Applications down 21% on myschooldc

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I don't want to quote the long back and forth but I do want to respond to the teacher who is posting in it.

I actually agree with you that for many (but not all) kids, they can recover from the academic set-backs of this year with the assistance of their teacher and it will all be okay in that respect. I do sometimes feel a little panicky about my kid, but I remind myself that all the kids in her cohort will be in the same boat moving forward (to the degree that kids are ever really in the same boat -- obviously some kids have more resources and others less, but that's always true). I think if we can get back in the classroom in the fall, the academics will work themselves out.

But what I think many teachers may not fully comprehend, because they don't really see it, is the toll this year has taken on many families. It's not just the lack of in-person school, though obviously that's a huge part of it. But it's also the way DCPS and individual schools have handled it. The constant vitriol between the district and the teacher's union. The promises that have literally never been kept (no return to the classroom in the fall, no CARES classroom offer, no return in February, no return in April). I attended all the town halls, I asked questions, I stayed open to responses, and all I ever heard were mealy-mouthed excuses and placing the blame on others.

I'm not worried about my kid learning fractions "on time". I'm worried that I'm never going to trust our school, our teachers, or certainly DCPS ever again. I don't know if this relationship is reparable. What I do know is that telling me not to worry or calling me entitled or privileged because I want my very young child to attend in-person public school, isn't going to repair it. Being condescending isn't going to repair it. And before you ask -- yes, I did lose a family member to Covid this year (plus two more to cancer, thanks for asking), I understand the risks around Covid and I supported many of the measures taken to keep people safe and prevent unnecessary death. I also know first hand the risks to children and families if we take away the essential safety net of in-person public education. And I notice that while teachers are vaccinated against that first threat, my family is still dealing with the fallout from the second. There's no vaccine for the costs of childcare you didn't expect to have to pay for. No vaccine for sleeplessness from trying to educate your child while holding down a full-time job. No vaccine for disillusionment, distrust, exhaustion, or anger.

The "learning loss" isn't what we're worried about. That's a proxy for the real problem, which is that parents and families just have zero faith in our schools anymore, zero faith in the people who run them, and in many cases, very little faith in the teachers who teach in them. The system failed.

As the teacher previously posting, i think that this is a really fair response. There are systemic issues in DCPS that need to be fixed. The smartest thing Bowser did was put all these important district wide decisions into individual school hands which was savvy AF, and led to parents and teachers/principals to fight with each other instead of working to support the bigger issues.

New poster (parent) here. Agree with you. But now she has to put the genie back in the bottle, creating more problems. She only just realized that enrollment and achievement is going to plummet because of all of this, and now she's stuck trying to right the ship. I have absolutely no confidence that she will.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole families want to live in the city thing might have peaked.

You wish, closet Republican who hates DC.

Instead, your party is hemorrhaging votes elsewhere as cities continue to grow and resist GOP anti-intellectualism and anti-democracy efforts.

What part of "applications are down 21 percent" do you not understand?

Not to point out the obvious, but it's DC that has banned children from going to school. Schools in the vast majority of the rest of the country are completely opened. In many red states, schools never closed during the pandemic.

A child in Alabama is going to have a full year more of school than a same-aged child in DCPS. Which means your child is going to get smoked by that kid in Alabama when it comes time for standardized tests.

And in many red states a lot of people died. So what’s your point

I think you are a teenager who is bored. Kudos to you

Btw Alabama has different standards than DC. In some red states you can’t say climate change by law in the schools. Getting an A at one of those schools is like getting a C at Banneker

Loads of friends posting acceptance day photos and no one has an Alabama school. Go figure.

Clearly that's a comfortable position for you to take, but Alabama is actually opening magnate schools rather than scale them back.

So what? If you are so enamored with Alabama move there.

We know DCPS kids have had learning loss but you are some kid of time share salesman for Alabama at this point.

Not sure you realize you were talking to multiple people. I was the PP you replied to and that was my first on Alabama. The point is that other places (both in the US and outside) are heading in a different direction with their education choices -- in their covid response and in general. It's exceptionalism to suggest that we're so far ahead around here that we can ignore that completely. Some kids still will excel no matter what (and we have a bunch of them in this area) but it will make a difference for others and lower the overall education outcome.

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When there is regular school, when do teachers do all this planning and grading you speak of? What are teachers doing during asynchronous time during DL? Don’t people who go into teaching do it with the understanding that “presenting” is an essential part of their job (as opposed to a software engineer or a nurse, for example)?

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Anonymous wrote:When there is regular school, when do teachers do all this planning and grading you speak of? What are teachers doing during asynchronous time during DL? Don’t people who go into teaching do it with the understanding that “presenting” is an essential part of their job (as opposed to a software engineer or a nurse, for example)?

Nights and weekends. When your child is asynch, it is bc the teacher is with another cohort.

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Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

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Anonymous wrote:When there is regular school, when do teachers do all this planning and grading you speak of? What are teachers doing during asynchronous time during DL? Don’t people who go into teaching do it with the understanding that “presenting” is an essential part of their job (as opposed to a software engineer or a nurse, for example)?

Nights and weekends. When your child is asynch, it is bc the teacher is with another cohort.

