Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open

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Anonymous wrote:DH communicated to our Head that we will leave the school if they go virtual again; I encourage others with cojones to do the same.

Your husband sounds like an ass. Talk about an empty threat. Where will you go?

He stands up for his family when he needs to, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. If he didn’t stand up for the kids, I wouldn’t respect him.

I’ll take the kids back to TN where I grew up and DH will follow. A sacrifice for him; the private schools in middle Tennessee are great. No sacrifice there.

I doubt that your child can just walk in and start school mid January. Also that you in a whim would relocate because you're pissed at the current school.

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Anonymous wrote:So with all the parties on the 31st and 1st, will the back to school testing on Sunday-Tuesday be too early to detect the spread of Covid? I want to keep the kid home for the first week anyway and would prefer virtual classes for the first week.

Schools should at least offer those cautious families a virtual option for the first two weeks

No, they should not. "Cautious families" need to get over themselves and realize that the entire framework of producing an elite education does not revolve around having their children beamed in online.

What are you so cautious about anyways? Aren’t your kids vaccinated. Ugh.

Good for you you’re so confident nothing bad will happen to your kid.

There are those of us with younger kids who can’t be vaccinated yet, or immune compromised adults, living under the same roof.
A little empathy for those with different circumstances would go a long way.

But then again, we are on DCUM… How could one expect nonjudgmental or civil debate that doesn’t involve mean labels for others they don’t agree with?

Sorry, but where is the mean label and the judgment?

I agree with PP. The schools need to be open and the kids need to be there, in person. If you have extenuating circumstances that affect your family, that's up to you to deal with. But you should not expect the school to accommodate those extreme needs. There is cost involved, you know. Not everything is "free."

I think that was a broader reference to the comments taking a mocking tone with the more cautious parents.
The “aren’t your kids vaccinated, ugh” tone in the message quoted, along with a few more before. Not limited to the PP.

In all fairness the “more cautious parents” are generally PITAs

The fact that you don’t see your own behavior as a PITA is hilarious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DH communicated to our Head that we will leave the school if they go virtual again; I encourage others with cojones to do the same.

Your husband sounds like an ass. Talk about an empty threat. Where will you go?

He stands up for his family when he needs to, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. If he didn’t stand up for the kids, I wouldn’t respect him.

I’ll take the kids back to TN where I grew up and DH will follow. A sacrifice for him; the private schools in middle Tennessee are great. No sacrifice there.

I doubt that your child can just walk in and start school mid January. Also that you in a whim would relocate because you're pissed at the current school.

Probably can there. Here, everyone has rushed to private after the pandemic hit, but in most places the pandemic has had the opposite effect.

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Meh, a private school in TN is likely part of the cabal of southern private schools that were created after 1954.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, a private school in TN is likely part of the cabal of southern private schools that were created after 1954.

Lacking the snob appeal of the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, a private school in TN is likely part of the cabal of southern private schools that were created after 1954.

Lacking the snob appeal of the DMV.

The snob appeal vs the red stem appeal

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, a private school in TN is likely part of the cabal of southern private schools that were created after 1954.

1971-2 was a big time for VA private schools as well…

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Anonymous wrote:To the couple of SFS parents who keep dragging the school in these public forums: this practice is really tiresome. It’s a phenomenal and caring community that’s trying to do the best for all on balance — I’d suggest being grateful, enjoying it, trying to do the right thing, remembering our values and thinking of others before you speak/act. To me, a magical Charlie Brown-esque thing happened cca 2020 — the perennially aggrieved posts started sounding a whole lot like wah-wah-wah-wah

Have not commented in this discussion before. Sidwell did a terrible job with the pandemic during the 20-21 school year, in every way imaginable. Their decisions were poor, and their communications were even worse.

They are doing a better job this year, most likely because the Board finally put pressure on Bryan to prioritize kids being physically in school, as he now references in pretty much every pandemic related message. Lack of transparency is still an issue, as pp noted. But this idea that parents shouldn't speak up or complain is complete BS. It's not all sunshine and roses there, and the sentiment expressed by pp is absurd. An attitude of "being grateful, enjoying it etc" regardless of the nonsense that the school serves up is precisely the type of attitude that allows their administrative mediocrity (and that's being charitable) to persist.

The cabal of HOS in NW DC blew it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the couple of SFS parents who keep dragging the school in these public forums: this practice is really tiresome. It’s a phenomenal and caring community that’s trying to do the best for all on balance — I’d suggest being grateful, enjoying it, trying to do the right thing, remembering our values and thinking of others before you speak/act. To me, a magical Charlie Brown-esque thing happened cca 2020 — the perennially aggrieved posts started sounding a whole lot like wah-wah-wah-wah

Have not commented in this discussion before. Sidwell did a terrible job with the pandemic during the 20-21 school year, in every way imaginable. Their decisions were poor, and their communications were even worse.

They are doing a better job this year, most likely because the Board finally put pressure on Bryan to prioritize kids being physically in school, as he now references in pretty much every pandemic related message. Lack of transparency is still an issue, as pp noted. But this idea that parents shouldn't speak up or complain is complete BS. It's not all sunshine and roses there, and the sentiment expressed by pp is absurd. An attitude of "being grateful, enjoying it etc" regardless of the nonsense that the school serves up is precisely the type of attitude that allows their administrative mediocrity (and that's being charitable) to persist.

The cabal of HOS in NW DC blew it.

How so?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, a private school in TN is likely part of the cabal of southern private schools that were created after 1954.

Lacking the snob appeal of the DMV.

I don't think you understand the significance of the private schools that popped up after 1954 if that is your response, LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:How my any vaccinated people require hospitalization?

I think this is the key. Even if the positivity rate is high (5%) if the general health impact is low, there is no reason to be closed.

MCPS schools with >5% positivity going virtual for 2 weeks. What about the private schools on this forum?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, a private school in TN is likely part of the cabal of southern private schools that were created after 1954.

Lacking the snob appeal of the DMV.

I don't think you understand the significance of the private schools that popped up after 1954 if that is your response, LOL.

And you are probably behind on your history of area privates if you think they are so much better than TN schools in this regard.

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They were likely implicit but not explicit in their exclusionary mission. A nuance, but to suggest a private school in TN is without a high snob appeal is plain silly.

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Honestly in 2010 Snowmeggon schools were closed for practically 2 weeks straight and no one threatened to file a law suit, uproot their kids or claim that their kids were being psychologically damaged

Go Sledding or XC skiiing

Its good for ya'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly in 2010 Snowmeggon schools were closed for practically 2 weeks straight and no one threatened to file a law suit, uproot their kids or claim that their kids were being psychologically damaged

Go Sledding or XC skiiing

Its good for ya'

I think most people would be a fine with a two-week closure. But we all know what happened last time when the schools said they would be closed for two weeks to slow the spread...Not a lot of credibility there anymore.