How can we force our school to reopen?

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Anonymous wrote:A lawsuit will not open the schools. You can't "force" the schools to reopen. If you want them to reopen, contact the DC government and push them to accelerate the necessary upgrades to school HVAC systems, develop a plan for surveillance testing, explain the rules for how they will handle kids getting sick during the day, a student or teacher testing positive, a student's family member testing positive, a plan for the necessary supplies, etc. Suing the district won't help. Pushing the politicians will.

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I really want schools open but it won't happen until they actually put a viable plan for reopening in place. Right now their plan seems to be "Make it seem like we want to open schools, then blame teachers when it doesn't happen, thus avoiding any liability issues around Covid outbreaks in schools."

We need to hold elected officials accountable. I sincerely wish it were a mayoral election year because I am DONE with Bowser.

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It’s a really impressive trick that Bowser has managed to deflect attention from her total lack of leadership and accountability here. Bring the relevant parties to the table. Don’t send surveys. Don’t issue half-assed plans and then blame teachers, principals, parents, and staff—the very people you didn’t engage in developing the plans—when they point out the massive flaws.

Also...remind me again why restaurants are open for indoor dining and we’re piloting indoor concerts before schools are open?

This. She's got everyone blaming the teachers. If she had put forward a real plan, she might get some traction with that with me, but she hasn't. They put out PowerPoint slides and generic bullet points and then act surprised when the people who would have to implement them point out the holes and problems. Their half-assedness about this is infuriating.

Teachers are 100 percent the reason schools are closed. It's very Orwellian how teachers pretend they have nothing to do with this. Talk about gaslighting.

HOW MANY TEACHERS CAN SHOW UP? It's like people here can't think critically.

Has Bowser released how many teachers have taken leave, or have a valid reason they cannot teach in person?

Seriously...maybe we just don't have enough fairly young and healthy teachers...

Or maybe teachers should just stop being such selfish crybabies? And just put on a mask and go the fkc to work?

You don't teach your kid to tantrum like this right?

They absolutely do. These are the same entitled parents who go screaming to the school every time anyone looks at their precious little snowflake sideways.

But the adult tantrums about DL on this board are OUT OF CONTROL. It is so desperately cringeworthy.

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Anonymous wrote:Is filing a lawsuit our only option? Looking for options, ideas.

At this rate, DC is going to be the last place in America to reopen schools even as we have among the smallest coronavirus caseloads in the country.

Back to OPs original question, I too would like to know what realistic options are. I feel so helpless. Voting Bowser out
is not a solution for the immediate future. What are the options for parents to make their voices heard in a unified manner?

Maybe someone could create an online petition and circulate it? I'd sign it.

Like the one sent around in July that had 80 signatures?

I think more people would sign it now. Also, this is the first that I've heard of a prior petition, so it might not have been circulated very well.

Online petitions are useless, and just ways for people sitting at home on their butts to feel empowered and like they're Making a Difference.

There have been umpteen petitions "demanding" the reopening of school buildings and they are not worth the paper -- well, the pixels -- they're printed on.

But by all means, if you want to waste your time, knock yourself out.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think a lawsuit is the way to go. Something like an open letter to Bowser and the Council that is published in the Post and online that is signed by 10 thousand families with students enrolled in that says - You must start prioritizing schools and education. Stop fooling around with bars and indoor dining and concerts. Do the work necessary and dedicate the funding necessary to meet the needs of our students.

I wish the editorial board of the Post would do that on their own.

I would not include a list of demands like the WTU keeps putting out there because it's very divisive and not productive.

The WTU's list of demands is designed to be impossible to meet so schools will stay closed. The last thing WTU wants is for schools to reopen.

They don’t need WTU’s permission to reopen. They may want their support but schools can open with or without union support. Teachers legally can’t strike so they would have to come back, take leave, or quit. So again, there’s the problem—staff entitled to make their own decisions using their legal provided leave.

