City council voting today on bill to force school closings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

NP. How are they paying the bill for her privilege in this particular situation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

NP. How are they paying the bill for her privilege in this particular situation?

Because their push for open schools at all costs is leading to huge attendance disparities by ward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

NP. How are they paying the bill for her privilege in this particular situation?

Because their push for open schools at all costs is leading to huge attendance disparities by ward.

As opposed to the huge disparities that result from virtual learning?

Your argument isn't really logical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

NP. How are they paying the bill for her privilege in this particular situation?

Because their push for open schools at all costs is leading to huge attendance disparities by ward.

The disparities are not the fault of the schools. The disparity that matters is vaccination rates, and at this point that is simply a matter of personal choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

Can you remind me again how much it costs to get vaccinated and how old you have to be? I could have sworn that vaccinations were no cost and that anyone 5 years old is eligible but it sounds like you’re saying they are prohibitively expensive and only available to big law partners in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

Can you remind me again how much it costs to get vaccinated and how old you have to be? I could have sworn that vaccinations were no cost and that anyone 5 years old is eligible but it sounds like you’re saying they are prohibitively expensive and only available to big law partners in Ward 3.

It’s not worth explaining to you all who’s minds are made up and locked in. The tide in the city is shifting away from you so I’ll
Just take that as solace

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

Can you remind me again how much it costs to get vaccinated and how old you have to be? I could have sworn that vaccinations were no cost and that anyone 5 years old is eligible but it sounds like you’re saying they are prohibitively expensive and only available to big law partners in Ward 3.

It’s not worth explaining to you all who’s minds are made up and locked in. The tide in the city is shifting away from you so I’ll
Just take that as solace

DP. Let's hope the "tide" keeps following the science:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/06/omicron-school-closures/

[Anonymous]

I’m somewhere in the middle of all this debate. I want schools open but with transparent safety measures that treat school staff with respect. I spend a lot of time (probably way too much) angry at both sides when I think most of us have more in common than not, but only the loudest voices are heard.

I will say this, my kid got covid in September. They had a huge class at the time, ate lunch indoors, and contact tracing was a joke (never heard from DC health and basically had to make our own return plan with our ped). Kid was given nothing to do for ten days. Nothing. (Yes, I asked both the teacher and the principal, but no I wasn’t a squeaky wheel about it). When my kid was sick I spent a lot of time mad at DCPS’s mitigation measures. But you know what? NO ONE ELSE GOT IT. Compared to other places (my SIL teaches in Utah), our mitigation measures are a dream.

I think DCPS central and the chancellor are a bumbling joke, and I would love for some oversight. But I’d like the council to start with the premise that kids should be in school and push for whatever it takes to keep them there. If that’s weekly testing, high sub pay, better masks, etc, sign me up. But an arbitrary threshold to close schools (but apparently nothing else?) when we have vaccines and treatments and know kids are low risk sends me right back to August 2020 with a pit in my stomach. I can’t believe we’re here in 2022 and the progressive thing to do is still to put virtual learning on the table.

[Anonymous]

Neither the data nor the science nor popular opinion supports closing schools. Why are we pretending otherwise?

5% student wide spread for a variant that is not deadly.is easily doable

[Anonymous]

schools were closed for far too long. it was a mistake. it really hurt a lot of kids. any (even limited) closure at this point would compound the harm. i think there is a subset of people who do not fully appreciate and understand that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

Can you remind me again how much it costs to get vaccinated and how old you have to be? I could have sworn that vaccinations were no cost and that anyone 5 years old is eligible but it sounds like you’re saying they are prohibitively expensive and only available to big law partners in Ward 3.

It’s not worth explaining to you all who’s minds are made up and locked in. The tide in the city is shifting away from you so I’ll
Just take that as solace

Are you seriously asking DCPS to shut down schools that are able to stay open for equity reasons??? Seriously?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

Can you remind me again how much it costs to get vaccinated and how old you have to be? I could have sworn that vaccinations were no cost and that anyone 5 years old is eligible but it sounds like you’re saying they are prohibitively expensive and only available to big law partners in Ward 3.

