Why are DC privates the most conservative when in comes to COVID precautions?

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https://covidactnow.org/about

Here is a link to where the information is coming from and who compiles it- NOT bogus!

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

One board member is politically motivated and overly emotional and sympathetic to the teachers posting on here. Call and email them. I know I am.

I wish I knew which school you are talking about! If it is our school, I'd call you for coffee today to join forces on how we can get this ball moving.

But in any case, yes, I will add board outreach to my list of contacts. I don't know any of these people personally, but that doesn't matter at this point.

+1. And make sure you leave your name and contact info so they can call you back.

He wants to tamper with your kid’s transcript and get your kid kicked out. He wants to run the school.

So our HOS is afraid of this guy? Seriously? Anyone who knows him knows who he is. If you are at a different school, your board has one or two and it’s political. Our kids are political pawns.

Would someone please say which school this is? Trying to understand what we're up against. I'm willing to raise Cain with the board and completely agree that our kids are being used as pawns. But what additional details do we need to know?

Where it all started.

If you have to ask you then you don’t need to know.

St. Patrick’s is where it all started. My neighbor works there and that is why the fight has become so personal there.

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

Keep dreaming, Betsy.

PP, I am sorry to hear that you are so hurt. You cannot let your anger and pain ruin your child’s school. She does not want to go to school by herself.

Trust me I’ve seen the number of applications. Won’t be hard to fill your kid’s spot.

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

One board member is politically motivated and overly emotional and sympathetic to the teachers posting on here. Call and email them. I know I am.

I wish I knew which school you are talking about! If it is our school, I'd call you for coffee today to join forces on how we can get this ball moving.

But in any case, yes, I will add board outreach to my list of contacts. I don't know any of these people personally, but that doesn't matter at this point.

+1. And make sure you leave your name and contact info so they can call you back.

He wants to tamper with your kid’s transcript and get your kid kicked out. He wants to run the school.

So our HOS is afraid of this guy? Seriously? Anyone who knows him knows who he is. If you are at a different school, your board has one or two and it’s political. Our kids are political pawns.

Would someone please say which school this is? Trying to understand what we're up against. I'm willing to raise Cain with the board and completely agree that our kids are being used as pawns. But what additional details do we need to know?

Where it all started.

If you have to ask you then you don’t need to know.

St. Patrick’s is where it all started. My neighbor works there and that is why the fight has become so personal there.

Your neighbor is why it’s so personal?

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It sounds like the fight is personal at St. Patrick's because of the recent covid cases that the school handled proactively so that an outbreak did not occur. I do not know the neighbor PP referred to but I saw that email. Some are very upset about it. Others see it as evidence that the school is equipped to prevent an outbreak. The baseless threats about individual students have no base. People are afraid and lashing out.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

I don’t think any one has written their HOS since summer when the schools called it quits, copying DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

One board member is politically motivated and overly emotional and sympathetic to the teachers posting on here. Call and email them. I know I am.

I wish I knew which school you are talking about! If it is our school, I'd call you for coffee today to join forces on how we can get this ball moving.

But in any case, yes, I will add board outreach to my list of contacts. I don't know any of these people personally, but that doesn't matter at this point.

+1. And make sure you leave your name and contact info so they can call you back.

He wants to tamper with your kid’s transcript and get your kid kicked out. He wants to run the school.

So our HOS is afraid of this guy? Seriously? Anyone who knows him knows who he is. If you are at a different school, your board has one or two and it’s political. Our kids are political pawns.

Would someone please say which school this is? Trying to understand what we're up against. I'm willing to raise Cain with the board and completely agree that our kids are being used as pawns. But what additional details do we need to know?

You’re willing to raise Cain with the board but you need to ask which school? Don’t you know which school your kids attend?

Try to keep up, please, pp. There are several schools being discussed here -- DC has several big, well-known privates, in case that is news to you. I am happy to ring the bell of alarm with the board at our school and am doing everything I can to reach out to other parents who are of a similar thought. It would just be helpful to know if these specific issues (a board member whom the HOS is afraid of?) apply to our school, or another.

It’s your kids’ school.

Got it. I'll just assume that it is, and go from there. It really doesn't matter. Obviously, all of the DC privates (Cathedral, GDS, Sidwell) have at least one or some board members who are opposing reopening, or it would have happened by now. They may not even currently have kids there, which is even more infuriating, because their little offspring are not caught up in this madness, so it's easier for them to be sanctimonious about this.

This is very true. Others have personal motivations. Typical private school drama.

We’re not catholic but are now seriously considering their schools and communities.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

I don’t think any one has written their HOS since summer when the schools called it quits, copying DCPS.

Of course they haven’t. They post here and talk tough but won’t say a word to anyone actually at the school.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

I don’t think any one has written their HOS since summer when the schools called it quits, copying DCPS.

Of course they haven’t. They post here and talk tough but won’t say a word to anyone actually at the school.

Not true.

The backlash will continue. Tough decisions prompt backlash from the losers.

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LIABILITY

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Anonymous wrote:This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

I don’t think any one has written their HOS since summer when the schools called it quits, copying DCPS.

Bowser is not screaming about liability.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are DC privates seemingly the only private schools in the country that are doing full DL? I have friends with kids in privates in Chicago, Seattle, CT, Florida and even Manhattan (FFS) who are back at school between two and five days a week. Our COVID rates are just as low or lower than most of those places. And we have space to have the kids outside (versus some of the NYC schools.). Every day that goes by, we get closer to winter/cold weather/flu season, and I get more frustrated. What will it take for DC privates to have kids on campus in any capacity?

Wtf. No, our numbers are not as good as Connecticut or New York City. They have much better numbers than we do. I think Seattle does too, though I haven’t checked recently

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Ours numbers are top quartile in the country and for large MSAs.

Not reopening, especially for younger kids is pure politics and theatrics. And you want that teaching your kids for a big fee?

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

Keep dreaming, Betsy.

PP, I am sorry to hear that you are so hurt. You cannot let your anger and pain ruin your child’s school. She does not want to go to school by herself.

Trust me I’ve seen the number of applications. Won’t be hard to fill your kid’s spot.

You sound Midwestern. Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Why are DC privates seemingly the only private schools in the country that are doing full DL? I have friends with kids in privates in Chicago, Seattle, CT, Florida and even Manhattan (FFS) who are back at school between two and five days a week. Our COVID rates are just as low or lower than most of those places. And we have space to have the kids outside (versus some of the NYC schools.). Every day that goes by, we get closer to winter/cold weather/flu season, and I get more frustrated. What will it take for DC privates to have kids on campus in any capacity?

Wtf. No, our numbers are not as good as Connecticut or New York City. They have much better numbers than we do. I think Seattle does too, though I haven’t checked recently

Actually our numbers are not significantly different than NY and CT. https://covidactnow.org/?s=1057229