Montgomery County vs. DC re-opening

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Anonymous wrote:Different districts, different priorities. Seems like your charter is making a smart move considering the new strain and the number of cases rising with school returning to in person.

Where is this happening? Certainly not DC. This is just untrue.

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Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

The problem is there are thousands of empty in person seats in the entire district. That’s the bigger issue. People keep claiming there are no seats but there are tons of seats. Just not at the schools you are willing to send your kids to

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

The problem is there are thousands of empty in person seats in the entire district. That’s the bigger issue. People keep claiming there are no seats but there are tons of seats. Just not at the schools you are willing to send your kids to

I don’t think I would be allowed to send my kids there, or am I?

[Anonymous]

I heard a funny story from a friend about MCPS. They had a zoom meeting about reopening elementary school for younger kids. They were planning one socially distanced classroom with a handful of kids in an adjoining room all on computers with the teacher in the twelve child classroom. The adjoining room kids would never see the teacher live. The parents went nuts on the zoomcall, and the principal emptied the room of all furniture and found space for all seventeen of the kids to learn together. According to my friend the kids are going back in stages with some going back earlier, and it may depend on the grade as well. All elementary school children will eventually get at least a hybrid option, not sure how middle/high school works. It certainly seems much more organized than dcps.

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Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

The problem is there are thousands of empty in person seats in the entire district. That’s the bigger issue. People keep claiming there are no seats but there are tons of seats. Just not at the schools you are willing to send your kids to

I don’t think I would be allowed to send my kids there, or am I?

No, the empty in person seats aren’t “the bigger issue”. Kids whose parents want to send them back not being able to get a seat at their usual school is a bigger issue than seats being available for those who don’t want them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

I am an anti reopen parent but totally agree w this statement

So many people have called me and assumed my kid is back in school because of all the DCPS marketing kids are back.

DCPS is doing nothing to improve DL, vax teachers so we could return, create new return models, different DL timing, etc

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

The problem is there are thousands of empty in person seats in the entire district. That’s the bigger issue. People keep claiming there are no seats but there are tons of seats. Just not at the schools you are willing to send your kids to

Yeah, this sets it up wrong. You can't actually just send your kids anywhere.

[Anonymous]

But...yeah. If MCPS does open for regular in-person learning in the Fall, and DCPS does not it does suggest there might be some movement across that border.

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Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

The problem is there are thousands of empty in person seats in the entire district. That’s the bigger issue. People keep claiming there are no seats but there are tons of seats. Just not at the schools you are willing to send your kids to

I know you are implying that many parents’ reluctance to send their kids all the way across town for IPL (if they were allowed to do so) is a matter of racism, but the reality is that it’s logistically impossible for anyone who is also trying to do their own full time job to shuttle their kids to a far away school every day. There is a reason most people choose to live near their kids’ school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

The problem is there are thousands of empty in person seats in the entire district. That’s the bigger issue. People keep claiming there are no seats but there are tons of seats. Just not at the schools you are willing to send your kids to

I know you are implying that many parents’ reluctance to send their kids all the way across town for IPL (if they were allowed to do so) is a matter of racism, but the reality is that it’s logistically impossible for anyone who is also trying to do their own full time job to shuttle their kids to a far away school every day. There is a reason most people choose to live near their kids’ school.

Also you literally just can't send your kid to any school in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Telling that this turned into a chance to lay into chargers when DCPS is so far behind MoCo as well.

Not sure I get that. DCPS is open in a hybrid model as of February. The MCPS boards are full of parents complaining that they aren't open yet, don't have IP slots for everyone, and I thought MCPS wasn't open until March.

NOT true. Thousands of kids in middle and high school are not in at all. Please don't say that crazy stuff because it just isn't true and there is no plan to get them back in school this year.

There are also many kids in elementary schools who didn’t win the lottery for in person spots and have little hope of getting in for term 4. Please be aware that claiming that DCPS is now open in a hybrid model is enabling DCPS to just pretend that those kids don’t exist and that they have done their job opening schools.

The problem is there are thousands of empty in person seats in the entire district. That’s the bigger issue. People keep claiming there are no seats but there are tons of seats. Just not at the schools you are willing to send your kids to

I know you are implying that many parents’ reluctance to send their kids all the way across town for IPL (if they were allowed to do so) is a matter of racism, but the reality is that it’s logistically impossible for anyone who is also trying to do their own full time job to shuttle their kids to a far away school every day. There is a reason most people choose to live near their kids’ school.

It's a bad faith argument to suggest that you can send your kids anywhere, and to imply the reason you don't is racism. It does nothing for the conversation. It derails and shames, unnecessarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But...yeah. If MCPS does open for regular in-person learning in the Fall, and DCPS does not it does suggest there might be some movement across that border.

Of course there will. There will be a stampede from upper NW. All we have to do is rent an apartment across Western Ave. Many of the large buildings in Bethesda have month-by-month leases because they cater to businesses, internationals and others who need temporary housing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But...yeah. If MCPS does open for regular in-person learning in the Fall, and DCPS does not it does suggest there might be some movement across that border.

Of course there will. There will be a stampede from upper NW. All we have to do is rent an apartment across Western Ave. Many of the large buildings in Bethesda have month-by-month leases because they cater to businesses, internationals and others who need temporary housing.

I'm betting I can get a studio for less than private school tuition.

[Anonymous]

I don't get what either of you are trying to say. I think the advantages and disadvantages in DCP are pretty obvious and I'm not sure we should pretend they aren't real or policies should be Blind to them.