Deal 7th grade are virtual learning today

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Anonymous wrote:I just got notification after 8am - they couldn’t have sent this notification sooner, before the vast majority of students left to get to school? That’s pathetic.

Give them some grace!!! They're trying to staff school with hundreds of students and staff out with Covid.

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I will give the principals and teachers grace. I will not forgive Mayor Bowser or her Chancellor.

The mistakes were all upstream: lifting the indoor mask mandate when she did was a terrible mistake, not reinstating it earlier was a terrible mistake, and there were several others that helped DC have, by very far, the largest Omicron spike in the entire nation. Go look up the Covid cases by state on the WaPo website and look at that stunning case peak.

We had some of the lowest covid cases in the US when she lifted the mask mandate. I say this as someone on a biologic. There was no need to have vaccinated people wearing masks this summer. Most wore them anyway where I went.

removing mask mandate inside was stupid. does not matter the numbers around here, just read the news and see what happens elsewhere and you know it is brewing here too, just a matter of time. wearing a mask inside is tryly not big deal (i had to wear it outside, when i visited my family in Europe this summer with 90+ degree and that was a lot less pleasant and everybody was doing it). i went to my office last week and met a person for one hour. office no longer has mask mandate inside but we both wore a Kn95 mask. person was sick with covid the day after and has been since (fully vaccinated and boosted). i tested yesterday after 5 days and i am thank god negative., masks work, combined with eveyrthing else and are the least intrusive tool.

Where did you go where folks weren’t wearing masks? Every where I was going folks were wearing masks. Walking down around Le Diplomat *outside* like 80% were masked this summer.

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The mask mandate removal made no difference. Most people were still wearing masks in businesses where I went and the very few that weren’t are not passing COVID walking by you, let’s get real. People are getting it with small indoor gatherings/play dates. Those happen regardless of any mask mandate.

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Anonymous wrote:I just got notification after 8am - they couldn’t have sent this notification sooner, before the vast majority of students left to get to school? That’s pathetic.

Give them some grace!!! They're trying to staff school with hundreds of students and staff out with Covid.

No. Teachers and staff are calling out "sick" to avoid getting Covid before the holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:I just got notification after 8am - they couldn’t have sent this notification sooner, before the vast majority of students left to get to school? That’s pathetic.

Give them some grace!!! They're trying to staff school with hundreds of students and staff out with Covid.

+1

I will give the principals and teachers grace. I will not forgive Mayor Bowser or her Chancellor.

The mistakes were all upstream: lifting the indoor mask mandate when she did was a terrible mistake, not reinstating it earlier was a terrible mistake, and there were several others that helped DC have, by very far, the largest Omicron spike in the entire nation. Go look up the Covid cases by state on the WaPo website and look at that stunning case peak.

This is because cases were so so low in DC for such a long time. Of course it is having the biggest spike, mathematically.

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Anonymous wrote:I just got notification after 8am - they couldn’t have sent this notification sooner, before the vast majority of students left to get to school? That’s pathetic.

Give them some grace!!! They're trying to staff school with hundreds of students and staff out with Covid.

No. Teachers and staff are calling out "sick" to avoid getting Covid before the holidays.

+1. So obviously what is happening. There is no way HUNDREDS of teachers all have Covid today.

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It was wrong to close school at 8:00 a.m., stranding middle school age kids. Make the call last night or at 5:00 a.m. This is extremely poor judgment.

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I live in Fairfax. Are you saying 11-13 yo kids showed up for middle school and were turned away, with no buses to take them home or any responsible adults keeping them at school and making sure an adult picked them up? You know, that's insane, right?

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Anonymous wrote:This is what comes of being determined to stay open.

This is what comes of everything else being a higher priority to stay open: Gyms, restaurants, sporting events, concerts, malls, bars, airports and movie theaters are all wide open. Teachers aren't getting covid at school - they are getting it at non-essential services. Close everything else and keep schools - a vital service - open.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Fairfax. Are you saying 11-13 yo kids showed up for middle school and were turned away, with no buses to take them home or any responsible adults keeping them at school and making sure an adult picked them up? You know, that's insane, right?

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That is the part I find crazy. My DS lives within walking distance so he just called me and walked back home. But a lot of kids are dropped off by their parents or take the bus. This is insanity.

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Anonymous wrote:Absurd that people are still sending kids in to school in these conditions anyway. Serves them right.

Yes, crazy want their children to go to school. Insane!

My 7th grader was in tears at the thought of having to go virtual last night. Virtual school is really tough on MS aged girls. This age is all about friends and socializing!

Also a lot of them are watching inappropriate content on their dcps computers. The tech person at our middle school got calls daily from parents about this during "virtual school". If students actually do attend the synchronous class half the time the teachers are showing movies.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what comes of being determined to stay open.

This is what comes of everything else being a higher priority to stay open: Gyms, restaurants, sporting events, concerts, malls, bars, airports and movie theaters are all wide open. Teachers aren't getting covid at school - they are getting it at non-essential services. Close everything else and keep schools - a vital service - open.

Wow. People really still believe this.

-a teacher with covid who goes nowhere else

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Fairfax. Are you saying 11-13 yo kids showed up for middle school and were turned away, with no buses to take them home or any responsible adults keeping them at school and making sure an adult picked them up? You know, that's insane, right?

For clarification - there are no school buses. These are city buses the kids take to school.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what comes of being determined to stay open.

This is what comes of everything else being a higher priority to stay open: Gyms, restaurants, sporting events, concerts, malls, bars, airports and movie theaters are all wide open. Teachers aren't getting covid at school - they are getting it at non-essential services. Close everything else and keep schools - a vital service - open.

Wow. People really still believe this.

-a teacher with covid who goes nowhere else

I hope they're trolls, Teacher. The problem is that influential people with letters after their name have gone on social media to say that schools don't spread Covid, and their posts are repeated ad nauseam by desperate parents who will grab on to any straw, however illogical, to keep their jobs and keep their children in school (I feel for them). It's unconscionable, since obviously the maskless lunches are Covid spreaders. It works when cases are low, and doesn't when cases are high. That's a mathematical fact. Disinformation is rife and as usual, teachers bear the brunt of it.

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Anonymous wrote:I just got notification after 8am - they couldn’t have sent this notification sooner, before the vast majority of students left to get to school? That’s pathetic.

Give them some grace!!! They're trying to staff school with hundreds of students and staff out with Covid.

+1

I will give the principals and teachers grace. I will not forgive Mayor Bowser or her Chancellor.

I think Bowser is doing a great job. Chancellor is meh.

Bowser hired our nitwit chancellor

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Anonymous wrote:I just got notification after 8am - they couldn’t have sent this notification sooner, before the vast majority of students left to get to school? That’s pathetic.

Give them some grace!!! They're trying to staff school with hundreds of students and staff out with Covid.

No. Teachers and staff are calling out "sick" to avoid getting Covid before the holidays.

+1. So obviously what is happening. There is no way HUNDREDS of teachers all have Covid today.

Think again: