How are DCPS/charter school surveys being done? Are they for real?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

No one in your household leaves for any reason then?

We get outdoor exercise. We get groceries delivered and pick up take-out occasionally. And that is it. But leaving the house for any reason =/= sitting in a classroom all day. That is a bizarre connection to make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

Your child won’t be vaccinated for literally years! I cannot believe there are real people who think this way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny: because all the MC white families I talk to have no interest in returning ASAP. You don't think you are self selecting who you talk to?

We all want to return but when its safe.

Scream I'm a WTU shill but that is what I'm hearing.

OP may be a real honest to god white middle class parent. Or they may be a conservative troll trying to divide public school families for political reasons. See the other thread about how the main conservative agenda right now is to use public schools to divide America and win back suburban votes.

I'm serious - I'm not saying the OP is literally paid by conservative donors, but they could be consuming conservative media which IS paid for by conservative donors and thus they now believe the conservative political talking points.

Anyway, OP is nothing like the other middle-class parents I know who are fairly split about returning. I know many real-life DCPS white middle class families that have turned down in-person spots.

In 1-3 months, the pandemic will hopefully have turned around, we'll have avoided a fourth surge, many teachers and grandparents will be vaccinated, and schools will go back.

I do wonder about this a lot. I also wonder if some posters are the children in DC just being mischievous. I totally would have done this in my teens.

We turned down an in-person slot for the sole reason we have 2 kids and couldn’t make it work logistically to have only 1 of them in part time IPL. We’re dying for schools to be opened and both of the kids to go back full time. I’m sure our refusal will be cited as evidence that some parents prefer distance learning and don’t want open schools though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

Your child won’t be vaccinated for literally years! I cannot believe there are real people who think this way.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fauci-vaccines-kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

I work in pediatric vaccine development and i can tell you with confidence that we will very likely not have a pediatric vaccine until 2023. We may never have one.

Are you really going to keep your kids home for another 2 years?

[Anonymous]

I don’t know which doctors you talk to, but the ones I talk to disagree with you and your friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

I work in pediatric vaccine development and i can tell you with confidence that we will very likely not have a pediatric vaccine until 2023. We may never have one.

Are you really going to keep your kids home for another 2 years?

lol sure you do. And yeah I am really going to believe a rando on the internet over actual experts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

Fine. Don’t send your kid back but plenty of people believe in science and are comfortable sending theirs back for an education and for their emotional well-being. Stop being an impediment. You can continue to homeschool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

No one in your household leaves for any reason then?

We get outdoor exercise. We get groceries delivered and pick up take-out occasionally. And that is it. But leaving the house for any reason =/= sitting in a classroom all day. That is a bizarre connection to make.

What will you do in September when your office reopens and you are told to go back to work or do you plan to WFH forever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

I work in pediatric vaccine development and i can tell you with confidence that we will very likely not have a pediatric vaccine until 2023. We may never have one.

Are you really going to keep your kids home for another 2 years?

If you define pediatric as 6-12, AND you assume standard vaccine testing approaches, yes.

I do think we're going to have to vaccinate all the adults in the schools and hopefully all the parents and send kids back in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Well our survey (at a charter) was literally one question: Do you want any possible iteration of IPL or 100% virtual? That was it. And no communication at all as to what the results of that survey were. So, not real encouraging.

[Anonymous]

OP, how many loved ones have you lost to Covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are so delusional.

We will not be sending our child back this year under any circumstance. I don't have faith that even mild childhood covid cases won't have longlasting effects we don't yet know about. Our child will not be returning to school until they are vaccinated. We are not alone in our opinions. Not everyone agrees with you.

Your child won’t be vaccinated for literally years! I cannot believe there are real people who think this way.

yeah, it's not developmentally appropriate for children to be interacting with mostly just their parents. we can't force her to change, but i feel bad for her kids. at least she gets to display her pandemic virtue by taking on no risk, and instead make low-wage workers take on all of the risk for her family.