
Who cares right now? No one has school. Do you not realize that using the pandemic to address legitimate structural inequities turn people off to you and your very valid causes? Refusing to teach in person denies kids an adequate education. It’s that simple. When you say you want to address mice or prior expenditures all I can think is: you’re using kids as political pawns and you don’t even care. My school can’t even recruit people to do teacher appreciation activities at this point. People are so fed up. Teachers are so massively misjudging this. (And our school is not in Ward 3 and not majority white.) |
I'm on your side. I am part of the 7% that volunteered to go back and understand how much kids needs to be in school. I have been in person since mid-December. I am tired of the racial division and using kids as pawns. The only point I was trying to get across that DCPS has created this mess and perpetuates the racial division in this city through bad public policy. |
Racial division is just a code word for 'let's keep systematic racism in tact.' |
I agree, why do you think DCPS leadership acts to keep systematic racism intact? |
Not sure why you're pandering, you want a medal for going back in person? You're not special, in fact I'm pretty sure you were just thinking of your Impact score. |
Probably because they like the money gentrifiers bring in. |
Since you asked, yes I would like a gold medal and a perfect Impact score. Thanks. |
+1 we agree. The only color that matters at the end of the day is green. |
That's sad, the gold medal won't happen but I hope you get HE and it was worth saddling your colleague with 10+ more kids. |
A quick question.
Those parents who want DCPS to open for term 4 for more students how is it going to be possible? It may be possible at schools where the teacher has 11 kids in person and the rest online. But what about the schools, which I think are the majority whose class sizes when up? Are you expecting in person teacher A to take on some of virtual teacher B's students? If so what is the plan for social distancing? That's literally impossible with 24+ students. |
That’s really hard to say. If the Health Dept changes its guidelines for DCPS reopening, they will expand what they can offer. In many schools it’s not that they can’t offer more bc of staffing, it’s that they physically don’t have the space. |
FWIW, our principal said the in-person/DL split that goes into effect Monday will be the way things stand for the rest of the school year. There won't be any more kids let in for Term 4. |
FWIW, our principal said they hope to expand for term 4 but it will depend on OSSE relaxing the requirements. |
What? Most of us can see DCPS leadership has plenty of faults, but COVID has clearly exposed that the WTU is not a partner in good faith trying to solve problems. It's hard to lay anything just on one side after watching how the past year has unfolded where DCPS suggests something (with faults), but instead of constructive dialog WTU blows it up and kicks the can down the road. Seeing what DCPS is dealing with on the COVID issues makes me question whether WTU is this much of an anchor towards any changes to the schools. In my mind at this point the WTU owns the issues with DC schools as much as the city government does. |
Can someone tell me what you guys are going to complain about when schools open a Monday? |