Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?

[Anonymous]

I have kids who have been at Inspired for many years and I've given the school the benefit of the doubt on lots and lots of decisions and have, by and large, been happy to sit back and let them do their thing.

But, after 2.5 years of pandemic, with CDC guidance where it is, and with literally every other institution relaxing their mitigation strategies, I feel like it's appropriate to give families a lot more explanation than "we are masking."

I'd like to know more so that I can explain to my kids why they are required to wear masks at school and not anywhere else. Because right now? I don't have it in me to carry the school's water on this. I am also really bummed that my kids are starting another year with (at least some) teacher attention diverted to mask compliance vs. building classroom community and teaching/learning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an ITDS parent and am fine with continued masking. Can’t wait to hear more entitled parents complain though!

What makes following the CDC “entitled”? Is that just a new catch-all slur now?

It’s more the endless whining and foot stomping.

I’m sorry it is whining to want to follow the CDC?

I get that the parents won’t make any difference at all on the school. People who are looking at charters should take note that parents hold zero ability to change a school, aside from perhaps trickling out over time and having the school eventually close. But since DCPS sucks so badly in most of the city, the charters will always have a foothold.

Mostly the only option is to get out of DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an ITDS parent and am fine with continued masking. Can’t wait to hear more entitled parents complain though!

What makes following the CDC “entitled”? Is that just a new catch-all slur now?

It’s more the endless whining and foot stomping.

I think the bar is pretty low. Where else in the world do 4 yr olds (or whatever age) mask all day in a school setting? I'm asking seriously. I'm not sure why the feeling to give my child an education where he can be free to learn social cues from peers, watch his Spanish teacher speak in Spanish, and watch his teacher read during story time gives me some special sense of entitlement. This is truly a brave new normal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ITDS requiring masks. I am so unhappy about this. No clear path for reconsidering like some other schools. It’s just too much.

Are masks required for the meet your teacher night or for students going returning to school?

Confirmed. I just clarified with an ITDS teacher that all students are required to wear masks. We need to start a petition to at least make it optional. Or go to a different school, which sounds a million times nicer at this point.

Yeah. This is not my hill to die on. I honestly DGAF whether my kids mask or not. I imagine given the choice they mostly will. At least that’s’s been their choice in mask optional camps etc. But I do want to know at WHAT FREAKING POINT they will move to mask optional like everyone else???

That's what I want to know. What are they monitoring, how often are they going to reconsider the policy...?

Exactly. How many times have they fed us some version of this line "we will continue to monitor and may revisit this policy later this fall." Yea, sure, Jan. What parameters would lead to you changing this? Because if now isn't good enough... what are you waiting for?? COVID to not exist anymore? Cause that's not a thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any word on DCB?

Read the thread and take an educated guess.

DCB hasn't announced yet. Did a parent survey that closed July 31. Expecting an update any day now.

Heard from a Kinder teacher today that masks will be required indoors. We've been begging for change, begging for an option for our family. But I guess the cloth Spiderman masks my son chews holes into make the teachers feel safe. They don't deserve to teach him. Juntos somos morons. So we're leaving for a school that lives in a fact-based world.

[Anonymous]

I feel like the only recourse is a lawsuit, but I don’t think you have much ground. Idk maybe just the threat of a lawsuit would work. Do charters have the funds to fight?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ITDS requiring masks. I am so unhappy about this. No clear path for reconsidering like some other schools. It’s just too much.

Are masks required for the meet your teacher night or for students going returning to school?

Confirmed. I just clarified with an ITDS teacher that all students are required to wear masks. We need to start a petition to at least make it optional. Or go to a different school, which sounds a million times nicer at this point.

I and every other ITDS parent I've talked to since this got announced would absolutely sign this. Do it!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ITDS parent and am fine with continued masking. Can’t wait to hear more entitled parents complain though!

What makes following the CDC “entitled”? Is that just a new catch-all slur now?

It’s more the endless whining and foot stomping.

Perhaps you haven't left the DC bubble in a while if you think your complacency on this is normal, or necessary. Life has fully moved on basically everywhere else. Hell, even within DC, most have moved on including THE ENTIRE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ITDS parent and am fine with continued masking. Can’t wait to hear more entitled parents complain though!

What makes following the CDC “entitled”? Is that just a new catch-all slur now?

It’s more the endless whining and foot stomping.

Perhaps you haven't left the DC bubble in a while if you think your complacency on this is normal, or necessary. Life has fully moved on basically everywhere else. Hell, even within DC, most have moved on including THE ENTIRE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Seriously. Some of these forever-maskers remind me of Trumpers in someplace like Tennessee who just can't imagine someone who doesn't love Trump and Jesus. Everyone they know in their crappy town does, and that's all that matters.

[Anonymous]

Inspired Teaching requiring masks in fall of 2022 is simply part of their social justice immersion curriculum. You can't turn kids into true political activists without the proper religious facewear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like the only recourse is a lawsuit, but I don’t think you have much ground. Idk maybe just the threat of a lawsuit would work. Do charters have the funds to fight?

I think that not sending children with masks and telling the school not to mask the children might shame schools into changing their policies. Like if a third of ITDS students showed up without masks on the first day, what would the school do?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ITDS requiring masks. I am so unhappy about this. No clear path for reconsidering like some other schools. It’s just too much.

Are masks required for the meet your teacher night or for students going returning to school?

Both. Anyone in the building has to mask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have kids who have been at Inspired for many years and I've given the school the benefit of the doubt on lots and lots of decisions and have, by and large, been happy to sit back and let them do their thing.

But, after 2.5 years of pandemic, with CDC guidance where it is, and with literally every other institution relaxing their mitigation strategies, I feel like it's appropriate to give families a lot more explanation than "we are masking."

I'd like to know more so that I can explain to my kids why they are required to wear masks at school and not anywhere else. Because right now? I don't have it in me to carry the school's water on this. I am also really bummed that my kids are starting another year with (at least some) teacher attention diverted to mask compliance vs. building classroom community and teaching/learning.

We go to another charter and I’ve had a hard time explaining to my young kids why school is the only place masking. I’ve told them to take mask breaks as much as they want and that I’m sorry I can’t change the school rules and don’t agree it’s needed anymore. There’s no way to explain it. I don’t want them fearful and they deserve better at this point.

[Anonymous]

Someday this students will be the subject of a rigorous study of ways they've regressed compared to their age cohort in the entire rest of the world.

I'm glad my kids will be the control group.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ITDS parent and am fine with continued masking. Can’t wait to hear more entitled parents complain though!

What makes following the CDC “entitled”? Is that just a new catch-all slur now?

It’s more the endless whining and foot stomping.

I’m sorry it is whining to want to follow the CDC?

I get that the parents won’t make any difference at all on the school. People who are looking at charters should take note that parents hold zero ability to change a school, aside from perhaps trickling out over time and having the school eventually close. But since DCPS sucks so badly in most of the city, the charters will always have a foothold.

Mostly the only option is to get out of DC.

Parents don’t have much ability to change DCPS either….