Any chance DCPS reopens in person for Term 2 or Term 3?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

NP: I’m sure there are a lot of people who share PP’s opinion. It’s a lame response to try to pretend like it’s one person.

+1. Very lame response.

[Anonymous]

So do people think that DCPS is waiting to see how the local private schools do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So do people think that DCPS is waiting to see how the local private schools do?

No, they are waiting for numbers to continue their downward trend and they are likely putting together a plan that MIGHT satisfy the teachers union. The union is the reason public schools are closed. Privates are not unionized and don't have the same issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not sustainable for us and we help at home. two working parents - my Kindergartner isn't going to learn to read at school. It's all BS.

It is ridiculous how little children are learning. Distance learning is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Yeah, it's just one person that's unhappy with DL, that knows that DL is not sustainable for them, etc. Everybody else is on board. Your post suggests you really don't have anything credible to add.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The November 9th reopening date never made sense to me. It’s just not feasible to jump from virtual learning on 11/6 to in-person learning on 11/9. Teachers will need time to put their classrooms together, get the school ready, and of course adjust plans for in-person learning. I’m certain this will require additional planning days being added to the calendar which will just push us closer to the holidays!

I’m thinking January at the earliest.

In my option, it is better to get into the class room as soon as the determination is that it can be done safely. Kicking the can because of Thanksgiving and winter break is 2 more months of significantly less than optimal instruction. It is unfair to our children to drag this on IF there is a decision that it can be done in a safe manner.

[Anonymous]

It's possible to simultaneously believe that distance learning is problematic and ALSO believe that it's premature to open schools.

I do. I think distance learning is awful, and it's particularly awful for kids with more acute needs. I also think that opening schools would be far worse, because it would kill teachers.

Our current 7-day average of cases is higher than it was when we closed in March -- and there is a marked lack of trust among teachers that the city will actually provide what's needed to open safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's possible to simultaneously believe that distance learning is problematic and ALSO believe that it's premature to open schools.

I do. I think distance learning is awful, and it's particularly awful for kids with more acute needs. I also think that opening schools would be far worse, because it would kill teachers.

Our current 7-day average of cases is higher than it was when we closed in March -- and there is a marked lack of trust among teachers that the city will actually provide what's needed to open safely.

This statement might be technically true -- barely, and it probably will stop being true as trends continue downward over the next couple of weeks -- but it's absurdly misleading. We're doing vastly more testing now than in March when schools closed, so of course there will be more cases found.

Confirmed cases per day per 100K residents: trending downward, about equivalent to where we were on April 1 despite huge increase in testing

Percent of tests positive: Slowly trending downward, hovering around 2 percent now, the lowest that number ever has been

Hospitalizations: the lowest they've ever been

This guy has collected the info into handy graphs and updates them every day on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/wmaxson/status/1303339272762789888

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: The union is the reason public schools are closed. Privates are not unionized and don't have the same issue.

Most private schools are closed too, even without teachers' unions.

I'm not saying that schools should be distance (I'm not a public health person, so I don't know), but I think the idea that the DC teachers' union has any real power is laughable.

[Anonymous]

Cold and flu is not necessarily the problem some think it will be.

Masks and hand washing and physical distancing, which would be required to open schools, also prevent flu spread.

[Anonymous]

The teachers union is only demanding that DCPS is able to show PROOF that they can keep students and teachers safe. Providing basic things like masks, hand sanitizer, cleaning schedules, etc - let alone the older schools that lack the proper ventilation. I don’t get why everyone is demonizing them. Do you want your kids (or your neighbors) to get sick? My DCPS doesn’t even have soap in the bathrooms during a regular year. I appreciate the Union actually giving a sh*t about the health and safety of students and staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Yeah, it's just one person that's unhappy with DL, that knows that DL is not sustainable for them, etc. Everybody else is on board. Your post suggests you really don't have anything credible to add.

My point is that you are all about to rehash the same arguments you have made everywhere else on DCUM. I get you need the validation of an echo chamber about the WTU, Bowser, your misunderstanding of data, your ill-formed analogies to countries with super low infection rates and contact tracing, and general conspiracy theories about the libs. You've been singing the same tune everywhere. If it wasn't for an occasional troll who flies in to rile you all up you'd literally spend weeks just talking to each other with occasional breaks to compliment yourselves in how smart you are all and how easy governing and public education are.

You are also missing the point (shocker!). People who think the public health risks are too great to go back in person, or who aren't sure but allow for the fact that these decisions are hard and complicated, aren't disagreeing with the fact that DL sucks. For many people (not you and your ilk, but many people) more than one thing can be true at the same time. It is silly how reflexively you just keep screaming "DL sucks", "DL is hard", "DL is not working for my kid". That may well be true, but it doesn't obviate the facts and reasoning behind decisions with which you do not agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Yeah, it's just one person that's unhappy with DL, that knows that DL is not sustainable for them, etc. Everybody else is on board. Your post suggests you really don't have anything credible to add.

My point is that you are all about to rehash the same arguments you have made everywhere else on DCUM. I get you need the validation of an echo chamber about the WTU, Bowser, your misunderstanding of data, your ill-formed analogies to countries with super low infection rates and contact tracing, and general conspiracy theories about the libs. You've been singing the same tune everywhere. If it wasn't for an occasional troll who flies in to rile you all up you'd literally spend weeks just talking to each other with occasional breaks to compliment yourselves in how smart you are all and how easy governing and public education are.

You are also missing the point (shocker!). People who think the public health risks are too great to go back in person, or who aren't sure but allow for the fact that these decisions are hard and complicated, aren't disagreeing with the fact that DL sucks. For many people (not you and your ilk, but many people) more than one thing can be true at the same time. It is silly how reflexively you just keep screaming "DL sucks", "DL is hard", "DL is not working for my kid". That may well be true, but it doesn't obviate the facts and reasoning behind decisions with which you do not agree.

Stop. At this point, 90 percent of DCUM is teachers with too much time on their hands pretending they’re all going to die if they set foot in a classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union).