How many DCPS parents might be willing to file a lawsuit against DCPS to ensure fall reopening?

[Anonymous]

^^ there’s no chance that person is a real HCW. None of the HCWs I know talk or think like that.

[Anonymous]

NYC parents have started a gofundme to raise money for their lawsuit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/reopen-all-nyc-schools-5-days-with-actual-teachers

Please someone start one for DC!

[Anonymous]

Chicken Little

[Anonymous]

To me suing is a good idea. I do think that a lawsuit will make the city listen. The pressure of the WTU was extremely effective and they used a lot of legal tactics. OP - every parent is not going to get on board, but believe me, enough will. As you mention with middle and high schools, DCPS is keeping them closed despite the fact that its health guidance allows it to open them. All other local school districts are providing up to ten hours of inperson instruction per week versus only about an hour per week in DC. If this is what DCPS does when it is authorized to open under health guidance it is hard to imagine that they will come up with an appropriate plan for the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand everyone frustrations. I get it. As a healthcare worker when you see children dying from this as young as 2 months old you all need to take this Shkt seriously. Yes you can send your child to school but they can be asymptomatic and come home and spread it to you, the parents, which put more strain on healthcare workers. Stop whining about allowing your children to get back to school. Understand there is NEVER going to be a normal. The cases are rising and believe it or not trust what I say kids, toddlers and teens are dying from this and they have no underlying health condition. I don’t want to have to see another healthcare worker quarantine themselves to avoid not coming home infecting their families staying away for 2 weeks or seeing coworkers who have passed away from this disease working with COVID patients. I want my son to to attend school again and he definitely does also because he feels he can learn more but not at the risk of killing his dad because of his underlying health conditions. It’s just not safe, furthermore I see children not wearing masks along with their parents!!
Last thing don’t blame the mayor she is taking precautions as she should. If you want to blame someone. I’ll leave politics out of this. She is not to blame she is doing what a parent and mayor should do for her community so if you guys want to leave DCPS good!!!

I am a healthcare worker and know a ton of other healthcare workers involved in all aspects of medicine and Covid patient care. Not one of use remotely agrees with you. You are entitled to your opinion, but trying to lay guilt on parents who want their children to be in school is not cool.

+1

Agree ! Just 134 out of 60.8 MILLION young kids died from
COVID! This “HcW” must not have read the statement from AAP or talked to
Any Hcws in peds!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids’ needs weren’t met all year because Republicans grievously screwed up the pandemic response. If Biden or Obama was president we’d have been back in October. (Remember that Trump fired Obama’s whole pandemic team to save money? That’s pretty much criminal negligence.)

If I remember correctly, Mayor Bowser was ready to open schools in August but, as she said publicly, teachers were refusing to show up. If you want to blame someone, blame WTU.

+1. Enough with the WTU trolls looking to rewrite history.

Bowser said it in a July press conference. You can go look it up. You can also go look up what the coronavirus rates were in DC in August. They were *almost* zero.

WTU is the ones rewriting history because they know they are now less popular in DC than the Proud Boys.

The last laugh will be on teachers though because parents are abandoning DCPS because they are sick of WTU's antics and that means layoffs are coming for lots of DCPS teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids’ needs weren’t met all year because Republicans grievously screwed up the pandemic response. If Biden or Obama was president we’d have been back in October. (Remember that Trump fired Obama’s whole pandemic team to save money? That’s pretty much criminal negligence.)

If I remember correctly, Mayor Bowser was ready to open schools in August but, as she said publicly, teachers were refusing to show up. If you want to blame someone, blame WTU.

+1. Enough with the WTU trolls looking to rewrite history.

Bowser said it in a July press conference. You can go look it up. You can also go look up what the coronavirus rates were in DC in August. They were *almost* zero.

WTU is the ones rewriting history because they know they are now less popular in DC than the Proud Boys.

The last laugh will be on teachers though because parents are abandoning DCPS because they are sick of WTU's antics and that means layoffs are coming for lots of DCPS teachers.

