Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.

+ 100. I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.

It has. But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…). This is some crazy bubble we are in.

Independence means making your own decisions. What’s the point if they just follow DCPS?

Just follow DCPS and the entire rest of the world you mean.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.

+ 100. I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.

It has. But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…). This is some crazy bubble we are in.

Agreed

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Anonymous wrote:I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.

+ 100. I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.

It has. But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…). This is some crazy bubble we are in.

Independence means making your own decisions. What’s the point if they just follow DCPS?

Again: Surely there are limits in the idea about independence? Should, say, a charter be able to get public funds if they teach that the earth is flat? How about a punishment system that involves paddling?

The idea about charters was about different styles of *education*, not public health.

If you think, here in DC, the idea is still about different styles of education, you haven’t been paying attention. That was a long time ago. Now it’s about autonomy - freedom from mayoral control, standardized testing, unions, bureaucracy.

Your charter is it’s (your) own LEA. So go tell them what you want and see how nimble they can be.

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^^ Come on. If you want to critique choice, fine. Under ESSA all public schools (with rare exceptions), including charters, must administer state tests.

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Meant to say, at least be informed.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ Come on. If you want to critique choice, fine. Under ESSA all public schools (with rare exceptions), including charters, must administer state tests.

+1

Charters do not equal private schools. It’s an important distinction.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.

+ 100. I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.

It has. But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…). This is some crazy bubble we are in.

Independence means making your own decisions. What’s the point if they just follow DCPS?

Again: Surely there are limits in the idea about independence? Should, say, a charter be able to get public funds if they teach that the earth is flat? How about a punishment system that involves paddling?

The idea about charters was about different styles of *education*, not public health.

If you think, here in DC, the idea is still about different styles of education, you haven’t been paying attention. That was a long time ago. Now it’s about autonomy - freedom from mayoral control, standardized testing, unions, bureaucracy.

Your charter is it’s (your) own LEA. So go tell them what you want and see how nimble they can be.

before we go condemning charters … I’d love to see some real data on charters vs DCPS on covid. How quickly they got kids back in person, how well they recovered from learning loss, how well they did virtual. my guess is that charters may actually do better than DCPS overall, even with some far outliers on masks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.

+ 100. I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.

It has. But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…). This is some crazy bubble we are in.

Independence means making your own decisions. What’s the point if they just follow DCPS?

Again: Surely there are limits in the idea about independence? Should, say, a charter be able to get public funds if they teach that the earth is flat? How about a punishment system that involves paddling?

The idea about charters was about different styles of *education*, not public health.

If you think, here in DC, the idea is still about different styles of education, you haven’t been paying attention. That was a long time ago. Now it’s about autonomy - freedom from mayoral control, standardized testing, unions, bureaucracy.

Your charter is it’s (your) own LEA. So go tell them what you want and see how nimble they can be.

before we go condemning charters … I’d love to see some real data on charters vs DCPS on covid. How quickly they got kids back in person, how well they recovered from learning loss, how well they did virtual. my guess is that charters may actually do better than DCPS overall, even with some far outliers on masks.

They may have done better overall - could one really do worse than DCPS? The point here is that now chargers are being criticized - by their own parents - for not following DCPS. Do you want independence or not? If so, why aren’t you talking to your school and your fellow parents about this?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.

+ 100. I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.

It has. But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…). This is some crazy bubble we are in.

Independence means making your own decisions. What’s the point if they just follow DCPS?

Again: Surely there are limits in the idea about independence? Should, say, a charter be able to get public funds if they teach that the earth is flat? How about a punishment system that involves paddling?

The idea about charters was about different styles of *education*, not public health.

If you think, here in DC, the idea is still about different styles of education, you haven’t been paying attention. That was a long time ago. Now it’s about autonomy - freedom from mayoral control, standardized testing, unions, bureaucracy.

Your charter is it’s (your) own LEA. So go tell them what you want and see how nimble they can be.

before we go condemning charters … I’d love to see some real data on charters vs DCPS on covid. How quickly they got kids back in person, how well they recovered from learning loss, how well they did virtual. my guess is that charters may actually do better than DCPS overall, even with some far outliers on masks.

They may have done better overall - could one really do worse than DCPS? The point here is that now chargers are being criticized - by their own parents - for not following DCPS. Do you want independence or not? If so, why aren’t you talking to your school and your fellow parents about this?

Just, stop. Charters have restrictions. They can’t, for example, not have vaccine mandates. They apparently have to do the city’s covid vaccine mandate. Apparently sometimes they are independent and sometimes not. Just go be a charter-hater elsewhere and stop derailing all charter threads.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.

