| DCPS is scrambling to identify instructional content explaining how wildfires are racist. |
Yeah, jeez, everyone knows competent school administrators pay no attention to environmental hazards and make sure kids go outside for recess even when the air is unhealthy for everyone, with pollutants measured at the highest levels in the city's recorded history. |
| Why they just closed.Kids are coughing this morning waiting for buses.DCPS??? |
If the DCPS school has a decent HVAC system, it might be safer for kids to be in the school than home. However, that's certainly not all schools. |
Wear a mask. |
I am one of the PPs and you claimed going outside is like smoking 6 cigarettes. That is a lie. Calling people a Trumper for calling out your lies makes you just as bad as conservatives. |
If you are trying to protect kids from the outside air it isn't clear at all that closing schools would help. Lots of kids are likely to continue to go outside, or they don't necessarily have better air quality inside their homes than in schools. But closing schools definitely DOES have downsides. So no clear benefit + definite costs = bad idea. |
Respiratory conditions such as asthma are more common in minority communities, which also have less access to reliable insurance coverage or primary care. |
Actually during the period of purple air, it was like smoking 10 cigarettes. Going outside for a short time might not be a big deal for you, but for my kids medical profile and my medical profile it is a big deal. You need help. Seriously. |
That’s if you are outside all day. Do what you need in terms of masking but spreading false information does no good. And this has nothing to do with trump, or needing therapy or whatever stupid insult you want to throw out there. |
The loonies at my school went absolute bonkers. Felt like it was 2020 again. |
And the denialists of 2020-21 seemed primed and empowered to have an irrational, knee-jerk rejection of Federal, City, School District guidance, and its underlying science. |