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

[Anonymous]

You are all replying to 3 or 4 idiots. Stop feeding them and they will have no one to talk to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

Why ask me? I honestly have no idea except for fear mongering. Getting constant emails about safety, being bombarded by death in the media, it makes me scared. A virus is different than being hit by a car.

Is it really safe for older people? 50% plus teachers are older or have comorbidities.

What districts have been hybrid for 2 months or more?

Like I stated, I’ll go back but I would like DCPS to do the minimum since my kids can’t or won’t wear masks. Is that too much to ask?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

Why ask me? I honestly have no idea except for fear mongering. Getting constant emails about safety, being bombarded by death in the media, it makes me scared. A virus is different than being hit by a car.

Is it really safe for older people? 50% plus teachers are older or have comorbidities.

What districts have been hybrid for 2 months or more?

Like I stated, I’ll go back but I would like DCPS to do the minimum since my kids can’t or won’t wear masks. Is that too much to ask?

Exactly. We don’t know what a low-enough level of coronavirus cases is because we’re not experts. But experts do know, and they’ve established metrics for safely reopening schools and you know what? DC meets every major organization’s standards. Our positivity rate, our infection rate, our number of new cases are all comfortably within recommendations. When teachers still balk, and say they still work, it looks to a lot of people like their objections don’t actually have much to do with coronavirus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

Why ask me? I honestly have no idea except for fear mongering. Getting constant emails about safety, being bombarded by death in the media, it makes me scared. A virus is different than being hit by a car.

Is it really safe for older people? 50% plus teachers are older or have comorbidities.

What districts have been hybrid for 2 months or more?

Like I stated, I’ll go back but I would like DCPS to do the minimum since my kids can’t or won’t wear masks. Is that too much to ask?

Exactly. We don’t know what a low-enough level of coronavirus cases is because we’re not experts. But experts do know, and they’ve established metrics for safely reopening schools and you know what? DC meets every major organization’s standards. Our positivity rate, our infection rate, our number of new cases are all comfortably within recommendations. When teachers still balk, and say they still work, it looks to a lot of people like their objections don’t actually have much to do with coronavirus.

But what districts have been doing hybrid for 2 months or more?

And the experts always leave things out, Dr. Fauci dropped at the end of Jennifer Garderner’s Instagram live no less, that vitamin D and E are helpful against Covid-19, yet never said that in the news...

I will do my job in person but not because I trust health experts but because it’s my job. Again is asking DCPS to help protect self contained teachers too much? I just need cleaning supplies and decent ventilation.

[Anonymous]

Some schools in New York City never closed, not even in March, not even in April, not even in May, when the city had some of the highest coronavirus rates in the entire world:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-new-york-city-schools-that-didnt-close/amp

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

Why ask me? I honestly have no idea except for fear mongering. Getting constant emails about safety, being bombarded by death in the media, it makes me scared. A virus is different than being hit by a car.

Is it really safe for older people? 50% plus teachers are older or have comorbidities.

What districts have been hybrid for 2 months or more?

Like I stated, I’ll go back but I would like DCPS to do the minimum since my kids can’t or won’t wear masks. Is that too much to ask?

Exactly. We don’t know what a low-enough level of coronavirus cases is because we’re not experts. But experts do know, and they’ve established metrics for safely reopening schools and you know what? DC meets every major organization’s standards. Our positivity rate, our infection rate, our number of new cases are all comfortably within recommendations. When teachers still balk, and say they still work, it looks to a lot of people like their objections don’t actually have much to do with coronavirus.

But what districts have been doing hybrid for 2 months or more?

And the experts always leave things out, Dr. Fauci dropped at the end of Jennifer Garderner’s Instagram live no less, that vitamin D and E are helpful against Covid-19, yet never said that in the news...

I will do my job in person but not because I trust health experts but because it’s my job. Again is asking DCPS to help protect self contained teachers too much? I just need cleaning supplies and decent ventilation.

Why would school being open for two months somewhere be the relevant metric? Obviously you know that no school districts in the US go back in early July EVER, so how would it possibly be that a US school district has been open for hybrid 2 months. These facile questions are exactly why people get frustrated with teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

Why ask me? I honestly have no idea except for fear mongering. Getting constant emails about safety, being bombarded by death in the media, it makes me scared. A virus is different than being hit by a car.

Is it really safe for older people? 50% plus teachers are older or have comorbidities.

What districts have been hybrid for 2 months or more?

Like I stated, I’ll go back but I would like DCPS to do the minimum since my kids can’t or won’t wear masks. Is that too much to ask?

Exactly. We don’t know what a low-enough level of coronavirus cases is because we’re not experts. But experts do know, and they’ve established metrics for safely reopening schools and you know what? DC meets every major organization’s standards. Our positivity rate, our infection rate, our number of new cases are all comfortably within recommendations. When teachers still balk, and say they still work, it looks to a lot of people like their objections don’t actually have much to do with coronavirus.

But what districts have been doing hybrid for 2 months or more?

And the experts always leave things out, Dr. Fauci dropped at the end of Jennifer Garderner’s Instagram live no less, that vitamin D and E are helpful against Covid-19, yet never said that in the news...

I will do my job in person but not because I trust health experts but because it’s my job. Again is asking DCPS to help protect self contained teachers too much? I just need cleaning supplies and decent ventilation.

Why would school being open for two months somewhere be the relevant metric? Obviously you know that no school districts in the US go back in early July EVER, so how would it possibly be that a US school district has been open for hybrid 2 months. These facile questions are exactly why people get frustrated with teachers.

And skipping over questions is why teachers know parents don’t care about lives other than their children’s. Which is fine but don’t lie and say it’s all good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Requoting this from the first page. A person literally says "schools should be open now" and the response is a diatribe about how that person must hate teachers. Seriously, what? The people posting about other posters blaming the WTU and hating teachers need to seriously up their reading comprehension game. A person can want the schools to reopen without hating teachers of blaming the union.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Requoting this from the first page. A person literally says "schools should be open now" and the response is a diatribe about how that person must hate teachers. Seriously, what? The people posting about other posters blaming the WTU and hating teachers need to seriously up their reading comprehension game. A person can want the schools to reopen without hating teachers of blaming the union.

Cherry picking does you no good. Plenty of posts all over this forum that verbatim say ‘teacher’s unions are evil’
‘Teachers are lazy’ ‘teachers don’t want to teach’ ‘teachers want schools to stay closed forever’ Etc. Etc. Etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

Why ask me? I honestly have no idea except for fear mongering. Getting constant emails about safety, being bombarded by death in the media, it makes me scared. A virus is different than being hit by a car.

Is it really safe for older people? 50% plus teachers are older or have comorbidities.

What districts have been hybrid for 2 months or more?

Like I stated, I’ll go back but I would like DCPS to do the minimum since my kids can’t or won’t wear masks. Is that too much to ask?

Exactly. We don’t know what a low-enough level of coronavirus cases is because we’re not experts. But experts do know, and they’ve established metrics for safely reopening schools and you know what? DC meets every major organization’s standards. Our positivity rate, our infection rate, our number of new cases are all comfortably within recommendations. When teachers still balk, and say they still work, it looks to a lot of people like their objections don’t actually have much to do with coronavirus.

But what districts have been doing hybrid for 2 months or more?

And the experts always leave things out, Dr. Fauci dropped at the end of Jennifer Garderner’s Instagram live no less, that vitamin D and E are helpful against Covid-19, yet never said that in the news...

I will do my job in person but not because I trust health experts but because it’s my job. Again is asking DCPS to help protect self contained teachers too much? I just need cleaning supplies and decent ventilation.

Why would school being open for two months somewhere be the relevant metric? Obviously you know that no school districts in the US go back in early July EVER, so how would it possibly be that a US school district has been open for hybrid 2 months. These facile questions are exactly why people get frustrated with teachers.

And skipping over questions is why teachers know parents don’t care about lives other than their children’s. Which is fine but don’t lie and say it’s all good.

