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

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I’m fairly certain their will be a surge after Labor Day. There were a ton of people traveling and the beaches were packed.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Yeah, it's just one person that's unhappy with DL, that knows that DL is not sustainable for them, etc. Everybody else is on board. Your post suggests you really don't have anything credible to add.

My point is that you are all about to rehash the same arguments you have made everywhere else on DCUM. I get you need the validation of an echo chamber about the WTU, Bowser, your misunderstanding of data, your ill-formed analogies to countries with super low infection rates and contact tracing, and general conspiracy theories about the libs. You've been singing the same tune everywhere. If it wasn't for an occasional troll who flies in to rile you all up you'd literally spend weeks just talking to each other with occasional breaks to compliment yourselves in how smart you are all and how easy governing and public education are.

You are also missing the point (shocker!). People who think the public health risks are too great to go back in person, or who aren't sure but allow for the fact that these decisions are hard and complicated, aren't disagreeing with the fact that DL sucks. For many people (not you and your ilk, but many people) more than one thing can be true at the same time. It is silly how reflexively you just keep screaming "DL sucks", "DL is hard", "DL is not working for my kid". That may well be true, but it doesn't obviate the facts and reasoning behind decisions with which you do not agree.

Stop. At this point, 90 percent of DCUM is teachers with too much time on their hands pretending they’re all going to die if they set foot in a classroom.

Funny that this is your impression. I am not a teacher but my impression is that at this point 90 percent of DCUM is a small group of angry parents who suffer from tunnel vision.

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union).

Please don't try to convince us that we live in New England. They have entire states with 7-day average daily case counts in the low teens. We have single cities like DC and single counties like Montgomery, PG, and Arlington that have 60-90 cases per day, and in the 500s for the entire state of Maryland or even approaching 1,000 a day for the entire state of Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union).

Are the schools that are open in New England - in person - 5 days a week over crowded?
Show me an urban school in NE open 5 days a week that has a similar footprint and capacity that Deal Middle School does. I really want to see how they did it so we can learn from these people who figured it out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union).

Please don't try to convince us that we live in New England. They have entire states with 7-day average daily case counts in the low teens. We have single cities like DC and single counties like Montgomery, PG, and Arlington that have 60-90 cases per day, and in the 500s for the entire state of Maryland or even approaching 1,000 a day for the entire state of Virginia.

Actually our numbers are better than some NE states. Worse than Vermont and Maine, better than New Hampshire and Massachusetts

https://covidactnow.org/?s=999207

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union).

Are the schools that are open in New England - in person - 5 days a week over crowded?
Show me an urban school in NE open 5 days a week that has a similar footprint and capacity that Deal Middle School does. I really want to see how they did it so we can learn from these people who figured it out.

No. I’m sure you and your school are the only ones in the entire world that have any problems. In New England, I believe the schools use hundred dollar bills for toilet paper

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools should be open now. We meet all the health requirements.

We're all bored with you. We know you aren't happy. You've posted all over DCUM. You hate teachers. You blame leftist pigs. We get it. Please stop.

Yeah, it's just one person that's unhappy with DL, that knows that DL is not sustainable for them, etc. Everybody else is on board. Your post suggests you really don't have anything credible to add.

Yea, totally. One crazy poster. The rest of us love DL - my kids are learning so much just like in the spring and their social skills have never been better!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union).

Please don't try to convince us that we live in New England. They have entire states with 7-day average daily case counts in the low teens. We have single cities like DC and single counties like Montgomery, PG, and Arlington that have 60-90 cases per day, and in the 500s for the entire state of Maryland or even approaching 1,000 a day for the entire state of Virginia.

Well first off, this is the DC schools thread so the case loads in MD and VA are relevant (obviously higher caseloads there affect us in the city) but not definitive. DC is not seeing daily new cases of 60-70. The current daily positivity rate is just 3.3% and has been at or below 5% for a while. It does seem to be plateauing there, which is concerning— we probably want to see a rate of 1-2% before we open schools. But people are correct that DC’s numbers are quite low and have been staying low. Dismissing this by lumping DC in with MD and VA is not an honest rebuttal. Especially since DC has stricter policies regarding business closures, public gatherings, and mask requirements. DC’s policies are working. The goal of those policies is to make it safe enough to go back to school. So maybe stop dismissing school reopening as a crazy pipe dream? It looks like a realistic possibility sooner rather than later.

[Anonymous]

January 2021 is my guess when they open. People will probably be going back to work then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m fairly certain their will be a surge after Labor Day. There were a ton of people traveling and the beaches were packed.

Im still waiting for the surge from Memorial Day and the surge from the George Floyd protests and the surge from everyone traveling over the Fourth of July weekend and the surge from everyone going to the beach in June and the surge from everyone going to the beach in July and the surge from everyone going to the beach in August. They’re all due any day now

[Anonymous]

No way they will reopen this year. There's a high probability of widespread social unrest due to the elections between now and January which will offer yet another reason why schools should remain closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union).

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m fairly certain their will be a surge after Labor Day. There were a ton of people traveling and the beaches were packed.

Im still waiting for the surge from Memorial Day and the surge from the George Floyd protests and the surge from everyone traveling over the Fourth of July weekend and the surge from everyone going to the beach in June and the surge from everyone going to the beach in July and the surge from everyone going to the beach in August. They’re all due any day now

There is zero way the beaches are more dangerous than the protests, which led to a minor surge if any.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union).

+1

Florida also didn't bother with drama or data or caution. How's that going again?

Coronavirus cases spike among school-age children in Florida, while state orders some counties to keep data hidden

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/florida-coronavirus-schools/2020/09/08/711fa780-eee4-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m fairly certain their will be a surge after Labor Day. There were a ton of people traveling and the beaches were packed.

Im still waiting for the surge from Memorial Day and the surge from the George Floyd protests and the surge from everyone traveling over the Fourth of July weekend and the surge from everyone going to the beach in June and the surge from everyone going to the beach in July and the surge from everyone going to the beach in August. They’re all due any day now

There is zero way the beaches are more dangerous than the protests, which led to a minor surge if any.

Also president convention. Outside is really safe people.