Teachers need approval to take annual leave unless they're on FMLA, right? Even in regular times, teachers can't just say they're going on vacation for 3 weeks during the school year? How does their sick leave work? Do they need to provide medical documentation after x amount of days?

We don't have to take leave, there are plenty of families at every school who want DL. SO DCPS is trying to match those families to their school. But the issues is what if there's more people qualified for teaching DL than there are students??

You can't just say 'Nancy's diabetes is more of a concern than your husband's Jane.' It's not live every case will be obesity vs. cancer.

You could just not make DL a possibility for anyone but after teachers take their leave and use that all up for weeks, because they'd qualify for FMLA which I think is like 3 months, they'll just quit.

Then we'll have what 40-60% of teachers left? Ok, good luck having in person AFTER the pandemic then...especially high needs teachers like special education, math, and science.

Isn't it weird how pediatricians can take care of sick kids all day long, for months on end, with no problems, but if teachers step into a classroom, they will all die?

Pediatricians spend 6-7 hours a day shut up in a poorly-ventilated classroom with kids who won't keep masks on, won't distance and administration that won't allow them to be removed if they don't? Weird. That's not been my experience.

Look up "COVID prolonged indoor transmission" and then come back here to apologize for embarrassing yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we organize a protest like the Loudon county one? I’ll be there!

Do it!!!!!
Please, please do it!

I want to watch the Karen’s of DC demand that someone (else) watch their kids!

That is such a cheap shot. Besides, DCPS, is already offering to provide someone else to “watch” kids via the cares program. That is not the same as having an educator teach your child in person in a collaborative classroom environment. I don’t think most parents are advocating schools to fling their doors open for all students at 100% capacity. But surely there is a middle ground and no one has provided any viable options for how to achieve that.

If you believe that, then it's clearly your first day on DCUM. Welcome, newbie!

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Anonymous wrote:Can we organize a protest like the Loudon county one? I’ll be there!

Do it!!!!!
Please, please do it!

I want to watch the Karen’s of DC demand that someone (else) watch their kids!

What a sexist, garbage comment. Newsflash: school is childcare. Nothing wrong with moms wanting their kids to be in school so they can work.

Newsflash: School is not childcare. School is education. Childcare is YOUR responsibility. Welcome to parenting.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we organize a protest like the Loudon county one? I’ll be there!

Do it!!!!!
Please, please do it!

I want to watch the Karen’s of DC demand that someone (else) watch their kids!

What a sexist, garbage comment. Newsflash: school is childcare. Nothing wrong with moms wanting their kids to be in school so they can work.

Newsflash: School is not childcare. School is education. Childcare is YOUR responsibility. Welcome to parenting.

every time you post this I lose more respect for the WTU.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think a lawsuit is the way to go. Something like an open letter to Bowser and the Council that is published in the Post and online that is signed by 10 thousand families with students enrolled in that says - You must start prioritizing schools and education. Stop fooling around with bars and indoor dining and concerts. Do the work necessary and dedicate the funding necessary to meet the needs of our students.

I wish the editorial board of the Post would do that on their own.

I would not include a list of demands like the WTU keeps putting out there because it's very divisive and not productive.

The WTU's list of demands is designed to be impossible to meet so schools will stay closed. The last thing WTU wants is for schools to reopen.

They don’t need WTU’s permission to reopen. They may want their support but schools can open with or without union support. Teachers legally can’t strike so they would have to come back, take leave, or quit. So again, there’s the problem—staff entitled to make their own decisions using their legal provided leave.

Teachers need approval to take annual leave unless they're on FMLA, right? Even in regular times, teachers can't just say they're going on vacation for 3 weeks during the school year? How does their sick leave work? Do they need to provide medical documentation after x amount of days?

We don't have to take leave, there are plenty of families at every school who want DL. SO DCPS is trying to match those families to their school. But the issues is what if there's more people qualified for teaching DL than there are students??

