Why is GDS unable to lead on Covid??

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Meanwhile, GDS continues to disappoint, which would be a political understatement.

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Anonymous wrote:There was no BS in that. Get a grip. What are you, a brainless attack dog? Those are easy facts to check, call the school or ask one of your friends that go there. They’ve had opt-in in-person since early Fall 2020.

Dodge again. Are you saying your child goes to Beauvoir or not?

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Anonymous wrote:I am so tired of my kid’s school. We are always the LAST one to do anything differently. Russell did not go to a hybrid model until every other school did the same. He seems paralyzed. And now again. All the other schools are opening 5 days in the next couple weeks. But Russell can’t do it. Again. I know I should not bother with DCuM. But no one gives a crap what I want ... and many many of us have tried. I need to vent. And I least that a GDS admin person reads DCUM and HEARS the frustration! Why can’t we just open properly already??

Same here but only two more years to go. Feel trapped and regretful.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they are leading, by being the safest. Other schools are competing to be the riskiest. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Ha, ok! My kid has been in school since August at their private (not in DMV). I'm pretty sure you're the one playing the stupid game...

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question, but what are asynchronous Wednesdays?

Signed, future GDS parent

In the MS (and maybe the HS, I'm not sure), there are no classes, in person or virtual. Instead, students get assignments from 3 of their classes, each designed to take an hour. Kids do them by themselves, with no help or interaction. The rest of the day is totally free.

So are you getting 20% of your tuition refunded?

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Anonymous wrote:Q. Why is Gds not leading any Covid responses the last 12 months?

A. Primarily because:
It allowed a bunch of inexperienced staff committees to make up health and logistic Re-opening decisions based on non-expertise and emotions

It made an experienced health committee of community, parent and independents experts over the summer... and then did the OPPOSITE of what they advised in August.
Again, based on staff emotions or anecdotes and not data or science. Pitting its staff against students and family for many months. It never surveyed the parents until mid Fall.

GDS was never transparent and often deflected and avoided answering key questions.

LMS building wasn’t up to code and ready to open until well into the Fall. Whether this was due to GdS not pushing them to work since they didn’t want to open or assumed no one would open is a key question.

Basically the only reasons they are open in person since Thanksgiving at all is because other schools around the country lead the way since August and the staff agreed to bimonthly and now weekly Covid testing.

The test results pierce through the staff biases and emotions. (The staff that elects to actually show up and teach, that is)

However there was that one time that ONE staff member tested positive and GDS unilaterally decided to shut down all 13 grades from two buildings and do virtual for 7-10 days. They can pretend Bowser or the over-their-heads DC DoH told them to do that but it was yet another example of NON leadership and emotional and fear-based decision making from GDS. Btw, NO ONE tested positive 3-7 days after that debacle. No one. The fake super spreader who shut down school in December. That was a nice touch a couple weeks after finally opening since March 2020.

Very insightful. Thanks for this.

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Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

NP and Biden supporter. You sound as idiotic and myopic as any Trumper out there. Seems like for every moron Trumper there is an equally idiotic leftist still claiming a year later that’s is NOT safe to open schools. Says who? Fauci didn’t say that. Either did Biden. At this point, any child not in school is being unnecessarily harmed in ways greater than the harm posed to them by the virus. You lack critical thinking skills and GDS should be embarrassed if you are really a GDS parent. Thanks for reminding me of two things - (1) dumb people exist on both sides of the political spectrum; and (2) thank goodness I didn’t apply my DCs to GDS. They’ve been happily attending in-person school for months.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they are leading, by being the safest. Other schools are competing to be the riskiest. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Nah. My kids are at a top DMV private. They’ve been back full-time since the end of September with zero evidence of community spread and very few positive numbers or problems. You can kid yourself that it’s not safe to be back FT but that’s not what the science shows. With reasonable safety measures in place, there is zero reason GDS should still be operating this way.

Name your school.

There are a handful of top DMV privates. Is it honestly that hard to figure out? If you spent about 5 minutes outside of your GDS bubble, you’d have your answer.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they are leading, by being the safest. Other schools are competing to be the riskiest. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Nah. My kids are at a top DMV private. They’ve been back full-time since the end of September with zero evidence of community spread and very few positive numbers or problems. You can kid yourself that it’s not safe to be back FT but that’s not what the science shows. With reasonable safety measures in place, there is zero reason GDS should still be operating this way.

Name your school.

There are a handful of top DMV privates. Is it honestly that hard to figure out? If you spent about 5 minutes outside of your GDS bubble, you’d have your answer.

So why won’t you name the school your child attends?

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Anonymous wrote:I think they are leading, by being the safest. Other schools are competing to be the riskiest. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Nah. My kids are at a top DMV private. They’ve been back full-time since the end of September with zero evidence of community spread and very few positive numbers or problems. You can kid yourself that it’s not safe to be back FT but that’s not what the science shows. With reasonable safety measures in place, there is zero reason GDS should still be operating this way.

