Why is GDS unable to lead on Covid??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb question, but what are asynchronous Wednesdays?

Signed, future GDS parent

In the MS (and maybe the HS, I'm not sure), there are no classes, in person or virtual. Instead, students get assignments from 3 of their classes, each designed to take an hour. Kids do them by themselves, with no help or interaction. The rest of the day is totally free.

Wait, and you're paying how much for this?

Wow. Has GDS always had these or are they due to the pandemic??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb question, but what are asynchronous Wednesdays?

Signed, future GDS parent

In the MS (and maybe the HS, I'm not sure), there are no classes, in person or virtual. Instead, students get assignments from 3 of their classes, each designed to take an hour. Kids do them by themselves, with no help or interaction. The rest of the day is totally free.

Wait, and you're paying how much for this?

Wow. Has GDS always had these or are they due to the pandemic??

Due to pandemic.
I’m laughing though at the outrage here. It’s not the only school to do asynchronous Wednesdays you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

No, it's not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

I am anything but a Trumper, but sad, tired try in your part. And no, the pandemic is not "still raging." Your attempt at imagery is impressive, but it is also false. EVERY OTHER SCHOOL in the DC region has managed to figure out how to get the kids back safely. And yet at GDS, here we sit.

I guess you're saying that all of the other schools are "filled with Trumpers," but that angle does not prove true in reality either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:... But the pandemic is still raging ...

No, it's not.

US is still clocking about 1500 Covid deaths per day, which is the same is it was in mid-November.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:... But the pandemic is still raging ...

No, it's not.

US is still clocking about 1500 Covid deaths per day, which is the same is it was in mid-November.

10% vaccinated
23% already had the virus
2.3 million per day vaccinated


Look, I understand you want this virus to go on forever so that you can continue to control the population, but the facts are facts. This virus is coming to an end... FAST. It is not raging and there is little transmission among children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

I am anything but a Trumper, but sad, tired try in your part. And no, the pandemic is not "still raging." Your attempt at imagery is impressive, but it is also false. EVERY OTHER SCHOOL in the DC region has managed to figure out how to get the kids back safely. And yet at GDS, here we sit.

I guess you're saying that all of the other schools are "filled with Trumpers," but that angle does not prove true in reality either.

If you don't want to be dismissed as a Trumper, then don't try to dismiss my posts by calling me "teacher." The point stands that many of us recognize it's still not safe to gather in enclosed spaces for hours every day. I get it, you want to rush back to school to keep up with your friends' private schools. But your social competition puts my family at risk. As everyone's parent told us: If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? Apparently you would.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:... But the pandemic is still raging ...

No, it's not.

US is still clocking about 1500 Covid deaths per day, which is the same is it was in mid-November.

10% vaccinated
23% already had the virus
2.3 million per day vaccinated

Look, I understand you want this virus to go on forever so that you can continue to control the population, but the facts are facts. This virus is coming to an end... FAST. It is not raging and there is little transmission among children.

Don't you have a pizza parlor to investigate with your GQP buddies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP all I can tell you is that the parents have to push on this. You have to get patents together- across grades and throughout the school- and demand (at this point, that is the right word) action. Go to every board member with a petition signed by hundreds of patents. Ask for a meeting with the board chairman and your HOS. You have to organize yourselves and keep at it. We’re not in the DC area but at a school in a nearby city that was the same way- the last to reopen and move on thiis issue. It took a parent uprising, including threats of media coverage, to finally see results

And similarly, those who want the school and its families to stay safe need to make sure your voices are heard too. Make sure to let admin know that you appreciate all these steps to stay safe despite the ridiculous rush to reopen led by some parents who care more about optics than community safety.

Thank you, teacher. Time to get back to class - online, of course.

The line "ridiculous RUSH to reopen" is laughable. It's been a year. If they can't figure out within one year how to safely hold classes on campus in a time of diminishing positive cases throughout the nation and region - well, the leadership is more incompetent than can possibly be explained here.