You can't just say 'Nancy's diabetes is more of a concern than your husband's Jane.' It's not live every case will be obesity vs. cancer.

You could just not make DL a possibility for anyone but after teachers take their leave and use that all up for weeks, because they'd qualify for FMLA which I think is like 3 months, they'll just quit.

Then we'll have what 40-60% of teachers left? Ok, good luck having in person AFTER the pandemic then...especially high needs teachers like special education, math, and science.

Isn't it weird how pediatricians can take care of sick kids all day long, for months on end, with no problems, but if teachers step into a classroom, they will all die?

Pediatricians spend 6-7 hours a day shut up in a poorly-ventilated classroom with kids who won't keep masks on, won't distance and administration that won't allow them to be removed if they don't? Weird. That's not been my experience.

Look up "COVID prolonged indoor transmission" and then come back here to apologize for embarrassing yourself.

You honestly think teachers are uniquely or more at risk? That is not what the actual data shows.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think a lawsuit is the way to go. Something like an open letter to Bowser and the Council that is published in the Post and online that is signed by 10 thousand families with students enrolled in that says - You must start prioritizing schools and education. Stop fooling around with bars and indoor dining and concerts. Do the work necessary and dedicate the funding necessary to meet the needs of our students.

I wish the editorial board of the Post would do that on their own.

I would not include a list of demands like the WTU keeps putting out there because it's very divisive and not productive.

The WTU's list of demands is designed to be impossible to meet so schools will stay closed. The last thing WTU wants is for schools to reopen.

They don’t need WTU’s permission to reopen. They may want their support but schools can open with or without union support. Teachers legally can’t strike so they would have to come back, take leave, or quit. So again, there’s the problem—staff entitled to make their own decisions using their legal provided leave.

Teachers need approval to take annual leave unless they're on FMLA, right? Even in regular times, teachers can't just say they're going on vacation for 3 weeks during the school year? How does their sick leave work? Do they need to provide medical documentation after x amount of days?

We don't have to take leave, there are plenty of families at every school who want DL. SO DCPS is trying to match those families to their school. But the issues is what if there's more people qualified for teaching DL than there are students??

You can't just say 'Nancy's diabetes is more of a concern than your husband's Jane.' It's not live every case will be obesity vs. cancer.

You could just not make DL a possibility for anyone but after teachers take their leave and use that all up for weeks, because they'd qualify for FMLA which I think is like 3 months, they'll just quit.

Then we'll have what 40-60% of teachers left? Ok, good luck having in person AFTER the pandemic then...especially high needs teachers like special education, math, and science.

Isn't it weird how pediatricians can take care of sick kids all day long, for months on end, with no problems, but if teachers step into a classroom, they will all die?

Pediatricians spend 6-7 hours a day shut up in a poorly-ventilated classroom with kids who won't keep masks on, won't distance and administration that won't allow them to be removed if they don't? Weird. That's not been my experience.

Look up "COVID prolonged indoor transmission" and then come back here to apologize for embarrassing yourself.

You honestly think teachers are uniquely or more at risk? That is not what the actual data shows.

Doctors are probably a tiny bit healthier.

The government isn't going to suddenly ban fast food and force people to move more. If we are being honest most disease is from poor eating and lack of movement. Obesity is also a factor in being more susceptible.

If you actually look at trends in places re-opening you'll notice their obesity rates are much lower as well as their rates of people with comorbidities.

So, it's easier to just say teachers are babies than really examine why we could possible be in this situation. Germany's obesity rate is about 22% Average being 26 (which isn't obese by US standards) The average for DC is 50% YES, you read correctly FIFTY PERCENT. AND in ward 7 and 8 is 75%!!!

This is not a joke.
https://dchealth.dc.gov/service/obesity-overview
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...ctbook/rankorder/2228rank.html (older but I wanted to use a gov agency)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we organize a protest like the Loudon county one? I’ll be there!

Do it!!!!!
Please, please do it!

