How Will At/Over Capacity Schools Open in the Fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

If only there were DCPS middle and high schools that were under enrolled that could allow Deal and Wilson to open safely. Instead, it’s “Coronavirus for All!”

brookland middle could take 200 Deal students I am sure Deal families will jump at the chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

If only there were DCPS middle and high schools that were under enrolled that could allow Deal and Wilson to open safely. Instead, it’s “Coronavirus for All!”

brookland middle could take 200 Deal students I am sure Deal families will jump at the chance.

Not even comparing the schools... but asking deal parents to commute to brookland?!? That would take a solid 45 minutes during the morning commute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

If only there were DCPS middle and high schools that were under enrolled that could allow Deal and Wilson to open safely. Instead, it’s “Coronavirus for All!”

brookland middle could take 200 Deal students I am sure Deal families will jump at the chance.

Not even comparing the schools... but asking deal parents to commute to brookland?!? That would take a solid 45 minutes during the morning commute.

Kids should only be permitted to walk to the closest school. In NYC the subway was the most deadly Covid vector. DCPS needs to turn of the transit card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

If only there were DCPS middle and high schools that were under enrolled that could allow Deal and Wilson to open safely. Instead, it’s “Coronavirus for All!”

brookland middle could take 200 Deal students I am sure Deal families will jump at the chance.

Not even comparing the schools... but asking deal parents to commute to brookland?!? That would take a solid 45 minutes during the morning commute.

Upper NW Deal family here and I would gladly drive my kid to Brookland if it means he is going to school in the fall.
There is NO way, ZERO that Deal will be able to bring back the number of kids they have for in-person schooling. That building is packed and middle schoolers won't socially distance.
Online schooling has been okay for the short term but not for a semester.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

If only there were DCPS middle and high schools that were under enrolled that could allow Deal and Wilson to open safely. Instead, it’s “Coronavirus for All!”

brookland middle could take 200 Deal students I am sure Deal families will jump at the chance.

Not even comparing the schools... but asking deal parents to commute to brookland?!? That would take a solid 45 minutes during the morning commute.

It's 4.3 miles from Shepherd elementary to Deal. It's 4.9 miles from Shepherd to Brookland. Of course, it would make much more sense for Shepherd (and Lafayette too) to go to Wells and Coolidge, and Bancroft and Oyster to do MacFarland and Roosevelt. This would also allow OA as a PK-5 school to offer many more ECE classrooms, so families in those neighborhoods wouldn't have to transport their young children as far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

If only there were DCPS middle and high schools that were under enrolled that could allow Deal and Wilson to open safely. Instead, it’s “Coronavirus for All!”

This is hilarious to me. If everyone just attend their neighborhood school (on chasing feeder patterns) to begin with Deal wouldn't be over crowd. Pretty sure this Deal parents would have a sh#t fit if their kids were sent to Brookland or whatever neighborhood school was closer with open seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

If only there were DCPS middle and high schools that were under enrolled that could allow Deal and Wilson to open safely. Instead, it’s “Coronavirus for All!”

brookland middle could take 200 Deal students I am sure Deal families will jump at the chance.

Not even comparing the schools... but asking deal parents to commute to brookland?!? That would take a solid 45 minutes during the morning commute.

Kids should only be permitted to walk to the closest school. In NYC the subway was the most deadly Covid vector. DCPS needs to turn of the transit card.

And Charters?? Do those turn into neighborhood schools??? What happens when this is over?? Do families go back to their pre cv-19 school or stay where they are and play the lottery?
Because if everyone just goes to the closer school there is not need for the lottery anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

If only there were DCPS middle and high schools that were under enrolled that could allow Deal and Wilson to open safely. Instead, it’s “Coronavirus for All!”

brookland middle could take 200 Deal students I am sure Deal families will jump at the chance.

Not even comparing the schools... but asking deal parents to commute to brookland?!? That would take a solid 45 minutes during the morning commute.

Kids should only be permitted to walk to the closest school. In NYC the subway was the most deadly Covid vector. DCPS needs to turn of the transit card.

So, not all schools are walkable. Not everyone has a car. Not every parent takes their kid to school because they may be working already or going the opposite way. So, you can not just turn off transportation to school.

[Anonymous]

Parents that keep complaining about overcrowding and out of boundary students might want to homeschool their children. That would reduce the number of children in classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents that keep complaining about overcrowding and out of boundary students might want to homeschool their children. That would reduce the number of children in classes.

So you are in favor of overcrowding? Do you think overcrowding has negative effects on all adults and students in overcrowded schools? Do you think overcrowding has some positive effects?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

Yeah can’t see the half-day thing working at all. Most parents still have to work full days. I’d be in favor of giving some students the option of doing all distance learning, either for a quarter/semester or the full year. Then based on how many students elect that option, the schools can figure out how to stagger schedules for the rest of the students. Alternating distance learning by quarter seems to make sense because then kids are with the same people for several weeks straight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids will have to attend in shifts, morning or afternoon, or every other day. No way around it in school buildings near, at or over capacity.

Yeah can’t see the half-day thing working at all. Most parents still have to work full days. I’d be in favor of giving some students the option of doing all distance learning, either for a quarter/semester or the full year. Then based on how many students elect that option, the schools can figure out how to stagger schedules for the rest of the students. Alternating distance learning by quarter seems to make sense because then kids are with the same people for several weeks straight.

You'd need teachers dedicated to just distance learning then (which could be possible- offer to all but prioritize the immunocompromised?). The types of assignments I'm giving in science dramatically differ from what I'd be doing in class. I couldn't manage planning both in class and virtual lessons at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a better question is, what to do when staff and teachers all get sick at the same time?

Ding. We have a winner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents that keep complaining about overcrowding and out of boundary students might want to homeschool their children. That would reduce the number of children in classes.

So you are in favor of overcrowding? Do you think overcrowding has negative effects on all adults and students in overcrowded schools? Do you think overcrowding has some positive effects?

there WILL NOW be a zero tolerance on out of boundary scofflaws, using cousin Jo's address and the hair salon address, have seen both to get into Deal!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids receiving services should/will go back first.

Regular kids? Who the hell knows?

This type of reasoning bothers me. To put it in a stark way, the kids who are non verbal and unlikely to be largely productive members of society as adults will be able to attend school, but the future doctors/ nurses/ teachers/ etc will be made to sit out. How can a society function if this is our priority?

I know this sounds cold hearted. I’m thinking big picture on purpose with my musings. But what if hospitals functioned the same way- in Italy for example if 2 people needed a hospital bed and one was 85 and had heart disease and one was 30 and healthy, the 30 year old got it. It seems like with schools this plan would only offer in person education to the most frail.