Snow day Friday? Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

and now we know there's an infection rate higher than rates moving all local universities to virtual learning for Jan, plus all of the unaccounted students who didn't respond or show up. Bravo!

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

and now we know there's an infection rate higher than rates moving all local universities to virtual learning for Jan, plus all of the unaccounted students who didn't respond or show up. Bravo!

Let’s not emulate the insanity of what the universities are doing.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

This isn't a good dataset for that purpose, and making children suffer for that is ridiculous. If DC really wanted an accurate picture of the situation, there are better and more accurate ways to accomplish this with the weight of the burden spread across adults, not children.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

I had 87% of kids yesterday and taught.

That’s great! I can promise your situation is not the norm, and if you look at submission data district wide, the wealthier wards got significantly higher attendance yesterday.

All this blustering from DCUM over lower income families doesn’t seem to realize how each of the decisions they support in DCPS is causing more inequity and less education for our students furthest from opportunity

I teach at a Title 1 school and also had 90% attendance and taught important lessons.

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My school had typical post holiday attendance and we covered material yesterday. And would have continued today.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

This isn't a good dataset for that purpose, and making children suffer for that is ridiculous. If DC really wanted an accurate picture of the situation, there are better and more accurate ways to accomplish this with the weight of the burden spread across adults, not children.

No there isn't. Universal is always better than targeted sampling because it doesn't rely on any subjective assumptions. It is beyond absurd to claim that targeted sampling is better data than universal. The reason targeted sampling is note often used is logistical and resource based not data efficacy based.

No kids suffered. Two days extra break is nothing and is as minimal as something can get. Nothing usually gets done during those days anyway.

It wasn't burdensome. The process was easy and went smoothly. Easy to pick up the kits. Easy to take the test. And easy to upload the result. DCPS, suprisingly, did a great job pulling this off.

Lastly, it was very good news that prevalence was only 5% for students and 7% for staff. That is way less than was, wrongly, assumed based on the non-universal samplings we had.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

and now we know there's an infection rate higher than rates moving all local universities to virtual learning for Jan, plus all of the unaccounted students who didn't respond or show up. Bravo!

Let’s not emulate the insanity of what the universities are doing.

Indeed. The DCPS snapshot proves that the universities made the wrong decision.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

This isn't a good dataset for that purpose, and making children suffer for that is ridiculous. If DC really wanted an accurate picture of the situation, there are better and more accurate ways to accomplish this with the weight of the burden spread across adults, not children.

No there isn't. Universal is always better than targeted sampling because it doesn't rely on any subjective assumptions. It is beyond absurd to claim that targeted sampling is better data than universal. The reason targeted sampling is note often used is logistical and resource based not data efficacy based.

No kids suffered. Two days extra break is nothing and is as minimal as something can get. Nothing usually gets done during those days anyway.

It wasn't burdensome. The process was easy and went smoothly. Easy to pick up the kits. Easy to take the test. And easy to upload the result. DCPS, suprisingly, did a great job pulling this off.

Lastly, it was very good news that prevalence was only 5% for students and 7% for staff. That is way less than was, wrongly, assumed based on the non-universal samplings we had.

This isn't universal. 11,000 kids didn't participate and I bet they weren't randomly distributed.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

This isn't a good dataset for that purpose, and making children suffer for that is ridiculous. If DC really wanted an accurate picture of the situation, there are better and more accurate ways to accomplish this with the weight of the burden spread across adults, not children.

No there isn't. Universal is always better than targeted sampling because it doesn't rely on any subjective assumptions. It is beyond absurd to claim that targeted sampling is better data than universal. The reason targeted sampling is note often used is logistical and resource based not data efficacy based.

No kids suffered. Two days extra break is nothing and is as minimal as something can get. Nothing usually gets done during those days anyway.

It wasn't burdensome. The process was easy and went smoothly. Easy to pick up the kits. Easy to take the test. And easy to upload the result. DCPS, suprisingly, did a great job pulling this off.

Lastly, it was very good news that prevalence was only 5% for students and 7% for staff. That is way less than was, wrongly, assumed based on the non-universal samplings we had.

did you ever think that maybe while it was easy for you that maybe it wasnt easy for other people?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

This isn't a good dataset for that purpose, and making children suffer for that is ridiculous. If DC really wanted an accurate picture of the situation, there are better and more accurate ways to accomplish this with the weight of the burden spread across adults, not children.

