A warning for those interested in CARE classrooms

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:teachers are very concerned that the cares classrooms will open and no one will get sick and then even more people will ask why teachers arent back in the classroom.

No teacher I know thinks that. They are concerned about the safety of the kids in the room. At my school less than 25% of the people accepted the inperson spots. This is upper NW. so I’m not sure what you are talking about.

I will happily accept an in-person slot at an upper NW school, FWIW. It would mean driving across town twice a day but it would be worth it if my kid was in a classroom with a teacher. And preferable to our current plan of forking over all of our savings to a private school so that our struggling kid can get her basic educational needs met.

I hear you but the people who are actually enrolled in the school are not interested in the spots.

We're at an upper NW school, and we'd take an in-person spot (but not a CARES classroom spot). My understanding was that if the families on the first list turned down the spots, they'd move down the list and offer spots until they were full.

Correct. My school went through the entire list. There is no one left to call

The entire grade turned in person down? Or just those families with kids with IEPs, ELL, at risk?

The entire grade

Cares classrooms, Ill buy this. In person, no way

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just advice. DCPS’ CARES classrooms will be 11 children learning on a tablet, while 1-2 adults who are not teachers will watch them. DCPS has 5, really 4, days to find and hire and train these people and also do background checks..let’s talk about DCPS history with background checks...


Last summer some of you may remember when an after school staff meme we assaulted and had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only was a background check never done on the accused adult, but no background checks were completed by the Springboard program that year in most schools. This was a time when DCPS had more than enough time to follow proper procedure and didn’t. I can also tell you that a week or so before the news got out to the public DCPS tried to have the remaining after school teachers submit a background check. They scheduled a date for all the employees to get fingerprinted and then cancelled it. A day later the mess was in the news. These people do not care about the children they just needed to cover their ass. And when they couldn’t stop themselves from looking bad they just somehow made it disappear from the media..

This is all to say..DCPS DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD. You are throwing your child to the wolves with whoever else they can find off the street desperate for employment in a pandemic. They will not have background checks or fingerprints completed in 4 days time. Take your chances but I’ll be keeping me and mine safe from Covid AND predators by rejecting the seat.

As a DC Govt employee who volunteered to work in the CARES classrooms, I find this highly offensive. We're not teachers, but we are skilled professionals. We're librarians, therapists, counselors, analysts and IT staff ( among other things). We're volunteering to try to help. We also have to pass background checks. We're not just some random people off of the street.

Thank you for volunteering. However, it’s really not helping. It’s a way for DCPS to claim schools have “reopened,” when, in fact, very few students will have in-person learning. And this plan to sit some kids in rooms at schools FT gets in the way of DCPS ever bringing more kids back for in-person learning.

It’s helping Bowser politically; it’s not helping teachers; and it’s only sorta helping a small group of families (some in need, but not helping many others also in need).

Don’t abet a terrible plan.

Ny neighbor is fighting cancer and has four kids at home. She desperately needs a CARES classroom (or even better, a regular classroom). Don't abet the only option that she and other struggling parents may have. The CARES classrooms aren't stopping teachers from teaching virtually and they aren't pulling on our teacher force. CARES doesnt get in the way of bringing more kids back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just advice. DCPS’ CARES classrooms will be 11 children learning on a tablet, while 1-2 adults who are not teachers will watch them. DCPS has 5, really 4, days to find and hire and train these people and also do background checks..let’s talk about DCPS history with background checks...


Last summer some of you may remember when an after school staff meme we assaulted and had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only was a background check never done on the accused adult, but no background checks were completed by the Springboard program that year in most schools. This was a time when DCPS had more than enough time to follow proper procedure and didn’t. I can also tell you that a week or so before the news got out to the public DCPS tried to have the remaining after school teachers submit a background check. They scheduled a date for all the employees to get fingerprinted and then cancelled it. A day later the mess was in the news. These people do not care about the children they just needed to cover their ass. And when they couldn’t stop themselves from looking bad they just somehow made it disappear from the media..

This is all to say..DCPS DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD. You are throwing your child to the wolves with whoever else they can find off the street desperate for employment in a pandemic. They will not have background checks or fingerprints completed in 4 days time. Take your chances but I’ll be keeping me and mine safe from Covid AND predators by rejecting the seat.

