20,000 kids missing from DCPS

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Anonymous wrote:My aunt works for a poor county in Maryland. 1/3 of elementary students received no instruction in the spring. This isn’t surprising and is a national emergency. People don’t care because it’s immigrants and POC.

This

Prior generations of immigrants would have made darn sure there kids were the first to register for school. I know this from personal experience. If you want to live the American dream you have to lean into it. This is on them.

Yes but they are here and not leaving and eventually it will be a huge societal problem if they are uneducated at least to the bare minimum

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My aunt works for a poor county in Maryland. 1/3 of elementary students received no instruction in the spring. This isn’t surprising and is a national emergency. People don’t care because it’s immigrants and POC.

This

Prior generations of immigrants would have made darn sure there kids were the first to register for school. I know this from personal experience. If you want to live the American dream you have to lean into it. This is on them.

I’m confused: on whom? The children?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One out every five kids in DC has never attended school this year.

This is unconscionable.

On the other hand, the prison industry is stoked.

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All this in a city that has some of the lowest coronavirus numbers in the country

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know at least 5% of my child's grade is not returning. A combination of private school, move, home school.

These are the ones I know of - and I am not asking around. All of these students ended the school year planning on returning. They all could be in the "started paper work" but not active right now grouping.
(WOTP Elementary)

This is us. We went private at the last minute and I know our paperwork has not been processed. I have two children who previously attended at WOTP elementary. We hope to return next fall.

[Anonymous]

Does it matter? A smaller school system would be easier to manage, good riddance.
We already have a shortage of space and teachers.

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What?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it matter? A smaller school system would be easier to manage, good riddance.
We already have a shortage of space and teachers.

If there are fewer kids, it will be because many of their families are leaving the city -- shrinking our local tax base and the funding available for education. It's also likely that those left behind will require more resources.

I frankly don't believe that there are 20,000 kids missing but I do believe there are thousands of families who had trouble navigating the enrollment process. I'm at a Title 1 school that is overenrolled and has a waiting list. The school staff walked families through registration and offered to do masked home visits if needed.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP and again i dont watch Hannity and don't vote Republican but you are wrong. This virus has run its course regardless of what you think. Just look at
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic

stats and tell me how I'm wrong not call me names.

I'm going to with the CDC on this one. Not your twitter account. There are no credible infectious disease experts who think this is not going to come back, or isn't still in the midst of the first wave.

There's a lot of back and forth right now even between experts. I live next to the CDC, everyone in my neighborhood works there or Emory. We have doctors and experts arguing back and forth in our neighborhood school facebook group whether we should open or stay closed. Everyone has strong opinions, it's pretty evenly split.

I think one of the big differences is how much faith you have in the government and community to take the steps needed to re-open safely. A lot of the people who are against reopening probably believe that the schools won't be properly supported to reopen safely.

The plural of anecdote isn’t data, but our family moved out of DCPS to MCPS over the summer because I have zero expectation that Bowser or OSSE will put the interests of the kids first, or handle either DL or reopening with even a modicum of competency. Obviously we feel guilty as Hell about being the rats to jump ship. So that’s one out of 20,000 accounted for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP and again i dont watch Hannity and don't vote Republican but you are wrong. This virus has run its course regardless of what you think. Just look at
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic

stats and tell me how I'm wrong not call me names.

I'm going to with the CDC on this one. Not your twitter account. There are no credible infectious disease experts who think this is not going to come back, or isn't still in the midst of the first wave.

There's a lot of back and forth right now even between experts. I live next to the CDC, everyone in my neighborhood works there or Emory. We have doctors and experts arguing back and forth in our neighborhood school facebook group whether we should open or stay closed. Everyone has strong opinions, it's pretty evenly split.

I think one of the big differences is how much faith you have in the government and community to take the steps needed to re-open safely. A lot of the people who are against reopening probably believe that the schools won't be properly supported to reopen safely.

The plural of anecdote isn’t data, but our family moved out of DCPS to MCPS over the summer because I have zero expectation that Bowser or OSSE will put the interests of the kids first, or handle either DL or reopening with even a modicum of competency. Obviously we feel guilty as Hell about being the rats to jump ship. So that’s one out of 20,000 accounted for.

Don't sweat it, we're good without you. But congrats on your overinflated sense in thinking that your moving should make you feel guilty about abandoning poor DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does it matter? A smaller school system would be easier to manage, good riddance.
We already have a shortage of space and teachers.

If there are fewer kids, it will be because many of their families are leaving the city -- shrinking our local tax base and the funding available for education. It's also likely that those left behind will require more resources.

I frankly don't believe that there are 20,000 kids missing but I do believe there are thousands of families who had trouble navigating the enrollment process. I'm at a Title 1 school that is overenrolled and has a waiting list. The school staff walked families through registration and offered to do masked home visits if needed.

Yea...do you really think that will put a dent in anything? DC has an large amount of wealthy people living here, I don’t worry about funding. I worry about how it’s allocated and being used. We have one of the highest per pupil spending in the country.

