Will schools be open tomorrow the 8th?

[Anonymous]

Not only did hundreds of Deal students not have any public transportation options to get to school, but they also had a school where the heat was out, per an email from the principal. And my kid messaged me via their laptop to say none of their teachers were there and that half their classes were more or less unsupervised.

[Anonymous]

My kids went to school and it was completely uneventful. No problem getting there and the kids were happy to see their friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not only did hundreds of Deal students not have any public transportation options to get to school, but they also had a school where the heat was out, per an email from the principal. And my kid messaged me via their laptop to say none of their teachers were there and that half their classes were more or less unsupervised.

WMATA restored service to the dedicated Deal routes as the day went on. Deal is walking distance from Tenleytown metro. Even if it wasn’t the typical way to travel to school, Deal students had options to get to school safely (bus from home to metro, metro to tenleytown). Then the regular routes were restored by end of the day.

No heat is a different problem, one that DGS will need to fix ASAP. Regarding subs, sounds like Deal should have made better arrangements. Administration knew which teachers would be out before classes started. I’d also question what “none of his teachers” and “more or less unsupervised” actually means.

But Deal’s issues aren’t a reason to close the whole district.

[Anonymous]

How dare you blame teachers for working from home virtually during Covid. Teachers didn’t make the decision to teach from home. The decision was made for everyone’s safety just like closing schools because the icy conditions on the road was made for everyone safety.
Just because you didn’t have a babysitter. School is not a daycare center get over it. You are bitter you are more worried about childcare.

[Anonymous]

lol @ "how dare you".

[Anonymous]

[. Regarding subs, sounds like Deal should have made better arrangements. Administration knew which teachers would be out before classes started. I’d also question what “none of his teachers” and “more or less unsupervised” actually means.

Do you know how much of a shortage of teachers AND SUBS there are across the district? Be for real.

Some of you are so not knowledgeable at all of the system that you send your kids into everyday. It’s quite sad.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, DCPS makes decisions based on DC, not surrounding districts and who may/may not be impacted by other districts’ choices. So yeah, what’s important is that DCPS opens schools when it’s appropriate for them to do so.

DC is unique in which more than 50% of employees live in surrounding counties, in every direction. They should absolutely take this into consideration because schools cannot function properly without staff. Everyone but you seems to understand this.

Well no, not everyone but me, since the mayor decided to open schools and several PP’s here seem to agree with the decision. But ok.

Your child’s school will still function. Yes, there may be some teachers out, and there may be less learning than on a regular day. But most kids at school will still learn more than if they stayed home.

Also, just like those DCPS teachers who need to use a day off today to take care of their children who attend other districts, you can choose to keep your student at home if you think it’s not appropriate to send them to school today.

lol I’d hardly use bowsers judgment as my measuring stick but that’s because I have a functioning brain. Good luck in your long road to the middle.

Just curious then, whose judgment would you use? It seems like most private schools in DC are also open today. Are those decisions wrong too?

Literally everything is open. This notion that schools should be closed when the *public library* is open is ludicrous.

Sure, but I will bet a large amount of money that the same people who are cheering school being open today will be the most irate when their kids come home and say they watched movies all day because their teachers couldn't get to school. I guarantee it.

Are you 80 years old? Have you never seen snow before? The roads are good. Stop belly aching and do your job.

This has nothing to do with roads and everything to do with teachers with kids who live in districts with a snow day today. If you weren’t such a cretinous ghoul you’d realize that.

Really? Because all the complaints here focus on how a little bit of snow makes it too dangerous to do anything.

I seem to remember there was this pandemic where teachers refused to do their jobs for a year and a half and parents who worked the entire pandemic had to figure out what to do with their kids that whole time while they worked. You'll forgive parents if they're not especially concerned now about teachers' childcare issues. Maybe they shouldnt have chosen to live in a different jurisdiction from where they worked.

I had to work both of the last 2 days with my kids in tow. My suburban colleagues have their kids at work for the 3rd day in a row or are burning still more leave. At some point when schools are the HUGE outlier to everything else, there's a childcare problem the other way. I'm very glad the Mayor opened schools today.

It hasn't even snowed for 36 hours. The mayor did the right thing. Some of these people act like we got hit by a hurricane. This is a normal amount of snow in most of the country and DC was prepared.

I have no problem with school being open but I totally disagree that DC was prepared. All of the side streets in my neighborhood were not plowed. They are sheets of ice. Many schools have parking lots that were sheets of ice this morning. You may think this is no big deal but where are people supposed to park?

How many school parking lots did you visit?

The FB page for dcps teachers has been crowd sourcing pictures. They are icy.

