Plans to expand beyond 11 kids per room?

[Anonymous]

We either need to expand beyond 11 kids per room, or keep the 11 kids per room limit and move to year-round school. Those should be the choices.

[Anonymous]

There's not really any reason to keep the 11-kids-per-room limit this fall. By then, teachers will be vaccinated, and so will a large share of the rest of the population and the number of coronavirus cases in the city will be tiny.

Waiting for a pediatric vaccine is absurd. Those takes years to develop and there may never be one. At some point, people are going to have to start caring about what kind of education these kids are getting (or not getting).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's not really any reason to keep the 11-kids-per-room limit this fall. By then, teachers will be vaccinated, and so will a large share of the rest of the population and the number of coronavirus cases in the city will be tiny.

Waiting for a pediatric vaccine is absurd. Those takes years to develop and there may never be one. At some point, people are going to have to start caring about what kind of education these kids are getting (or not getting).

I think a lot of these posters want it eliminated now.

[Anonymous]

There’s not enough teachers to expand to offer more seats and DOH is not going to change their guidelines until we see a substantial drop in cases.

[Anonymous]

There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists!

[Anonymous]

Well, dcps (and charters) need to figure it out because come fall if we’re not inperson dc is going to lose a lot of its tax base as they move. We’ll be one of those families. Silver lining, I guess, is that as families move dc school enrollment will go down making 11 to 1 more feasible. But lower enrollment usually means less budget money, which means fewer teachers. It will be interesting to see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists!

Figuring out whether kids should be in school full time is a question that certainly has a scientific component, but it's a policy question about weighing different values and priorities. Whether I'm "smarter" than "the scientists" isn't really relevant to whether I get to have a perspective on this. And people who are familiar with the messiness of research and the extreme messiness of how research gets translated into policy don't talk this way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists!

please send me their contact info! there’s nothing magic about 6 ft. we’re at the end of the road here with perpetual DL so we will either have to do more a/b classes or increase class size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, dcps (and charters) need to figure it out because come fall if we’re not inperson dc is going to lose a lot of its tax base as they move. We’ll be one of those families. Silver lining, I guess, is that as families move dc school enrollment will go down making 11 to 1 more feasible. But lower enrollment usually means less budget money, which means fewer teachers. It will be interesting to see what happens.

hard to believe but we may move too. to nyc of all places!!

[Anonymous]

It's odd anyone thinks you moving matters. Kids who go to DCPS are not the most wealthy people in DC, you don't pay the majority of the taxes. There's plenty of options DC could use IF many middle/upper middle class white families move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists!

please send me their contact info! there’s nothing magic about 6 ft. we’re at the end of the road here with perpetual DL so we will either have to do more a/b classes or increase class size.

This. I would not be surprised if the cdc does start to allow 3 feet for elementary students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists!

please send me their contact info! there’s nothing magic about 6 ft. we’re at the end of the road here with perpetual DL so we will either have to do more a/b classes or increase class size.

This. I would not be surprised if the cdc does start to allow 3 feet for elementary students.

I would be very surprised if the CDC started to allow 3ft for elementary students right now, considering what's coming up about the UK variants in kids in countries where the UK variant is more prevalent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists!

Figuring out whether kids should be in school full time is a question that certainly has a scientific component, but it's a policy question about weighing different values and priorities. Whether I'm "smarter" than "the scientists" isn't really relevant to whether I get to have a perspective on this. And people who are familiar with the messiness of research and the extreme messiness of how research gets translated into policy don't talk this way.

Ugh. First it was ignoring science altogether because 2020, then it was 'But the science!' and now it's "yeah, ok, there's science, but if I'm shrill enough and shrewd enough, my arguments and needs could very well prevail over science, because the relationship between science and policy is so complicated and messy."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists!

Figuring out whether kids should be in school full time is a question that certainly has a scientific component, but it's a policy question about weighing different values and priorities. Whether I'm "smarter" than "the scientists" isn't really relevant to whether I get to have a perspective on this. And people who are familiar with the messiness of research and the extreme messiness of how research gets translated into policy don't talk this way.

Ugh. First it was ignoring science altogether because 2020, then it was 'But the science!' and now it's "yeah, ok, there's science, but if I'm shrill enough and shrewd enough, my arguments and needs could very well prevail over science, because the relationship between science and policy is so complicated and messy."

You are misconstruing what the PP said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists!

please send me their contact info! there’s nothing magic about 6 ft. we’re at the end of the road here with perpetual DL so we will either have to do more a/b classes or increase class size.

This. I would not be surprised if the cdc does start to allow 3 feet for elementary students.

I would be very surprised if the CDC started to allow 3ft for elementary students right now, considering what's coming up about the UK variants in kids in countries where the UK variant is more prevalent.

Can you please share the link to what’s coming up?
On the surface it looks like even in UK with its variant cases are dropping steadily.