Why do so many parents want DL forever?

[Anonymous]

I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Majority of parents will send their kids back when it’s safe. There is no vaccine for kids and many adults are not eligible. You may be ok with sending yours but it’s ok we are not. That makes it safer for yours. If people were behaving differently in terms of travel, socializing and all that then maybe it would be safer. But people choose to continue the spread so the rest of us get punished by their choices. Stop caring about others wanting DL and be responsible so we can all safely return.

Everyone is eligible now for the vaccine. School is already safe, but now you DL crazies have no excuse to continue your hibernation away from society.

OMG. It is sad. You even wake up angry and insane. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Everyone is NOT eligible for the vaccine. Children are NOT eligible for the vaccine. Not all adults everywhere are eligible for the vaccine. You really need to work on your ignorance and your anger. Therapy will help with the anger. I don't know what to tell you about your ignorance because ignorance is a choice that you've made to refuse to be educated.

I can completely understand why your kids want to go to school. If I were desperate to get away from you, I would want to go to school, too.

In the meantime, the rest of us are stable and happy to let the pandemic subside before returning willy-nilly to the old ways because we're scared. We're not afraid to show our resilience and then act accordingly. We're making it work because we're flexible and adaptable. When the health situation improves then our kids will return to school. Until then we will keep on doing what we've been doing because our kids are happy and thriving, and that's what is important to us.

Wow that's just a whole string of inane personal attacks paired with ignorance. Really lowering the level of debate here, but I do appreciate how you're pretending as though you're the reasonable one. It's got a sort of Trump-world inversion logic to it.

Impressively done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Majority of parents will send their kids back when it’s safe. There is no vaccine for kids and many adults are not eligible. You may be ok with sending yours but it’s ok we are not. That makes it safer for yours. If people were behaving differently in terms of travel, socializing and all that then maybe it would be safer. But people choose to continue the spread so the rest of us get punished by their choices. Stop caring about others wanting DL and be responsible so we can all safely return.

Everyone is eligible now for the vaccine. School is already safe, but now you DL crazies have no excuse to continue your hibernation away from society.

OMG. It is sad. You even wake up angry and insane. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Everyone is NOT eligible for the vaccine. Children are NOT eligible for the vaccine. Not all adults everywhere are eligible for the vaccine. You really need to work on your ignorance and your anger. Therapy will help with the anger. I don't know what to tell you about your ignorance because ignorance is a choice that you've made to refuse to be educated.

I can completely understand why your kids want to go to school. If I were desperate to get away from you, I would want to go to school, too.

In the meantime, the rest of us are stable and happy to let the pandemic subside before returning willy-nilly to the old ways because we're scared. We're not afraid to show our resilience and then act accordingly. We're making it work because we're flexible and adaptable. When the health situation improves then our kids will return to school. Until then we will keep on doing what we've been doing because our kids are happy and thriving, and that's what is important to us.

Wow that's just a whole string of inane personal attacks paired with ignorance. Really lowering the level of debate here, but I do appreciate how you're pretending as though you're the reasonable one. It's got a sort of Trump-world inversion logic to it.

Impressively done.

lol it's toxic positivity

[Anonymous]

Scared of violence against my minority children. I am fine with DL. There are lots of violent mentally sick people with easy access to guns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scared of violence against my minority children. I am fine with DL. There are lots of violent mentally sick people with easy access to guns.

This is 100% true and 100% heartbreaking, PP. Does anyone follow Theresa Chapelle on Twitter? She is literally moving out of MCPS to get away from the way minority children have been treated in MCPS. FCPS is no better.

[Anonymous]

Having mixed classrooms of DL and IP should be a hard no in the fall.

If some parents believe DL is best for them, they need to enroll them in virtual academies. That should make everyone happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

No, I am a DP and the first poster called it completely right. It is people like you, high anxiety with poor logic and no ability to adapt, who are holding the rest of us back. My family would love a 4-day school week, too. Both my husband and I work but we could easily adapt to a 4-day school week because, get this, we don't depend on school for childcare. Figure it out, PP. Stop blaming other people for your problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

No, I am a DP and the first poster called it completely right. It is people like you, high anxiety with poor logic and no ability to adapt, who are holding the rest of us back. My family would love a 4-day school week, too. Both my husband and I work but we could easily adapt to a 4-day school week because, get this, we don't depend on school for childcare. Figure it out, PP. Stop blaming other people for your problems.

If you can do it, I'm sure everyone can. Especially, say, a working class single mother, or a family where both parents work jobs that can't be done from home.

