Covid at SFS

[Anonymous]

Children ARE at danger from Covid (not to mention their role in the spread): twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1331155679697133571?s=20

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Anonymous wrote:NP. It’s “who” not “whom”. If you can’t see the irony in your statement, not much space to discuss. I’ve never seen people trying to steamroll over the consensus (which was DL this semester) over and over again (except for Trump election nonsense), and yet feel perma-aggrieved even after having forced the school to reopen.

Irony in asserting that someone is not reflecting Quaker values in declaring that families should leave the school simply because they find fault in the administration’s handling of this entire situation and are willing to point it out? Please.

And there was never a consensus for distance learning this semester. That’s the most ridiculous thing I have heard. The plan through August was always hybrid from the get-go. And then when Bryan announced that this would not be happening, the consensus was always that the school was working towards implementing hybrid as quickly as it could do so in a safe manner. The problem was that they were completely mismanaging their efforts. But there was never a consensus against hybrid. Unless, of course, the “consensus” was secret and not communicated to families.

What are you so salty about? No one steamrolled any consensus. The school was just frozen administratively and incapable at getting their act together. Which parents were rightly frustrated about, since they had been promised hybrid all summer and fall.

Do you not have friends? Good to get some to discuss things with; it’s not a bad practice to talk
things through and take the edge of the snark before posting. Maybe people would take you more seriously.

Utter nonsense. It’s been a clear, logical set of steps and a consistent decision-making model, linear enough for anyone to follow. The only variables were the unmitigated pandemic spread and the parents forcing a U-turn half-way through. Could we have in hindsight had Sep-Oct on campus more safely? Perhaps, in hindsight. Not now. We and our friends see no signs of the “frozen admin” or cause to be “rightly frustrated”. Everyone’s doing their best for our children and community. It’s that simple.

So pompous. We and our friends haha.

+1. And they’re not looking very hard.

Do you not have friends? Good to get some to discuss things with; it’s not a bad practice to talk
things through and take the edge of the snark before posting. Maybe people would take you more seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m lost as to what the pro-open, contra-admin, people on this board actually want? What is the ideal scenario, in the situation the USA and DC are in now? Really confused, since it’s been non stop complaining even during the HL. To reopen, you have to put in the hard yards first.

We want them to put up more.. wait for it ..TENTS and then make everyone especially those receiving salaries go in person .. pandemic schmandemic

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Anonymous wrote:I’m lost as to what the pro-open, contra-admin, people on this board actually want? What is the ideal scenario, in the situation the USA and DC are in now? Really confused, since it’s been non stop complaining even during the HL. To reopen, you have to put in the hard yards first.

To follow the science. Is that so hard to see?

[Anonymous]

The science says we are in the worst of the pandemic. Or should the school admin disappear the pandemic? I really think that’s what you are asking for

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I’d love to hear more about the tent science? Because closed tents are like buildings but without ventilation

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Anonymous wrote:I’m lost as to what the pro-open, contra-admin, people on this board actually want? What is the ideal scenario, in the situation the USA and DC are in now? Really confused, since it’s been non stop complaining even during the HL. To reopen, you have to put in the hard yards first.

We want them to put up more.. wait for it ..TENTS and then make everyone especially those receiving salaries go in person .. pandemic schmandemic

So you're just arguing for constant and indefinite distance learning until next school year.

What I want is a school that demonstrates it is doing everything it can to enable our kids safely to attend school in person with their classmates and teachers. Just like schools throughout the northeast are doing. The school has the resources, expertise, and networks to make this happen if it wanted to. But they are not even showing that they are trying, and that a safe return is their driving motivation.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love to hear more about the tent science? Because closed tents are like buildings but without ventilation

Tents don't need to be closed. Look at the picture that was shared. Go check out Landon's campus, or St Albans. Small colleges all over the country also have been using them.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love to hear more about the tent science? Because closed tents are like buildings but without ventilation

Simple. Covid doesn’t like camping

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love to hear more about the tent science? Because closed tents are like buildings but without ventilation

Tents don't need to be closed. Look at the picture that was shared. Go check out Landon's campus, or St Albans. Small colleges all over the country also have been using them.

Again, in December?! We live in the here and now

[Anonymous]

The specific reason expressed by Bryan about why there would not be HL between Thanksgiving and winter break was so families could travel for Thanksgiving. Now, basically no one is traveling. So why not resume HL? Sidwell is not prioritizing in-person learning.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love to hear more about the tent science? Because closed tents are like buildings but without ventilation

Tents don't need to be closed. Look at the picture that was shared. Go check out Landon's campus, or St Albans. Small colleges all over the country also have been using them.

Again, in December?! We live in the here and now

You are just moving the goalposts. There have been non-stop defenders of the school (presumably you are among them) who have shouted up and down that the school has been doing a great job. Emphasis on has been. Now, you want to move on because that's in the past. If you would admit that the school has handled this terribly for the past three months, then perhaps we could establish a consensus upon which we could discuss where things should go from here.

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Who’s not traveling or socializing over the holidays? Many are in fact. I’m sure now there are many additional reasons such as the sustained community spread at record levels. The one constant is that time and time again the schools that reopened found that parents were dishonest and household behaviors a massive weak link in their safe campus policies. You know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who’s not traveling or socializing over the holidays? Many are in fact. I’m sure now there are many additional reasons such as the sustained community spread at record levels. The one constant is that time and time again the schools that reopened found that parents were dishonest and household behaviors a massive weak link in their safe campus policies. You know that.

Look at the dashboard. One fact that is readily apparent is that there has been no spread within the school. You know that.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love to hear more about the tent science? Because closed tents are like buildings but without ventilation

Tents don't need to be closed. Look at the picture that was shared. Go check out Landon's campus, or St Albans. Small colleges all over the country also have been using them.

Again, in December?! We live in the here and now

You are just moving the goalposts. There have been non-stop defenders of the school (presumably you are among them) who have shouted up and down that the school has been doing a great job. Emphasis on has been. Now, you want to move on because that's in the past. If you would admit that the school has handled this terribly for the past three months, then perhaps we could establish a consensus upon which we could discuss where things should go from here.

I don’t think it has. It focused on high quality DL like it said it would, and further accommodated the parents who wanted HL. We are quite pleased. If anything, we wish there were a care center on campus for whomever needs or wants to be in person to join the DL because I’m sure there are those that need it. I might think differently if Bowser put in place community policies that were then in fact enforced, thus flattening the curve, thus enabling the schools to open. Honestly, people do hold a very different set of views. Look at what the response was to the most recent attempt to pressure. At least the derogatory name-calling of teachers and students on these boards has stopped (that honestly shook me to the core and made me far less sympathetic to the pro-open group)