Name your school.

There are a handful of top DMV privates. Is it honestly that hard to figure out? If you spent about 5 minutes outside of your GDS bubble, you’d have your answer.

So why won’t you name the school your child attends?

Why should I? Is it really that hard to figure out? Are you really in that much denial or are you afraid to admit to yourself that that GDS is embarrassingly behind on this issue?

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Anonymous wrote:I think they are leading, by being the safest. Other schools are competing to be the riskiest. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Nah. My kids are at a top DMV private. They’ve been back full-time since the end of September with zero evidence of community spread and very few positive numbers or problems. You can kid yourself that it’s not safe to be back FT but that’s not what the science shows. With reasonable safety measures in place, there is zero reason GDS should still be operating this way.

Name your school.

There are a handful of top DMV privates. Is it honestly that hard to figure out? If you spent about 5 minutes outside of your GDS bubble, you’d have your answer.

So why won’t you name the school your child attends?

Why should I? Is it really that hard to figure out? Are you really in that much denial or are you afraid to admit to yourself that that GDS is embarrassingly behind on this issue?

Nah, I just think you’re full of shit and trying to stir up trouble. I’m betting you’re not even in the DMV area.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they are leading, by being the safest. Other schools are competing to be the riskiest. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Nah. My kids are at a top DMV private. They’ve been back full-time since the end of September with zero evidence of community spread and very few positive numbers or problems. You can kid yourself that it’s not safe to be back FT but that’s not what the science shows. With reasonable safety measures in place, there is zero reason GDS should still be operating this way.

Name your school.

There are a handful of top DMV privates. Is it honestly that hard to figure out? If you spent about 5 minutes outside of your GDS bubble, you’d have your answer.

So why won’t you name the school your child attends?

Why should I? Is it really that hard to figure out? Are you really in that much denial or are you afraid to admit to yourself that that GDS is embarrassingly behind on this issue?

Nah, I just think you’re full of shit and trying to stir up trouble. I’m betting you’re not even in the DMV area.

Sure ok. And I bet you are a NP. GDS parents rarely swear in public forums, not PC enough. Or perhaps I struck a nerve. In any event, if you are a GDS parent you’d know the top privates in the DMV that have been open 5 days for months.

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Still so afraid to name your school. Clearly lying.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they are leading, by being the safest. Other schools are competing to be the riskiest. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Nah. My kids are at a top DMV private. They’ve been back full-time since the end of September with zero evidence of community spread and very few positive numbers or problems. You can kid yourself that it’s not safe to be back FT but that’s not what the science shows. With reasonable safety measures in place, there is zero reason GDS should still be operating this way.

Name your school.

There are a handful of top DMV privates. Is it honestly that hard to figure out? If you spent about 5 minutes outside of your GDS bubble, you’d have your answer.

So why won’t you name the school your child attends?

Why should I? Is it really that hard to figure out? Are you really in that much denial or are you afraid to admit to yourself that that GDS is embarrassingly behind on this issue?

Nah, I just think you’re full of shit and trying to stir up trouble. I’m betting you’re not even in the DMV area.

Wow. You’re psychotic. Are you affiliated with GdS? Go take your meds man.

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Anonymous wrote:Q. Why is Gds not leading any Covid responses the last 12 months?

A. Primarily because:
It allowed a bunch of inexperienced staff committees to make up health and logistic Re-opening decisions based on non-expertise and emotions

It made an experienced health committee of community, parent and independents experts over the summer... and then did the OPPOSITE of what they advised in August.
Again, based on staff emotions or anecdotes and not data or science. Pitting its staff against students and family for many months. It never surveyed the parents until mid Fall.

GDS was never transparent and often deflected and avoided answering key questions.

LMS building wasn’t up to code and ready to open until well into the Fall. Whether this was due to GdS not pushing them to work since they didn’t want to open or assumed no one would open is a key question.

Basically the only reasons they are open in person since Thanksgiving at all is because other schools around the country lead the way since August and the staff agreed to bimonthly and now weekly Covid testing.

The test results pierce through the staff biases and emotions. (The staff that elects to actually show up and teach, that is)

However there was that one time that ONE staff member tested positive and GDS unilaterally decided to shut down all 13 grades from two buildings and do virtual for 7-10 days. They can pretend Bowser or the over-their-heads DC DoH told them to do that but it was yet another example of NON leadership and emotional and fear-based decision making from GDS. Btw, NO ONE tested positive 3-7 days after that debacle. No one. The fake super spreader who shut down school in December. That was a nice touch a couple weeks after finally opening since March 2020.

Very insightful. Thanks for this.

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