DC Health removes cohort limits and mixing ban!

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

Yes that’s what the education research recommends. Individualized tutoring and resources to address individual circumstances. I’m not opposed to summer school or acceleration academies, but the learning losses are indeed going to take more than those to overcome.

Also to note: that’s the way to address the differential impacts of the learning losses according to SES.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

Yes that’s what the education research recommends. Individualized tutoring and resources to address individual circumstances. I’m not opposed to summer school or acceleration academies, but the learning losses are indeed going to take more than those to overcome.

This. WTU and the Mayor ruined countless children's futures. Many DC children will never catch up and will likely drop out.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

Yes that’s what the education research recommends. Individualized tutoring and resources to address individual circumstances. I’m not opposed to summer school or acceleration academies, but the learning losses are indeed going to take more than those to overcome.

This. WTU and the Mayor ruined countless children's futures. Many DC children will never catch up and will likely drop out.

Correction: the Mayor alone ruined it. The HS graduation rate is so shockingly low in DC that our society can't afford this. Want to know why 14 year olds are carjacking? We need a school board, not mayoral oversight.
I don't blame teachers for refusing to be forced back into the classroom unvaccinated, with next to zero information as to how they would be kept safe. As a parent, we were given no info about safety measures when offered a seat so we had to turn it down. They weren't doing anything that made them seem competent about reopening. Their safety measures are literally kids donning adult size latex gloves to peruse books in the book box. What an effing joke.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

Yes that’s what the education research recommends. Individualized tutoring and resources to address individual circumstances. I’m not opposed to summer school or acceleration academies, but the learning losses are indeed going to take more than those to overcome.

This. WTU and the Mayor ruined countless children's futures. Many DC children will never catch up and will likely drop out.

Correction: the Mayor alone ruined it. The HS graduation rate is so shockingly low in DC that our society can't afford this. Want to know why 14 year olds are carjacking? We need a school board, not mayoral oversight.
I don't blame teachers for refusing to be forced back into the classroom unvaccinated, with next to zero information as to how they would be kept safe. As a parent, we were given no info about safety measures when offered a seat so we had to turn it down. They weren't doing anything that made them seem competent about reopening. Their safety measures are literally kids donning adult size latex gloves to peruse books in the book box. What an effing joke.

Ummm, try looking up your schools’ reopening the plan? They have been posted since early November...shows all the many things each school dis to upgrade facilities/ amenities and put in protocols to make opening safe. Not at all just gloves

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Anonymous wrote:But still require 6 ft and mayor said "no comment" in response to question about changing distancing mandate in light of the research.

Hehe this will be in the FALL. The MOA that they signed requires 6ft. The WTU won't let them get away with that.

It requires 6’ between the students’ desks and the teacher’s work station. It does not require six feet between each of the student desks.

You're reading it incorrectly, it's indeed student desks.

Nope, at best it’s ambiguous so can go to arbitration which would strike it and default to the strict adherence to OSSE and DCHealth guidelines. - contract lawyer

That is good news, but is DCPS going to take this on for Term 4? I doubt it. I agree though that the way it is written it sounds like it applies to the distance between the teacher's desk and the students, which makes complete sense, and is how it is handled in other countries. Why should the teachers care how far the students are apart from each other? So maybe principals can just take it to mean what it appears to mean and work from there.

Maybe teachers care about students? And students’ families?

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+1

You're both idiots. Teachers refusing to be forced to be your babysitters during a pandemic doesn't mean they don't care about students (though the way a-hole parents speak to/about them over the past year, if they give a damn about the families, they're better people than I would be).

Grow up.

Not PP. I don't want a babysitter or child care I want my child to learn and have full access to school resources and staff. My child has been largely left behind with this "teaching" on the computer. It isn't working and child deserve an education even when the parents are able to afford tutors or invited to a learning pod. Vaccines are out, elementary kids are low risk. Teach the kids that need to be in -person please. I need my kid to not suffer for more years due to more learning loss.

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This is great news for DCPS partner organizations. I can't wait for students to have more access to outdoor activities through DC Scores and other orgs. It will be a life-changer for people downtown with little access to open spaces.

Also, I'm getting really tired of hearing constant railing against women on color on these discussions - if its not the Mayor, its the Head of the Department of Health, or its the head of the union (largely supporting mostly people of color.) Its getting very Meghan Markle up in here.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

"They'd better?" None of this is happening. Feel free to.pay for private.

