If you Would like to be notified when a student in your kids class has covid, email your Council

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

Good lord. There are some total parent wack jobs at my kids’ school. I wouldn’t want them to have my personal email address or contact info.

Then you just opt out if it. Easy.

It’s invaluable to have a list serv or goggle group with all the parents email on it. I’m a room parent at our charter and this is how I get communication out to the families from teachers, about class events, play dates, happenings in the city, teacher Xmas gift, teacher appreciation week, etc…. So many things.

It’s also a platform for direct family to family communication about school, things which is also invaluable.

I don’t understand how this is not standard at DCPS schools. And if it’s not, why aren’t parents organizing to have this? How do you get communication out to families in your classroom?

I don’t want to hear from the PTA or “room mom” or random parents on the school listserv. The principal or classroom teachers send the information I need. You may be suprised how little other families are actually interested in your communication.

PP here. You don’t need to be on the list serv. Like I said you can opt out. Just because you don’t want to be on it doesn’t mean other families don’t either.

Sounds to me like you don’t have much family building cohesiveness in your classroom if parents can’t even communicate with each other or organize activities, etc…

BTW families at our charter are very involved and turnout is great for classroom and school events so yes they are interested in the communication.

Some people don’t care about “family building” - they want school to be school, run by professionals. the problem with you people is you think you are entitled to run the school because you organize play dates. There’s no reason for the school to facilitate that.

No such thing. I’m not interested in running the school. But I’m interested in building a school community and so is the leadership at our charter who actually provides the list and contacts. The information comes from the school who encourages and support any and all community building events.

It’s actually sad that you are trying to justify and excuse your school from not having a list by saying everyone doesn’t care about “family building” and a school community. It’s so not true.

lol. I find people who need to have a “school community” sad. school is my kid’s school. community is elsewhere. but yeah, I’m sure lesson 1 of the Broad training is “deflect energy by creating a school listserv to organize bake sales.”

and I will add … it was absolutely the “school community!!!” moms that were pushing school closure last year. because apparently they believed that to be a good member of the “school community” you had to side with closing the school. so no, I don’t like it. school is school first.

Well at our school they pushed for school to open and for hybrid and all families got what they wanted in our grade - 4 full days a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Janney has been notifying parents with a separate message if a case was in their kid’s class. Not sure what that is supposed to change for anyone, besides being even more relieved not to have been identified as a close contact. I guess it allows the Covid anxious to test their child. So far though, even the close contacts haven’t become infected, not even when the positive kid was symptomatic in class, so I’m not particularly worried. Delta hasn’t exactly been ripping through classrooms like the doomsayers wanted.

This must be a change since I was not notified of COVID cases in my child’s class, but rather heard it through the grapevine (which is not good).

Either you missed the notification or there wasn’t a Covid case in your kids class. Perhaps it was a sibling of a kid in your kid’s class that caused the sibling to quarantine. But I can guarantee due to personal knowledge that every classroom got notified of every positive at Janney.

Another Janney poster who disagrees. Janney is only notifying close contacts. The only case where a whole class was told was PK because they are all considered close contacts for that age.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

Good lord. There are some total parent wack jobs at my kids’ school. I wouldn’t want them to have my personal email address or contact info.

Then you just opt out if it. Easy.

It’s invaluable to have a list serv or goggle group with all the parents email on it. I’m a room parent at our charter and this is how I get communication out to the families from teachers, about class events, play dates, happenings in the city, teacher Xmas gift, teacher appreciation week, etc…. So many things.

It’s also a platform for direct family to family communication about school, things which is also invaluable.

I don’t understand how this is not standard at DCPS schools. And if it’s not, why aren’t parents organizing to have this? How do you get communication out to families in your classroom?

I don’t want to hear from the PTA or “room mom” or random parents on the school listserv. The principal or classroom teachers send the information I need. You may be suprised how little other families are actually interested in your communication.

