All schools should offer an all-virtual option

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Norwegian study shows 50% of young people have symptoms six months later including memory loss and difficulty concentrating: https://sciencenorway.no/a/1880560

But hey, parents shouldn’t be able to protect their kids for two months until there’s a vaccine.

You can homeschool. I don’t understand why you have no agency here. You could also do Friendship.

they are selfish and want everyone to revolve around them.

I think you have it wrong. Someone made a thread, not asking for all kids to stay home, but for all schools to offer an all-virtual option. And you've come here, and on every related thread to harass those people and tell them they have an agenda. We don't want to yuck your yum. If you're fine with risking your kid's long-term health in this way, you may know their needs better than us. We just don't want to partake. It is vastly too dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Norwegian study shows 50% of young people have symptoms six months later including memory loss and difficulty concentrating: https://sciencenorway.no/a/1880560

But hey, parents shouldn’t be able to protect their kids for two months until there’s a vaccine.

You can homeschool. I don’t understand why you have no agency here. You could also do Friendship.

they are selfish and want everyone to revolve around them.

I think you have it wrong. Someone made a thread, not asking for all kids to stay home, but for all schools to offer an all-virtual option. And you've come here, and on every related thread to harass those people and tell them they have an agenda. We don't want to yuck your yum. If you're fine with risking your kid's long-term health in this way, you may know their needs better than us. We just don't want to partake. It is vastly too dangerous.

HAHAHAHA...you're not trying to harm anyone else by demanding a virtual option at every school? LOL. Oh god do you think resources grow on trees? You aren't trying to yuck anyone else's yum? It has been explained 1,000 times upthread and elsewhere how what the OP is proposing hurts the overall educations of all the kids, and probably results in teachers quitting because concurrent is a nightmare. Yes, the OP is trying to yuck everyone else's yum.

Homeschool or Friendship. Or move to VA -- I guess they have a statewide virtual academy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Norwegian study shows 50% of young people have symptoms six months later including memory loss and difficulty concentrating: https://sciencenorway.no/a/1880560

But hey, parents shouldn’t be able to protect their kids for two months until there’s a vaccine.

You can homeschool. I don’t understand why you have no agency here. You could also do Friendship.

they are selfish and want everyone to revolve around them.

I think you have it wrong. Someone made a thread, not asking for all kids to stay home, but for all schools to offer an all-virtual option. And you've come here, and on every related thread to harass those people and tell them they have an agenda. We don't want to yuck your yum. If you're fine with risking your kid's long-term health in this way, you may know their needs better than us. We just don't want to partake. It is vastly too dangerous.

as has been explained- requiring all schools to offer separate virtual and IP is a tremendous burden and WTU rejects it. So it would mean closing schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

[Anonymous]

I take solace in the fact that the concurrent model won't happen. And only three charters are able to offer a virtual option (KIPP and two others I don't know). It's not my school, and if the hysterical parents somehow force some option at my school, I and many I know will just up and leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Articles specifically on delta in children:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/990789.page

An MD"s thread specifically on delta in children:

How is Delta doing in DC? Is Childrens filled? No? Then what’s the relevance?

Stop trying to ruin school for everyone else.

Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

Oh ffs. That is a totally inapt analogy. This is more like “would you bulldoze your neighbors house because you heard their may be strong winds with a 0.01% percentage of falling on your house”?

I know you feel we want to bulldoze your figurative house - you've behaved accordingly this past week. We just want to learn from home until the vaccine is ready or the virus numbers are low enough to be safe. We don't even want your kid to do that. Your kid go to school, go. No bulldozing.

YOU may homeschool. Stop demanding everyone cater to you.

After a year of DL, hybrid, concurrent, asymptomatic testing, smaller cohorts, it isn't ethical to tell families "Yeah, we're not doing any of that anymore, no version of it. We know the risks are far greater now, but we can't afford to mitigate them. So send your kids in with us or figure something out on your own." DCPS has a responsibility towards all of its students, including those whose families want their children vaccinated before going into a full classroom with delta circulating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Norwegian study shows 50% of young people have symptoms six months later including memory loss and difficulty concentrating: https://sciencenorway.no/a/1880560

But hey, parents shouldn’t be able to protect their kids for two months until there’s a vaccine.

You are FREE to protect your kids in whatever way feels best. You just can't expect your charter school or neighborhood DCPS to provide exactly what you want. These things are very different.

And, two months until there is a vaccine is your fictional dream. That's no happening. At best, you will have 1/3 of kids in your kids class fully vaccinated by Feb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The DCPS email that came out on Friday seems to be setting the stage for virtual school. I’m probably reading between the lines too much but this paragraph stuck out at me:

“Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been the priority of DC Public Schools to prioritize health and safety while maximizing learning and promoting equity. The disruptive nature of the pandemic also requires us to be flexible to meet our reopening goals. We work closely with local health officials and follow federal guidance for school reopening.”

That worried me too. DCPS would lose most people with means to leave if they flake again after so many promises and unnecessary closures and our home values would plummet.

I get families may leave DCPS but why would property values drop?

well one amenity of an area is generally the school district. If the school district offers no in-person school, people with children who would buy the house may find the house less attractive if there is no in-person school. Ergo, less demand for those single-family homes, particularly in the areas of the city with feeders to Wilson.

PP here who suggested home values would plummet. This is what I meant. We're IB for Deal and Wilson, and if DCPS doesn't fully reopen, then fewer families would be interested in buying in our area. I don't see why anyone would want to live up here unless they have kids, and many of those families are paying to be IB for the schools. If DCPS remains closed, then charters will likely follow suit. I think that would drive lots of families over the borders to MD and VA or to other areas altogether, especially given that we know there's was no valid reason to keep schools closed this past school year.

[Anonymous]

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Actually I think the selfishness is people who are sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling LA LA LA in the face of clearly changed circumstances and a serious increased threat to children because they want free childcare.

I think we can all agree that the free childcare argument is done.

Some of us would like our kids to be educated and understand that Covid and all its scary realities may be with us for YEARS. The system needs to move forward. Having kids sit at home in front of laptops went on way too long already. It is not the face of education in a healthy society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Norwegian study shows 50% of young people have symptoms six months later including memory loss and difficulty concentrating: https://sciencenorway.no/a/1880560

But hey, parents shouldn’t be able to protect their kids for two months until there’s a vaccine.

You are FREE to protect your kids in whatever way feels best. You just can't expect your charter school or neighborhood DCPS to provide exactly what you want. These things are very different.

And, two months until there is a vaccine is your fictional dream. That's no happening. At best, you will have 1/3 of kids in your kids class fully vaccinated by Feb.

This. WTU trolls just keep moving the goalposts. Only a little while longer until it's perfectly safe to reopen! How many times have we heard that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Actually I think the selfishness is people who are sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling LA LA LA in the face of clearly changed circumstances and a serious increased threat to children because they want free childcare.

I think we can all agree that the free childcare argument is done.

Some of us would like our kids to be educated and understand that Covid and all its scary realities may be with us for YEARS. The system needs to move forward. Having kids sit at home in front of laptops went on way too long already. It is not the face of education in a healthy society.

This, all of it.

[Anonymous]

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Hypothetically, would you evacuate your beachfront Florida home if meteorologists told you a hurricane was coming but you couldn't see it out the window? Sounds like not.

What does evacuation look like in your in plausible and not particularly helpful analogy? Distance learning forever? With our without hybrid schedules? Or, are you one of these fun ... let the school create one classroom just for me and one for others and they can do it all and its so easy people.