All schools should offer an all-virtual option

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is where you are getting the push back. You've been told by administrators, teachers, and other parents that have attended your school longer than you that this is not possible. But, that you have other options if you are concerned. What you want is to be at home but still save your seat in HRCS. And, no. That's not workable without huge sacrifices for all students and staff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is where you are getting the push back. You've been told by administrators, teachers, and other parents that have attended your school longer than you that this is not possible. But, that you have other options if you are concerned. What you want is to be at home but still save your seat in HRCS. And, no. That's not workable without huge sacrifices for all students and staff.

Of course it’s possible. We literally did it last spring. Wtf are you talking about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is where you are getting the push back. You've been told by administrators, teachers, and other parents that have attended your school longer than you that this is not possible. But, that you have other options if you are concerned. What you want is to be at home but still save your seat in HRCS. And, no. That's not workable without huge sacrifices for all students and staff.

Of course it’s possible. We literally did it last spring. Wtf are you talking about.

Ummmm ... last spring kids covered 1/5 of the common core standards expected by grade. That is not possible to continue in perpetuity. That's wtf I am talking about. And, if your response is "just two more months" I'd like you to revisit late June when we thought this was almost over. There is no golden tix out of this and certainly childhood vaccines aren't it. (Unless all you are really focused on is the safety of your one (two, three) child(ren).)

[Anonymous]

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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.

It’s ironic. Because if I thought my neighbors wanted to bulldoze my house, I would stay TF home to make sure that didn’t happen. Instead people like PP are gallivanting all over kingdom come while simultaneously envisioning their neighbors gassing up the bulldozer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is where you are getting the push back. You've been told by administrators, teachers, and other parents that have attended your school longer than you that this is not possible. But, that you have other options if you are concerned. What you want is to be at home but still save your seat in HRCS. And, no. That's not workable without huge sacrifices for all students and staff.

Of course it’s possible. We literally did it last spring. Wtf are you talking about.

Ummmm ... last spring kids covered 1/5 of the common core standards expected by grade. That is not possible to continue in perpetuity. That's wtf I am talking about. And, if your response is "just two more months" I'd like you to revisit late June when we thought this was almost over. There is no golden tix out of this and certainly childhood vaccines aren't it. (Unless all you are really focused on is the safety of your one (two, three) child(ren).)

As predicted, the trolls keep increasing how much curriculum was allegedly not covered. Soon, the claim will be 7/8 was dropped.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is where you are getting the push back. You've been told by administrators, teachers, and other parents that have attended your school longer than you that this is not possible. But, that you have other options if you are concerned. What you want is to be at home but still save your seat in HRCS. And, no. That's not workable without huge sacrifices for all students and staff.

Of course it’s possible. We literally did it last spring. Wtf are you talking about.

Ummmm ... last spring kids covered 1/5 of the common core standards expected by grade. That is not possible to continue in perpetuity. That's wtf I am talking about. And, if your response is "just two more months" I'd like you to revisit late June when we thought this was almost over. There is no golden tix out of this and certainly childhood vaccines aren't it. (Unless all you are really focused on is the safety of your one (two, three) child(ren).)

the problem with the demand to close schools/go virtual as a precaution is that it has NO logical stopping point. based on what we know now, schools could have been open safely all last year. Now we’re ready to open and there’s yet another push to keep them closed because of a new perceived risk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is where you are getting the push back. You've been told by administrators, teachers, and other parents that have attended your school longer than you that this is not possible. But, that you have other options if you are concerned. What you want is to be at home but still save your seat in HRCS. And, no. That's not workable without huge sacrifices for all students and staff.

Of course it’s possible. We literally did it last spring. Wtf are you talking about.

Ummmm ... last spring kids covered 1/5 of the common core standards expected by grade. That is not possible to continue in perpetuity. That's wtf I am talking about. And, if your response is "just two more months" I'd like you to revisit late June when we thought this was almost over. There is no golden tix out of this and certainly childhood vaccines aren't it. (Unless all you are really focused on is the safety of your one (two, three) child(ren).)

As predicted, the trolls keep increasing how much curriculum was allegedly not covered. Soon, the claim will be 7/8 was dropped.

please, step right on down to Friendship Online or KIPP.

[Anonymous]

Where's that one snappy poster who always comes in and poops on parents for being entitled? I really need her to poop on the OP and the attendant minions.

[Anonymous]

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If you are opposed to virtual class, are you comfortable with the idea that your kid would be completely isolated from their school apart from some homework assignments for weeks on time multiple times at unpredictable interval through the year, sometimes just your kids, sometimes their whole class?
That sounds awful.
What we're asking for sounds less awful for everyone.
A contingent following along from home, a less densely packed classroom, quarantining kids occasionally joining those following along virtually.

My kids were online all last year and it was isolating, often unpredictable, and not an education. So, I am comfortable if we need to be home some weeks, if other weeks we are getting actual full day instruction.

So you want the best for your kids, half the time, accepting that half the time nobody gets anything, and everyone is forced to take on the same amount of historical risk, instead of letting virtual families follow along. It's just so weird of you.

