Deal 7th grade are virtual learning today
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Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
I will give the principals and teachers grace. I will not forgive Mayor Bowser or her Chancellor. |
Anonymous
I said girls based on my experience. My son would not have cared in MS but YMMV. |
Anonymous
| There are other buses - just not the D31. I know it is not as easy. DO you think Principal Neal sat there and said to herself - let me wait until it is the biggest hardship on parents and make the call? |
Anonymous
I think Bowser is doing a great job. Chancellor is meh. |
Anonymous
I agree, since I have a 6th grade girl, but I also think it's a messaging and financial issue that comes from the top and trickles down everywhere - I've told my children from the beginning that we need to protect the most vulnerable, and sometimes schools will have to close. We expected schools to close sooner, in fact. Public health response has never been great, because this country does not offer enough economic compensation for workplaces who close. In some European countries, governments pay businesses who need to close, and pay parents who need to stay home to look after kids who cannot go to school because they're in quarantine! It's obvious that in a country that has bungled its aid packages to small business (the chain stores got a lot of the money and a lot of small businesses got absolutely NOTHING), and parents aren't given much at all, and nothing for childcare, individuals would be resentful of closures that are actually necessary for public health. But since people here aren't used to government stepping in to help, they turn on each other, point fingers and argue about who should close first, when it shouldn't be this way. Europe has a long history of better social safety nets, and most European countries have helped their populations through these hard times by giving them compensation for lost business/employment income and childcare, so that people can see past their immediate need to accept restrictions and closures. |
Anonymous
The Chancellor is a puppet of the Mayor. All the important decisions go to the mayor for approval. If you think he's "meh" that's on Mayor Bowser. |
Anonymous
The mistakes were all upstream: lifting the indoor mask mandate when she did was a terrible mistake, not reinstating it earlier was a terrible mistake, and there were several others that helped DC have, by very far, the largest Omicron spike in the entire nation. Go look up the Covid cases by state on the WaPo website and look at that stunning case peak. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
The fact that you use the term puppet cues me to disregard your opinion. You’re a reactionary who doesn’t understand how bureaucracy works. 
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Anonymous
We had some of the lowest covid cases in the US when she lifted the mask mandate. I say this as someone on a biologic. There was no need to have vaccinated people wearing masks this summer. Most wore them anyway where I went. |
Anonymous
There are leaders who allow their appointees to do their job to the best of their abilities and there are leaders who demand absolute obedience. Bowser is the latter and the Chancellor adds nothing new. |
Anonymous
+1. i felt bad i sent my kids to school yesterday. i was not going to send them today. Wilson went online yesterday so the oldest was all set. the 7th grader was going to stay home today. last day before the holiday and a raging variant, tons of kids positive yesterday, no thanks. now we will wait a couple of days and test them. oldest was tested satirday because of a classmate with covid, will have to test her again. time to hunker down. i hope that testing will be mandatory before going back to school in January or it is going to be a disaster |
Anonymous
removing mask mandate inside was stupid. does not matter the numbers around here, just read the news and see what happens elsewhere and you know it is brewing here too, just a matter of time. wearing a mask inside is tryly not big deal (i had to wear it outside, when i visited my family in Europe this summer with 90+ degree and that was a lot less pleasant and everybody was doing it). i went to my office last week and met a person for one hour. office no longer has mask mandate inside but we both wore a Kn95 mask. person was sick with covid the day after and has been since (fully vaccinated and boosted). i tested yesterday after 5 days and i am thank god negative., masks work, combined with eveyrthing else and are the least intrusive tool. |
Anonymous
This has nothing to do with removing the mandate. It's all about Omicron. |