No there isn't. Universal is always better than targeted sampling because it doesn't rely on any subjective assumptions. It is beyond absurd to claim that targeted sampling is better data than universal. The reason targeted sampling is note often used is logistical and resource based not data efficacy based.

No kids suffered. Two days extra break is nothing and is as minimal as something can get. Nothing usually gets done during those days anyway.

It wasn't burdensome. The process was easy and went smoothly. Easy to pick up the kits. Easy to take the test. And easy to upload the result. DCPS, suprisingly, did a great job pulling this off.

Lastly, it was very good news that prevalence was only 5% for students and 7% for staff. That is way less than was, wrongly, assumed based on the non-universal samplings we had.

i also take issue with this idea that "nothing gets done" during the first days after break so we shouldn't care if they're lost. even if i take you at your word, then SOME week has to be the first week after break. do you think now that schools will jump back into the work without the preparatory and expectation-setting work that occurs before academic work? do you think kids will return monday and act like it's the second week of the semester instead of the first?

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

This isn't a good dataset for that purpose, and making children suffer for that is ridiculous. If DC really wanted an accurate picture of the situation, there are better and more accurate ways to accomplish this with the weight of the burden spread across adults, not children.

No there isn't. Universal is always better than targeted sampling because it doesn't rely on any subjective assumptions. It is beyond absurd to claim that targeted sampling is better data than universal. The reason targeted sampling is note often used is logistical and resource based not data efficacy based.

No kids suffered. Two days extra break is nothing and is as minimal as something can get. Nothing usually gets done during those days anyway.

It wasn't burdensome. The process was easy and went smoothly. Easy to pick up the kits. Easy to take the test. And easy to upload the result. DCPS, suprisingly, did a great job pulling this off.

Lastly, it was very good news that prevalence was only 5% for students and 7% for staff. That is way less than was, wrongly, assumed based on the non-universal samplings we had.

i also take issue with this idea that "nothing gets done" during the first days after break so we shouldn't care if they're lost. even if i take you at your word, then SOME week has to be the first week after break. do you think now that schools will jump back into the work without the preparatory and expectation-setting work that occurs before academic work? do you think kids will return monday and act like it's the second week of the semester instead of the first?

The irony is that so much of that “back to school” stuff could have been done easily virtually

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Like lol did you think it was an inherent property of the week itself and not its placement in the academic calendar?

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community. It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.

This isn't a good dataset for that purpose, and making children suffer for that is ridiculous. If DC really wanted an accurate picture of the situation, there are better and more accurate ways to accomplish this with the weight of the burden spread across adults, not children.

No there isn't. Universal is always better than targeted sampling because it doesn't rely on any subjective assumptions. It is beyond absurd to claim that targeted sampling is better data than universal. The reason targeted sampling is note often used is logistical and resource based not data efficacy based.

No kids suffered. Two days extra break is nothing and is as minimal as something can get. Nothing usually gets done during those days anyway.

It wasn't burdensome. The process was easy and went smoothly. Easy to pick up the kits. Easy to take the test. And easy to upload the result. DCPS, suprisingly, did a great job pulling this off.

Lastly, it was very good news that prevalence was only 5% for students and 7% for staff. That is way less than was, wrongly, assumed based on the non-universal samplings we had.

i also take issue with this idea that "nothing gets done" during the first days after break so we shouldn't care if they're lost. even if i take you at your word, then SOME week has to be the first week after break. do you think now that schools will jump back into the work without the preparatory and expectation-setting work that occurs before academic work? do you think kids will return monday and act like it's the second week of the semester instead of the first?

The irony is that so much of that “back to school” stuff could have been done easily virtually

I take it you haven't been a teacher. No. If you're teaching physically, in a classroom, a lot of the intro stuff needs to be done physically, in a a classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to be that person, but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with.

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? The results are now null and void.

I don't understand this point at all. The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday. They were just a snapshot in time. Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it.

Absolutely worth it from my point of view. Many thought that there would be tons of COVID circulating among staff and schoolchildren. But based on the results very few schools had to close because of COVID. The snow is what made this week difficult not rampant COVID among school personnel and students. That is absolutely worth knowing. I hope that distribution of tests and regular collection becomes an ongoing thing - if not weekly, then at least at the mid-winter break and spring break.