School closures on Monday, Feb 3 for day without immigrants?

[Anonymous]

Reading the time stamps on here, I feel like there is at least one possibly more people posting over and over again. The pace of responses in the short amount of time simply does not make sense given historical trends and pace of responses on this page.

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)

All that to say I never trust anything I read on here at all anymore.

I won’t debate the day off thing. It’s a conversation that can’t be had with any thoughtfulness over this medium.

I WILL say that the anger on this thread is not consistent with the overall tenor of dialogue in either of my children’s class WhatsApp groups OR in the ParentSquare app OR in the many friend groups.

There are many things to be said about LAMB, but our family has found the community to be kind and loving in a way that is so very needed in this world. If that’s not what you value in a school, there are other places to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

Sorry did you not realize that the people who were marching, occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins left their homes? The teachers are just staying home. How is this helping?

For real? It would be pretty sleazy if LAMB said it is closing so that teachers and staff could attend this protest and then they didnt actually bother to go.

The protest IS to stay home. The idea is for immigrants not to go to work/not to spend money on this day, in order to demonstrate what life without immigrants would be like. Non-immigrants staying home is not solidarity; in fact I'd argue that it kind of defeats the purpose.

Unless LAMB already knows they're going to be severely understaffed, it doesn't make sense to close. And I kind of doubt they would have been understaffed. I tried googling for more information on this protest and all I got was a couple of social media posts, this thread, and news articles from when they did it in 2017.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe this much anger towards immigrants protesting at a school that literally has “Latin American” in the title. There are literally families scared to send their kids to school right now because they fear deportation. If having a mindset of proudly supporting immigrants from Latin America isn’t part of your values, then LAMB probably isn’t the right school for you.

I’m proud to support our teachers and staff, and thought Jessica did an elegant job of explaining the situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

Sorry did you not realize that the people who were marching, occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins left their homes? The teachers are just staying home. How is this helping?

For real? It would be pretty sleazy if LAMB said it is closing so that teachers and staff could attend this protest and then they didnt actually bother to go.

The protest IS to stay home. The idea is for immigrants not to go to work/not to spend money on this day, in order to demonstrate what life without immigrants would be like. Non-immigrants staying home is not solidarity; in fact I'd argue that it kind of defeats the purpose.

Unless LAMB already knows they're going to be severely understaffed, it doesn't make sense to close. And I kind of doubt they would have been understaffed. I tried googling for more information on this protest and all I got was a couple of social media posts, this thread, and news articles from when they did it in 2017.

My understanding in talking with a teacher is that over half of the teachers and BASE staff were taking the day off. They had no choice but to cancel school. and

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)
.

Wait. Someone else does this too?? I know this is not me because I only have two kids lol (except when I make up other identities or pretend to have a kid at Basis or LAMB just to stir things up!)

[Anonymous]

This strike will do nothing but demonstrate who is and who isn’t illegal. Don’t come to work on Monday? Illegal!

I really hope this is tongue-in-cheek because, if not, it's a comment that is beyond ridiculous. I'm a U.S. Citizen (born in Illinois many moons ago) AND I will be joining my brethren in solidarity on Monday and not going to work (or buying anything). Care to ask me for my papers, der Führer? Spoiler: I have them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what are you guys talking about?

Lamb decided at 12:30pm Friday to close their doors to show the importance of immigrants. The non immigrant teachers are not working either. This isn’t being paired with any meaningful educational initiative or volunteer work. It’s just a day off. Parents only got Friday afternoon to figure out care tor Monday. And yes, this is after multiple days off for snow and an extra long holiday break (longer than dcps).

PP is right. This is a dumb, performative stunt by Lamb.

[Anonymous]

I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

Sorry did you not realize that the people who were marching, occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins left their homes? The teachers are just staying home. How is this helping?

For real? It would be pretty sleazy if LAMB said it is closing so that teachers and staff could attend this protest and then they didnt actually bother to go.

