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Reformatted: Advocate for five days a week by fall
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Anonymous
Empower DC is all about getting schools to reopen? That's news to me. |
Anonymous
You are able to organize a "protest" outside city hall but not figure out how to find these groups, talk to these groups that they should be on your side. We aren't laughing that DCPS is ready for IPL (teachers and gen pop vaxxed) we are laughing at your tactics and inability to run an advocacy program for even your own kids. |
Anonymous
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It is important that it is framed as "In Person Instruction" not "In Person Learning"
I have children in MS and HS and I have not seen any commitment to in person instruction for these programs for next year. |
Anonymous
Oh, you (I guess its you) mentioned that you got all these emails from other groups advocating for DC kids' education. I'm just wondering which ones they are. You basically were suggesting that to get better traction, the Open DC group (notably different from DCUM) should pair with other DC groups that are advocating for full-time in-person school in the fall. You levy a criticism, purport to have solutions, and then are now not offering the solution (listing of other groups). Wait, are you the troll? |
Anonymous
I'm the PP, and am not in the Open DC group. But thanks for being sneeringly condescending unnecessarily. |
Anonymous
Yeah I looked at the webpage and they haven't done any campaigns related to education. They certainly seem to do other good work, but I don't know that their advocacy is in the realm of education. |
Anonymous
This is definitely the same early 20s, childless troll who stalks this board to insult and bully parents who want their kids in school bc he believes we are all white rich ward 3 residents. |
Anonymous
Ah yes, the one where we aren't certain if it is mental illness or some sort of bitter need to insult. I don't think they are a "he", though. I do think that they pretend to be a lot of things (like at one point, a "gay mom"). But they do reveal aspects of themselves at points; at the very least their style is highly identifiable. |
Anonymous
That's nice. The one advocate I heard on the radio a few weeks ago talking about kids during the pandemic sounded absolutely absurd. She refused to admit that getting kids back to school was in any way a priority or related to rising crimes. When pressed her only solution was that the city should be working harder to make sure teens have tablets. 
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Anonymous
| I appreciate the link to DC Action. I'm not seeing where they have any stance on school closures, or even the increasing achievement gap in the pandemic. Am I missing something? (Not asking the troll.) |
Anonymous
Email them and ask them. If you can ask here, you can email them too. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I did. |
Anonymous
Being white and not low ses is enough for people. And many comments have showed a lot of you have a very skewed view of the world. |
Anonymous
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I listened to a hearing once where some childrens' advocacy groups showed up. I believe one or two did advocate for reopening and one or two were focussed on IEPs. Openschools has done a great advocacy effort and has certainly publicized its message widely. I know plenty of non-whites who are supportive. I believe that demographics reflect that most of the rallying for schools reopening has come from affluent schools, and that school buildings in other neighborhoods tend to be the ones with more safety issues having suffered from years of neglect, where confidence in political leaders to keep children safe is much lower, and where covid has been much more deadly. Given that Openschools does offer an inclusive message to accept people's choices, I do not see how these issues should hinder opening public schools. Furthermore, declaring school reopening victory because most families opted to keep children home in most neighborhoods at one point in the year, however, is misleading. I can speak for my child's school, and can say that the way they are defining having accommodated demand for in person learning is having offered an in-person slot once to each family at one time in the year. They are saying for term 4 that no additional offers will be made to a family that rejected an offer for term 3. However, when they made the offers they did not inform families at the time that these offers were made that a refusal would mean forfeiting any opportunity for in-person learning for the entire school year. Furthermore, offers were made during the post holidays January spike at a time when families may been particularly reluctant to opt in for IPL. I find the narrative that DCPS has completed a successful reopening of its schools on the basis of these onetime offers disturbing. Perhaps DCPS cannot make more offers to the same families for practical reasons - that is not what bothers me as much as their discourse that they have met much of the demand for in-person learning across the city (Deputy Mayor for Education recently said this) and their capitalizing on the reluctance of families to sign on at a single time during the year.
Signing on some pro child organizations is a great idea, but ultimately parents are going to need to lobby their elected representatives if we are to make any meaningful progress by the time the next school year comes along. |
Anonymous
I think they meant Empower K-12: https://www.empowerk12.org/ |