Bowser says she hopes private schools will be virtual

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, DC public school parents, why are you even on this thread?

Yes, Bowser said she hoped privates would follow her decision. If you listened to her, mich of the decision was based on the teachers union not wanting to go back and she blamed it mostly on “staffing”. So basically she could not convince the teachers to go in.


Why she mentioned the privates? Simple. It makes her and the DCPS look bad if they can’t get their kids and especially their teachers don’t want to go in, but DC privates can. Makes DCPS look stupid. If privates close, DC parents can’t complain.

Where did you her her say that she hopes privates will follow her decision? If you watch the press conference, she says something like "I want to also be clear that the DCPS decision does not preclude charter schools and independent schools that they could have an in-person or some type of hybrid arrangement from making that decision for their school.” She did talk about there being four different scenarios that DCPS shared a week or two ago and said she hopes that charter schools will follow one of those scenarios if they choose hybrid.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, DC public school parents, why are you even on this thread?

Yes, Bowser said she hoped privates would follow her decision. If you listened to her, mich of the decision was based on the teachers union not wanting to go back and she blamed it mostly on “staffing”. So basically she could not convince the teachers to go in.


Why she mentioned the privates? Simple. It makes her and the DCPS look bad if they can’t get their kids and especially their teachers don’t want to go in, but DC privates can. Makes DCPS look stupid. If privates close, DC parents can’t complain.

Where did you her her say that she hopes privates will follow her decision? If you watch the press conference, she says something like "I want to also be clear that the DCPS decision does not preclude charter schools and independent schools that they could have an in-person or some type of hybrid arrangement from making that decision for their school.” She did talk about there being four different scenarios that DCPS shared a week or two ago and said she hopes that charter schools will follow one of those scenarios if they choose hybrid.

Don’t have direct link to text but this cites it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/07/30/dc-mayor-workforce-gaps-schools-virtual-388381

Bowser makes it clear: she wanted hybrid, this is not about health metrics, and the unions and fearful parents drive the decision. This is pitiful. I will blame them in June when my city’s kids are finishing a year online.

[Anonymous]

If she wanted hybrid, she should have kept her mouth shut about “guidance” for the private schools and their decisions!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, DC public school parents, why are you even on this thread?

Yes, Bowser said she hoped privates would follow her decision. If you listened to her, mich of the decision was based on the teachers union not wanting to go back and she blamed it mostly on “staffing”. So basically she could not convince the teachers to go in.


Why she mentioned the privates? Simple. It makes her and the DCPS look bad if they can’t get their kids and especially their teachers don’t want to go in, but DC privates can. Makes DCPS look stupid. If privates close, DC parents can’t complain.

Where did you her her say that she hopes privates will follow her decision? If you watch the press conference, she says something like "I want to also be clear that the DCPS decision does not preclude charter schools and independent schools that they could have an in-person or some type of hybrid arrangement from making that decision for their school.” She did talk about there being four different scenarios that DCPS shared a week or two ago and said she hopes that charter schools will follow one of those scenarios if they choose hybrid.

Don’t have direct link to text but this cites it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/07/30/dc-mayor-workforce-gaps-schools-virtual-388381

Bowser makes it clear: she wanted hybrid, this is not about health metrics, and the unions and fearful parents drive the decision. This is pitiful. I will blame them in June when my city’s kids are finishing a year online.

NP. Thanks for the link. I'm a little surprised she said that, given how many families in her home ward, including in her own neighborhood, send their kids to private. But perhaps many have decided to keep their kids home, so this doesn't ruffle any feathers. (I'm a neighbor, but hoping for hybrid).

[Anonymous]

The article says:

Public charter schools and private schools in the District are free to make their own decisions, Bowser said at a press conference, though she said she hoped they would follow the district’s framework.

She is *not* saying they should also close but that they should follow the parameters the District initially outlined for schools to open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a private school parent, we are in even worse shape since we have to pay for this

Newsflash - schools won’t go back in November. The mayor will continue to push DL. Nothing is going to change between September and November.

Of course. Our best hope now is April. For all you fearful doomsayers, stop to reflect: all of these kids will be at home for 7 months or more. This is **horrible** for children, parents and the economy. At least we could open in September and establish in person a community for the year. I pray this happens in private.

It won’t happen. It is what it is.