I want to watch the Karen’s of DC demand that someone (else) watch their kids!

What a sexist, garbage comment. Newsflash: school is childcare. Nothing wrong with moms wanting their kids to be in school so they can work.

Newsflash: School is not childcare. School is education. Childcare is YOUR responsibility. Welcome to parenting.

every time you post this I lose more respect for the WTU.

+1. At this point, I would celebrate if Bowser breaks the union.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think a lawsuit is the way to go. Something like an open letter to Bowser and the Council that is published in the Post and online that is signed by 10 thousand families with students enrolled in that says - You must start prioritizing schools and education. Stop fooling around with bars and indoor dining and concerts. Do the work necessary and dedicate the funding necessary to meet the needs of our students.

I wish the editorial board of the Post would do that on their own.

I would not include a list of demands like the WTU keeps putting out there because it's very divisive and not productive.

The WTU's list of demands is designed to be impossible to meet so schools will stay closed. The last thing WTU wants is for schools to reopen.

They don’t need WTU’s permission to reopen. They may want their support but schools can open with or without union support. Teachers legally can’t strike so they would have to come back, take leave, or quit. So again, there’s the problem—staff entitled to make their own decisions using their legal provided leave.

Teachers need approval to take annual leave unless they're on FMLA, right? Even in regular times, teachers can't just say they're going on vacation for 3 weeks during the school year? How does their sick leave work? Do they need to provide medical documentation after x amount of days?

We don't have to take leave, there are plenty of families at every school who want DL. SO DCPS is trying to match those families to their school. But the issues is what if there's more people qualified for teaching DL than there are students??

You can't just say 'Nancy's diabetes is more of a concern than your husband's Jane.' It's not live every case will be obesity vs. cancer.

You could just not make DL a possibility for anyone but after teachers take their leave and use that all up for weeks, because they'd qualify for FMLA which I think is like 3 months, they'll just quit.

Then we'll have what 40-60% of teachers left? Ok, good luck having in person AFTER the pandemic then...especially high needs teachers like special education, math, and science.

Isn't it weird how pediatricians can take care of sick kids all day long, for months on end, with no problems, but if teachers step into a classroom, they will all die?

Pediatricians spend 6-7 hours a day shut up in a poorly-ventilated classroom with kids who won't keep masks on, won't distance and administration that won't allow them to be removed if they don't? Weird. That's not been my experience.

Look up "COVID prolonged indoor transmission" and then come back here to apologize for embarrassing yourself.

You honestly think teachers are uniquely or more at risk? That is not what the actual data shows.

Doctors are probably a tiny bit healthier.

The government isn't going to suddenly ban fast food and force people to move more. If we are being honest most disease is from poor eating and lack of movement. Obesity is also a factor in being more susceptible.

If you actually look at trends in places re-opening you'll notice their obesity rates are much lower as well as their rates of people with comorbidities.

So, it's easier to just say teachers are babies than really examine why we could possible be in this situation. Germany's obesity rate is about 22% Average being 26 (which isn't obese by US standards) The average for DC is 50% YES, you read correctly FIFTY PERCENT. AND in ward 7 and 8 is 75%!!!

This is not a joke.
https://dchealth.dc.gov/service/obesity-overview
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...ctbook/rankorder/2228rank.html (older but I wanted to use a gov agency)

you posted this exact same comment in another thread. looks like you’re desperately spamming - now we can’t have school until we end the obesity epidemic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we organize a protest like the Loudon county one? I’ll be there!

Do it!!!!!
Please, please do it!

I want to watch the Karen’s of DC demand that someone (else) watch their kids!

What a sexist, garbage comment. Newsflash: school is childcare. Nothing wrong with moms wanting their kids to be in school so they can work.

Newsflash: School is not childcare. School is education. Childcare is YOUR responsibility. Welcome to parenting.

every time you post this I lose more respect for the WTU.

