Why are DC privates the most conservative when in comes to COVID precautions?

[Anonymous]

Kids come last. Just like in public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are DC privates seemingly the only private schools in the country that are doing full DL? I have friends with kids in privates in Chicago, Seattle, CT, Florida and even Manhattan (FFS) who are back at school between two and five days a week. Our COVID rates are just as low or lower than most of those places. And we have space to have the kids outside (versus some of the NYC schools.). Every day that goes by, we get closer to winter/cold weather/flu season, and I get more frustrated. What will it take for DC privates to have kids on campus in any capacity?

Your subject line is off . This isn’t a matter of a handful of schools being “conservative” in decisions, they are being irrational and dysfunctional. The data is there, and fine, risks of Covid are very low and very infrequent.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Irrational decision making all around.

[Anonymous]

Students from throughout the DMV area attend DC private schools, and many of these areas still have relatively high positivity rates, including Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince George's counties.

[Anonymous]

This thread will be next. They are getting warmed up.

Go watch a movie. You are boring and repetitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students from throughout the DMV area attend DC private schools, and many of these areas still have relatively high positivity rates, including Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince George's counties.

Excuse of the week Winner for today.
Someone somewhere lives in a big county where someone somewhere has something but they won’t tell us the age, Demo, nursing Home, multi fam apartment complex somewhere, so better use our imaginations. Oop, I just heard an airplane, someone new and mysterious may have arrived to the area: No School!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Students from throughout the DMV area attend DC private schools, and many of these areas still have relatively high positivity rates, including Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince George's counties.

Excuse of the week Winner for today.
Someone somewhere lives in a big county where someone somewhere has something but they won’t tell us the age, Demo, nursing Home, multi fam apartment complex somewhere, so better use our imaginations. Oop, I just heard an airplane, someone new and mysterious may have arrived to the area: No School!

There's clear data that the infection rate is as high as 10% in some of the local counties. That has real implications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Students from throughout the DMV area attend DC private schools, and many of these areas still have relatively high positivity rates, including Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince George's counties.

Excuse of the week Winner for today.
Someone somewhere lives in a big county where someone somewhere has something but they won’t tell us the age, Demo, nursing Home, multi fam apartment complex somewhere, so better use our imaginations. Oop, I just heard an airplane, someone new and mysterious may have arrived to the area: No School!

There's clear data that the infection rate is as high as 10% in some of the local counties. That has real implications.

Get a hobby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Students from throughout the DMV area attend DC private schools, and many of these areas still have relatively high positivity rates, including Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince George's counties.

Excuse of the week Winner for today.
Someone somewhere lives in a big county where someone somewhere has something but they won’t tell us the age, Demo, nursing Home, multi fam apartment complex somewhere, so better use our imaginations. Oop, I just heard an airplane, someone new and mysterious may have arrived to the area: No School!

Also, the excuse of the week is patently false. Surprise.

They will follow this with a) threatening the parents and students who want in-person and b) calling for the HOS to be fired. Might be on this thread or another one, but it's coming.

[Anonymous]

Check the GDS thread. The movement went there.

Schools will not reopen until heads are not facing an insurrection.


If you really think that your school’s HOS is so incompetent, leave. Give your legal threats to them. They will let you use your insurance. Get out and stop ruining this for those of us who do not agree with your tactics. You will be happier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check the GDS thread. The movement went there.

Schools will not reopen until heads are not facing an insurrection.


If you really think that your school’s HOS is so incompetent, leave. Give your legal threats to them. They will let you use your insurance. Get out and stop ruining this for those of us who do not agree with your tactics. You will be happier.

What insurance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check the GDS thread. The movement went there.

Schools will not reopen until heads are not facing an insurrection.


If you really think that your school’s HOS is so incompetent, leave. Give your legal threats to them. They will let you use your insurance. Get out and stop ruining this for those of us who do not agree with your tactics. You will be happier.

What insurance?