PP here. You don’t need to be on the list serv. Like I said you can opt out. Just because you don’t want to be on it doesn’t mean other families don’t either.

Sounds to me like you don’t have much family building cohesiveness in your classroom if parents can’t even communicate with each other or organize activities, etc…

BTW families at our charter are very involved and turnout is great for classroom and school events so yes they are interested in the communication.

Some people don’t care about “family building” - they want school to be school, run by professionals. the problem with you people is you think you are entitled to run the school because you organize play dates. There’s no reason for the school to facilitate that.

No such thing. I’m not interested in running the school. But I’m interested in building a school community and so is the leadership at our charter who actually provides the list and contacts. The information comes from the school who encourages and support any and all community building events.

It’s actually sad that you are trying to justify and excuse your school from not having a list by saying everyone doesn’t care about “family building” and a school community. It’s so not true.

lol. I find people who need to have a “school community” sad. school is my kid’s school. community is elsewhere. but yeah, I’m sure lesson 1 of the Broad training is “deflect energy by creating a school listserv to organize bake sales.”

and I will add … it was absolutely the “school community!!!” moms that were pushing school closure last year. because apparently they believed that to be a good member of the “school community” you had to side with closing the school. so no, I don’t like it. school is school first.

Well at our school they pushed for school to open and for hybrid and all families got what they wanted in our grade - 4 full days a week.

sure but they did that in March, only when the “school community” decided it was time to return. Anyone who said they wanted school to open before that was a teacher-killing horrible person.

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Yell at the waitress more ladies. When school staff and teachers quit because while they are following the rules from their boss (DCPS) and educating your kids they have to deal with all of you.

My school didn’t notify me - because they can’t. They are given rules to follow and that’s what they do. If they violate those rules they will be fired.

Btw happy my city has people wanting more covid tracing, masking, eating outside, testing etc vs the crazy w find in other states where they spit at teachers and want to see other kids smile.

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Anonymous wrote:Yell at the waitress more ladies. When school staff and teachers quit because while they are following the rules from their boss (DCPS) and educating your kids they have to deal with all of you.

My school didn’t notify me - because they can’t. They are given rules to follow and that’s what they do. If they violate those rules they will be fired.

Btw happy my city has people wanting more covid tracing, masking, eating outside, testing etc vs the crazy w find in other states where they spit at teachers and want to see other kids smile.

On the other hand, I’m appalled that my city kept kids out of school to mollify teachers unions and scared people.

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Anonymous wrote:Janney has been notifying parents with a separate message if a case was in their kid’s class. Not sure what that is supposed to change for anyone, besides being even more relieved not to have been identified as a close contact. I guess it allows the Covid anxious to test their child. So far though, even the close contacts haven’t become infected, not even when the positive kid was symptomatic in class, so I’m not particularly worried. Delta hasn’t exactly been ripping through classrooms like the doomsayers wanted.

This must be a change since I was not notified of COVID cases in my child’s class, but rather heard it through the grapevine (which is not good).

Either you missed the notification or there wasn’t a Covid case in your kids class. Perhaps it was a sibling of a kid in your kid’s class that caused the sibling to quarantine. But I can guarantee due to personal knowledge that every classroom got notified of every positive at Janney.

Another Janney poster who disagrees. Janney is only notifying close contacts. The only case where a whole class was told was PK because they are all considered close contacts for that age.

DP. You are wrong. My kid is in a higher grade at Janney and we received a notification from the principal, shortly after the school wide emails were sent out. I cannot say whether this is a consistent practice, but to claim that you know that only a PK class was notified shows you are asserting facts you don’t have, because I have evidence to the contrary.

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Anonymous wrote:Janney has been notifying parents with a separate message if a case was in their kid’s class. Not sure what that is supposed to change for anyone, besides being even more relieved not to have been identified as a close contact. I guess it allows the Covid anxious to test their child. So far though, even the close contacts haven’t become infected, not even when the positive kid was symptomatic in class, so I’m not particularly worried. Delta hasn’t exactly been ripping through classrooms like the doomsayers wanted.

