Any chance DCPS reopens in person for Term 2 or Term 3?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All those recommending 1 or 2 lower grades are back in school need a reality check. How do you think those kids get to school? For Title 1 schools - it is not uncommon for an older sibling (4th or 5th grader) to take them with them.

This is not an easy problem for a diverse urban area to solve.

This is not an inconvenience of dropping off 1 child as you supervise an older student and coordinating a car pool

You are confused because you are reading the posts purporting to care about the poor underserved families as genuine concern for those families. But that's all a smoke screen for these posters to get their kids out of the house and back into their own schools. The actual complications of "diverse urban area(s)" or Title I populations don't actually concern them.

I don't know what you're talking about. I want K and 1st prioritized specifically because it will help the kids who need it most. Objecting to that on the grounds that "they might have an older sibling who walks them to school!" is just frankly bizarre. My kid is in 3rd, so this has nothing to do with getting him back to school. I'm also a little tired of all the patronizing towards Title I schools and families, as if you don't think there's any way they could get it together to get their kids to school? Why would you think that? And if you don't think they can figure out how to get their kids to school, why would you think DL is better?

There's a lot to unpack there. Mostly because of how tightly wound the misdirection and BS is packed. No one is "objecting". I think what PPP was saying was that it isn't as simple as "let's get the PK3 kids back into school because that's all that matters." There are other considerations here. There are SOOOOOO many posts in DCUM where people actually type the words "this is easy", "this isn't complicated", "all we need is willpower", etc. What's most amusing about your reply is that you cannot even grasp that the concern articulated by PPP is a real one. Which also makes your objection to being patronized so funny. Two sentences after illustrating that you simply cannot grasp why some else's concerns might be relevant for at least consideration (you called it "bizarre"), and one sentence after you clarify that you don't actually have to solve for the operational challenges cited (your kid is in 3rd grade only), you then object to being accused of not even seeing a possible issue. But what comes next is my favorite part. After showing indifference and ignorance to the plight of differently situated families you then go on to speak on behalf of the Title I schools and families. This is rhetorical genius! And it is complete with multiple references to "they"; trust me, you didn't need to emphasize that word in order for us to understand you are talking about "them" and not "you". Finally, you insert the frequently deployed on DCUM red herring that anyone has argued that DL is preferable to in-person from an educational perspective. No one has said, and I sure don't believe it. Unfortunately that's not the question we're solving for. We're solving for a public health crisis and then within that rubric we need to figure out how to operate schools.

TLR

The short version: I’m a teacher and I hate statistics and data and facts and I’m never going to go to work again.

‘I’m a parent and I hate being with my kid’

I’m a parent and I’m going to have to quit my good paying job that pays my taxes that pays YOUR Salary, so that I can compensate for the schools’ education FAILINGS that come from “remote learning”

By that logic, I’m not a parent but I have to pay for YOUR child’s education. You aren’t paying anyone’s salary, taxes are taken regardless.

It ok if you want to be irrationally mad at teachers but that means I get to be annoyed by parents like you. Like I really wanted to try and get all my kindergarteners to enjoy online lessons, like I feel joy from not giving them hugs, or playing with them on the playground. You’re attitude disgusts me, there are no teachers who got into this profession in hopes of a pandemic so they could teach online. There aren’t teachers who got into this profession to be lazy or be judged by a bunch of horrible people who think we are happy. Who also think we don’t live our students or are lazy pieces of trash.

It’s hurtful, even if it’s online and it shouldn’t matter. And I despise people like you. I love my career, how dare you say otherwise when I had no choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard from a MV parent that MV has told its families that it could be a COUPLE OF YEARS before regular, full time in person school is restored.

I herd from a DCPS parent that her schools principal said DCPS is going to close their door and turn themselves over to the Walton Charter network.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard from a MV parent that MV has told its families that it could be a COUPLE OF YEARS before regular, full time in person school is restored.

I herd from a DCPS parent that her schools principal said DCPS is going to close their door and turn themselves over to the Walton Charter network.

LOL! Great response.

BTW we are a MV reply and above is a troll. No such message from the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard from a MV parent that MV has told its families that it could be a COUPLE OF YEARS before regular, full time in person school is restored.

I herd from a DCPS parent that her schools principal said DCPS is going to close their door and turn themselves over to the Walton Charter network.

LOL! Great response.

BTW we are a MV reply and above is a troll. No such message from the school.

Typo meant we are a MV family

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think Jan 2021 could happen but it depends on virus levels and if a vaccine is being rolled out.

Earliest would be after Inauguration. Btw return from holiday break, MLK weekend, and Inauguration events, no way they will open before that.

The thing with lame excuses is.... they never stop.

[Anonymous]

+1000.

[Anonymous]

The teacher v. parents fights are so depressing. The teachers are not the real problem. The real problem is systematic underinvestment in the public sphere since Reagan was elected. Part of that underinvestment feeds a culture of anti-intellectualism that lands us in a place where we don’t trust scientific experts (climate, public health) or the government. We starved governmental functions and then claimed government doesn’t work. Or worse, the government is taking things for you.

When you add incompetence in the oval to roll a national pandemic strategy, you get what we have now. Only an effective vaccine will truly get us out of this mess in the US on a mass scale.

Attack the real problem and not each other.

[Anonymous]

Maybe in the country as a whole, but in the District, tremendous investment in the public sphere coupled with poor oversight since the 80s is more like it.