PP means tuition insurance probably. Asking to get out of your contract and moving on is much more productive than posting legal threats online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check the GDS thread. The movement went there.

Schools will not reopen until heads are not facing an insurrection.


If you really think that your school’s HOS is so incompetent, leave. Give your legal threats to them. They will let you use your insurance. Get out and stop ruining this for those of us who do not agree with your tactics. You will be happier.

What insurance?

PP means tuition insurance probably. Asking to get out of your contract and moving on is much more productive than posting legal threats online.

Isn’t tuition insurance elective or is it implicit in all tuition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We left DC last year and are now at a private in a different area that has thoughtfully and successfully opened to all grades. You all have every right to be pissed, and I would be too if I were in your shoes. Whatever schools your kids attend in DC know about my kids' school and the other big private across the country that have opened and are doing fine. I know our school was in communication with many of yours and I imagine you are very similarly situated in terms of money, space, and numbers of cases. The biggest difference I can see is the politics at your schools, although ours is most definitely not filled with Republicans so it's not like we're on the complete other end of the spectrum. In any event, I wish you all the best in getting your schools to reopen. We did DL for last year, obviously, and although we were very pleased with what our school did, even at its best it is no substitute for teaching kids in person.

Glad your family has landed at a school that has been able to sucessfully re-open and deliver fully its educational product to your children. I have some questions that, if you wouldn't mind answering it would perhaps be helpful to guide DC Privates:

1) You say your kids are attending- are classes outdoor only or fully indoor with A/C on ?

2) Are numbers limited to 10 students per class, per the CDC requirements and are desks all facing front ?

3) Are your kids all being taught in person by the same highly skilled/ seniority faculty that taught all the same AP/ Honors classes pre-covid or did many of those coveted teachers take paid leave to protect their own health due to them having: HTN, Diabetes, Immune Supression, Lung Disease or being over age 65 ?

4) How transparently are covid cases among housekeeping, security, kitchen staff, IT staff and Faculty being disclosed to school community and Board of Health ( not names of those testing positive of course, but case incidents ?

Or is this school you have found just opening its doors, pretending covid is a myth and keeping its faculty/ staff case numbers & resignations a secret from enrolled parents and all employees ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left DC last year and are now at a private in a different area that has thoughtfully and successfully opened to all grades. You all have every right to be pissed, and I would be too if I were in your shoes. Whatever schools your kids attend in DC know about my kids' school and the other big private across the country that have opened and are doing fine. I know our school was in communication with many of yours and I imagine you are very similarly situated in terms of money, space, and numbers of cases. The biggest difference I can see is the politics at your schools, although ours is most definitely not filled with Republicans so it's not like we're on the complete other end of the spectrum. In any event, I wish you all the best in getting your schools to reopen. We did DL for last year, obviously, and although we were very pleased with what our school did, even at its best it is no substitute for teaching kids in person.

Glad your family has landed at a school that has been able to sucessfully re-open and deliver fully its educational product to your children. I have some questions that, if you wouldn't mind answering it would perhaps be helpful to guide DC Privates:

1) You say your kids are attending- are classes outdoor only or fully indoor with A/C on ?

2) Are numbers limited to 10 students per class, per the CDC requirements and are desks all facing front ?

3) Are your kids all being taught in person by the same highly skilled/ seniority faculty that taught all the same AP/ Honors classes pre-covid or did many of those coveted teachers take paid leave to protect their own health due to them having: HTN, Diabetes, Immune Supression, Lung Disease or being over age 65 ?

4) How transparently are covid cases among housekeeping, security, kitchen staff, IT staff and Faculty being disclosed to school community and Board of Health ( not names of those testing positive of course, but case incidents ?

Or is this school you have found just opening its doors, pretending covid is a myth and keeping its faculty/ staff case numbers & resignations a secret from enrolled parents and all employees ?

St. Pats please take your crazies back. The rest of the privates don't want them.