You're so clueless and privileged, it's almost quaint. Almost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

I have a job, dick. My DH and I both work. I'm dealing with medical leave right now, if you must know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

No, I am a DP and the first poster called it completely right. It is people like you, high anxiety with poor logic and no ability to adapt, who are holding the rest of us back. My family would love a 4-day school week, too. Both my husband and I work but we could easily adapt to a 4-day school week because, get this, we don't depend on school for childcare. Figure it out, PP. Stop blaming other people for your problems.

If you can do it, I'm sure everyone can. Especially, say, a working class single mother, or a family where both parents work jobs that can't be done from home.

You're so clueless and privileged, it's almost quaint. Almost.

Don’t fall for this fallacy that families actually want 4 day school week. These above posters are clearly teachers or administrators. Of course they only want to work 4 days a week while getting full pay, benefits and pensions!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

No, I am a DP and the first poster called it completely right. It is people like you, high anxiety with poor logic and no ability to adapt, who are holding the rest of us back. My family would love a 4-day school week, too. Both my husband and I work but we could easily adapt to a 4-day school week because, get this, we don't depend on school for childcare. Figure it out, PP. Stop blaming other people for your problems.

If you can do it, I'm sure everyone can. Especially, say, a working class single mother, or a family where both parents work jobs that can't be done from home.

You're so clueless and privileged, it's almost quaint. Almost.

Sorry about your situation. But you can't please everyone. A 4 day school work could be adapted to quite easily, imo. In fact, ES used to have early dismissal on Mondays and it was fine. Daycare, TW, camps, SACC . . would all fill the gap.

Some DL would also eliminate the need for so many built in snow days/hours for snow days. Give them a couple days for "fun" then the rest can be done virtually and school can end earlier in the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

No, I am a DP and the first poster called it completely right. It is people like you, high anxiety with poor logic and no ability to adapt, who are holding the rest of us back. My family would love a 4-day school week, too. Both my husband and I work but we could easily adapt to a 4-day school week because, get this, we don't depend on school for childcare. Figure it out, PP. Stop blaming other people for your problems.

If you can do it, I'm sure everyone can. Especially, say, a working class single mother, or a family where both parents work jobs that can't be done from home.

You're so clueless and privileged, it's almost quaint. Almost.

Don’t fall for this fallacy that families actually want 4 day school week. These above posters are clearly teachers or administrators. Of course they only want to work 4 days a week while getting full pay, benefits and pensions!

You wish. I have no role in the schools and am not a teacher or work for the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont' want FT DL forever. But, I do think some elements of the DL should stay, including the option to maybe have some classes DL and to be able to use DL on sick days (where too sick or contagious to go out but you could sit through a class from home). Also proficiency with a distanced portal (zoom or whatever) is a useful skill to have for many professions that have the ability to work remotely or that are transitioning that way part or full time.

I also personally LOVE the 4 day weeks, which they could easily to by restructuring the calendar a little (allow catching up on homework, and just a bit of a breather for the kids in the week). But the uptights around here would never stand for it.

I think you mean the employed people wouldn’t stand for it. Go get a job.

No, I am a DP and the first poster called it completely right. It is people like you, high anxiety with poor logic and no ability to adapt, who are holding the rest of us back. My family would love a 4-day school week, too. Both my husband and I work but we could easily adapt to a 4-day school week because, get this, we don't depend on school for childcare. Figure it out, PP. Stop blaming other people for your problems.

If you can do it, I'm sure everyone can. Especially, say, a working class single mother, or a family where both parents work jobs that can't be done from home.

You're so clueless and privileged, it's almost quaint. Almost.

Sorry about your situation. But you can't please everyone. A 4 day school work could be adapted to quite easily, imo. In fact, ES used to have early dismissal on Mondays and it was fine. Daycare, TW, camps, SACC . . would all fill the gap.

Some DL would also eliminate the need for so many built in snow days/hours for snow days. Give them a couple days for "fun" then the rest can be done virtually and school can end earlier in the summer.

HAHAHAAAAA....oh god this is the FUNNIEST. The entirety of the white collar world functions on a 5-day-a-week work week. Yes, yes, it will be totally easy to convert to the 4-day-a-week. Yes.

God, you really, really are so appallingly blind to your wealth and privilege.

[Anonymous]

Aren’t there school districts in other states that are forced to have four day weeks due to budget reasons? How do those parents do it?

I would like to keep 4 day weeks too but I don’t see it happening because I believe teachers would need to move at a much faster pace and too many students wouldn’t be able to keep up with that faster pace.