Sad Trumper - Unlike you, I have a real job and would love to get back to my office and my clients. But the pandemic is still raging. If you and your kind hadn't screwed up so bad, we'd probably be through it by now like most other modern countries. As it is though, we're stuck waiting for the numbers to come down so it's safe to send students back to school. Maybe you should spend your time telling your friends on Gab or whatever right-wing website you frequent that they should wear masks and get their vaccines. Go away.

I am anything but a Trumper, but sad, tired try in your part. And no, the pandemic is not "still raging." Your attempt at imagery is impressive, but it is also false. EVERY OTHER SCHOOL in the DC region has managed to figure out how to get the kids back safely. And yet at GDS, here we sit.

I guess you're saying that all of the other schools are "filled with Trumpers," but that angle does not prove true in reality either.

If you don't want to be dismissed as a Trumper, then don't try to dismiss my posts by calling me "teacher." The point stands that many of us recognize it's still not safe to gather in enclosed spaces for hours every day. I get it, you want to rush back to school to keep up with your friends' private schools. But your social competition puts my family at risk. As everyone's parent told us: If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? Apparently you would.

Here's the dirty little secret that you also fail to acknowledge: Your. Kids. Can. Stay. Home. Indefinitely, for all we care. Why are you so hell-bent on controlling all of the other students' lives? Is it because you know that DL is a failure compared to being in person, and you hate that your kids might miss out on something? Or, even worse, because your kids know how awful it is, know that their friends would be back, and would blame you for keeping them home for no valid reason?

You can't have it both ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've given up on this year. I hate the asychronous Wednesdays and that even when my kid is physically on campus he's still on his Chromebook and as likely to be zooming with his teacher than having live instruction. But that's not going to change this year.

But I will be furious if there is not full time in person school next year. It is true that kids won't be vaccinated, but the adults will be. The email they sent yesterday outlining the limitations of vaccination makes me worried.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have a tiny campus. Social distancing is difficult to achieve for GDS.

That might have been true pre vaccines. But every teacher has long been able to get vaccinated. Remote learning ON CAMPUS is really just the icing on the cake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have a tiny campus. Social distancing is difficult to achieve for GDS.

That might have been true pre vaccines. But every teacher has long been able to get vaccinated. Remote learning ON CAMPUS is really just the icing on the cake.

+1. And now poor, misunderstood GDS has a "tiny" campus, complete with a brand new MS building, of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want to be dismissed as a Trumper, then don't try to dismiss my posts by calling me "teacher." The point stands that many of us recognize it's still not safe to gather in enclosed spaces for hours every day. I get it, you want to rush back to school to keep up with your friends' private schools. But your social competition puts my family at risk. As everyone's parent told us: If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? Apparently you would.

Here's the dirty little secret that you also fail to acknowledge: Your. Kids. Can. Stay. Home. Indefinitely, for all we care. Why are you so hell-bent on controlling all of the other students' lives? Is it because you know that DL is a failure compared to being in person, and you hate that your kids might miss out on something? Or, even worse, because your kids know how awful it is, know that their friends would be back, and would blame you for keeping them home for no valid reason?

You can't have it both ways.

My kids are attending in person, but I've been surprised (and honestly, somewhat relieved) by the number of HS kids who are not, based on their reports. It doesn't seem that there is a clear majority for any plan, so maybe we can stop berating people who disagree with us as if they represented a fringe element.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb question, but what are asynchronous Wednesdays?

Signed, future GDS parent

In the MS (and maybe the HS, I'm not sure), there are no classes, in person or virtual. Instead, students get assignments from 3 of their classes, each designed to take an hour. Kids do them by themselves, with no help or interaction. The rest of the day is totally free.

Wait, and you're paying how much for this?

Wow. Has GDS always had these or are they due to the pandemic??

Due to pandemic.
I’m laughing though at the outrage here. It’s not the only school to do asynchronous Wednesdays you know.

+1 There's a whole thread about Sidwell's Wednesdays.