I also work at an over crowded title one school, so crowded we had to turn a closet into a resource room...
DC should spend money on making sure every school has a great environment and excellent teacher training.

And instead of just giving poorer families a place to live, require them by law to learn about how to manage money, and some free schooling towards a job they’d like to do.

The problem with DCPS isn’t how much we spend on students it’s the fact that we don’t want to look at their home environment even though we know some of them are really bad and sometimes it’s not at the fault of parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP and again i dont watch Hannity and don't vote Republican but you are wrong. This virus has run its course regardless of what you think. Just look at
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic

stats and tell me how I'm wrong not call me names.

I'm going to with the CDC on this one. Not your twitter account. There are no credible infectious disease experts who think this is not going to come back, or isn't still in the midst of the first wave.

There's a lot of back and forth right now even between experts. I live next to the CDC, everyone in my neighborhood works there or Emory. We have doctors and experts arguing back and forth in our neighborhood school facebook group whether we should open or stay closed. Everyone has strong opinions, it's pretty evenly split.

I think one of the big differences is how much faith you have in the government and community to take the steps needed to re-open safely. A lot of the people who are against reopening probably believe that the schools won't be properly supported to reopen safely.

The plural of anecdote isn’t data, but our family moved out of DCPS to MCPS over the summer because I have zero expectation that Bowser or OSSE will put the interests of the kids first, or handle either DL or reopening with even a modicum of competency. Obviously we feel guilty as Hell about being the rats to jump ship. So that’s one out of 20,000 accounted for.

Don't sweat it, we're good without you. But congrats on your overinflated sense in thinking that your moving should make you feel guilty about abandoning poor DC.

Just remember that mindset every time someone complains that their EOTP school would be better if not for all the charter schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP and again i dont watch Hannity and don't vote Republican but you are wrong. This virus has run its course regardless of what you think. Just look at
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic

stats and tell me how I'm wrong not call me names.

I'm going to with the CDC on this one. Not your twitter account. There are no credible infectious disease experts who think this is not going to come back, or isn't still in the midst of the first wave.

There's a lot of back and forth right now even between experts. I live next to the CDC, everyone in my neighborhood works there or Emory. We have doctors and experts arguing back and forth in our neighborhood school facebook group whether we should open or stay closed. Everyone has strong opinions, it's pretty evenly split.

I think one of the big differences is how much faith you have in the government and community to take the steps needed to re-open safely. A lot of the people who are against reopening probably believe that the schools won't be properly supported to reopen safely.

The plural of anecdote isn’t data, but our family moved out of DCPS to MCPS over the summer because I have zero expectation that Bowser or OSSE will put the interests of the kids first, or handle either DL or reopening with even a modicum of competency. Obviously we feel guilty as Hell about being the rats to jump ship. So that’s one out of 20,000 accounted for.

Don't sweat it, we're good without you. But congrats on your overinflated sense in thinking that your moving should make you feel guilty about abandoning poor DC.

I understand the vitriol. I hope you can continue to make things work for your family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP and again i dont watch Hannity and don't vote Republican but you are wrong. This virus has run its course regardless of what you think. Just look at
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic

stats and tell me how I'm wrong not call me names.

I'm going to with the CDC on this one. Not your twitter account. There are no credible infectious disease experts who think this is not going to come back, or isn't still in the midst of the first wave.

There's a lot of back and forth right now even between experts. I live next to the CDC, everyone in my neighborhood works there or Emory. We have doctors and experts arguing back and forth in our neighborhood school facebook group whether we should open or stay closed. Everyone has strong opinions, it's pretty evenly split.

I think one of the big differences is how much faith you have in the government and community to take the steps needed to re-open safely. A lot of the people who are against reopening probably believe that the schools won't be properly supported to reopen safely.

The plural of anecdote isn’t data, but our family moved out of DCPS to MCPS over the summer because I have zero expectation that Bowser or OSSE will put the interests of the kids first, or handle either DL or reopening with even a modicum of competency. Obviously we feel guilty as Hell about being the rats to jump ship. So that’s one out of 20,000 accounted for.

Don't sweat it, we're good without you. But congrats on your overinflated sense in thinking that your moving should make you feel guilty about abandoning poor DC.

Just remember that mindset every time someone complains that their EOTP school would be better if not for all the charter schools.

No charters are different, they are literally stealing money. They should just be private and have parents pay, the idea that people have to pay taxes for a private ‘public’ school is insane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can continue to make these flippant comments but they aren't true and more of the country is waking up to this fact as I see in these threads. People are tired of this act. My kids have been in preschool since June. Nobody's gotten sick and we've worn a mask and taken our temperature daily. You can tell me I'm in the minority (which isn't true) or point to the death stat (normal talking point) but none of it matters and it simply isn't true. There are large portions of this country that have moved on with their lives while you fear mongerers will keep it going. So please tell us we watch too much FoxNews again (which I dont watch by the way).

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Anonymous wrote:The cure is worse than the disease. Open the schools.

Is it time for Hannity already?

I’m a strong Democrat but the time to open schools is now.

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