I can not afford to pay for private. We are long time dc family, maybe middle class by dc standards and have a child with some learning differences. We should not be forced to hold our child back or take out a second mortgage to try and swing year long private tutoring. I doubt we got get a spot let alone enough financial help for a private school.

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Anonymous wrote:This is great news for DCPS partner organizations. I can't wait for students to have more access to outdoor activities through DC Scores and other orgs. It will be a life-changer for people downtown with little access to open spaces.

Also, I'm getting really tired of hearing constant railing against women on color on these discussions - if its not the Mayor, its the Head of the Department of Health, or its the head of the union (largely supporting mostly people of color.) Its getting very Meghan Markle up in here.

Black woman here I am glad to have black women in leadership in our city. These women happen to be doing a crap job when it comes to schools and getting kids back in school.

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Anonymous wrote:Not that huge for elementary schools, removing the cap, but still requires 6 feet - so nothing will really change given classroom size for many if not most classes.

Schools could be using the gyms and other spaces. So, more kids could be in the building for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:This is great news for DCPS partner organizations. I can't wait for students to have more access to outdoor activities through DC Scores and other orgs. It will be a life-changer for people downtown with little access to open spaces.

Also, I'm getting really tired of hearing constant railing against women on color on these discussions - if its not the Mayor, its the Head of the Department of Health, or its the head of the union (largely supporting mostly people of color.) Its getting very Meghan Markle up in here.

NO!!!! How dare you demand that we aren't allowed to criticize our public officials?!?!?!?!

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Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t think moving it to 3ft distance does much. You may get another 2-3 kids in most classrooms. 3 ft is much bigger than what is the norm in my room. My school has tables and at most the kids are sitting 1 foot from each other. This is for the entire school.

tables will be replaced by desks, obv.

You have to be kidding, right? Who is going to pay to replace all the tables with desks?

We just got a ton of money from the feds for education

They are using that money for summer school or acceleration academies (as they are calling them).

You can not make up for 1- 1 1/2 years of learning loss in a 3-5-7 week summer program. They better be planning on offering tutoring, break programs and additional supports for many years to come.

You can always get a few workbooks and supplement yourself.

What an ass. Of course we are re wading to our child and doing learning activities at home. Same as we did during the school year. This i flat out not enough for some kids. They spend half the day on a computer not learning and being frustrated it is such a waste of capacity.
Parents are trying and school are failing a lot o kids even more than before. It isn't a matter of parents doing a little extra for many students.

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Anonymous wrote:This is great news for DCPS partner organizations. I can't wait for students to have more access to outdoor activities through DC Scores and other orgs. It will be a life-changer for people downtown with little access to open spaces.

Also, I'm getting really tired of hearing constant railing against women on color on these discussions - if its not the Mayor, its the Head of the Department of Health, or its the head of the union (largely supporting mostly people of color.) Its getting very Meghan Markle up in here.

Black woman here I am glad to have black women in leadership in our city. These women happen to be doing a crap job when it comes to schools and getting kids back in school.

+100. Another black woman here, former DCPS parent now paying for private, which is hybrid. Many other black families I know are also already in private. Some very involved black families are moving kids from our Deal feeder into private next year because they want in-person. These are not "rich" families either--some might be paying 50K for Sidwell etc., but others have scholarships or are paying for smaller/less well-known or parochial schools.

I dislike the narrative here that all black families want DL--it's a lot more nuanced than that. Many of us want in-person or are already there, via private.

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I’m disgusted by white posters trying to make this about race. We are a mixed family. I work an essential job. No school is breaking us because we have to pay for child care or leave our elementary schoolers alone.

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I'm 100% opposed to criticizing Black women in leadership due to racist tropes. That doesn't mean we can't criticize them for making poor decisions. Arguing that we can't is some Tucker Carlson level slippery slope stupidity.

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I'm disgusted by the anti-union and anti-teacher voices on this site that are constant and cruel. In my opinion, it is really hard to dissociate that from race. Its hard to dissociate race discussions from the entire school system altogether. The union is a way to get everyone to have an seat at the table and represented. People who are actually SPECIALISTS, no less.

I disagree with many things that the Mayor has done, but she is not ruining my life or is a child-hater or any number of things she has been accused here on these boards.