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

[Anonymous]

NYC schools has pushed back the start date another week. Now it is 9/29.

[Anonymous]

Should this give us hope? Mayor Bowser said today they are planning for hybrid learning starting the second term (Nov. 9)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wtop.com/coronavirus/2020/09/dc-coronavirus-update-september-17/amp/

[Anonymous]

I'm reading about the stupidity going on at private schools in person and I'm just not going there. I care about my kids, their teachers, and our family members too much. Muriel Bowser will allow for a distance only option and I'm taking it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm reading about the stupidity going on at private schools in person and I'm just not going there. I care about my kids, their teachers, and our family members too much. Muriel Bowser will allow for a distance only option and I'm taking it.

What’s going on in privates?

[Anonymous]

I take Bowsers statement to mean that SPED will come back hybrid. I don’t think anyone is holding their breath for a full on general population hybrid a for everyone approach beginning in November.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm reading about the stupidity going on at private schools in person and I'm just not going there. I care about my kids, their teachers, and our family members too much. Muriel Bowser will allow for a distance only option and I'm taking it.

What’s going on in privates?

They are opening in October MD and VA privates opening already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYC schools has pushed back the start date another week. Now it is 9/29.

Schools in my hometown opened for in person. Closed for two weeks after just 6 days of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC schools has pushed back the start date another week. Now it is 9/29.

Schools in my hometown opened for in person. Closed for two weeks after just 6 days of school.

Because things like this ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mass-parents-knew-kid-had-coronavirus-sent-him-1st-day-n1240295

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYC schools has pushed back the start date another week. Now it is 9/29.

Schools in my hometown opened for in person. Closed for two weeks after just 6 days of school.

Because things like this ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mass-parents-knew-kid-had-coronavirus-sent-him-1st-day-n1240295

this is why we will be wearing masks until 2030 ....

[Anonymous]

From my ANC commissioner today:

"Currently, DC is running about 7 test positives per 100K population. That has to be down to about 1 per 100K for the pandemic to be considered "contained". Plainly, we're nowhere near that value, and there's no hint that we're even headed in that direction."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I take Bowsers statement to mean that SPED will come back hybrid. I don’t think anyone is holding their breath for a full on general population hybrid a for everyone approach beginning in November.

As a SPED teacher I hope you are correct. However, that group is the most difficult to coordinate. Busses, related service providers, specialist.
If this is anyone’s idea- MB had better be cooking up an amazing plan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From my ANC commissioner today:

"Currently, DC is running about 7 test positives per 100K population. That has to be down to about 1 per 100K for the pandemic to be considered "contained". Plainly, we're nowhere near that value, and there's no hint that we're even headed in that direction."

What if -- bear with me -- we took some steps to try and get it to that value. Like closing gyms and indoor dining, neither of which is an essential activity? What if people who were found to violate the travel quarantine rules were fined?

I feel like a broken record, but I am so frustrated with this attitude that there is no way we could possibly get Covid rates down low enough for school to be possible, when we are allowing so many activities that are clearly contributing to higher Covid rates. It's like the man from the joke who walks into the doctor's office and hits himself over the head with a hammer and says, "Doc, it hurts when I do this -- what can I do?"

What if we stopped hitting ourselves in the head with a hammer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From my ANC commissioner today:

"Currently, DC is running about 7 test positives per 100K population. That has to be down to about 1 per 100K for the pandemic to be considered "contained". Plainly, we're nowhere near that value, and there's no hint that we're even headed in that direction."

Do you all realize how low that prevalence is already? That's even before taking into account false positives and how many of these positives are asymptomatic and therefore not spreading it. Stop the hysteria. We are not in a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From my ANC commissioner today:

"Currently, DC is running about 7 test positives per 100K population. That has to be down to about 1 per 100K for the pandemic to be considered "contained". Plainly, we're nowhere near that value, and there's no hint that we're even headed in that direction."

Do you all realize how low that prevalence is already? That's even before taking into account false positives and how many of these positives are asymptomatic and therefore not spreading it. Stop the hysteria. We are not in a pandemic.

Wow, it's pathetic that we still have people so ignorant six months in.

We most certainly ARE in a pandemic.
Asymptomatic subjects do transmit the virus, perhaps more so than symptomatic ones.
For a tiny city our size, the 50 new cases a day is concerning, particularly when we cannot identify whom they got it from in the vast majority of new cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From my ANC commissioner today:

"Currently, DC is running about 7 test positives per 100K population. That has to be down to about 1 per 100K for the pandemic to be considered "contained". Plainly, we're nowhere near that value, and there's no hint that we're even headed in that direction."

Do you all realize how low that prevalence is already? That's even before taking into account false positives and [/b]how many of these positives are asymptomatic and therefore not spreading it.[b] Stop the hysteria. We are not in a pandemic.

Oh my. What rock have you been hiding under?