[Anonymous]

from the locked thread



Watch video between 22:45 to 22:48. Not sure how people are misinterpreting what she said.

https://www.facebook.com/MayorMurielBowser/videos/2645609422360386/

[Anonymous]

from the locked thread



Watch video between 22:45 to 22:48. Not sure how people are misinterpreting what she said.

https://www.facebook.com/MayorMurielBowser/videos/2645609422360386/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:from the locked thread



Watch video between 22:45 to 22:48. Not sure how people are misinterpreting what she said.

https://www.facebook.com/MayorMurielBowser/videos/2645609422360386/

In that segment, says that some charter or independent schools may not have to make the same type of decision, and that DCPS’ decision would not preclude charters or independent schools having some type of in-person or hybrid arrangement.

So was OP misinformed, or does it say something different elsewhere in the press conference?

[Anonymous]

All of these crazy threads are literally private school parents who never wanted to have kids and can’t stand actually having kids at home. And the wife’s ‘tennis lessons’ And the husband’s ‘lunch dates.’ Listen. Your affairs aren’t worth teachers dying. Your inability to take care of your own kids isn’t worth teachers’ lives. You fail at parenting and cloak it as some sort of ‘we paid for this and it needs to happen’ bulls:it. You’re miserable parents who don’t want to actually have children. You can’t pay that away.

[Anonymous]

I watched the whole thing. There’s nothing else in the press conference. She talks about how infrastructure and staffing prevent them from opening - very little about COVID-19 rates impacting decisions. So I gather it was union and inability to satisfy CDC guidelines, similar to same issues as MCPS.

There is someone trying to start drama over this issue because it’s clearly not what she said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of these crazy threads are literally private school parents who never wanted to have kids and can’t stand actually having kids at home. And the wife’s ‘tennis lessons’ And the husband’s ‘lunch dates.’ Listen. Your affairs aren’t worth teachers dying. Your inability to take care of your own kids isn’t worth teachers’ lives. You fail at parenting and cloak it as some sort of ‘we paid for this and it needs to happen’ bulls:it. You’re miserable parents who don’t want to actually have children. You can’t pay that away.

Yes all private school parents hate their children and that is why they want in person school. Public school parents love their children which is why they were overjoyed by MCPS’ decision to go DL next semester. That is why there are absolutely NO public school parents on this board lurking around, hoping private school parents suffer the same hand they’ve been dealt. You have it all figured out.

[Anonymous]

I hope many of you realize that many students post on this board with the intent of staring flame wars. It looks like many of you are eager to give these kids what they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of these crazy threads are literally private school parents who never wanted to have kids and can’t stand actually having kids at home. And the wife’s ‘tennis lessons’ And the husband’s ‘lunch dates.’ Listen. Your affairs aren’t worth teachers dying. Your inability to take care of your own kids isn’t worth teachers’ lives. You fail at parenting and cloak it as some sort of ‘we paid for this and it needs to happen’ bulls:it. You’re miserable parents who don’t want to actually have children. You can’t pay that away.

Yes all private school parents hate their children and that is why they want in person school. Public school parents love their children which is why they were overjoyed by MCPS’ decision to go DL next semester. That is why there are absolutely NO public school parents on this board lurking around, hoping private school parents suffer the same hand they’ve been dealt. You have it all figured out.

Someone’s peanut butter and jelly. I don’t get the obsession. They wanted DL and got it. Let us have our choice. Busybodies. Smh.

Oh henny. You have no idea. I’m on the inside. I know you. Literally. Private school parents who are begging for 5 days a week of mask-clad terrified teaching in person have no idea what that will actually be like. But just make sure you get your kids out of the house long enough so you can have your ‘tennis lessons’ and ‘long lunches.’ You never wanted kids. You have no idea how to take care of children unless a nanny is there to wipe them. It’s not jelly. It’s the truth. It’s a pandemic and you’re all worried about Bif having a mask to go to two days a week of 2nd grade to get into Harvard after you just vacationed in the Outer Banks with Covid Karen? No thank you.

Just jelly, actually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Bowser's press conference today in which she announced that dcps would be virtual, she said that she hoped that private schools would make the same choice. For schools that had previously announced in person or hybrid, do you think this will make them change their mind?

Maybe the DC Mayor should advocate for stopping the spread of infection to save lives: ban indoor dining in DC as this is a NO MASK activity that spreads covid

Work together with VA & MD Gov to shut down the bars and packed indoor dining with NO MASK at the Beach Towns where Covid is raging

And show that she puts Education above $$$$ and campaign contributions

Yes, hundreds will die, and that could have been prevented. But, not by closing schools that have been closed since March

Close the Damn Bars and Indoor Dining ( You know, the group gathering of hundreds without a mask in sight )

My kids are in public schools but yes, this. So much this.