Lamb is closing Monday Feb 3

[Anonymous]

“As for the day off on Monday, I had three different offers from friends to watch my kids or do rotating play dates. There is a real community there, but you have to be willing to actually engage with the community, and not just complain to the administration all the time about how much you hate the school.”

This is sanctimonious BS. I am extremely engaged in the school community. Have wonderful friends there, volunteer consistently, support the teachers. I’ve looked after countless friends of my kids on days when school is closed, despite having a full time job. There is only one family who has ever offered to watch my kids in return. This is likely because one of my kids has special needs.

I fully support the desire to protest Trump’s immigration policies. Don’t use my kids, including my kid with an IEP, to do it. Informing parents at 12:30 on a Friday about a Monday closure is unprofessional and doesn’t meet the frankly low expectations I have for the school.

When was this national day of observance announced? Because THAT is when parents should have been informed there would be no school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reading the time stamps on here, I feel like there is at least one possibly more people posting over and over again. The pace of responses in the short amount of time simply does not make sense given historical trends and pace of responses on this page.

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)

All that to say I never trust anything I read on here at all anymore.

I won’t debate the day off thing. It’s a conversation that can’t be had with any thoughtfulness over this medium.

I WILL say that the anger on this thread is not consistent with the overall tenor of dialogue in either of my children’s class WhatsApp groups OR in the ParentSquare app OR in the many friend groups.

I will ALSO say that I feel very sorry for the person who feels this much anger to their child’s school and I’m truly baffled why they keep sending their kid there. You will put up with 8 years of a school you hate for a semi-decent middle school that has many of the same shortfallings?

There are many things to be said about LAMB, but our family has found the community to be kind and loving in a way that is so very needed in this world. If that’s not what you value in a school, there are other places to go.

Imagine what would happen if LAMB announced it was closing for a month in protest of racism. What do you think would happen? I'll tell you what would happen. There would be a bunch of parents taking to ParentSquare to talk about how proud they are of the school to take a stand against racism and how this is a minor sacrifice in the cause towards eradicating racism. There would be a whole bunch of other parents who would seethe in private because wouldnt dare say anything because if they complained, they would be seen as racist. The same thing is happening here.

There are thousands of hypotheticals that you could come up with, some of which would be very interesting to engage and unpack in person, none of which are worth the calories of engaging with on this medium.

None of them matter, because at the end of the day, no one is forcing you to send your child to LAMB. Literally by definition you have other choices.

I always hate these threads on LAMB because, again, there are a handful of parents who just seem super disgruntled and unhappy, regardless of what LAMB does. I have met a few of these parents in real life, and I always find them self-righteous and entitled. I always wish they would leave the school community and either go to their local DCPS school (where there is no way they would get the amount of indulgence that they get at LAMB) or a private school (which is what I think they want LAMB to be).

As for the day off on Monday, I had three different offers from friends to watch my kids or do rotating play dates. There is a real community there, but you have to be willing to actually engage with the community, and not just complain to the administration all the time about how much you hate the school.

Are your friends immigrants?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading the time stamps on here, I feel like there is at least one possibly more people posting over and over again. The pace of responses in the short amount of time simply does not make sense given historical trends and pace of responses on this page.

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)

All that to say I never trust anything I read on here at all anymore.

I won’t debate the day off thing. It’s a conversation that can’t be had with any thoughtfulness over this medium.

I WILL say that the anger on this thread is not consistent with the overall tenor of dialogue in either of my children’s class WhatsApp groups OR in the ParentSquare app OR in the many friend groups.

I will ALSO say that I feel very sorry for the person who feels this much anger to their child’s school and I’m truly baffled why they keep sending their kid there. You will put up with 8 years of a school you hate for a semi-decent middle school that has many of the same shortfallings?

There are many things to be said about LAMB, but our family has found the community to be kind and loving in a way that is so very needed in this world. If that’s not what you value in a school, there are other places to go.

Imagine what would happen if LAMB announced it was closing for a month in protest of racism. What do you think would happen? I'll tell you what would happen. There would be a bunch of parents taking to ParentSquare to talk about how proud they are of the school to take a stand against racism and how this is a minor sacrifice in the cause towards eradicating racism. There would be a whole bunch of other parents who would seethe in private because wouldnt dare say anything because if they complained, they would be seen as racist. The same thing is happening here.

There are thousands of hypotheticals that you could come up with, some of which would be very interesting to engage and unpack in person, none of which are worth the calories of engaging with on this medium.

None of them matter, because at the end of the day, no one is forcing you to send your child to LAMB. Literally by definition you have other choices.