Teacher here. I think the disconnect here is that there is no simply “following along” that happens with simulcasting. It’s not like you simply point a camera generally at the front of the classroom and let ‘er rip. Teachers must sit in front of the computer, thereby forcing in person kids to also sit in front is screens even in the same room. Lessons and materials need to be constantly adapted for both audiences. Posting on Canvas is a lengthy process. It’s a MUCH more challenging job with poor results for students on both ends. Not to mention that in person students can’t ever leave the classroom to, for example, read outside or go look for things in nature, etc.

Correct. Imagine how boring it would be to stare at a screen all day, sometimes with a teacher you could kind of hear on camera and sometimes looking at a blank whiteboard. If it’s just a camera pointed at front of room that’s what you get. No engagement of your at home student, no teacher looking at them, acknowledging their existence, calling on them, etc. with the tech equipment currently available in most dcps classrooms (and across the country) that’s what you get. Teachers aren’t standing behind a lectern with a mic and lecturing all day. Simulcasting stinks unless teacher is in front of computer seeing at home kids. And that means only way to see in person kids is for them to be online too, in the same room as teacher. Not good for anyone involved.

Wow, that looks suboptimal. I'll take my chances with kid delta long covid then. Really?

Then avail yourself of the virtual options that are offered. But your particular school won't be offering simulcast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where's that one snappy poster who always comes in and poops on parents for being entitled? I really need her to poop on the OP and the attendant minions.

She shifted to calling them selfish and telling them they expect to be catered to and they expect to get exactly what they want. Same thing.
But you'll find her, occasionally, posting 12 comments in a row in a thread she doesn't like, until they get deleted.
You'll find her in the Website Feedback forum, alternating manically between starting threads gently edging Jeff to moderate more closely, whining about posts she doesn't like and snapping at Jeff borderline calling him an idiot, or outright saying he's carrying the water for a point-of-view that triggers her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where's that one snappy poster who always comes in and poops on parents for being entitled? I really need her to poop on the OP and the attendant minions.

She shifted to calling them selfish and telling them they expect to be catered to and they expect to get exactly what they want. Same thing.
But you'll find her, occasionally, posting 12 comments in a row in a thread she doesn't like, until they get deleted.
You'll find her in the Website Feedback forum, alternating manically between starting threads gently edging Jeff to moderate more closely, whining about posts she doesn't like and snapping at Jeff borderline calling him an idiot, or outright saying he's carrying the water for a point-of-view that triggers her.

*nudging not edging

[Anonymous]

So now we've got:

What appears to be 2-3 people furiously demanding that the school or school system bends to their wants, and if it doesn't, shaming OTHER PARENTS who don't agree with them.

OP, other parents can't change things. We saw this last year. Go and try to change things to your liking with your individual school.

In absence of that, all you are doing is looking to make other parents feel worried or ashamed, unnecessarily. Didn't we do enough of that last year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where's that one snappy poster who always comes in and poops on parents for being entitled? I really need her to poop on the OP and the attendant minions.

She shifted to calling them selfish and telling them they expect to be catered to and they expect to get exactly what they want. Same thing.
But you'll find her, occasionally, posting 12 comments in a row in a thread she doesn't like, until they get deleted.
You'll find her in the Website Feedback forum, alternating manically between starting threads gently edging Jeff to moderate more closely, whining about posts she doesn't like and snapping at Jeff borderline calling him an idiot, or outright saying he's carrying the water for a point-of-view that triggers her.

No no that's not her. She's the one that last year would come around whenever parents were frustrated with virtual school or whatever and just take a dump on them for wanting the one system to change for their individual needs. She was really biting and remarkably mean.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where's that one snappy poster who always comes in and poops on parents for being entitled? I really need her to poop on the OP and the attendant minions.

She shifted to calling them selfish and telling them they expect to be catered to and they expect to get exactly what they want. Same thing.
But you'll find her, occasionally, posting 12 comments in a row in a thread she doesn't like, until they get deleted.
You'll find her in the Website Feedback forum, alternating manically between starting threads gently edging Jeff to moderate more closely, whining about posts she doesn't like and snapping at Jeff borderline calling him an idiot, or outright saying he's carrying the water for a point-of-view that triggers her.

No no that's not her. She's the one that last year would come around whenever parents were frustrated with virtual school or whatever and just take a dump on them for wanting the one system to change for their individual needs. She was really biting and remarkably mean.

I say that isn't her because those people are arguing with data and facts etc. The snappy shamer was pure ad hominem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where's that one snappy poster who always comes in and poops on parents for being entitled? I really need her to poop on the OP and the attendant minions.

She shifted to calling them selfish and telling them they expect to be catered to and they expect to get exactly what they want. Same thing.
But you'll find her, occasionally, posting 12 comments in a row in a thread she doesn't like, until they get deleted.
You'll find her in the Website Feedback forum, alternating manically between starting threads gently edging Jeff to moderate more closely, whining about posts she doesn't like and snapping at Jeff borderline calling him an idiot, or outright saying he's carrying the water for a point-of-view that triggers her.

This is interesting, because the "carrying water" argument (that exact phrase) was based on the WTU mandatory vax argument, while the other stuff was about delta. Are you both the WTU-reporter and the person who is posting non-stop about delta?