This must be a change since I was not notified of COVID cases in my child’s class, but rather heard it through the grapevine (which is not good).

Either you missed the notification or there wasn’t a Covid case in your kids class. Perhaps it was a sibling of a kid in your kid’s class that caused the sibling to quarantine. But I can guarantee due to personal knowledge that every classroom got notified of every positive at Janney.

Another Janney poster who disagrees. Janney is only notifying close contacts. The only case where a whole class was told was PK because they are all considered close contacts for that age.

Listen, you are 1000% wrong. Below is what the classroom email looks like, and this is not PK and it’s obviously to the full class not just close contacts:

“Hello XX Families,

Earlier today, this letter was shared with our school community. However, I wanted to share it directly with you as well, letting you know that this case was in XX's class. As the letter states all close contacts have been notified. If you have not received that notification, your child is not considered a close contact to the case and does not need to quarantine based on this notification. This information is also restated in the attached letter.

Please reach out with any questions.

Take care,
Danielle A. Singh”

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Anonymous wrote:Yell at the waitress more ladies. When school staff and teachers quit because while they are following the rules from their boss (DCPS) and educating your kids they have to deal with all of you.

My school didn’t notify me - because they can’t. They are given rules to follow and that’s what they do. If they violate those rules they will be fired.

Btw happy my city has people wanting more covid tracing, masking, eating outside, testing etc vs the crazy w find in other states where they spit at teachers and want to see other kids smile.

On the other hand, I’m appalled that my city kept kids out of school to mollify teachers unions and scared people.

This. I'm disgusted with DC right now.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

Now that I have seen close up how a persistent group of parents or “neighbors” can completely dominate a situation with uniformed and self-centered demands, I fully understand and support training on how to effectively deal with them. If only the Council had that training.

The Council is a bunch of pandering a$$holes and I fully support voting for anyone who runs against any of them. Also, this vocal group of parents are a bunch of a$$holes who don’t give a crap about increasing teacher workload just so they can get their bespoke school option. I hate them all.

that’s about where I am. I cannot wrap my head around how any marginally sane parent or educator is thinking ANYTHING right now other than “good god, how do we dig out of this hole.” It’s just maddening to see the same astoundingly ignorant forces that closed schools for 18 months still having any political power. Alls I can say is I better not hear a single word from them against mandatory vaccination.

Agreed. The Council is filled with pandering a$$holes out for their own power who couldn't scrape together a functioning set of morals between all of them. I would volunteer on the campaign of anyone who runs against the incumbent for Ward 4 or either of the At Large members. It's unbelievable to me that even after we see the negative effects of keeping schools closed for 18 months, there's still ANY talk of "pivoting" to close schools again or giving more power to WTU via the proposed legislation by Janeese Lewis George and Robert White and also the recent proposed legislation by several Council members to expand virtual school.

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Anonymous wrote:Yell at the waitress more ladies. When school staff and teachers quit because while they are following the rules from their boss (DCPS) and educating your kids they have to deal with all of you.

My school didn’t notify me - because they can’t. They are given rules to follow and that’s what they do. If they violate those rules they will be fired.

Btw happy my city has people wanting more covid tracing, masking, eating outside, testing etc vs the crazy w find in other states where they spit at teachers and want to see other kids smile.

Stop with these constant WTU talking points trying to equate parents who want schools open (without even more covid theater restrictions) with these tired tropes of entitled (or racist or whatever your strategy du jour) people.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

Good lord. There are some total parent wack jobs at my kids’ school. I wouldn’t want them to have my personal email address or contact info.

Then you just opt out if it. Easy.

It’s invaluable to have a list serv or goggle group with all the parents email on it. I’m a room parent at our charter and this is how I get communication out to the families from teachers, about class events, play dates, happenings in the city, teacher Xmas gift, teacher appreciation week, etc…. So many things.

