If DMV schools don't open in the fall, are you moving?

[Anonymous]

Exactly, the shifting goalposts are alienating parents all across the city. I'm a liberal, longtime DC resident with children in DCPS for 5 or 6 years. I support unions, but have become fed up with the lack of transparency, honesty, leadership I can have confidence in and intelligent planning to reopen public elementary schools on both the part of the WTU and the mayor and her people. I feel rotten for the hard-working and decent admins and teachers at our neighborhood DCPS. They clearly aren't getting the help or support they need from any quarter to plan or move ahead on good form.

Blaming the vicissitudes of a harsh pandemic for leadership failings and union intransigence at the expense of kids is no longer working for me. If things haven't changed by the fall, we're out of DCPS. Out of the area, perhaps. Out of the public school system, definitely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waiting won't solve the problem of some teachers not getting the vaccine. At my kid's charter, teachers are not required to get it and some have already said they don't want it. So that won't help with reopening. Some of us are tired of shifting goalposts and being told kids will go back when its "safe" when really we are at the mercy of the teacher's choices.

You cannot force someone to take that vaccine. And waiting will have to do, the metrics for the US suck. Hopefully with new leadership we can get things to a better place by the Fall.
And try not to be so dramatic.

[Anonymous]

I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waiting won't solve the problem of some teachers not getting the vaccine. At my kid's charter, teachers are not required to get it and some have already said they don't want it. So that won't help with reopening. Some of us are tired of shifting goalposts and being told kids will go back when its "safe" when really we are at the mercy of the teacher's choices.

this is nitpicking - i haven't met any teachers saying they won't get it and most are excited too or pissed they can't

yes there is the random person on DCUM saying they wont' get it but ffs - you don't know if its real.

like right now you don't know i'm not your 14 year old son having a go at you all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

+1000

go, go live with trump and his ilk down in florida. go learn and then your kid can run a tanning salon or sell boats to tourists or work in elder care

what is stopping you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

It lowers class sizes for the rest of us. Not a bad thing that they go for the greater good. I'm amazed at how many are willing to put their kids in a potentially dangerous situation without any cares or concerns for their child's health.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

We moved in August. Not to Florida, but a few hours from DC and our kids are in private school now. Full-time, in-person. They love it. They don't mind the masks or social distancing at all, since they still get to socialize and see other kids.

DS, who is in kindergarten, had to do DL for 2 weeks because a kid in his class tested positive, but they do it by classroom when that happens since the classrooms are isolated (even at recess) when in school.

We'll move back to DC this summer, where our home has been sitting empty in the meantime. I'm positive we made the right choice for our family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

It lowers class sizes for the rest of us. Not a bad thing that they go for the greater good. I'm amazed at how many are willing to put their kids in a potentially dangerous situation without any cares or concerns for their child's health.

You think? At desirable schools, they will just backfill with OOB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

It lowers class sizes for the rest of us. Not a bad thing that they go for the greater good. I'm amazed at how many are willing to put their kids in a potentially dangerous situation without any cares or concerns for their child's health.

More spots at Latin. Bye Felicia!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waiting won't solve the problem of some teachers not getting the vaccine. At my kid's charter, teachers are not required to get it and some have already said they don't want it. So that won't help with reopening. Some of us are tired of shifting goalposts and being told kids will go back when its "safe" when really we are at the mercy of the teacher's choices.

If a theoretical teacher doesn't want to get the vaccine and doesn't have a real valid medical reason for not getting it, they don't need to be a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waiting won't solve the problem of some teachers not getting the vaccine. At my kid's charter, teachers are not required to get it and some have already said they don't want it. So that won't help with reopening. Some of us are tired of shifting goalposts and being told kids will go back when its "safe" when really we are at the mercy of the teacher's choices.

If a theoretical teacher doesn't want to get the vaccine and doesn't have a real valid medical reason for not getting it, they don't need to be a teacher.

That’s not been done for any other vaccine. It probably won’t fly legally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

We moved in August. Not to Florida, but a few hours from DC and our kids are in private school now. Full-time, in-person. They love it. They don't mind the masks or social distancing at all, since they still get to socialize and see other kids.

DS, who is in kindergarten, had to do DL for 2 weeks because a kid in his class tested positive, but they do it by classroom when that happens since the classrooms are isolated (even at recess) when in school.

We'll move back to DC this summer, where our home has been sitting empty in the meantime. I'm positive we made the right choice for our family.

Someone has soooo much money

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

It lowers class sizes for the rest of us. Not a bad thing that they go for the greater good. I'm amazed at how many are willing to put their kids in a potentially dangerous situation without any cares or concerns for their child's health.

Grow up. My spouse has been working outside the home for the past two months - he has to keep his job. I feel like my kid is as safe at his DCPS, if not safer, than at home as my spouse commutes from home to work. My kid has been in a CARES class taught by one of his regular classroom teachers for the last six weeks. Nobody in his group has tested positive, and the kids and teachers/aides are tested weekly. He seems a good deal happier than before he joined the class. He's also doing better academically. Stuff it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

We moved in August. Not to Florida, but a few hours from DC and our kids are in private school now. Full-time, in-person. They love it. They don't mind the masks or social distancing at all, since they still get to socialize and see other kids.

DS, who is in kindergarten, had to do DL for 2 weeks because a kid in his class tested positive, but they do it by classroom when that happens since the classrooms are isolated (even at recess) when in school.

We'll move back to DC this summer, where our home has been sitting empty in the meantime. I'm positive we made the right choice for our family.

Questions for you:
- are students and teachers routinely tested regardless of exposure or symptoms in your temporary private?
- how many kids per class?
- how/where are lunches taken?
- what county, so we can look at covid statistics there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really hope all these people threatening to leave really fo it. The empty threats (I’m leaving!) and grandstanding are getting old. Yes, Florida is definitely the place that really cares about schools. When people ask where the great schools are I always answer Florida. How’s that old saying go? Sh** in the pot or get off?

It lowers class sizes for the rest of us. Not a bad thing that they go for the greater good. I'm amazed at how many are willing to put their kids in a potentially dangerous situation without any cares or concerns for their child's health.

Grow up. My spouse has been working outside the home for the past two months - he has to keep his job. I feel like my kid is as safe at his DCPS, if not safer, than at home as my spouse commutes from home to work. My kid has been in a CARES class taught by one of his regular classroom teachers for the last six weeks. Nobody in his group has tested positive, and the kids and teachers/aides are tested weekly. He seems a good deal happier than before he joined the class. He's also doing better academically. Stuff it.

Are you sure? What I've learned on this board is that if a family decline testing, neither teachers nor the other families are informed of that crucial information gap.