Does Council bill just let people keep their kids home and not educate them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This passed into law, right? It's a done deal? The parents who advocated for this should be ashamed.

Yes, the mayor can't override this because it is emergency legislation.

[Anonymous]

I actually think this makes sense. The parents were in communication with the schools and were providing evidence that the kids were learning at home yet we were wasting a ton of CPS resources on those families. The school can grant or not grant the excuse absence. Schools were put in a ridiculous position of knowing parents were homeschooling for a brief period of time before vaccines yet were having to unenroll them. It was all idiotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The parents were in communication with the schools and were providing evidence that the kids were learning at home yet we were wasting a ton of CPS resources on those families.

OMG, what?! Of all things to be bothering schools and teachers about during this crazy pandemic year... these parents are setting up their own ad hoc systems to communicate with individual schools/teachers to provide evidence that their kids are learning?

I'm sure this approach is being accepted and implemented equitably across the city.

Really undermines these parents' arguments that they advocating for anything more than their own comfort.

[Anonymous]

I think everyone needs to chill. This is not a normal two years and adequate resources (funded by the FEDS) were not deployed. This is a response to that. Once the vaccine comes online for all ages, mandate it and start freaking out about parents trying to wiggle out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think this makes sense. The parents were in communication with the schools and were providing evidence that the kids were learning at home yet we were wasting a ton of CPS resources on those families. The school can grant or not grant the excuse absence. Schools were put in a ridiculous position of knowing parents were homeschooling for a brief period of time before vaccines yet were having to unenroll them. It was all idiotic.

LOL the dripping privilege of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think everyone needs to chill. This is not a normal two years and adequate resources (funded by the FEDS) were not deployed. This is a response to that. Once the vaccine comes online for all ages, mandate it and start freaking out about parents trying to wiggle out.

in the meantime, there is a huge swath of children in DC who can just disappear.

You all are disgusting. I can't believe you have so little ability to think beyond your own bubbles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I could just say, "I'm scared of covid at school", keep my kid home for months....and that's it? I don't need to educate them? I could just let them wander the streets? CPS wouldn't come to check on me?

basically

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is really scary. I work as a case manager with DC Medicaid. School is extremely protective for thousands of DC kids--it gives them food, daily structure (and time away from the chaos at home) and in some cases keeps them away from actual physical harm.

I have no idea what the council is thinking. This is going to be devastating to many DC kids whose parents don't or can't have their kids' best interest at heart. I know it's hard to imagine this but many parents make daily and long-term decisions that harm their kids. We saw this in the pandemic--tons of kids who were not schooled at all because there was no-one in the home to login them on, there were many parents who sold the school-owned devices, etc. And this was just the educational neglect (there is physical neglect, abuse, etc).

A Council doing its job would have had child welfare experts like you testify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I could just say, "I'm scared of covid at school", keep my kid home for months....and that's it? I don't need to educate them? I could just let them wander the streets? CPS wouldn't come to check on me?

basically

Amazing. The Council and that group of parents will have blood on their hands soon enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is really scary. I work as a case manager with DC Medicaid. School is extremely protective for thousands of DC kids--it gives them food, daily structure (and time away from the chaos at home) and in some cases keeps them away from actual physical harm.

I have no idea what the council is thinking. This is going to be devastating to many DC kids whose parents don't or can't have their kids' best interest at heart. I know it's hard to imagine this but many parents make daily and long-term decisions that harm their kids. We saw this in the pandemic--tons of kids who were not schooled at all because there was no-one in the home to login them on, there were many parents who sold the school-owned devices, etc. And this was just the educational neglect (there is physical neglect, abuse, etc).

A Council doing its job would have had child welfare experts like you testify.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Please, please write to the council and the council's staff about this:

Chair: Phil Mendelson [e-mail]
Mendelson's staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

At-large: Anita Bonds [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

At-large: Elissa Silverman [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

At-large: Robert White [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

At-large: Christina Henderson [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 1: Brianne Nadeau [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 2: Brooke Pinto [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward3: Mary Cheh [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 4: Janeese Lewis George [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 5: Kenyan McDuffie [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 6: Charles Allen [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 7: Vince Gray [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 8: Trayon White [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

I just wrote to my council members. Please do so as well, and have this horrible portion of the bill removed or changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think this makes sense. The parents were in communication with the schools and were providing evidence that the kids were learning at home yet we were wasting a ton of CPS resources on those families. The school can grant or not grant the excuse absence. Schools were put in a ridiculous position of knowing parents were homeschooling for a brief period of time before vaccines yet were having to unenroll them. It was all idiotic.

LOL the dripping privilege of this.

"Well the system doesn't apply to US!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Please, please write to the council and the council's staff about this:

Chair: Phil Mendelson [e-mail]
Mendelson's staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

At-large: Anita Bonds [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

At-large: Elissa Silverman [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

At-large: Robert White [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

At-large: Christina Henderson [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 1: Brianne Nadeau [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 2: Brooke Pinto [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward3: Mary Cheh [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 4: Janeese Lewis George [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 5: Kenyan McDuffie [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 6: Charles Allen [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 7: Vince Gray [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Ward 8: Trayon White [e-mail]
Staff: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Edited based on an email response I just received.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and this portion of the bill was done to appease pumpkin mom and the upper SES people who are just scared. Not for people with kids with actual medical needs.

+1 She professes to care about low income children, but she truly only cares about her own. She and her husband have the ability to educate their kids.Kids whose parents are barely educated themselves and lack resources will gravely suffer.

[Anonymous]

Banita Jacks' kids.
Relisha Rudd.
RIP. This city has forgotten you and is writing off other children like you. What a city.