PP you're responding to here. I'm agreeing with you. I apologize if I wasn't clear.

[Anonymous]

Some interesting facts from a Return to Learn tracker that is tracking school openings, etc:

https://www.returntolearntracker.net

Key Findings

The nationwide effort to give students the option for in-person learning continues: As of March 22, just 7 percent of districts are fully remote and 41 percent are fully in person, leaving 52 percent of districts offering hybrid instruction.

Just 3 percent of districts that are majority white have no option for in-person instruction. This rate is six times higher in majority-black districts and eight times higher in majority-Hispanic districts at 18 percent and 24 percent, respectively.

Several community characteristics affect what type of instruction students are receiving. Remote learning is more prevalent in counties with high proportions of single mothers and high percentages of children in poverty.

There are also wide differences by district characteristics. Remote learning is more than twice as prevalent in low-achieving districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some interesting facts from a Return to Learn tracker that is tracking school openings, etc:

https://www.returntolearntracker.net

Key Findings

The nationwide effort to give students the option for in-person learning continues: As of March 22, just 7 percent of districts are fully remote and 41 percent are fully in person, leaving 52 percent of districts offering hybrid instruction.

Just 3 percent of districts that are majority white have no option for in-person instruction. This rate is six times higher in majority-black districts and eight times higher in majority-Hispanic districts at 18 percent and 24 percent, respectively.

Several community characteristics affect what type of instruction students are receiving. Remote learning is more prevalent in counties with high proportions of single mothers and high percentages of children in poverty.

There are also wide differences by district characteristics. Remote learning is more than twice as prevalent in low-achieving districts.

No one ever wonders if this is because people don't give a sh*t about Black and brown kids? Like maybe it's not just "Black and brown parents don't WANT to send their kids to school"? It seems sort of f*cked if the narrative wasn't, "Well Black and brown people WANT that."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some interesting facts from a Return to Learn tracker that is tracking school openings, etc:

https://www.returntolearntracker.net

Key Findings

The nationwide effort to give students the option for in-person learning continues: As of March 22, just 7 percent of districts are fully remote and 41 percent are fully in person, leaving 52 percent of districts offering hybrid instruction.

Just 3 percent of districts that are majority white have no option for in-person instruction. This rate is six times higher in majority-black districts and eight times higher in majority-Hispanic districts at 18 percent and 24 percent, respectively.

Several community characteristics affect what type of instruction students are receiving. Remote learning is more prevalent in counties with high proportions of single mothers and high percentages of children in poverty.

There are also wide differences by district characteristics. Remote learning is more than twice as prevalent in low-achieving districts.

No one ever wonders if this is because people don't give a sh*t about Black and brown kids? Like maybe it's not just "Black and brown parents don't WANT to send their kids to school"? It seems sort of f*cked if the narrative wasn't, "Well Black and brown people WANT that."

Um, I though Black and brown people *did* want remote learning in higher percentages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some interesting facts from a Return to Learn tracker that is tracking school openings, etc:

https://www.returntolearntracker.net

Key Findings

The nationwide effort to give students the option for in-person learning continues: As of March 22, just 7 percent of districts are fully remote and 41 percent are fully in person, leaving 52 percent of districts offering hybrid instruction.

Just 3 percent of districts that are majority white have no option for in-person instruction. This rate is six times higher in majority-black districts and eight times higher in majority-Hispanic districts at 18 percent and 24 percent, respectively.

Several community characteristics affect what type of instruction students are receiving. Remote learning is more prevalent in counties with high proportions of single mothers and high percentages of children in poverty.

There are also wide differences by district characteristics. Remote learning is more than twice as prevalent in low-achieving districts.

No one ever wonders if this is because people don't give a sh*t about Black and brown kids? Like maybe it's not just "Black and brown parents don't WANT to send their kids to school"? It seems sort of f*cked if the narrative wasn't, "Well Black and brown people WANT that."

Um, I though Black and brown people *did* want remote learning in higher percentages?

