DCPS parents: if you’re worried about the return plan, contact the mayor and council members

[Anonymous]

i want schools to open. i think it's ridiculous they're still closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i want schools to open. i think it's ridiculous they're still closed.

email your councilmember!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i want schools to open. i think it's ridiculous they're still closed.

email your councilmember!

Posters gotta LIVE in DC to email their councilmember. (get ready for doth-protest-too-much)


Real DCPS parent here, who wants a better plan that actually listens to both teachers and parents.

DCPS parents, email your council member!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i want schools to open. i think it's ridiculous they're still closed.

email your councilmember!

Posters gotta LIVE in DC to email their councilmember. (get ready for doth-protest-too-much)


Real DCPS parent here, who wants a better plan that actually listens to both teachers and parents.

DCPS parents, email your council member!

why would you think I’m not a DCPS parent? That’s ... weird.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the contact information. I’ve made my calls. In full transparency, I support the Mayor and Chancellor’s plan. I think they are trying their best to support the most vulnerable kids and to provide a working solution for parents that can’t support DL and don’t have the resources for pods, tutors, etc. in short, I think they actually do care about equity and I support their effort, even though it’s not a perfect solution. Like OP, I’m hopeful it opens a door for eventually bringing everyone back. We don’t want to be in this same place next year with no one back in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the contact information. I’ve made my calls. In full transparency, I support the Mayor and Chancellor’s plan. I think they are trying their best to support the most vulnerable kids and to provide a working solution for parents that can’t support DL and don’t have the resources for pods, tutors, etc. in short, I think they actually do care about equity and I support their effort, even though it’s not a perfect solution. Like OP, I’m hopeful it opens a door for eventually bringing everyone back. We don’t want to be in this same place next year with no one back in school.

I support the idea of supporting the most vulnerable kids - but the Chancellor had no idea how this plan would be executed.
Example: A category of "most vulnerable kids" are children in self-contained classrooms. These are children who have more than 20 hours a week of special education services. [quick math - at least 4 hours a day]

These classrooms may have 6-12 students in them - depending on the age and needs of the students in that specific classroom.
There are only spaces for 1/2 of the kids in these classrooms to return to in person instruction. There other 1/2 are going to do DL.
Here is the kicker: The same teacher is responsible for delivering instruction for both groups.

The model that the Chancellor created actually provides less support for the most vulnerable kids as the teacher working with these students will be stretched even more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the contact information. I’ve made my calls. In full transparency, I support the Mayor and Chancellor’s plan. I think they are trying their best to support the most vulnerable kids and to provide a working solution for parents that can’t support DL and don’t have the resources for pods, tutors, etc. in short, I think they actually do care about equity and I support their effort, even though it’s not a perfect solution. Like OP, I’m hopeful it opens a door for eventually bringing everyone back. We don’t want to be in this same place next year with no one back in school.

I support the idea of supporting the most vulnerable kids - but the Chancellor had no idea how this plan would be executed.
Example: A category of "most vulnerable kids" are children in self-contained classrooms. These are children who have more than 20 hours a week of special education services. [quick math - at least 4 hours a day]

These classrooms may have 6-12 students in them - depending on the age and needs of the students in that specific classroom.
There are only spaces for 1/2 of the kids in these classrooms to return to in person instruction. There other 1/2 are going to do DL.
Here is the kicker: The same teacher is responsible for delivering instruction for both groups.

The model that the Chancellor created actually provides less support for the most vulnerable kids as the teacher working with these students will be stretched even more.

Sigh. I too support the goals of the Chancellor’s plan, and like you I also think the details of the plan are a hot mess.

I just don’t know what better options there are right now.
I do know I’d prefer this chancellor and mayor be nowhere near our school, teachers, and principal, who are doing amazing work.

[Anonymous]

Also I have called mayor and council member to say that if our principal gets fired, or the teachers strike because DCPS F’d this up, there’s going to be a huge blowback and I’m going to lead it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also I have called mayor and council member to say that if our principal gets fired, or the teachers strike because DCPS F’d this up, there’s going to be a huge blowback and I’m going to lead it.