As a DC Govt employee who volunteered to work in the CARES classrooms, I find this highly offensive. We're not teachers, but we are skilled professionals. We're librarians, therapists, counselors, analysts and IT staff ( among other things). We're volunteering to try to help. We also have to pass background checks. We're not just some random people off of the street.

Thank you for volunteering. However, it’s really not helping. It’s a way for DCPS to claim schools have “reopened,” when, in fact, very few students will have in-person learning. And this plan to sit some kids in rooms at schools FT gets in the way of DCPS ever bringing more kids back for in-person learning.

It’s helping Bowser politically; it’s not helping teachers; and it’s only sorta helping a small group of families (some in need, but not helping many others also in need).

Don’t abet a terrible plan.

Ny neighbor is fighting cancer and has four kids at home. She desperately needs a CARES classroom (or even better, a regular classroom). Don't abet the only option that she and other struggling parents may have. The CARES classrooms aren't stopping teachers from teaching virtually and they aren't pulling on our teacher force. CARES doesnt get in the way of bringing more kids back.

She NEEDS child care. That seems really unsafe to send four kids in person right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just advice. DCPS’ CARES classrooms will be 11 children learning on a tablet, while 1-2 adults who are not teachers will watch them. DCPS has 5, really 4, days to find and hire and train these people and also do background checks..let’s talk about DCPS history with background checks...


Last summer some of you may remember when an after school staff meme we assaulted and had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only was a background check never done on the accused adult, but no background checks were completed by the Springboard program that year in most schools. This was a time when DCPS had more than enough time to follow proper procedure and didn’t. I can also tell you that a week or so before the news got out to the public DCPS tried to have the remaining after school teachers submit a background check. They scheduled a date for all the employees to get fingerprinted and then cancelled it. A day later the mess was in the news. These people do not care about the children they just needed to cover their ass. And when they couldn’t stop themselves from looking bad they just somehow made it disappear from the media..

This is all to say..DCPS DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD. You are throwing your child to the wolves with whoever else they can find off the street desperate for employment in a pandemic. They will not have background checks or fingerprints completed in 4 days time. Take your chances but I’ll be keeping me and mine safe from Covid AND predators by rejecting the seat.

As a DC Govt employee who volunteered to work in the CARES classrooms, I find this highly offensive. We're not teachers, but we are skilled professionals. We're librarians, therapists, counselors, analysts and IT staff ( among other things). We're volunteering to try to help. We also have to pass background checks. We're not just some random people off of the street.

Thank you for volunteering. However, it’s really not helping. It’s a way for DCPS to claim schools have “reopened,” when, in fact, very few students will have in-person learning. And this plan to sit some kids in rooms at schools FT gets in the way of DCPS ever bringing more kids back for in-person learning.

It’s helping Bowser politically; it’s not helping teachers; and it’s only sorta helping a small group of families (some in need, but not helping many others also in need).

Don’t abet a terrible plan.

Ny neighbor is fighting cancer and has four kids at home. She desperately needs a CARES classroom (or even better, a regular classroom). Don't abet the only option that she and other struggling parents may have. The CARES classrooms aren't stopping teachers from teaching virtually and they aren't pulling on our teacher force. CARES doesnt get in the way of bringing more kids back.

She NEEDS child care. That seems really unsafe to send four kids in person right now.

She probably can’t afford it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unless people start naming schools I call bs on all these stats.

I will come back and name the school Friday. I can’t throw my principal under the bus before they have sent out an email to parents.

I too have a girlfriend who lives in Canada.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless people start naming schools I call bs on all these stats.

I will come back and name the school Friday. I can’t throw my principal under the bus before they have sent out an email to parents.

I too have a girlfriend who lives in Canada.

This made me laugh out loud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless people start naming schools I call bs on all these stats.

I will come back and name the school Friday. I can’t throw my principal under the bus before they have sent out an email to parents.

I too have a girlfriend who lives in Canada.

This made me laugh out loud

Yea - start a thread that ask posters the list the NW elementary school to which they turned down in-person spots. If they went through the whole class grade there would be at very least SEVERAL posters. This isn't true.