I always hate these threads on LAMB because, again, there are a handful of parents who just seem super disgruntled and unhappy, regardless of what LAMB does. I have met a few of these parents in real life, and I always find them self-righteous and entitled. I always wish they would leave the school community and either go to their local DCPS school (where there is no way they would get the amount of indulgence that they get at LAMB) or a private school (which is what I think they want LAMB to be).

As for the day off on Monday, I had three different offers from friends to watch my kids or do rotating play dates. There is a real community there, but you have to be willing to actually engage with the community, and not just complain to the administration all the time about how much you hate the school.

I think you've inadvertently provided an example of the liberal intolerance that pervades LAMB.

What in here is liberal intolerance? I don’t care about people’s politics and I actually stated no opinion about whether I thought closing school on Monday was a good idea or not. I actually do find it annoying, but it tracks with everything else that LAMB has always done.

My point was just I find some of the parents to be super entitled. They constantly have a tone of disgust for the school, they complain without offering to engage on solutions, and they expect the school to cater solely to them and their families. It is always them vs the school.

Nothing to do with politics, I just think that if you have that attitude at any type of school that’s private, you will never be happy. I personally try to avoid those parents because they are just exhausting.

It’s entitled to expect your kid’s elementary school to stay open? lady that is literally the bare minimum requirement for a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading the time stamps on here, I feel like there is at least one possibly more people posting over and over again. The pace of responses in the short amount of time simply does not make sense given historical trends and pace of responses on this page.

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)

All that to say I never trust anything I read on here at all anymore.

I won’t debate the day off thing. It’s a conversation that can’t be had with any thoughtfulness over this medium.

I WILL say that the anger on this thread is not consistent with the overall tenor of dialogue in either of my children’s class WhatsApp groups OR in the ParentSquare app OR in the many friend groups.

I will ALSO say that I feel very sorry for the person who feels this much anger to their child’s school and I’m truly baffled why they keep sending their kid there. You will put up with 8 years of a school you hate for a semi-decent middle school that has many of the same shortfallings?

There are many things to be said about LAMB, but our family has found the community to be kind and loving in a way that is so very needed in this world. If that’s not what you value in a school, there are other places to go.

Imagine what would happen if LAMB announced it was closing for a month in protest of racism. What do you think would happen? I'll tell you what would happen. There would be a bunch of parents taking to ParentSquare to talk about how proud they are of the school to take a stand against racism and how this is a minor sacrifice in the cause towards eradicating racism. There would be a whole bunch of other parents who would seethe in private because wouldnt dare say anything because if they complained, they would be seen as racist. The same thing is happening here.

There are thousands of hypotheticals that you could come up with, some of which would be very interesting to engage and unpack in person, none of which are worth the calories of engaging with on this medium.

None of them matter, because at the end of the day, no one is forcing you to send your child to LAMB. Literally by definition you have other choices.

I always hate these threads on LAMB because, again, there are a handful of parents who just seem super disgruntled and unhappy, regardless of what LAMB does. I have met a few of these parents in real life, and I always find them self-righteous and entitled. I always wish they would leave the school community and either go to their local DCPS school (where there is no way they would get the amount of indulgence that they get at LAMB) or a private school (which is what I think they want LAMB to be).

As for the day off on Monday, I had three different offers from friends to watch my kids or do rotating play dates. There is a real community there, but you have to be willing to actually engage with the community, and not just complain to the administration all the time about how much you hate the school.

I think you've inadvertently provided an example of the liberal intolerance that pervades LAMB.

What in here is liberal intolerance? I don’t care about people’s politics and I actually stated no opinion about whether I thought closing school on Monday was a good idea or not. I actually do find it annoying, but it tracks with everything else that LAMB has always done.

My point was just I find some of the parents to be super entitled. They constantly have a tone of disgust for the school, they complain without offering to engage on solutions, and they expect the school to cater solely to them and their families. It is always them vs the school.

Nothing to do with politics, I just think that if you have that attitude at any type of school that’s private, you will never be happy. I personally try to avoid those parents because they are just exhausting.

It’s entitled to expect your kid’s elementary school to stay open? lady that is literally the bare minimum requirement for a school.

It's entitled to expect that a parent decides when the school opens and closes. That is the administration's call, and if you can't accept that, you are in fact entitled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading the time stamps on here, I feel like there is at least one possibly more people posting over and over again. The pace of responses in the short amount of time simply does not make sense given historical trends and pace of responses on this page.

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)

All that to say I never trust anything I read on here at all anymore.

I won’t debate the day off thing. It’s a conversation that can’t be had with any thoughtfulness over this medium.

I WILL say that the anger on this thread is not consistent with the overall tenor of dialogue in either of my children’s class WhatsApp groups OR in the ParentSquare app OR in the many friend groups.

I will ALSO say that I feel very sorry for the person who feels this much anger to their child’s school and I’m truly baffled why they keep sending their kid there. You will put up with 8 years of a school you hate for a semi-decent middle school that has many of the same shortfallings?