I didn't actually skip over the question. It is implied in my answer that I'm not aware of any schools that have been open 2 months, because why would they be? Maybe some one-off year round school somewhere, but there is no major public school district in the country that goes back to school in early July. But I like that you skipped my questions entirely. No implied answer. Nothing. Just avoided. I asked why your question was relevant. Why does 2 months matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Requoting this from the first page. A person literally says "schools should be open now" and the response is a diatribe about how that person must hate teachers. Seriously, what? The people posting about other posters blaming the WTU and hating teachers need to seriously up their reading comprehension game. A person can want the schools to reopen without hating teachers of blaming the union.

Cherry picking does you no good. Plenty of posts all over this forum that verbatim say ‘teacher’s unions are evil’
‘Teachers are lazy’ ‘teachers don’t want to teach’ ‘teachers want schools to stay closed forever’ Etc. Etc. Etc.

I think the WTU is partially to blame. In so far as individual teachers empower the WTU, they are partially to blame, but it is more attenuated. Obviously there are many teachers who are not to blame at all, so I don't think a sweeping generalization is possible. But the WTU? Definitely partially to blame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Requoting this from the first page. A person literally says "schools should be open now" and the response is a diatribe about how that person must hate teachers. Seriously, what? The people posting about other posters blaming the WTU and hating teachers need to seriously up their reading comprehension game. A person can want the schools to reopen without hating teachers of blaming the union.

Cherry picking does you no good. Plenty of posts all over this forum that verbatim say ‘teacher’s unions are evil’
‘Teachers are lazy’ ‘teachers don’t want to teach’ ‘teachers want schools to stay closed forever’ Etc. Etc. Etc.

I quoted a benign post that said that schools should reopen and the response accused that SPECIFIC person of posting all over DCUM about hating teachers.

You are the one cherry picking the bad responses- you are saying that because some posters on DCUM think teachers are lazy than that means that all people who think schools should reopen think that teachers are lazy? I think that schools should reopen and in no way think that all teachers are lazy. I can right now hear my kid's lovely DCPS teacher doing an online lesson with him and I see how hard she works to make sure the kids are engaged and learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools in New York City never closed, not even in March, not even in April, not even in May, when the city had some of the highest coronavirus rates in the entire world:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-new-york-city-schools-that-didnt-close/amp

Cc: DC Snowflakes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

Why ask me? I honestly have no idea except for fear mongering. Getting constant emails about safety, being bombarded by death in the media, it makes me scared. A virus is different than being hit by a car.

Is it really safe for older people? 50% plus teachers are older or have comorbidities.

What districts have been hybrid for 2 months or more?

Like I stated, I’ll go back but I would like DCPS to do the minimum since my kids can’t or won’t wear masks. Is that too much to ask?

Exactly. We don’t know what a low-enough level of coronavirus cases is because we’re not experts. But experts do know, and they’ve established metrics for safely reopening schools and you know what? DC meets every major organization’s standards. Our positivity rate, our infection rate, our number of new cases are all comfortably within recommendations. When teachers still balk, and say they still work, it looks to a lot of people like their objections don’t actually have much to do with coronavirus.

But what districts have been doing hybrid for 2 months or more?

And the experts always leave things out, Dr. Fauci dropped at the end of Jennifer Garderner’s Instagram live no less, that vitamin D and E are helpful against Covid-19, yet never said that in the news...

I will do my job in person but not because I trust health experts but because it’s my job. Again is asking DCPS to help protect self contained teachers too much? I just need cleaning supplies and decent ventilation.

Why would school being open for two months somewhere be the relevant metric? Obviously you know that no school districts in the US go back in early July EVER, so how would it possibly be that a US school district has been open for hybrid 2 months. These facile questions are exactly why people get frustrated with teachers.

And skipping over questions is why teachers know parents don’t care about lives other than their children’s. Which is fine but don’t lie and say it’s all good.

I didn't actually skip over the question. It is implied in my answer that I'm not aware of any schools that have been open 2 months, because why would they be? Maybe some one-off year round school somewhere, but there is no major public school district in the country that goes back to school in early July. But I like that you skipped my questions entirely. No implied answer. Nothing. Just avoided. I asked why your question was relevant. Why does 2 months matter?

Is asking dc to protect self contained teachers too much