How Will At/Over Capacity Schools Open in the Fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes and those people are also going to have to adjust. If you have two jobs that can’t be done from home then one of you will have to quit and look for another job. If you are a single parent household you’ll have to find a job that can be done from home at least part time.
Things aren’t magically going back to normal no one is inconvenienced.

"One of you will have to quit and find another job" is not particularly helpful advice with unemployment heading to record levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the theme of sending kids to neighborhood schools wouldn't now be a good time to address feeder rights and boundary lines? That would cut back crowding and lower use of public transit.

Yes, the middle of a pandemic that's disproportionately killing poorer people is a PERFECT time to just declare that only people who live within walking distance of a school can attend it, that shouldn't strike anyone as unfair in the least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know everyone is wrapped up in how this effects them, their kids are falling behind, economic destruction, etc. and just remember who we are asking to make the right decision....DCPS. The system that can’t handle snow days, the system that lost head start funding (b/c of horrible inaction), can’t get background checks on employees done among lots of other problems. They aren’t gonna make a great decision. May 15th will come and either they will kick the cab down the road or make some crazy decision that pisses everyone off and everyone freaks out. Buy masks for your kids, be ready for teachers to wear masks and be ready to do what is what for your family. Dcps has rarely made good decisions and I doubt they will make one here. Be ready for in school learning, staggered schedules and closures. There is nothing you can do about it so just accept it for what DCPS is.

I love you.
You are right. It’ll piss everyone off. Everyone will freak out. It DCPS- it’s what we do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It might be a good opportunity to open a "Deal Academy at Coolidge" or "Deal Academy at Brookland" or something. People might be open to it if they could keep their kids in their Deal bubble, more or less.

So... like segregated schools? Sounds peachy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It might be a good opportunity to open a "Deal Academy at Coolidge" or "Deal Academy at Brookland" or something. People might be open to it if they could keep their kids in their Deal bubble, more or less.

So... like segregated schools? Sounds peachy!

The PP was responding to the suggestion of me ving some Deal kids to Brookland or Coolidge. So basically the opposite of what you are saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It might be a good opportunity to open a "Deal Academy at Coolidge" or "Deal Academy at Brookland" or something. People might be open to it if they could keep their kids in their Deal bubble, more or less.

So... like segregated schools? Sounds peachy!

The PP was responding to the suggestion of me ving some Deal kids to Brookland or Coolidge. So basically the opposite of what you are saying.

Nope- she wants deal kids at Coolidge, as long as they are separated. Which is exactly what I called it out as.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It might be a good opportunity to open a "Deal Academy at Coolidge" or "Deal Academy at Brookland" or something. People might be open to it if they could keep their kids in their Deal bubble, more or less.

So... like segregated schools? Sounds peachy!

The PP was responding to the suggestion of me ving some Deal kids to Brookland or Coolidge. So basically the opposite of what you are saying.

Nope- she wants deal kids at Coolidge, as long as they are separated. Which is exactly what I called it out as.

PP, is that what you meant?

[Anonymous]

If that's what she meant, she's on cloud nine.

[Anonymous]

If...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids receiving services should/will go back first.

Regular kids? Who the hell knows?

Agreed.

Kids receiving services are regular kids btw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids receiving services should/will go back first.

Regular kids? Who the hell knows?

But which schools will they go to? Is the city going to permit kids to take an unnecessary 45 minute trip on the Metro with transfers? Or will they require kids to attend schools that are walkable and less crowded? Safety for all vs equity for a for a few.

Lol. Yeah that would be fun to see Brookland, Edgewood, and some other neighborhoods being forced to go to their in instead of the Charters or dxpa they go to now.. it would change the demographics a lot. Also, there are actually a lot of low income kids from other wards traveling up to wards 4 and 5. Because their parents work in the area and a lot using grandparents address and for aftercare.
If they don't offer aftercare on the days the kids are in school at least idk how some parents will be able to do this. Not everyone works from uomw

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents that keep complaining about overcrowding and out of boundary students might want to homeschool their children. That would reduce the number of children in classes.

So you are in favor of overcrowding? Do you think overcrowding has negative effects on all adults and students in overcrowded schools? Do you think overcrowding has some positive effects?

there WILL NOW be a zero tolerance on out of boundary scofflaws, using cousin Jo's address and the hair salon address, have seen both to get into Deal!

You are dreaming. Dcps doesn't have enough staff to do this. Though having the online property tax confirmation might help. There will always be some out of the ordinary cases for 75 -90,% of people have a lease, income or property taxes, or address for government benefits SSDI/ unemployment/WIC /EBT dcps needs to require the online tax information confirmation or government benefits address confirmation be submitted in all cases. If you information has changed or is different then you can provide that evidence. This will cut down on some of the people for MD and other areas jumping districts and the address fraud with Grandma's house.
I actually had a tax client lose her senior DC reduced property tax due to a family member lying and saying they lived at her address. The family member reported living there to the DC government so she could get a DC job and use the address for school. So, DC government said the household made too much money for the income based tax breaks and other programs. Only granddaughter didn't actually live there or help with bills.... So, grandma lost a lot of money. Not sure what happened to the granddaughter ☹️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids receiving services should/will go back first.

Regular kids? Who the hell knows?

This type of reasoning bothers me. To put it in a stark way, the kids who are non verbal and unlikely to be largely productive members of society as adults will be able to attend school, but the future doctors/ nurses/ teachers/ etc will be made to sit out. How can a society function if this is our priority?

I know this sounds cold hearted. I’m thinking big picture on purpose with my musings. But what if hospitals functioned the same way- in Italy for example if 2 people needed a hospital bed and one was 85 and had heart disease and one was 30 and healthy, the 30 year old got it. It seems like with schools this plan would only offer in person education to the most frail.

You do realize a LOT of kids with IEPs will go on to be contributing members of society. Who knows they could be nurses and scientist sure, they could also be the farmers, grocery store works, postal service members, janitorial staff, teachers, social workers, trucker, plumbers, or 101 other essential employees actually running this country right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think shifts and alternate days make the most sense. Redistricting needs to happen in general, but it's not going to allow for 10-15 kids/class.

Perhaps the speech therapists, OTs, and others who usually do pull-outs will make home visits and do those on the days or times kids aren't in school.

It will be a disaster for any family without a parent who is very organized and has a flexible work schedule. What is the school going to do when little Johnny who is scheduled to come on A days shows up on a B day--put him in an Uber back to his empty house?

Hopefully the District will set up something like the NYC "enrichment centers" to provide care for the school-aged kids of parents who have to work.

I think some kids won't show up at all. OSSE should be working with the LEAs to identify the kids nobody's been in touch with and have CFSA investigate. Sadly, some of the kids will be missing or dead.

The could split the classes. M/T and TR/FR with Wednesday to clean and prep for teachers. Basically on the off days kids would be doing reading, match workbooks etc that will support the weeks lessons.
IEP kids might get extra services in set aside class rooms used only for those kids on Wednesday. Sure there would be some mixing and over lap but it would be limited.

[Anonymous]

If your choices were: your in boundary school (with everyone else who is in boundary but currently attending an out of boundary school) or continued distance learning, what would you choose?