That’s absolutely not true. There were no small groups or 1:1s in my child’s class.

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Anonymous wrote:Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

Strange how teachers were forced to entirely change their practice with no new resources or training and learning was impacted. We basically started from scratch this year and instead of being partners some of you really turned into monsters. It’s cool tho, I’m better than I ever was at my job and I get to laugh at all the parents who showed their asses this year.

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Anonymous wrote:When there is regular school, when do teachers do all this planning and grading you speak of? What are teachers doing during asynchronous time during DL? Don’t people who go into teaching do it with the understanding that “presenting” is an essential part of their job (as opposed to a software engineer or a nurse, for example)?

Nights and weekends. When your child is asynch, it is bc the teacher is with another cohort.

That’s absolutely not true. There were no small groups or 1:1s in my child’s class.

Sure my own experience is not true. Is it possible that there are different experiences for different people, and maybe that’s part of the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

Strange how teachers were forced to entirely change their practice with no new resources or training and learning was impacted. We basically started from scratch this year and instead of being partners some of you really turned into monsters. It’s cool tho, I’m better than I ever was at my job and I get to laugh at all the parents who showed their asses this year.

No one forced teachers to do anything. They chose this. They only reason schools are closed in DC is because teachers refused to show up for work. Schools in most of the rest of the country are fully open. In many places, they never closed. Teachers in DC put their own selfish concerns before everyone else, giving the middle finger to their own students, not to mention the medical community who've said for months that it was safe to reopen, even before vaccines were available.

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Anonymous wrote:Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

I think it’s possible that teachers have worked hard this (some of ours certainly have!) and yet there still wasn’t much learning. The DL format just doesn’t work for a lot of kids. Which is why everyone should be doing everything they can to have actual school in the fall.

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Anonymous wrote:Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

Strange how teachers were forced to entirely change their practice with no new resources or training and learning was impacted. We basically started from scratch this year and instead of being partners some of you really turned into monsters. It’s cool tho, I’m better than I ever was at my job and I get to laugh at all the parents who showed their asses this year.

No one forced teachers to do anything. They chose this. They only reason schools are closed in DC is because teachers refused to show up for work. Schools in most of the rest of the country are fully open. In many places, they never closed. Teachers in DC put their own selfish concerns before everyone else, giving the middle finger to their own students, not to mention the medical community who've said for months that it was safe to reopen, even before vaccines were available.

Shining example of my point right here

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Anonymous wrote:Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

Strange how teachers were forced to entirely change their practice with no new resources or training and learning was impacted. We basically started from scratch this year and instead of being partners some of you really turned into monsters. It’s cool tho, I’m better than I ever was at my job and I get to laugh at all the parents who showed their asses this year.

No one forced teachers to do anything. They chose this. They only reason schools are closed in DC is because teachers refused to show up for work. Schools in most of the rest of the country are fully open. In many places, they never closed. Teachers in DC put their own selfish concerns before everyone else, giving the middle finger to their own students, not to mention the medical community who've said for months that it was safe to reopen, even before vaccines were available.

Shining example of my point right here

+1

Teachers have behaved shamefully during the pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

Strange how teachers were forced to entirely change their practice with no new resources or training and learning was impacted. We basically started from scratch this year and instead of being partners some of you really turned into monsters. It’s cool tho, I’m better than I ever was at my job and I get to laugh at all the parents who showed their asses this year.

No one forced teachers to do anything. They chose this. They only reason schools are closed in DC is because teachers refused to show up for work. Schools in most of the rest of the country are fully open. In many places, they never closed. Teachers in DC put their own selfish concerns before everyone else, giving the middle finger to their own students, not to mention the medical community who've said for months that it was safe to reopen, even before vaccines were available.

Shining example of my point right here

+1

Teachers have behaved shamefully during the pandemic.

There must be some real trash teachers in your make believe land bc that has not been my own experience at all. If you have examples or experiences, probably better to share them rather than make blanket statements that don’t move towards solutions and are completely redundant

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Anonymous wrote:Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

Strange how teachers were forced to entirely change their practice with no new resources or training and learning was impacted. We basically started from scratch this year and instead of being partners some of you really turned into monsters. It’s cool tho, I’m better than I ever was at my job and I get to laugh at all the parents who showed their asses this year.

No one forced teachers to do anything. They chose this. They only reason schools are closed in DC is because teachers refused to show up for work. Schools in most of the rest of the country are fully open. In many places, they never closed. Teachers in DC put their own selfish concerns before everyone else, giving the middle finger to their own students, not to mention the medical community who've said for months that it was safe to reopen, even before vaccines were available.

Shining example of my point right here

+1

Teachers have behaved shamefully during the pandemic.

There must be some real trash teachers in your make believe land bc that has not been my own experience at all. If you have examples or experiences, probably better to share them rather than make blanket statements that don’t move towards solutions and are completely redundant

DP. The example is the one we all lived. WTU blew up any chance of returning earlier. That's also a prime example of not moving towards solutions since they were not offering constructive suggestions during that time. There's not much that can be done when WTU was more intent on derailing things than looking at the science and working towards a solution

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Can we get back to enrollment figures please? Take this pedantic and off topic conversation elsewhere.