What charter schools are open at all?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, parents in Wards 7 and 8 are being convinced their kids are at risk from schools opening and that’s not really true. There’s no evidence of substantial transmission at school at all. Rates are lower than in surrounding communities. Also, let’s stop with this fiction that most kids are at home. The majority of kids are utilizing some non-parent form of childcare and many of them are mixing with other kids and families. Unfortunately a lot of parents in Wards 7 and 8 (end elsewhere to be honest) aren’t not particularly scientifically literate and are falling for scare tactics, which the WTU is happy about. Also, let’s not close our eyes to the fact that at some schools in Ward 8, grade 9 averages attendance around 70%. I pick that grade because everyone in that grade is required to be in school. Some of these families get in legal trouble and/or fear getting in trouble over truancy. Is it shocking that they’d prefer DL for reasons having nothing to do with COVID or that, for entirely different reasons, lots of teachers would? We don’t normally do opinion polling on whether you want to go to school or send your kids to school or actually do your job.

This! Black and brown people all over the U.S. are being convinced that COVID disproportionately impacts their communities. And even if those "facts" and "data" were true, why must they be so very sensitive to watching friends and neighbors get sick and/or die at alarming rates as compared to the rest of the general population. Black and brown people are so sensitive. They need to get outside their own bubbles and see the world through my white UMC glasses to truly understand the toll COVID is taking on our families.

Always love rich white women knowing what is best for brown and black women. But its the science- its minimal risk!!! Yeah - you have had to wait 3 hours for healthcare and miss 3 hours of a paycheck or losing your job. Oh and you have to take two buses in a pandemic to said healthcare. Oh and you are good when your school's pod closes that you can just pick them up and then take two buses home and not miss the paycheck or work. Oh and you can then just swing readjusting everything back to DL at the drop of a hat. Oh and if you get sick you can miss 3 months of work (which is happening to some).

Black women die disproportionally in childbirth that isn't a myth people are passing around.

STOP telling Black women their healthcare fears aren't founded in reality. Stop telling black women anything if you aren't black.

Oh but they don't know - stfu. Your well intentioned bigamy is not going to work.

Now grasp your pearls and go watch scandal and think you know what its like.

You sound absolutely hysterical. I suppose you also think homebirth is the answer to high black infant/maternal
mortality as opposed to improving access to actual medical care?

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Anonymous wrote:Charters typically follow DCPS for most things that have risk and liability, such as closing for weather. I would be amazed if charters open before DCPS does, even though I believe schools should have been open since this Fall.

This is one of the most sensible posts I've read on DCUM regarding this school year. I just wish our charter school principal would tell us this simple truth, rather than presenting us with numerous and meaningless parental surveys.

Agreed. And, for me, it was helpful to understand the limits of autonomy.

Are you saying that an anonymous poster on DCUM who seems to believe in a secret conspiracy of silence from their charter "heled you to understand the limits of autonomy"? Do you know what a low information voter is?

P.S. Q wants you to quit your job and home school all our kids.

I feel like perhaps I'm responding to a low information voter right now! Ha. What on earth are you talking about?

There have long been debates about the benefits and costs of charter schools being independent LEAs or part of larger LEAs. Until the pandemic, I thought the benefits outweighed the costs and supported DC's approach. However, the pandemic made clear that charters, at least in this city, are not leveraging autonomy to make more creative solutions regarding distance learning or offering some in person supports. At least the school my kids attend is not.

For what it's worth, throwing about Q every time you encounter an idea or opinion you don't like isn't doing you any favors.

Why do assume that because a school isn't doing what you want that they aren't embracing solutions? I guess we now know what happens to kids who are given participation trophys when they grow up. Your thoughts and feelings are not as valid as everyone else's. Sometimes you are wrong.

DP. Schools that aren’t making an effort to get some kids back have not been embracing any kind of solution. It’s like you want us all to be blind to all the private and parochial school opened right in front of our faces. It’s doable - they don’t WANT to do it.

[Anonymous]

If you want to go to a private school - go. Please.

But don’t pretend that it is the same.