+1. At this point, I would celebrate if Bowser breaks the union.

exactly. WTU lurkers take notice - you are losing popular support the more you fail to take the need for kids to return seriously.

[Anonymous]

Hire a tutor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we organize a protest like the Loudon county one? I’ll be there!

Do it!!!!!
Please, please do it!

I want to watch the Karen’s of DC demand that someone (else) watch their kids!

What a sexist, garbage comment. Newsflash: school is childcare. Nothing wrong with moms wanting their kids to be in school so they can work.

Newsflash: School is not childcare. School is education. Childcare is YOUR responsibility. Welcome to parenting.

every time you post this I lose more respect for the WTU.

+1. At this point, I would celebrate if Bowser breaks the union.

exactly. WTU lurkers take notice - you are losing popular support the more you fail to take the need for kids to return seriously.

So you're firing a shot across the bow of a teacher's union by....anonymously warning its members that you imagine are lurking on an anonymous forum? You might want to consider taking a break.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think a lawsuit is the way to go. Something like an open letter to Bowser and the Council that is published in the Post and online that is signed by 10 thousand families with students enrolled in that says - You must start prioritizing schools and education. Stop fooling around with bars and indoor dining and concerts. Do the work necessary and dedicate the funding necessary to meet the needs of our students.

I wish the editorial board of the Post would do that on their own.

I would not include a list of demands like the WTU keeps putting out there because it's very divisive and not productive.

The WTU's list of demands is designed to be impossible to meet so schools will stay closed. The last thing WTU wants is for schools to reopen.

They don’t need WTU’s permission to reopen. They may want their support but schools can open with or without union support. Teachers legally can’t strike so they would have to come back, take leave, or quit. So again, there’s the problem—staff entitled to make their own decisions using their legal provided leave.

Teachers need approval to take annual leave unless they're on FMLA, right? Even in regular times, teachers can't just say they're going on vacation for 3 weeks during the school year? How does their sick leave work? Do they need to provide medical documentation after x amount of days?

We don't have to take leave, there are plenty of families at every school who want DL. SO DCPS is trying to match those families to their school. But the issues is what if there's more people qualified for teaching DL than there are students??

You can't just say 'Nancy's diabetes is more of a concern than your husband's Jane.' It's not live every case will be obesity vs. cancer.

You could just not make DL a possibility for anyone but after teachers take their leave and use that all up for weeks, because they'd qualify for FMLA which I think is like 3 months, they'll just quit.

Then we'll have what 40-60% of teachers left? Ok, good luck having in person AFTER the pandemic then...especially high needs teachers like special education, math, and science.

Isn't it weird how pediatricians can take care of sick kids all day long, for months on end, with no problems, but if teachers step into a classroom, they will all die?

Pediatricians spend 6-7 hours a day shut up in a poorly-ventilated classroom with kids who won't keep masks on, won't distance and administration that won't allow them to be removed if they don't? Weird. That's not been my experience.

Look up "COVID prolonged indoor transmission" and then come back here to apologize for embarrassing yourself.

You honestly think teachers are uniquely or more at risk? That is not what the actual data shows.

Doctors are probably a tiny bit healthier.

The government isn't going to suddenly ban fast food and force people to move more. If we are being honest most disease is from poor eating and lack of movement. Obesity is also a factor in being more susceptible.

If you actually look at trends in places re-opening you'll notice their obesity rates are much lower as well as their rates of people with comorbidities.

So, it's easier to just say teachers are babies than really examine why we could possible be in this situation. Germany's obesity rate is about 22% Average being 26 (which isn't obese by US standards) The average for DC is 50% YES, you read correctly FIFTY PERCENT. AND in ward 7 and 8 is 75%!!!

This is not a joke.
https://dchealth.dc.gov/service/obesity-overview
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...ctbook/rankorder/2228rank.html (older but I wanted to use a gov agency)

you posted this exact same comment in another thread. looks like you’re desperately spamming - now we can’t have school until we end the obesity epidemic!