It’s also a platform for direct family to family communication about school, things which is also invaluable.

I don’t understand how this is not standard at DCPS schools. And if it’s not, why aren’t parents organizing to have this? How do you get communication out to families in your classroom?

I don’t want to hear from the PTA or “room mom” or random parents on the school listserv. The principal or classroom teachers send the information I need. You may be suprised how little other families are actually interested in your communication.

PP here. You don’t need to be on the list serv. Like I said you can opt out. Just because you don’t want to be on it doesn’t mean other families don’t either.

Sounds to me like you don’t have much family building cohesiveness in your classroom if parents can’t even communicate with each other or organize activities, etc…

BTW families at our charter are very involved and turnout is great for classroom and school events so yes they are interested in the communication.

Some people don’t care about “family building” - they want school to be school, run by professionals. the problem with you people is you think you are entitled to run the school because you organize play dates. There’s no reason for the school to facilitate that.

“You people” said all I need to know

It actually tells you nothing but is a fun thing to get dramatic about, isn’t it?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

Good lord. There are some total parent wack jobs at my kids’ school. I wouldn’t want them to have my personal email address or contact info.

Then you just opt out if it. Easy.

It’s invaluable to have a list serv or goggle group with all the parents email on it. I’m a room parent at our charter and this is how I get communication out to the families from teachers, about class events, play dates, happenings in the city, teacher Xmas gift, teacher appreciation week, etc…. So many things.

It’s also a platform for direct family to family communication about school, things which is also invaluable.

I don’t understand how this is not standard at DCPS schools. And if it’s not, why aren’t parents organizing to have this? How do you get communication out to families in your classroom?

I don’t want to hear from the PTA or “room mom” or random parents on the school listserv. The principal or classroom teachers send the information I need. You may be suprised how little other families are actually interested in your communication.

PP here. You don’t need to be on the list serv. Like I said you can opt out. Just because you don’t want to be on it doesn’t mean other families don’t either.

Sounds to me like you don’t have much family building cohesiveness in your classroom if parents can’t even communicate with each other or organize activities, etc…

BTW families at our charter are very involved and turnout is great for classroom and school events so yes they are interested in the communication.

Some people don’t care about “family building” - they want school to be school, run by professionals. the problem with you people is you think you are entitled to run the school because you organize play dates. There’s no reason for the school to facilitate that.

No such thing. I’m not interested in running the school. But I’m interested in building a school community and so is the leadership at our charter who actually provides the list and contacts. The information comes from the school who encourages and support any and all community building events.

It’s actually sad that you are trying to justify and excuse your school from not having a list by saying everyone doesn’t care about “family building” and a school community. It’s so not true.

lol. I find people who need to have a “school community” sad. school is my kid’s school. community is elsewhere. but yeah, I’m sure lesson 1 of the Broad training is “deflect energy by creating a school listserv to organize bake sales.”

and I will add … it was absolutely the “school community!!!” moms that were pushing school closure last year. because apparently they believed that to be a good member of the “school community” you had to side with closing the school. so no, I don’t like it. school is school first.

And let’s not forget that because they saw themselves as “community leaders,” they constantly acted like they were speaking for everyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yell at the waitress more ladies. When school staff and teachers quit because while they are following the rules from their boss (DCPS) and educating your kids they have to deal with all of you.

My school didn’t notify me - because they can’t. They are given rules to follow and that’s what they do. If they violate those rules they will be fired.

Btw happy my city has people wanting more covid tracing, masking, eating outside, testing etc vs the crazy w find in other states where they spit at teachers and want to see other kids smile.

Stop with these constant WTU talking points trying to equate parents who want schools open (without even more covid theater restrictions) with these tired tropes of entitled (or racist or whatever your strategy du jour) people.

Don’t act like a racist MAGA asshole, then.