[Anonymous]

You sound absolutely hysterical. I suppose you also think homebirth is the answer to high black infant/maternal
mortality as opposed to improving access to actual medical care?

Just another white woman who knows better than my black ass because of the color of your skin and your zip code. And when you can empathize and when I don't do it your way you say - I'm hysterical, unfounded, unrefined.

I'm sure you voted for Biden and Obama and wore a pink hat to show how much you care. You might even have a BLM sign in your yard.

Check yourself - your bigotry is showing.

BTW I'm anti-homebirth. My dad is an OBGYN (yes us black folk can get an education in the "hood"). I'm a lawyer. I'm also pro the HPV vaccine for all but I understand why the black community is skeptical and needs the discussion (not edict) needs to be done differently.

[Anonymous]

^^ this isn't about honest discussion with the black community - which yes, is needed about the vaccine and returning to school. It's about presenting them with correct information and assurances, as opposed to false claims about the risks of schools (and vaccines). Which thus far have emanated from the teacher's unions and supporters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ this isn't about honest discussion with the black community - which yes, is needed about the vaccine and returning to school. It's about presenting them with correct information and assurances, as opposed to false claims about the risks of schools (and vaccines). Which thus far have emanated from the teacher's unions and supporters.

Vaccines are not effective on people who have a lower immune response or are overweight or obese. Unfortunately this is many people in my community, especially the ones living in ward 7 & 8. For far too long black people have been a target.

So no, it's not about the risks of a vaccine, it's how much it will actually help. After all people do not die from getting covid they die from their immune response.

[Anonymous]

"People don't die from COVID, they die from its effects on the body!"

This is a distinction without difference.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^ this isn't about honest discussion with the black community - which yes, is needed about the vaccine and returning to school. It's about presenting them with correct information and assurances, as opposed to false claims about the risks of schools (and vaccines). Which thus far have emanated from the teacher's unions and supporters.

Vaccines are not effective on people who have a lower immune response or are overweight or obese. Unfortunately this is many people in my community, especially the ones living in ward 7 & 8. For far too long black people have been a target.

So no, it's not about the risks of a vaccine, it's how much it will actually help. After all people do not die from getting covid they die from their immune response.

wow. I surely hope you don’t believe this. is your vision that no child in ward 7 or 8 will return to school for years? Spell it out, please.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Charters typically follow DCPS for most things that have risk and liability, such as closing for weather. I would be amazed if charters open before DCPS does, even though I believe schools should have been open since this Fall.

This is one of the most sensible posts I've read on DCUM regarding this school year. I just wish our charter school principal would tell us this simple truth, rather than presenting us with numerous and meaningless parental surveys.

Agreed. And, for me, it was helpful to understand the limits of autonomy.

Are you saying that an anonymous poster on DCUM who seems to believe in a secret conspiracy of silence from their charter "heled you to understand the limits of autonomy"? Do you know what a low information voter is?

P.S. Q wants you to quit your job and home school all our kids.

I feel like perhaps I'm responding to a low information voter right now! Ha. What on earth are you talking about?

There have long been debates about the benefits and costs of charter schools being independent LEAs or part of larger LEAs. Until the pandemic, I thought the benefits outweighed the costs and supported DC's approach. However, the pandemic made clear that charters, at least in this city, are not leveraging autonomy to make more creative solutions regarding distance learning or offering some in person supports. At least the school my kids attend is not.

For what it's worth, throwing about Q every time you encounter an idea or opinion you don't like isn't doing you any favors.

Why do assume that because a school isn't doing what you want that they aren't embracing solutions? I guess we now know what happens to kids who are given participation trophys when they grow up. Your thoughts and feelings are not as valid as everyone else's. Sometimes you are wrong.

Just curious, are you the poster that replied to the autonomy poster by citing Q? If so, I don't think there is much room for adult conversation here. You aren't making clear points (for example replying to a poster by saying "you are wrong" but not making it at all clear what that poster is wrong about). But you are talking about participation trophies and extremists conspiracy theory groups and it's not clear why either are relevant. Many charters are not open and are not communicating clearly with families about their plans to consider opening and that isn't opinion, it simply is what it is.