School closure after break?

[Anonymous]

That CORE petition is embarrassing. My favorite: “ Asynchronous day built into the schedule for deep cleaning at schools.”

So a group of teachers is now actively advocating for COVID theater over educating our children. What a f**king joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That CORE petition is embarrassing. My favorite: “ Asynchronous day built into the schedule for deep cleaning at schools.”

So a group of teachers is now actively advocating for COVID theater over educating our children. What a f**king joke.

I have to wonder what the WTU thinks of CORE. Certainly CORE isn't doing themselves, the WTU, or teachers in general many favors with this petition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

I think the timing for so many people getting Covid (omicron variant) has actually been pretty great. And I say that as family who is fully vaxxed and was able to avoid catching it until two weeks ago. Three out of four in our household got it. It screwed up our Christmas with extended family but we're all fine. We've all had colds and flus that were much, much worse. By the time school starts back up most people who caught it the last week of school will be negative with antibodies flowing through their bodies and will be ready to be in school. In-person is imperative IMO. I'm also a little convinced that there are teaching staff who really just want to work from their couch and it doesn't have all that much to do with COVID anymore. I have colleagues like that too.

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

Uh…. there were more than a thousand cases IN TWO WEEKS.

I feel like many of you are intentionally failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. And I say this as someone who wants schools to remain open.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

Uh…. there were more than a thousand cases IN TWO WEEKS.

I feel like many of you are intentionally failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. And I say this as someone who wants schools to remain open.

Cases alone shouldn't be considered serious anymore. Hospitaliizations is what should matter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

Uh…. there were more than a thousand cases IN TWO WEEKS.

I feel like many of you are intentionally failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. And I say this as someone who wants schools to remain open.

So, there was a total freak-out by certain people before/during Delta. And the predictions that the majority children would be infected, or that 1,000 kids would die, or that hospitals would be overrun...never came to be. The pandemic seems to have made a lot of people believe they have predictive powers, and what we've seen is that most people aren't that great at it.

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

Uh…. there were more than a thousand cases IN TWO WEEKS.

I feel like many of you are intentionally failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. And I say this as someone who wants schools to remain open.

Cases alone shouldn't be considered serious anymore. Hospitaliizations is what should matter.

Well hospital admissions are a vertical line straight up over the past few days, multiple hospitals are closing to trauma and all area hospitals are on red alert status. Soooooo…..

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

Uh…. there were more than a thousand cases IN TWO WEEKS.

I feel like many of you are intentionally failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. And I say this as someone who wants schools to remain open.

Cases alone shouldn't be considered serious anymore. Hospitaliizations is what should matter.

Well hospital admissions are a vertical line straight up over the past few days, multiple hospitals are closing to trauma and all area hospitals are on red alert status. Soooooo…..

Look at the actual data. Link was posted above. Also, a lot of these hospital admissions are incidental, that is with Covid rather than for Covid. And most importantly, the vast majority of the hospitalized aren't school children. You will change nothing about hospitalizations by closing schools. Nothing. So stop already making children't lives worse to make yourself feel better.

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

Uh…. there were more than a thousand cases IN TWO WEEKS.

I feel like many of you are intentionally failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. And I say this as someone who wants schools to remain open.

Cases alone shouldn't be considered serious anymore. Hospitaliizations is what should matter.

Well hospital admissions are a vertical line straight up over the past few days, multiple hospitals are closing to trauma and all area hospitals are on red alert status. Soooooo…..

Where are you finding the hospital admissions info for the last few days? I'm only finding the weekly hospitalization rate at 2.6% which is the lowest it's been.

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

Uh…. there were more than a thousand cases IN TWO WEEKS.

I feel like many of you are intentionally failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. And I say this as someone who wants schools to remain open.

Cases alone shouldn't be considered serious anymore. Hospitaliizations is what should matter.

Well hospital admissions are a vertical line straight up over the past few days, multiple hospitals are closing to trauma and all area hospitals are on red alert status. Soooooo…..

Where are you finding the hospital admissions info for the last few days? I'm only finding the weekly hospitalization rate at 2.6% which is the lowest it's been.

2.6% is the percentage of the people with COVID who are in the hospital. We have a 3,300% increase in the daily case rate from Thanksgiving, which means a shit ton of people in DC have COVID. 2.6% of that number is a huge number of people.

We are rapidly running out of hospital resources, including beds and even ambulances.

[Anonymous]

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Cases alone shouldn't be considered serious anymore. Hospitaliizations is what should matter.

Well hospital admissions are a vertical line straight up over the past few days, multiple hospitals are closing to trauma and all area hospitals are on red alert status. Soooooo…..

Where are you finding the hospital admissions info for the last few days? I'm only finding the weekly hospitalization rate at 2.6% which is the lowest it's been.

2.6% is the percentage of the people with COVID who are in the hospital. We have a 3,300% increase in the daily case rate from Thanksgiving, which means a shit ton of people in DC have COVID. 2.6% of that number is a huge number of people.

We are rapidly running out of hospital resources, including beds and even ambulances.

Thank you

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Anonymous wrote:Cant believe how many kids caught Covid in DCPS b4 break. Plus the shoddy reportage - so irresponsible.

Weren't there less than a thousand cases, and DCPS has what - 50K students? That's less than 2%. Janney had a total of 8 cases (after the "additional cases being processed" were announced), that's a little more than 1%. I don't find these numbers shocking at all, especially given that the vast majority of these are going to be asymptomatic or very mild.

Uh…. there were more than a thousand cases IN TWO WEEKS.

I feel like many of you are intentionally failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. And I say this as someone who wants schools to remain open.

Cases alone shouldn't be considered serious anymore. Hospitaliizations is what should matter.

Well hospital admissions are a vertical line straight up over the past few days, multiple hospitals are closing to trauma and all area hospitals are on red alert status. Soooooo…..

Where are you finding the hospital admissions info for the last few days? I'm only finding the weekly hospitalization rate at 2.6% which is the lowest it's been.

2.6% is the percentage of the people with COVID who are in the hospital. We have a 3,300% increase in the daily case rate from Thanksgiving, which means a shit ton of people in DC have COVID. 2.6% of that number is a huge number of people.

We are rapidly running out of hospital resources, including beds and even ambulances.

https://twitter.com/7newsdc/status/1475609942749032450?s=21

https://twitter.com/mayorbowser/status/1475573455756087299?s=21

https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1473343679586869254?s=21

https://twitter.com/alanhenney/status/1475930916291764234?s=21

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a DCPS teacher and understand the concerns but the logistics of getting every kid and adult tested within a few days of school opening January 5 seems extremely difficult. There is a shortage of tests and too many people who need to get tested to return to work, daycare, etc. already.

I am a DCPS teacher and this is why I send my child to a private school. No negative test, no school. End of story.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a DCPS teacher and understand the concerns but the logistics of getting every kid and adult tested within a few days of school opening January 5 seems extremely difficult. There is a shortage of tests and too many people who need to get tested to return to work, daycare, etc. already.

I am a DCPS teacher and this is why I send my child to a private school. No negative test, no school. End of story.

Also - school stay open