School closures on Monday, Feb 3 for day without 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.

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.

Children are being murdered in Ukraine and Gaza. Are we closing in support of them? Or are their lives not as important?

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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.

Please explain why this doesn’t apply to LAMB.

Charter school teachers aren’t considered government employees.

Source please.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school

[Anonymous]

So, what happened today?

[Anonymous]

Nothing happened. School is closed.

[Anonymous]

Reading this thread feels like being thrust back into the discourse during the early days of COVID where disagreeing even slightly with the party line made you a monster and any personal struggle was immediately dismissed because someone somewhere else hypothetically had it worse.

This thread has been very eye opening with respect to the general tone of things at LAMB. I'm very grateful our school community isn't like this.

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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.

Please explain why this doesn’t apply to LAMB.

Charter school teachers aren’t considered government employees.

Source please.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school

A wiki page is not a source. Please cite the section of DC law that exempts LAMB teachers from the city's ban on public employees going on strike.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Children are being murdered in Ukraine and Gaza. Are we closing in support of them? Or are their lives not as important?

Well, the coup is happening in our country now. Your whataboutism is revealing.

[Anonymous]

I hope and pray that our children grow up to show more compassion and empathy—both in person and anonymously— in the way they engage with the world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Please explain why this doesn’t apply to LAMB.

Charter school teachers aren’t considered government employees.

Source please.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school

A wiki page is not a source. Please cite the section of DC law that exempts LAMB teachers from the city's ban on public employees going on strike.

DC Code Section 38-1902.07(c)

https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/38-1802.07

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school

A wiki page is not a source. Please cite the section of DC law that exempts LAMB teachers from the city's ban on public employees going on strike.

DC Code Section 38-1902.07(c)

https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/38-1802.07

Sorry, just caught typo 38-1802.07(c): text below.

(c) Employment status. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in this section, an employee of a public charter school shall not be considered to be an employee of the District of Columbia Government for any purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing happened. School is closed.

The school certainly implied it was closing because the staff wanted to attend a protest. But, nah, the protest is just staying home and watching tv. No one even told that woman on ParentSquare asking for the details of where the protest is.

[Anonymous]

Is it a day without illegal immigrants?

[Anonymous]

I have scoured social media and the news and the only thing I've seen about this at ALL in DC is a few restaurants closing. In those cases, the ownership has committed to paying staff. That seems totally reasonable. I don't see anything remotely equivalent to an actual elementary school closing... anywhere in the country. Am I missing something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Children are being murdered in Ukraine and Gaza. Are we closing in support of them? Or are their lives not as important?

Well, the coup is happening in our country now. Your whataboutism is revealing.

If you went on vacation to Paris or London or Rome or literally *any* other place in the entire world, and you liked it so much that you decided to just stay there permanently and then one day, years later, the immigration authorities there discovered that you were living there illegally, what do you think would happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope and pray that our children grow up to show more compassion and empathy—both in person and anonymously— in the way they engage with the world.

Please enough with the smug claims to be more “empathetic” about grownups arbitrarily denying kids the schooling to which they are entitled.