DCPS couldn't be bothered to ensure that poor kids had access to Internet and devices pre Covid, while undertaking one Taj Mahal renovation of a school buildings after another in the last 15 years. They've poured hundreds of millions into mostly empty school buildings like Dunbar, Eliot-Hine, Jefferson MS etc. for political reasons without providing the programming to begin to fill shiny new facilities. Now, whoops they're out of cash for PPE and plexi glass screens around desks. Boo hoo..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: The union is the reason public schools are closed. Privates are not unionized and don't have the same issue.

Most private schools are closed too, even without teachers' unions.

I'm not saying that schools should be distance (I'm not a public health person, so I don't know), but I think the idea that the DC teachers' union has any real power is laughable.

Very true statement. WTU has little to no power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The teacher v. parents fights are so depressing. The teachers are not the real problem. The real problem is systematic underinvestment in the public sphere since Reagan was elected. Part of that underinvestment feeds a culture of anti-intellectualism that lands us in a place where we don’t trust scientific experts (climate, public health) or the government. We starved governmental functions and then claimed government doesn’t work. Or worse, the government is taking things for you.

When you add incompetence in the oval to roll a national pandemic strategy, you get what we have now. Only an effective vaccine will truly get us out of this mess in the US on a mass scale.

Attack the real problem and not each other.

The problem is the teachers union. They won’t allow schools to open no matter how few people have coronavirus. Focus on the problem: the teachers union.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teacher v. parents fights are so depressing. The teachers are not the real problem. The real problem is systematic underinvestment in the public sphere since Reagan was elected. Part of that underinvestment feeds a culture of anti-intellectualism that lands us in a place where we don’t trust scientific experts (climate, public health) or the government. We starved governmental functions and then claimed government doesn’t work. Or worse, the government is taking things for you.

When you add incompetence in the oval to roll a national pandemic strategy, you get what we have now. Only an effective vaccine will truly get us out of this mess in the US on a mass scale.

Attack the real problem and not each other.

The problem is the teachers union. They won’t allow schools to open no matter how few people have coronavirus. Focus on the problem: the teachers union.

This makes no sense. Why are charters closed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teacher v. parents fights are so depressing. The teachers are not the real problem. The real problem is systematic underinvestment in the public sphere since Reagan was elected. Part of that underinvestment feeds a culture of anti-intellectualism that lands us in a place where we don’t trust scientific experts (climate, public health) or the government. We starved governmental functions and then claimed government doesn’t work. Or worse, the government is taking things for you.

When you add incompetence in the oval to roll a national pandemic strategy, you get what we have now. Only an effective vaccine will truly get us out of this mess in the US on a mass scale.

Attack the real problem and not each other.

The problem is the teachers union. They won’t allow schools to open no matter how few people have coronavirus. Focus on the problem: the teachers union.

Our charter said they won’t open until DCPS does.


This makes no sense. Why are charters closed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teacher v. parents fights are so depressing. The teachers are not the real problem. The real problem is systematic underinvestment in the public sphere since Reagan was elected. Part of that underinvestment feeds a culture of anti-intellectualism that lands us in a place where we don’t trust scientific experts (climate, public health) or the government. We starved governmental functions and then claimed government doesn’t work. Or worse, the government is taking things for you.

When you add incompetence in the oval to roll a national pandemic strategy, you get what we have now. Only an effective vaccine will truly get us out of this mess in the US on a mass scale.

Attack the real problem and not each other.

The problem is the teachers union. They won’t allow schools to open no matter how few people have coronavirus. Focus on the problem: the teachers union.

This makes no sense. Why are charters closed?

Our charter said they can’t open until DCPS does

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teacher v. parents fights are so depressing. The teachers are not the real problem. The real problem is systematic underinvestment in the public sphere since Reagan was elected. Part of that underinvestment feeds a culture of anti-intellectualism that lands us in a place where we don’t trust scientific experts (climate, public health) or the government. We starved governmental functions and then claimed government doesn’t work. Or worse, the government is taking things for you.

When you add incompetence in the oval to roll a national pandemic strategy, you get what we have now. Only an effective vaccine will truly get us out of this mess in the US on a mass scale.

Attack the real problem and not each other.

The problem is the teachers union. They won’t allow schools to open no matter how few people have coronavirus. Focus on the problem: the teachers union.

This makes no sense. Why are charters closed?

Our charter said they can’t open until DCPS does

That is completely false. They are lying to you. The mayor does not control charters they are their own LEA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teacher v. parents fights are so depressing. The teachers are not the real problem. The real problem is systematic underinvestment in the public sphere since Reagan was elected. Part of that underinvestment feeds a culture of anti-intellectualism that lands us in a place where we don’t trust scientific experts (climate, public health) or the government. We starved governmental functions and then claimed government doesn’t work. Or worse, the government is taking things for you.

When you add incompetence in the oval to roll a national pandemic strategy, you get what we have now. Only an effective vaccine will truly get us out of this mess in the US on a mass scale.

Attack the real problem and not each other.

The problem is the teachers union. They won’t allow schools to open no matter how few people have coronavirus. Focus on the problem: the teachers union.

Let's ADDRESS the real problem. I was under the impression that the Teacher's Union had some specific requests from DCPS that were not addressed. For example, if a teacher is exposed and needs to quarantine for 2 weeks, the teacher does not want to take sick leave for this time. Is this unreasonable?
[note - I am a parent asking this question]