The protest IS to stay home. The idea is for immigrants not to go to work/not to spend money on this day, in order to demonstrate what life without immigrants would be like. Non-immigrants staying home is not solidarity; in fact I'd argue that it kind of defeats the purpose.

Unless LAMB already knows they're going to be severely understaffed, it doesn't make sense to close. And I kind of doubt they would have been understaffed. I tried googling for more information on this protest and all I got was a couple of social media posts, this thread, and news articles from when they did it in 2017.

Pathetic. It's not even a real protest. It's just taking the day off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

I have two kids at LAMB. Out of the 8 teachers and 10+ aftercare teachers, I can’t think of a single teacher who isn’t an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. I think there might be a handful in upper EL.

That’s the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This strike will do nothing but demonstrate who is and who isn’t illegal. Don’t come to work on Monday? Illegal!

I really hope this is tongue-in-cheek because, if not, it's a comment that is beyond ridiculous. I'm a U.S. Citizen (born in Illinois many moons ago) AND I will be joining my brethren in solidarity on Monday and not going to work (or buying anything). Care to ask me for my papers, der Führer? Spoiler: I have them

NP and isn’t the point of this to show how the US can’t function without immigrants? If you are a US citizen born here, how are you helping demonstrate that goal? Of course nothing would function if all workers took the day off, it’s supposed to highlight immigrant contributions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This strike will do nothing but demonstrate who is and who isn’t illegal. Don’t come to work on Monday? Illegal!

I really hope this is tongue-in-cheek because, if not, it's a comment that is beyond ridiculous. I'm a U.S. Citizen (born in Illinois many moons ago) AND I will be joining my brethren in solidarity on Monday and not going to work (or buying anything). Care to ask me for my papers, der Führer? Spoiler: I have them

This is so idiotic. The whole entire point is to demonstrate how important immigrants are to our society. Some white lady staying home with her "brethren" is confusing the strike. Don't feel too proud.

Signed, a brown immigrant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

I have two kids at LAMB. Out of the 8 teachers and 10+ aftercare teachers, I can’t think of a single teacher who isn’t an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. I think there might be a handful in upper EL.

That’s the problem.

Yeah, I get that parents are annoyed about this, but my understanding from talking to teachers is this is not a case of the school closing so that white teachers can have solidarity with immigrants. This is literally an overwhelming number of immigrant teachers saying that they are taking Monday off (which they are allowed to do) to the point where the school could not stay open.

Parents choose to send their kids to LAMB knowing very well that it is a school dependent on native Spanish-speaking speakers as teachers. What is the expectation here?

The vast, vast, vast majority of LAMB parents are incredibly invested in the community and show overwhelming kindness, and support to each other, the teachers, and the administration.

I hope that the parents who have so much anger to LAMB that they cannot support the teachers that make the school possible decide to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

I have two kids at LAMB. Out of the 8 teachers and 10+ aftercare teachers, I can’t think of a single teacher who isn’t an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. I think there might be a handful in upper EL.

That’s the problem.

Yeah, I get that parents are annoyed about this, but my understanding from talking to teachers is this is not a case of the school closing so that white teachers can have solidarity with immigrants. This is literally an overwhelming number of immigrant teachers saying that they are taking Monday off (which they are allowed to do) to the point where the school could not stay open.

Parents choose to send their kids to LAMB knowing very well that it is a school dependent on native Spanish-speaking speakers as teachers. What is the expectation here?

The vast, vast, vast majority of LAMB parents are incredibly invested in the community and show overwhelming kindness, and support to each other, the teachers, and the administration.

I hope that the parents who have so much anger to LAMB that they cannot support the teachers that make the school possible decide to leave.

Trump has been in office for 13 days. Is the school going to close every time he does something outrageous?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

lol so let me get this straight. LAMB is morally superior because it created a childcare emergency for poor parents or parents who have to RTO, which the LAMB “community” then rallied to supposedly fix, thereby showing the moral superiority of LAMB?