It’s not worth explaining to you all who’s minds are made up and locked in. The tide in the city is shifting away from you so I’ll
Just take that as solace

Are you seriously asking DCPS to shut down schools that are able to stay open for equity reasons??? Seriously?

All the question marks in the world don’t change the fact that resources for IPL are currently shifted in a large way toward wealthier schools. It’s hilarious to me that people tried to argue for in person for their kids and used poorer students as leverage, but now that they have what they want, have no desire to support those farthest from opportunity, which this bill would do by providing resources (both physical and human) to ALL schools, not just the ones ables to subsidize through their PTAs.

I know who you all are as people though so this won’t change minds. It’ just feels good to write out. You do you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

Can you remind me again how much it costs to get vaccinated and how old you have to be? I could have sworn that vaccinations were no cost and that anyone 5 years old is eligible but it sounds like you’re saying they are prohibitively expensive and only available to big law partners in Ward 3.

It’s not worth explaining to you all who’s minds are made up and locked in. The tide in the city is shifting away from you so I’ll
Just take that as solace

Are you seriously asking DCPS to shut down schools that are able to stay open for equity reasons??? Seriously?

All the question marks in the world don’t change the fact that resources for IPL are currently shifted in a large way toward wealthier schools. It’s hilarious to me that people tried to argue for in person for their kids and used poorer students as leverage, but now that they have what they want, have no desire to support those farthest from opportunity, which this bill would do by providing resources (both physical and human) to ALL schools, not just the ones ables to subsidize through their PTAs.

I know who you all are as people though so this won’t change minds. It’ just feels good to write out. You do you

People are opposing the anti-scientific school closures portion of the bill, not the bill's requests for resources. And you know that, if you can read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

Can you remind me again how much it costs to get vaccinated and how old you have to be? I could have sworn that vaccinations were no cost and that anyone 5 years old is eligible but it sounds like you’re saying they are prohibitively expensive and only available to big law partners in Ward 3.

It’s not worth explaining to you all who’s minds are made up and locked in. The tide in the city is shifting away from you so I’ll
Just take that as solace

Are you seriously asking DCPS to shut down schools that are able to stay open for equity reasons??? Seriously?

All the question marks in the world don’t change the fact that resources for IPL are currently shifted in a large way toward wealthier schools. It’s hilarious to me that people tried to argue for in person for their kids and used poorer students as leverage, but now that they have what they want, have no desire to support those farthest from opportunity, which this bill would do by providing resources (both physical and human) to ALL schools, not just the ones ables to subsidize through their PTAs.

I know who you all are as people though so this won’t change minds. It’ just feels good to write out. You do you

What resources?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has also missed zero days (in DCPS) due to covid, nor have many to most in her class. I used to be a strong Robert White supporter and up until this year a WTU supporter. I can no longer support either.

DP: you and PP have such a blissful ignorance to the realities of what is going on in a majority of the city. I’m glad your experience has been normal this year. That’s not the case district wide and those furthest from opportunity are continuing to pay the bill for your privilege

Can you remind me again how much it costs to get vaccinated and how old you have to be? I could have sworn that vaccinations were no cost and that anyone 5 years old is eligible but it sounds like you’re saying they are prohibitively expensive and only available to big law partners in Ward 3.

It’s not worth explaining to you all who’s minds are made up and locked in. The tide in the city is shifting away from you so I’ll
Just take that as solace

Are you seriously asking DCPS to shut down schools that are able to stay open for equity reasons??? Seriously?

All the question marks in the world don’t change the fact that resources for IPL are currently shifted in a large way toward wealthier schools. It’s hilarious to me that people tried to argue for in person for their kids and used poorer students as leverage, but now that they have what they want, have no desire to support those farthest from opportunity, which this bill would do by providing resources (both physical and human) to ALL schools, not just the ones ables to subsidize through their PTAs.

I know who you all are as people though so this won’t change minds. It’ just feels good to write out. You do you

What resources?

Masks, sanitizer, space for outdoor lunch, extra swing spaces for small groups, tests for teachers and students.

To the other PP: calling Robert white a union shill isn’t supporting other parts of the bill. Have a lovely rest of your sundays and don’t try to argue for poor kids again when it’s not what you actually are asking for you. They don’t deserve to be used for your personal needs