Yeah. Because the teachers’ unions have been screaming at them all year that their kids will die if they go back to school. Here’s a study about it: https://twitter.com/vkoganpolisci/status/1371808663007035392?s=21

[Anonymous]

And this fact check of union claims is worth reading too:

https://www.the74million.org/article/analysis-randi-weingarten-says-her-aft-has-been-trying-to-reopen-schools-since-last-april-what-the-unions-locals-actually-did/

[Anonymous]

It also appears that CARES classrooms are used more frequently in schools with mostly african americans and Hispanics, whereas majoritarily white schools in DC have more IPL classrooms with a teacher, and some have rejected the use of CARES almost entirely. This cannot be explained by low demand for in-person learning, it means that some students are getting a lower quality of in person learning. This trend exists because schools were reopened school-by-school, allowing for a difference in what was provided.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand everyone frustrations. I get it. As a healthcare worker when you see children dying from this as young as 2 months old you all need to take this Shkt seriously. Yes you can send your child to school but they can be asymptomatic and come home and spread it to you, the parents, which put more strain on healthcare workers. Stop whining about allowing your children to get back to school. Understand there is NEVER going to be a normal. The cases are rising and believe it or not trust what I say kids, toddlers and teens are dying from this and they have no underlying health condition. I don’t want to have to see another healthcare worker quarantine themselves to avoid not coming home infecting their families staying away for 2 weeks or seeing coworkers who have passed away from this disease working with COVID patients. I want my son to to attend school again and he definitely does also because he feels he can learn more but not at the risk of killing his dad because of his underlying health conditions. It’s just not safe, furthermore I see children not wearing masks along with their parents!!
Last thing don’t blame the mayor she is taking precautions as she should. If you want to blame someone. I’ll leave politics out of this. She is not to blame she is doing what a parent and mayor should do for her community so if you guys want to leave DCPS good!!!

I am a healthcare worker and know a ton of other healthcare workers involved in all aspects of medicine and Covid patient care. Not one of use remotely agrees with you. You are entitled to your opinion, but trying to lay guilt on parents who want their children to be in school is not cool.

+1

Agree ! Just 134 out of 60.8 MILLION young kids died from
COVID! This “HcW” must not have read the statement from AAP or talked to
Any Hcws in peds!

Please don’t use ‘just’ for any kind of death, it’s really gross and insensitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some interesting facts from a Return to Learn tracker that is tracking school openings, etc:

https://www.returntolearntracker.net

Key Findings

The nationwide effort to give students the option for in-person learning continues: As of March 22, just 7 percent of districts are fully remote and 41 percent are fully in person, leaving 52 percent of districts offering hybrid instruction.

Just 3 percent of districts that are majority white have no option for in-person instruction. This rate is six times higher in majority-black districts and eight times higher in majority-Hispanic districts at 18 percent and 24 percent, respectively.

Several community characteristics affect what type of instruction students are receiving. Remote learning is more prevalent in counties with high proportions of single mothers and high percentages of children in poverty.

There are also wide differences by district characteristics. Remote learning is more than twice as prevalent in low-achieving districts.

No one ever wonders if this is because people don't give a sh*t about Black and brown kids? Like maybe it's not just "Black and brown parents don't WANT to send their kids to school"? It seems sort of f*cked if the narrative wasn't, "Well Black and brown people WANT that."

Um, I though Black and brown people *did* want remote learning in higher percentages?

Yeah. Because the teachers’ unions have been screaming at them all year that their kids will die if they go back to school. Here’s a study about it: https://twitter.com/vkoganpolisci/status/1371808663007035392?s=21

Uh because our schools are way more run down than yours. That was the main worry. Our kids also face more trauma, meaning they can have more challenging behaviors that are extra unsafe because of COVID.

But I agree that these poor families put too much trust in the union, as did I as a teacher. But I’m back now after having a meeting with all my families to discuss what specific precautions my classroom will have. 90% of them wanted IPL after all their questions were answered and the risk was explained.

I imagine if this happened on a mass scale, the number for black and brown families who want IPL would jump.