We can make schools better and safer but that won't change the health conditions of people.

The government isn't going to suddenly ban fast food and force people to move more. If we are being honest most disease is from poor eating and lack of movement. Obesity is also a factor in being more susceptible.

If you actually look at trends in places re-opening you'll notice their obesity rates are much lower as well as their rates of people with comorbidities.

So, it's easier to just say teachers are babies than really examine why we could possible be in this situation. Germany's obesity rate is about 22% Average being 26 (which isn't obese by US standards) The average for DC is 50% YES, you read correctly FIFTY PERCENT. AND in ward 7 and 8 is 75%!!!

This is not a joke.
https://dchealth.dc.gov/service/obesity-overview
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...ctbook/rankorder/2228rank.html (older but I wanted to use a gov agency)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think a lawsuit is the way to go. Something like an open letter to Bowser and the Council that is published in the Post and online that is signed by 10 thousand families with students enrolled in that says - You must start prioritizing schools and education. Stop fooling around with bars and indoor dining and concerts. Do the work necessary and dedicate the funding necessary to meet the needs of our students.

I wish the editorial board of the Post would do that on their own.

I would not include a list of demands like the WTU keeps putting out there because it's very divisive and not productive.

The WTU's list of demands is designed to be impossible to meet so schools will stay closed. The last thing WTU wants is for schools to reopen.

They don’t need WTU’s permission to reopen. They may want their support but schools can open with or without union support. Teachers legally can’t strike so they would have to come back, take leave, or quit. So again, there’s the problem—staff entitled to make their own decisions using their legal provided leave.

Teachers need approval to take annual leave unless they're on FMLA, right? Even in regular times, teachers can't just say they're going on vacation for 3 weeks during the school year? How does their sick leave work? Do they need to provide medical documentation after x amount of days?

We don't have to take leave, there are plenty of families at every school who want DL. SO DCPS is trying to match those families to their school. But the issues is what if there's more people qualified for teaching DL than there are students??

You can't just say 'Nancy's diabetes is more of a concern than your husband's Jane.' It's not live every case will be obesity vs. cancer.

You could just not make DL a possibility for anyone but after teachers take their leave and use that all up for weeks, because they'd qualify for FMLA which I think is like 3 months, they'll just quit.

Then we'll have what 40-60% of teachers left? Ok, good luck having in person AFTER the pandemic then...especially high needs teachers like special education, math, and science.

Isn't it weird how pediatricians can take care of sick kids all day long, for months on end, with no problems, but if teachers step into a classroom, they will all die?

Pediatricians spend 6-7 hours a day shut up in a poorly-ventilated classroom with kids who won't keep masks on, won't distance and administration that won't allow them to be removed if they don't? Weird. That's not been my experience.

Look up "COVID prolonged indoor transmission" and then come back here to apologize for embarrassing yourself.

You honestly think teachers are uniquely or more at risk? That is not what the actual data shows.

Doctors are probably a tiny bit healthier.

The government isn't going to suddenly ban fast food and force people to move more. If we are being honest most disease is from poor eating and lack of movement. Obesity is also a factor in being more susceptible.

If you actually look at trends in places re-opening you'll notice their obesity rates are much lower as well as their rates of people with comorbidities.

So, it's easier to just say teachers are babies than really examine why we could possible be in this situation. Germany's obesity rate is about 22% Average being 26 (which isn't obese by US standards) The average for DC is 50% YES, you read correctly FIFTY PERCENT. AND in ward 7 and 8 is 75%!!!

This is not a joke.
https://dchealth.dc.gov/service/obesity-overview
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...ctbook/rankorder/2228rank.html (older but I wanted to use a gov agency)

you posted this exact same comment in another thread. looks like you’re desperately spamming - now we can’t have school until we end the obesity epidemic!

And what about this is a lie? I have BEEN posting something similar but some people live in lala land.
Our HEALTH affects reopening, this is a fact. If you hate it MOVE.