There are many things to be said about LAMB, but our family has found the community to be kind and loving in a way that is so very needed in this world. If that’s not what you value in a school, there are other places to go.

Imagine what would happen if LAMB announced it was closing for a month in protest of racism. What do you think would happen? I'll tell you what would happen. There would be a bunch of parents taking to ParentSquare to talk about how proud they are of the school to take a stand against racism and how this is a minor sacrifice in the cause towards eradicating racism. There would be a whole bunch of other parents who would seethe in private because wouldnt dare say anything because if they complained, they would be seen as racist. The same thing is happening here.

There are thousands of hypotheticals that you could come up with, some of which would be very interesting to engage and unpack in person, none of which are worth the calories of engaging with on this medium.

None of them matter, because at the end of the day, no one is forcing you to send your child to LAMB. Literally by definition you have other choices.

I always hate these threads on LAMB because, again, there are a handful of parents who just seem super disgruntled and unhappy, regardless of what LAMB does. I have met a few of these parents in real life, and I always find them self-righteous and entitled. I always wish they would leave the school community and either go to their local DCPS school (where there is no way they would get the amount of indulgence that they get at LAMB) or a private school (which is what I think they want LAMB to be).

As for the day off on Monday, I had three different offers from friends to watch my kids or do rotating play dates. There is a real community there, but you have to be willing to actually engage with the community, and not just complain to the administration all the time about how much you hate the school.

I think you've inadvertently provided an example of the liberal intolerance that pervades LAMB.

What in here is liberal intolerance? I don’t care about people’s politics and I actually stated no opinion about whether I thought closing school on Monday was a good idea or not. I actually do find it annoying, but it tracks with everything else that LAMB has always done.

My point was just I find some of the parents to be super entitled. They constantly have a tone of disgust for the school, they complain without offering to engage on solutions, and they expect the school to cater solely to them and their families. It is always them vs the school.

Nothing to do with politics, I just think that if you have that attitude at any type of school that’s private, you will never be happy. I personally try to avoid those parents because they are just exhausting.

It’s entitled to expect your kid’s elementary school to stay open? lady that is literally the bare minimum requirement for a school.

It's entitled to expect that a parent decides when the school opens and closes. That is the administration's call, and if you can't accept that, you are in fact entitled.

wow what an absolutely insane way to put it. The SCHOOL created the schedule and then arbitrarily decided to close at the last minute. I don’t think we would be here if they decided to put an immigrants day off on the calendar in advance. We are taxpayers and pay for the school (that our children are legally compelled to attend). You seem to be confusing school with a donut shop or something. well if LAMB and its teachers want to get the same degree of respect as a donut shop then this is the way to to it.

[Anonymous]

Gotta say I didn't have 'libs sending immigrants working two jobs scrambling for childcare as a way to show solidarity with immigrants' on my libs are nuts bingo card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gotta say I didn't have 'libs sending immigrants working two jobs scrambling for childcare as a way to show solidarity with immigrants' on my libs are nuts bingo card.

Well you fail to see that this allowed the LAMB community to rally to support each other, so it all works out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gotta say I didn't have 'libs sending immigrants working two jobs scrambling for childcare as a way to show solidarity with immigrants' on my libs are nuts bingo card.

Well you fail to see that this allowed the LAMB community to rally to support each other, so it all works out.

Did it? Or did the LAMB community lose an instructional day?

If this is LAMB's attitude towards instructional time, that explains a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading the time stamps on here, I feel like there is at least one possibly more people posting over and over again. The pace of responses in the short amount of time simply does not make sense given historical trends and pace of responses on this page.

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)

All that to say I never trust anything I read on here at all anymore.

I won’t debate the day off thing. It’s a conversation that can’t be had with any thoughtfulness over this medium.

I WILL say that the anger on this thread is not consistent with the overall tenor of dialogue in either of my children’s class WhatsApp groups OR in the ParentSquare app OR in the many friend groups.

I will ALSO say that I feel very sorry for the person who feels this much anger to their child’s school and I’m truly baffled why they keep sending their kid there. You will put up with 8 years of a school you hate for a semi-decent middle school that has many of the same shortfallings?

There are many things to be said about LAMB, but our family has found the community to be kind and loving in a way that is so very needed in this world. If that’s not what you value in a school, there are other places to go.

Imagine what would happen if LAMB announced it was closing for a month in protest of racism. What do you think would happen? I'll tell you what would happen. There would be a bunch of parents taking to ParentSquare to talk about how proud they are of the school to take a stand against racism and how this is a minor sacrifice in the cause towards eradicating racism. There would be a whole bunch of other parents who would seethe in private because wouldnt dare say anything because if they complained, they would be seen as racist. The same thing is happening here.