+ 100. I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.

It has. But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…). This is some crazy bubble we are in.

Independence means making your own decisions. What’s the point if they just follow DCPS?

Again: Surely there are limits in the idea about independence? Should, say, a charter be able to get public funds if they teach that the earth is flat? How about a punishment system that involves paddling?

The idea about charters was about different styles of *education*, not public health.

If you think, here in DC, the idea is still about different styles of education, you haven’t been paying attention. That was a long time ago. Now it’s about autonomy - freedom from mayoral control, standardized testing, unions, bureaucracy.

Your charter is it’s (your) own LEA. So go tell them what you want and see how nimble they can be.

before we go condemning charters … I’d love to see some real data on charters vs DCPS on covid. How quickly they got kids back in person, how well they recovered from learning loss, how well they did virtual. my guess is that charters may actually do better than DCPS overall, even with some far outliers on masks.

They may have done better overall - could one really do worse than DCPS? The point here is that now chargers are being criticized - by their own parents - for not following DCPS. Do you want independence or not? If so, why aren’t you talking to your school and your fellow parents about this?

Why do you think people aren’t talking here and elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.

+ 100. I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.

It has. But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…). This is some crazy bubble we are in.

Independence means making your own decisions. What’s the point if they just follow DCPS?

Again: Surely there are limits in the idea about independence? Should, say, a charter be able to get public funds if they teach that the earth is flat? How about a punishment system that involves paddling?

The idea about charters was about different styles of *education*, not public health.

If you think, here in DC, the idea is still about different styles of education, you haven’t been paying attention. That was a long time ago. Now it’s about autonomy - freedom from mayoral control, standardized testing, unions, bureaucracy.

Your charter is it’s (your) own LEA. So go tell them what you want and see how nimble they can be.

before we go condemning charters … I’d love to see some real data on charters vs DCPS on covid. How quickly they got kids back in person, how well they recovered from learning loss, how well they did virtual. my guess is that charters may actually do better than DCPS overall, even with some far outliers on masks.

They may have done better overall - could one really do worse than DCPS? The point here is that now chargers are being criticized - by their own parents - for not following DCPS. Do you want independence or not? If so, why aren’t you talking to your school and your fellow parents about this?

This is ridiculous. Charters have flexibility on educational methods and things like start and end dates. No, I don't want flexibility on public health matters, thanks though.

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Anonymous wrote:I emailed the ITDS covid team requesting the rationale and guidelines it is following to require masks this school year, esp in the spirit of the poll from last spring. It'd be decent if they could be transparent about what guidelines they're following and when, if ever, they'd reconsider changing the requirement. After all, vaccines are available to all, DC transmission is LOW, and CDC also has DC transmission at LOW.

Have you received any response? I haven't so far.

I haven’t either. However, did you the survey link on Covid protocols? Make sure to do that!

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Anonymous wrote:I emailed the ITDS covid team requesting the rationale and guidelines it is following to require masks this school year, esp in the spirit of the poll from last spring. It'd be decent if they could be transparent about what guidelines they're following and when, if ever, they'd reconsider changing the requirement. After all, vaccines are available to all, DC transmission is LOW, and CDC also has DC transmission at LOW.

Have you received any response? I haven't so far.

I haven’t either. However, did you the survey link on Covid protocols? Make sure to do that!

Our former HRCS did endless surveys and to what end? These leaders just need to LEAD. Use common sense, be decisive and commit.

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Anonymous wrote:ITDS requiring masks. I am so unhappy about this. No clear path for reconsidering like some other schools. It’s just too much.

Are masks required for the meet your teacher night or for students going returning to school?

Confirmed. I just clarified with an ITDS teacher that all students are required to wear masks. We need to start a petition to at least make it optional. Or go to a different school, which sounds a million times nicer at this point.

ITDS families should all disenroll and enroll in their IB school this week.

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Anonymous wrote:ITDS requiring masks. I am so unhappy about this. No clear path for reconsidering like some other schools. It’s just too much.

Are masks required for the meet your teacher night or for students going returning to school?

Confirmed. I just clarified with an ITDS teacher that all students are required to wear masks. We need to start a petition to at least make it optional. Or go to a different school, which sounds a million times nicer at this point.

ITDS families should all disenroll and enroll in their IB school this week.

Some MV parents started a petition but many people are too afraid to sign it because there are a few vehement pro maskers that will come after them.