Teachers legally cannot strike.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the contact information. I’ve made my calls. In full transparency, I support the Mayor and Chancellor’s plan. I think they are trying their best to support the most vulnerable kids and to provide a working solution for parents that can’t support DL and don’t have the resources for pods, tutors, etc. in short, I think they actually do care about equity and I support their effort, even though it’s not a perfect solution. Like OP, I’m hopeful it opens a door for eventually bringing everyone back. We don’t want to be in this same place next year with no one back in school.

This is written almost as if it was crafted by a communications specialist working for a government agency. Hmmmmmmm...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the contact information. I’ve made my calls. In full transparency, I support the Mayor and Chancellor’s plan. I think they are trying their best to support the most vulnerable kids and to provide a working solution for parents that can’t support DL and don’t have the resources for pods, tutors, etc. in short, I think they actually do care about equity and I support their effort, even though it’s not a perfect solution. Like OP, I’m hopeful it opens a door for eventually bringing everyone back. We don’t want to be in this same place next year with no one back in school.

This is written almost as if it was crafted by a communications specialist working for a government agency. Hmmmmmmm...

More conspiracy theories and pretending that the people speaking out (and contacting leadership) pro-DL during a pandemic must be "a communications specialist working for a government agency" or all one person, because it's impossible that people disagree with your self-centered, myopic view.

NP, who works for no branch of government, is not a teacher, and is also making calls like those described above

[Anonymous]

I certainly will not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the contact information. I’ve made my calls. In full transparency, I support the Mayor and Chancellor’s plan. I think they are trying their best to support the most vulnerable kids and to provide a working solution for parents that can’t support DL and don’t have the resources for pods, tutors, etc. in short, I think they actually do care about equity and I support their effort, even though it’s not a perfect solution. Like OP, I’m hopeful it opens a door for eventually bringing everyone back. We don’t want to be in this same place next year with no one back in school.

This is written almost as if it was crafted by a communications specialist working for a government agency. Hmmmmmmm...

More conspiracy theories and pretending that the people speaking out (and contacting leadership) pro-DL during a pandemic must be "a communications specialist working for a government agency" or all one person, because it's impossible that people disagree with your self-centered, myopic view.

NP, who works for no branch of government, is not a teacher, and is also making calls like those described above

+1. I'm another DCPS parent who supports this plan. DCPS was never going to be able to do much better given WTU's refusal to send teachers back. This plan requires fewer in person teachers than hybrid for example.

[Anonymous]

I’m not contacting anyone. I’m letting every council member know how sh*tty this plan is and that they better shut this plan down. It sucks. The mayor sucks And most of you on this board suck for constantly posting the same thing while congratulating yourself about how smart you are and how much you care.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get how people complain, but have no practical advice. It’s like when a subordinate comes to me with a list of problems but zero ideas on how to fix them. Bring me solutions, not complaints.

I was sympathetic to the teachers, but they’ve really lost my total support by scheduling multiple “parent zoom calls”, presumably behind the schools back, to bash the plan and to instill fear and division in parents. Half of what they say comes from a union pamphlet.

Should the schools be safe? Yes.
Is the plan perfect? No
Will some kids benefit and some not? Yes
Should teachers not have evaluations ? No

It’s just a huge complaint festival, and it ignores the harsh realities that there simply aren’t enough classrooms or teachers to go back to hybrid right now, and the union is steadfastly digging in on this, wasting my teachers time, and mine.

I don’t know what anyone hopes to achieve with this. DCPS isn’t going to go “oh alright, we’ll just open everything back up”, because they can’t - half the student body would chose to stay DL, schools are shutting back down in other states, and teachers - and the union - won’t go back until they get concessions that have nothing to do with safety.

A lot of folks are being easily manipulated.

Signed, an ex union negotiator.