Does Council bill just let people keep their kids home and not educate them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banita Jacks' kids.
Relisha Rudd.
RIP. This city has forgotten you and is writing off other children like you. What a city.

Write to your council members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think this makes sense. The parents were in communication with the schools and were providing evidence that the kids were learning at home yet we were wasting a ton of CPS resources on those families. The school can grant or not grant the excuse absence. Schools were put in a ridiculous position of knowing parents were homeschooling for a brief period of time before vaccines yet were having to unenroll them. It was all idiotic.

You are an evil person. Outright evil.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:and this portion of the bill was done to appease pumpkin mom and the upper SES people who are just scared. Not for people with kids with actual medical needs.

+1 She professes to care about low income children, but she truly only cares about her own. She and her husband have the ability to educate their kids.Kids whose parents are barely educated themselves and lack resources will gravely suffer.

But won't you think about all of the kids in school dying of covid!?!?!? Oh wait.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think everyone needs to chill. This is not a normal two years and adequate resources (funded by the FEDS) were not deployed. This is a response to that. Once the vaccine comes online for all ages, mandate it and start freaking out about parents trying to wiggle out.

in the meantime, there is a huge swath of children in DC who can just disappear.

You all are disgusting. I can't believe you have so little ability to think beyond your own bubbles.

That’s the whole damn point. Do you think those kids are safer if CPS is spending their time doing home visits at the houses of people who are temporarily keeping their kids home because of COVID? No they’re not. It’s a waste of limited resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think this makes sense. The parents were in communication with the schools and were providing evidence that the kids were learning at home yet we were wasting a ton of CPS resources on those families. The school can grant or not grant the excuse absence. Schools were put in a ridiculous position of knowing parents were homeschooling for a brief period of time before vaccines yet were having to unenroll them. It was all idiotic.

No, parents were putting schools through that because they were too entitled to file the homeschool paperwork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think everyone needs to chill. This is not a normal two years and adequate resources (funded by the FEDS) were not deployed. This is a response to that. Once the vaccine comes online for all ages, mandate it and start freaking out about parents trying to wiggle out.

in the meantime, there is a huge swath of children in DC who can just disappear.

You all are disgusting. I can't believe you have so little ability to think beyond your own bubbles.

That’s the whole damn point. Do you think those kids are safer if CPS is spending their time doing home visits at the houses of people who are temporarily keeping their kids home because of COVID? No they’re not. It’s a waste of limited resources.

Oh my god you are so steeped in your own privilege that you can't even see it. You say you are "doing the right thing" and therefore CPS can just leave you alone. THAT IS WHAT CHILD ABUSERS DO.

You are so, so disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think this makes sense. The parents were in communication with the schools and were providing evidence that the kids were learning at home yet we were wasting a ton of CPS resources on those families. The school can grant or not grant the excuse absence. Schools were put in a ridiculous position of knowing parents were homeschooling for a brief period of time before vaccines yet were having to unenroll them. It was all idiotic.

No, parents were putting schools through that because they were too entitled to file the homeschool paperwork.

Truly. The parents could just homeschool and not waste resources. As it is, they are standing on privilege to say they are the exception.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is really scary. I work as a case manager with DC Medicaid. School is extremely protective for thousands of DC kids--it gives them food, daily structure (and time away from the chaos at home) and in some cases keeps them away from actual physical harm.

I have no idea what the council is thinking. This is going to be devastating to many DC kids whose parents don't or can't have their kids' best interest at heart. I know it's hard to imagine this but many parents make daily and long-term decisions that harm their kids. We saw this in the pandemic--tons of kids who were not schooled at all because there was no-one in the home to login them on, there were many parents who sold the school-owned devices, etc. And this was just the educational neglect (there is physical neglect, abuse, etc).

A Council doing its job would have had child welfare experts like you testify.

Exactly.

It wouldn’t even have been that hard. Just tee up child welfare experts, DCPS witness to talk about Relisha Rudd, DCPS witness to talk about how to file homeschool paperwork, and every single councilmember now has a well-supported and unassailable reason to amend this part of the bill. Lazy, lazy, lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think this makes sense. The parents were in communication with the schools and were providing evidence that the kids were learning at home yet we were wasting a ton of CPS resources on those families. The school can grant or not grant the excuse absence. Schools were put in a ridiculous position of knowing parents were homeschooling for a brief period of time before vaccines yet were having to unenroll them. It was all idiotic.

No, parents were putting schools through that because they were too entitled to file the homeschool paperwork.

Truly. The parents could just homeschool and not waste resources. As it is, they are standing on privilege to say they are the exception.

Plus they are STILL wasting resources by requiring extra work from school staff and teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think everyone needs to chill. This is not a normal two years and adequate resources (funded by the FEDS) were not deployed. This is a response to that. Once the vaccine comes online for all ages, mandate it and start freaking out about parents trying to wiggle out.

in the meantime, there is a huge swath of children in DC who can just disappear.

You all are disgusting. I can't believe you have so little ability to think beyond your own bubbles.

That’s the whole damn point. Do you think those kids are safer if CPS is spending their time doing home visits at the houses of people who are temporarily keeping their kids home because of COVID? No they’re not. It’s a waste of limited resources.

The people wasting resources are the PARENTS who are screaming and crying to the Council yet somehow can’t organize themselved to file homeschool paperwork. Really, this is the final sally of the “only when it’s safe” crowd’s determination to make everything about their own fears and express their hostility to DCPS.

[Anonymous]

The hypocrisy of saying you care about children's safety but then allowing them to not attend school and not be bothered by CPS and not require a parent to say they are educating them by homeschooling....it boggles the mind.

[Anonymous]

The Council bill is a license for legal child abuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Council bill is a license for legal child abuse.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Council bill is a license for legal child abuse.

+1

I've never taken the time to write the city council, but as an educator, I feel it's time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Council bill is a license for legal child abuse.

+1

And people who support it are supporting child abuse.