Bowser says she hopes private schools will be virtual

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Anonymous wrote:It is incredibly sad that the Mayor does not value education - the great equalizer. Education is hope. Hope for each and every child regardless or race, color or creed.
The directive is no school - but bars and gyms and protestors - please continue to go about your activities.

Yes, having in person school for only the rich people who can afford to be involved in and supplement their kids' learning regardless is such an equalizer.

You really need to direct your anger to the federal level. The lack of readily available rapid testing and PPE is a huge, huge barrier to opening schools. And we have leaders who have purposely tried to prevent access to tests and PPE. Local governments cannot do this by themselves. Our country is being destroyed from the top.

Yep, exactly. Either ALL kids go back to school, or NO kids go back to school. This is a public health issue, not a public/private school issue. It’s either safe for all, or unsafe for all, just like restaurants/bars/stores/etc.

+1 If AU, and Georgetown, and GWU can do it, so can the K-12 private schools.

Then they also should close daycares and forbid pods of too many children. A large university or public school is not the same as some of the small private schools. Personally, I think restaurants should be closed to indoor dining, gyms closed, but lower grades at small schools allowed to open (otherwise daycares should be shut too- but that would cause lots of problems for essential workers).

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Closing the schools was already tried and it got us nowhere. Ocean City boardwalk open though! It's just a damn shame that Trump screwed the pooch so royally. Now we just have to sit around and wait for a vaccine to be available and distributed and there's no way of knowing how many years that might be. The US is a dump.

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Anonymous wrote:Big screens in class so teachers at home can Zoom teach while teens are gathered, etc...

This is tangential to the thread but is this what in person school will be like for HS students? What would the point be and why wouldn't teachers come in if students are coming in?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, are you blind to the FACT that since Bowser's announcement on Thursday that she was going to cave to union workers ( at the expense of children's education , imho )

There are no fewer than 30 threads on this forum ...of parents... begging for Info on how they can possibly get into Private School

where there is ample space, millions to pour into cleaning, Big screens in class so teachers at home can Zoom teach while teens are gathered, etc...

These schools are in demand and they AREN'T closing

The Mayor of DC wont even close Indoor dining where THOUSANDS of DC residents gather every day for hours with MASKS OFF

The MD Gov wont even close the bars at the MD Beach towns,,,,,where they are packing them in ALL WITHOUT A MASK

The VA Gov refuses to ban Indoor Dining despite VA Beach's ICU's being packed

Close the Bars first/ ban the Indoor Dining first,.... wait a Month and if it isn't better than come back one here

But the schools have been CLOSED since March and THEY are NOT the problem

So much disinformation in this post, particularly the bolded. That may be true for a very small handful of schools, but I assure you private schools do not have millions to spend on this crisis as a whole, let alone cleaning. And most are not opening. Also the implication in the last sentence: are you suggesting that because schools haven't been the cause of spread while closed, that when they do open they will not be a cause of spread either? Total nonsense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, are you blind to the FACT that since Bowser's announcement on Thursday that she was going to cave to union workers ( at the expense of children's education , imho )

There are no fewer than 30 threads on this forum ...of parents... begging for Info on how they can possibly get into Private School

where there is ample space, millions to pour into cleaning, Big screens in class so teachers at home can Zoom teach while teens are gathered, etc...

These schools are in demand and they AREN'T closing

The Mayor of DC wont even close Indoor dining where THOUSANDS of DC residents gather every day for hours with MASKS OFF

The MD Gov wont even close the bars at the MD Beach towns,,,,,where they are packing them in ALL WITHOUT A MASK

The VA Gov refuses to ban Indoor Dining despite VA Beach's ICU's being packed

Close the Bars first/ ban the Indoor Dining first,.... wait a Month and if it isn't better than come back one here

But the schools have been CLOSED since March and THEY are NOT the problem

So much disinformation in this post, particularly the bolded. That may be true for a very small handful of schools, but I assure you private schools do not have millions to spend on this crisis as a whole, let alone cleaning. And most are not opening. Also the implication in the last sentence: are you suggesting that because schools haven't been the cause of spread while closed, that when they do open they will not be a cause of spread either? Total nonsense.

Most privates do not have that kind of margin, agreed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Big screens in class so teachers at home can Zoom teach while teens are gathered, etc...

This is tangential to the thread but is this what in person school will be like for HS students? What would the point be and why wouldn't teachers come in if students are coming in?

I don’t know what you all are thinking ‘in person’ School will be like. A masked teacher, lecturing from the front of the room, no group work, no collaboration, half the class at home watching the masked teacher give a motionless lecture, etc. rinse and repeat every week. At least with distance learning kids can see the teachers faces, interact with classmates, etc. Schools being ‘open’ doesn’t mean school as normal.

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Pubic school teacher please get off this thread. I am fine with a masked teacher. So are the parents. Get to work please!

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public school teacher-sorry that was a typo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pubic school teacher please get off this thread. I am fine with a masked teacher. So are the parents. Get to work please!

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pubic school teacher please get off this thread. I am fine with a masked teacher. So are the parents. Get to work please!

+1

Private school teachers are not. Good luck. You will see in the coming weeks. Fire us all. Nobody wants to get sick or die because you feel
Like you paid for in person school regardless of a global pandemic. Admin not telling you about the teacher meetings. As more and more schools close do you think Dc private school teachers will go back? Good luck with the janitor leading your cohort/pod this fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pubic school teacher please get off this thread. I am fine with a masked teacher. So are the parents. Get to work please!

I am not fine with that. Stop trying to silence people who disagree with you. We should hear all points of view.

--private school parent.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope many of you realize that many students post on this board with the intent of staring flame wars. It looks like many of you are eager to give these kids what they want.

What's your evidence? My kids and their friends at privates all want school to be in-person.

You are in a bubble. Not everyone in your school agrees with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL, you private school parents who thought they would open must feel stupid now! We are all on the same sinking boat.

I don't feel stupid, just angry against people like Elrich, Bowser and you.

[Anonymous]

Ha ha ha ha ha! No private school in Montgomery County! Announced last night. That is the last nail in the coffin for DC privates. Bowser will announce soon. If public can’t go, private can’t go. Fair is fair. How does it feel to throw all that money down the drain? LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Pubic school teacher please get off this thread. I am fine with a masked teacher. So are the parents. Get to work please!

+1

Private school teachers are not. Good luck. You will see in the coming weeks. Fire us all. Nobody wants to get sick or die because you feel
Like you paid for in person school regardless of a global pandemic. Admin not telling you about the teacher meetings. As more and more schools close do you think Dc private school teachers will go back? Good luck with the janitor leading your cohort/pod this fall.

This. And the masked teacher scenario is FOR ALL SCHOOLS. Half sized classes, cautious teachers, masked students sitting motionless in a classroom, encased in plexiglass, while the other half watches a boring class of masked children get a lecture from a small screen at home. That's it. That's what you're all clamoring for to ReOpEn the SCHOOOLLLZZZZ!