If they are doing this to complain to the Mayor/Chancellor/DGS about school facilities not being appropriately readied, more power to them. If they are doing this to complain about schools being open, they are just further playing into the stereotypes everyone has from COVID. I really hope it's the former.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not only did hundreds of Deal students not have any public transportation options to get to school, but they also had a school where the heat was out, per an email from the principal. And my kid messaged me via their laptop to say none of their teachers were there and that half their classes were more or less unsupervised.

Deal is only a couple of blocks from a metro. Let's stop with the hyperbole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How dare you blame teachers for working from home virtually during Covid. Teachers didn’t make the decision to teach from home. The decision was made for everyone’s safety just like closing schools because the icy conditions on the road was made for everyone safety.
Just because you didn’t have a babysitter. School is not a daycare center get over it. You are bitter you are more worried about childcare.

Posts like this don't help. It was absolutely the result of teacher union tactics that DCPS stayed closed so long. I do not blame individual teachers, because I have no idea how any of them felt about it and of course they wanted to prioritize their own self-interest. But the monolith that is "teachers" and/or the WTU? I 100% blame them. The damage of COVID closures on certain kids will absolutely never be undone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[. Regarding subs, sounds like Deal should have made better arrangements. Administration knew which teachers would be out before classes started. I’d also question what “none of his teachers” and “more or less unsupervised” actually means.

Do you know how much of a shortage of teachers AND SUBS there are across the district? Be for real.

Some of you are so not knowledgeable at all of the system that you send your kids into everyday. It’s quite sad.

Right, across the entire district. Deal Middle School itself does not have a huge shortage of teachers. And I am sure they have many more subs in their building than other schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:[. Regarding subs, sounds like Deal should have made better arrangements. Administration knew which teachers would be out before classes started. I’d also question what “none of his teachers” and “more or less unsupervised” actually means.

Do you know how much of a shortage of teachers AND SUBS there are across the district? Be for real.

Some of you are so not knowledgeable at all of the system that you send your kids into everyday. It’s quite sad.

Right, across the entire district. Deal Middle School itself does not have a huge shortage of teachers. And I am sure they have many more subs in their building than other schools.

Stop posting. You are so hilariously ignorant but it’s getting embarrassing at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not only did hundreds of Deal students not have any public transportation options to get to school, but they also had a school where the heat was out, per an email from the principal. And my kid messaged me via their laptop to say none of their teachers were there and that half their classes were more or less unsupervised.

My Hardy kid reported that all her teachers were there and that it was a normal school day. She is currently working on homework

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:[. Regarding subs, sounds like Deal should have made better arrangements. Administration knew which teachers would be out before classes started. I’d also question what “none of his teachers” and “more or less unsupervised” actually means.

Do you know how much of a shortage of teachers AND SUBS there are across the district? Be for real.

Some of you are so not knowledgeable at all of the system that you send your kids into everyday. It’s quite sad.

Right, across the entire district. Deal Middle School itself does not have a huge shortage of teachers. And I am sure they have many more subs in their building than other schools.

Deal is a huge school. So even if ten teachers called out I don’t think Deal has 10 subs easily available. Plus I’m sure some subs didn’t want to drive/walk/wait for a bus this morning so I imagine there were even fewer than usual.

I also assume Deal had a great deal more than 10 teachers absent.

[Anonymous]

Also, you guys are so privileged and talking about how deal kids this and that blah, blah, blah foolishness. It’s ridiculous.

There are over 115 schools in DCPS, not including other charter schools. Deal is one of many schools that were affected by lack of snow and/or ice removal and the WMATA snow modification. Come out of your privileged little bubbles for a minute. Almost all of you said, “oh I dropped my kid off and the day was fine.” That’s not the reality for all of the thousands of families that send their kids to school here.

For instance, OSSE called parents around 2:45-3:00 and said they’re were cancelling one of the bus routes for multiple kids at my school. That left caregivers scrambling to figure out how their children were getting home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, you guys are so privileged and talking about how deal kids this and that blah, blah, blah foolishness. It’s ridiculous.

There are over 115 schools in DCPS, not including other charter schools. Deal is one of many schools that were affected by lack of snow and/or ice removal and the WMATA snow modification. Come out of your privileged little bubbles for a minute. Almost all of you said, “oh I dropped my kid off and the day was fine.” That’s not the reality for all of the thousands of families that send their kids to school here.

For instance, OSSE called parents around 2:45-3:00 and said they’re were cancelling one of the bus routes for multiple kids at my school. That left caregivers scrambling to figure out how their I'm children were getting home.

Everyone else is privileged. You alone are the arbiter of what is right. Your personal experience trumps everyone else's personal experience.

All bow down to anonymous DCPS employee. She's so salty she could have melted all the school parking lot ice but instead decided to spend her time insulting parents on DCUM.