There are thousands of hypotheticals that you could come up with, some of which would be very interesting to engage and unpack in person, none of which are worth the calories of engaging with on this medium.

None of them matter, because at the end of the day, no one is forcing you to send your child to LAMB. Literally by definition you have other choices.

I always hate these threads on LAMB because, again, there are a handful of parents who just seem super disgruntled and unhappy, regardless of what LAMB does. I have met a few of these parents in real life, and I always find them self-righteous and entitled. I always wish they would leave the school community and either go to their local DCPS school (where there is no way they would get the amount of indulgence that they get at LAMB) or a private school (which is what I think they want LAMB to be).

As for the day off on Monday, I had three different offers from friends to watch my kids or do rotating play dates. There is a real community there, but you have to be willing to actually engage with the community, and not just complain to the administration all the time about how much you hate the school.

Are your friends immigrants?

Yes, two of them are!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading the time stamps on here, I feel like there is at least one possibly more people posting over and over again. The pace of responses in the short amount of time simply does not make sense given historical trends and pace of responses on this page.

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)

All that to say I never trust anything I read on here at all anymore.

I won’t debate the day off thing. It’s a conversation that can’t be had with any thoughtfulness over this medium.

I WILL say that the anger on this thread is not consistent with the overall tenor of dialogue in either of my children’s class WhatsApp groups OR in the ParentSquare app OR in the many friend groups.

I will ALSO say that I feel very sorry for the person who feels this much anger to their child’s school and I’m truly baffled why they keep sending their kid there. You will put up with 8 years of a school you hate for a semi-decent middle school that has many of the same shortfallings?

There are many things to be said about LAMB, but our family has found the community to be kind and loving in a way that is so very needed in this world. If that’s not what you value in a school, there are other places to go.

Imagine what would happen if LAMB announced it was closing for a month in protest of racism. What do you think would happen? I'll tell you what would happen. There would be a bunch of parents taking to ParentSquare to talk about how proud they are of the school to take a stand against racism and how this is a minor sacrifice in the cause towards eradicating racism. There would be a whole bunch of other parents who would seethe in private because wouldnt dare say anything because if they complained, they would be seen as racist. The same thing is happening here.

There are thousands of hypotheticals that you could come up with, some of which would be very interesting to engage and unpack in person, none of which are worth the calories of engaging with on this medium.

None of them matter, because at the end of the day, no one is forcing you to send your child to LAMB. Literally by definition you have other choices.

I always hate these threads on LAMB because, again, there are a handful of parents who just seem super disgruntled and unhappy, regardless of what LAMB does. I have met a few of these parents in real life, and I always find them self-righteous and entitled. I always wish they would leave the school community and either go to their local DCPS school (where there is no way they would get the amount of indulgence that they get at LAMB) or a private school (which is what I think they want LAMB to be).

As for the day off on Monday, I had three different offers from friends to watch my kids or do rotating play dates. There is a real community there, but you have to be willing to actually engage with the community, and not just complain to the administration all the time about how much you hate the school.

I think you've inadvertently provided an example of the liberal intolerance that pervades LAMB.

What in here is liberal intolerance? I don’t care about people’s politics and I actually stated no opinion about whether I thought closing school on Monday was a good idea or not. I actually do find it annoying, but it tracks with everything else that LAMB has always done.

My point was just I find some of the parents to be super entitled. They constantly have a tone of disgust for the school, they complain without offering to engage on solutions, and they expect the school to cater solely to them and their families. It is always them vs the school.

Nothing to do with politics, I just think that if you have that attitude at any type of school that’s private, you will never be happy. I personally try to avoid those parents because they are just exhausting.

It’s entitled to expect your kid’s elementary school to stay open? lady that is literally the bare minimum requirement for a school.

Jokes on you. I’m a dude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gotta say I didn't have 'libs sending immigrants working two jobs scrambling for childcare as a way to show solidarity with immigrants' on my libs are nuts bingo card.

Well you fail to see that this allowed the LAMB community to rally to support each other, so it all works out.

I assume this is sarcastic since the school is more divided than it has been since the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gotta say I didn't have 'libs sending immigrants working two jobs scrambling for childcare as a way to show solidarity with immigrants' on my libs are nuts bingo card.

Well you fail to see that this allowed the LAMB community to rally to support each other, so it all works out.

I assume this is sarcastic since the school is more divided than it has been since the pandemic.

Yes it was sarcasm (although a PP actually said it sincerely earlier). And gee wonder why this divided the school similar to the pandemic? Whyever could that be??

[Anonymous]

So the teachers just...wanted an extra day off?

[Anonymous]

Performative bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: So the teachers just...wanted an extra day off?

I like how the protest is to do literally nothing except skip work. That'll show em.