcement on DCUM because it's not ParentSquare

If parents do ask Jessica questions on ParentSquare, it's ok if she doesn't answer them on ParentSquare

Do we know if Jessica has answered anyone's questions in any format?

Reading these comments it’s clear:

(1) you’re a jerk and probably racist if you can’t take a day off of work on a random Monday.

(2) how dare you expect a school to keep their doors open based on a calendar they set

(3) your kids come second after our personal political beliefs

(4) there is no way to respectfully disagree with any decision made by the school. If you expect the school to be open when it says they will be open, you can only expect this at private school. I read all the comments on Parentsquare. They were really respectful and pointed out some serious concerns- kids deserve an education, the federal workforce has been ordered back to work, this could have been planned better to give parents a way to schedule some care, etc. but the responses to those good points were not respectful- “you have to learn a lesson” “go elsewhere if you disagree” “you are intolerant”. That’s straight up not indicative of the “loving and warm” school described elsewhere.

This is all really troubling, particularly in a school with LAMB’s history.

What?!

I find this day off annoying, but I have found the admin super accessible every time I’ve reached out. I haven’t been in touch with them on this issues because it’s not really one I care that much about one way or another.

There has not been any intolerance from the school supporting us with an issue we had with a teacher last year. They were very helpful in intervening and took our concerns seriously.

That’s because you discreetly raised concerns privately in a way that let them massage the situation (and likely not really change anything). That’s what they want.

Yes, it’s almost like working collaboratively with them in a constructive, respectful way is a good way to get things done? We were very happy with the resolution by the way, and did not feel like it was window dressing.

Are they working collaboratively with the parents they screwed over by closing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Underneath all of this, I think we all want things to be better. What if we started from there?

What if we started from the fundamental premise that school needs to be open?

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Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

To shut down a school because of a political grievance that's completely unrelated to the school is an abuse of power, an abuse of tax dollars and it's also illegal in DC.

This is my understanding as well. LAMB employees are District employees:

Code of the District of Columbia
§ 1–617.05. Strikes prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any District government employee or labor organization to participate in, authorize, or ratify a strike against the District.

LOL that does not apply to LAMB.

Ya’ll need to simmer down.

[Anonymous]

Life can be really overwhelming when unexpected challenges, like not having childcare, disrupt our day.
But when I pause and think about the larger struggles—like the tragedy of a plane crash or the deep uncertainty faced by immigrant families—I realize how much perspective shapes our emotions.
While I can’t control everything around me, I do have control over how I respond to these emotions.
I’m grateful to be here, to be alive, and yes, even grateful for the inconvenience—because it could be so much worse.
It could have been my family on that plane, or I could be undocumented, living in fear. But I’m not. I’m alive, a grandchild of undocumented immigrants, and an American citizen. This is me and how I’m dealing with it. I def have been hugging my kids tighter these days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

What basic human right is at stake here? Do you think you have the right to move anywhere you want in the world, and no government can say boo about it?

+1

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Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

To shut down a school because of a political grievance that's completely unrelated to the school is an abuse of power, an abuse of tax dollars and it's also illegal in DC.

This is my understanding as well. LAMB employees are District employees:

Code of the District of Columbia
§ 1–617.05. Strikes prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any District government employee or labor organization to participate in, authorize, or ratify a strike against the District.

LOL that does not apply to LAMB.

Ya’ll need to simmer down.

LAMB is like, "We hate Trump so much we can't have school!"

What?

You're an elementary school. No one gives a shit about your political views. Just do your job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

To shut down a school because of a political grievance that's completely unrelated to the school is an abuse of power, an abuse of tax dollars and it's also illegal in DC.

This is my understanding as well. LAMB employees are District employees:

Code of the District of Columbia
§ 1–617.05. Strikes prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any District government employee or labor organization to participate in, authorize, or ratify a strike against the District.

LOL that does not apply to LAMB.

Ya’ll need to simmer down.

Please explain why this doesn’t apply to LAMB.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

To shut down a school because of a political grievance that's completely unrelated to the school is an abuse of power, an abuse of tax dollars and it's also illegal in DC.

This is my understanding as well. LAMB employees are District employees:

Code of the District of Columbia
§ 1–617.05. Strikes prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any District government employee or labor organization to participate in, authorize, or ratify a strike against the District.

LOL that does not apply to LAMB.

Ya’ll need to simmer down.

Please explain why this doesn’t apply to LAMB.

Charter school teachers aren’t considered government employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should all be fired.

lolz good luck finding new qualified teachers but by all means go off karen
😭😭😭🫠

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

To shut down a school because of a political grievance that's completely unrelated to the school is an abuse of power, an abuse of tax dollars and it's also illegal in DC.

This is my understanding as well. LAMB employees are District employees:

Code of the District of Columbia
§ 1–617.05. Strikes prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any District government employee or labor organization to participate in, authorize, or ratify a strike against the District.

LOL that does not apply to LAMB.

Ya’ll need to simmer down.

Please explain why this doesn’t apply to LAMB.

Charter school teachers aren’t considered government employees.

Source please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

To shut down a school because of a political grievance that's completely unrelated to the school is an abuse of power, an abuse of tax dollars and it's also illegal in DC.

Look I don't know if it's the right tactic or not but calling the rounding up of immigrants and sending them to Gitmo a political grievance that's unrelated to a Spanish speaking school is pretty gross. People are terrified. The dictatorship is refusing to recognize schools and churches as sanctuaries and is literally just rounding up people who speak Spanish (a Puerto Rican women was detained in a store in Wisconsin for the crime of speaking Spanish).

I realize a lot of us are rightly terrified and anxious and lashing out but if you think this is simply some normal politics than I have news about the next few years.

[Anonymous]

I'm most struck by how most people here are referring to it as lost "childcare." This is a lost instructional day, first and foremost. What are the expectations around teaching at LAMB?