School closures on Monday, Feb 3 for day without immigrants?

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

I have two kids at LAMB. Out of the 8 teachers and 10+ aftercare teachers, I can’t think of a single teacher who isn’t an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. I think there might be a handful in upper EL.

That’s the problem.

Yeah, I get that parents are annoyed about this, but my understanding from talking to teachers is this is not a case of the school closing so that white teachers can have solidarity with immigrants. This is literally an overwhelming number of immigrant teachers saying that they are taking Monday off (which they are allowed to do) to the point where the school could not stay open.

Parents choose to send their kids to LAMB knowing very well that it is a school dependent on native Spanish-speaking speakers as teachers. What is the expectation here?

The vast, vast, vast majority of LAMB parents are incredibly invested in the community and show overwhelming kindness, and support to each other, the teachers, and the administration.

I hope that the parents who have so much anger to LAMB that they cannot support the teachers that make the school possible decide to leave.

Trump has been in office for 13 days. Is the school going to close every time he does something outrageous?

Just to be very clear here. The school is closing because they do not have enough non-immigrant staff to stay open on Monday. They had too many people decide to call in sick to safely open the school on Monday. It is not like the school is closing because they have a choice.

I suppose this could happen over and over again throughout the next four years, in which case I think parents and the administration will need to make choices about things like tolerance for teacher strikes and how to best support their immigrant teachers. But again, no one is forcing people to attend LAMB. People have choices.

So, let’s see.

Honestly, as a LAMB parent and federal employee who has been feeling so overwhelmed over the past few weeks, I am grateful for the LAMB community.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

What basic human right is at stake here? Do you think you have the right to move anywhere you want in the world, and no government can say boo about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

I have two kids at LAMB. Out of the 8 teachers and 10+ aftercare teachers, I can’t think of a single teacher who isn’t an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. I think there might be a handful in upper EL.

That’s the problem.

Yeah, I get that parents are annoyed about this, but my understanding from talking to teachers is this is not a case of the school closing so that white teachers can have solidarity with immigrants. This is literally an overwhelming number of immigrant teachers saying that they are taking Monday off (which they are allowed to do) to the point where the school could not stay open.

Parents choose to send their kids to LAMB knowing very well that it is a school dependent on native Spanish-speaking speakers as teachers. What is the expectation here?

The vast, vast, vast majority of LAMB parents are incredibly invested in the community and show overwhelming kindness, and support to each other, the teachers, and the administration.

I hope that the parents who have so much anger to LAMB that they cannot support the teachers that make the school possible decide to leave.

Trump has been in office for 13 days. Is the school going to close every time he does something outrageous?

Just to be very clear here. The school is closing because they do not have enough non-immigrant staff to stay open on Monday. They had too many people decide to call in sick to safely open the school on Monday. It is not like the school is closing because they have a choice.

I suppose this could happen over and over again throughout the next four years, in which case I think parents and the administration will need to make choices about things like tolerance for teacher strikes and how to best support their immigrant teachers. But again, no one is forcing people to attend LAMB. People have choices.

So, let’s see.

Honestly, as a LAMB parent and federal employee who has been feeling so overwhelmed over the past few weeks, I am grateful for the LAMB community.

This is COVID all over again. The staff decides they don't want to go to work because X. The leadership says what can we do? The school closes and then parents are at each other's throats over whether the school should have closed. Meantime, kids don't get to go to school.

Has anyone heard of being in solidarity with others? Even if just one teacher is using the excuse to play hooky (which I very much doubt), it doesn't mean that the rest of teachers' or staff don't feel supported by the school's decision to stand with them.

I cannot believe parents who feel this way send their kids to a school like LAMB. Send your kids to a private school where you have more control with your purse if you can't see LAMB staff's humanity.

school is a place to teach children, not a place for adults to express their humanity. True story!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our country is literally crumbling. I think there should be a nationwide labor strike. But by all means, don't inconvenience DC parents.

I FEEL THIS WITH MY WHOLE HEART. I also get that not all immigrants are a monolith and some don't care for this or support it but if THE staff at our school are taking this stance then we support them and can still hold that its inconvenient and frustrating. Can folks have empathy and understanding AND also be frustrated?

We are not amoebas, we can have more than one feeling at a time.

I don’t have empathy with teachers unilaterally decide to close school. No I do not. That ship sailed in 2020.

LOL so if they all got deported your life would not be affected? Because that is what they are fighting back against...

is LAMB hiring undocumented teachers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

this is a really sick and hostile attitude. My thinking is that if you can’t keep it together to keep a school open, then you should probably not be in the profession of education.

[Anonymous]

yall weird as heck bro close all school https://youtu.be/ZHgyQGoeaB0?si=OGQMwvJ9WoAkT75e&t=3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the thing. No one gives a crap. No one cares about immigrants that much. Even the Hispanics that are here legally, do not care. We can’t go over there unless we play by their rules, then the same applies here. America can barely take care of their own damn people, let alone others. Take care of home first!

OK, so enjoy teaching your kids at "home" on Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the thing. No one gives a crap. No one cares about immigrants that much. Even the Hispanics that are here legally, do not care. We can’t go over there unless we play by their rules, then the same applies here. America can barely take care of their own damn people, let alone others. Take care of home first!

You say that, and yet... you're angry that you're being inconvenienced by something being closed, that you were apparently unaware was supported primarily by immigrant staff. So I guess you do care-- you just want it to be invisible.

The reality is that "legal" has become awfully tenuous these last two weeks. Tons of actions have been taken that are not "legal". The admin has talked openly about reversing naturalization (aka stripping CITIZENS of their CITIZENSHIP) and reversing birthright citizenship (which means, some folks that have a green card and are in the process of obtaining citizenship through someone with birthright citizenship might have all paths to citizenship revoked).

ICE raids are pulling in citizens and legal residents because they're basically rounding up anyone with the wrong color skin or the wrong name and sorting it out later. Folks that had their critical identity papers safely locked up now have to figure out a safe way to carry them ON THEM at all times, regardless of the mess or labor involved in their job. Or worse, kids-- how can you send a kid to school with their birth certificate or passport or residency papers? They will lose it. But what if you don't? Immigrants are being treated as illegal first, prove us wrong if you can.

We know you don't give a crap. Maybe you will when your food is 3x as expensive, a bunch of your favorite businesses have closed, and there is no lumber for building or repair and no labor in a huge number of industries. Oh, and when your retirement account is suddenly 1/2 of what it was last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our country is literally crumbling. I think there should be a nationwide labor strike. But by all means, don't inconvenience DC parents.

I FEEL THIS WITH MY WHOLE HEART. I also get that not all immigrants are a monolith and some don't care for this or support it but if THE staff at our school are taking this stance then we support them and can still hold that its inconvenient and frustrating. Can folks have empathy and understanding AND also be frustrated?

We are not amoebas, we can have more than one feeling at a time.

I don’t have empathy with teachers unilaterally decide to close school. No I do not. That ship sailed in 2020.

LOL so if they all got deported your life would not be affected? Because that is what they are fighting back against...

is LAMB hiring undocumented teachers?

This. There is absolutely no chance that LAMB has undocumented teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

The people posting on Parentsquare at dumb. They are all being trashed via text and will be talked about by the staff come Tuesday. Their kids will be treated poorly as a result from disagreeing with the school.

That’s what makes this post so extra disgusting. Anyone at lamb knows how badly they speak about parents who even question the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STOP CLOSING SCHOOLS

Stop being stupid

Heritage foundation is about to take over education in this country schools won’t need to be closed there will be no education!!