All schools should offer an all-virtual option

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The choice you want takes resources away from other people. Most individual schools have looked at all of the various issues about running a school in a pandemic and decided that what you want is not feasible or warranted.

Parents are not taking this away from you. It's ridiculous to get mad at other parents.

+1

These arguments are baffling. No one is preventing OP or anyone from keeping their kids home. There’s a virtual option for high risk kids, and homeschooling has always been an option and is less difficult than many people think.

I think this is being driven by a small subset of parents who don’t want to lose spots at charters or OOB schools so are trying to demand a virtual option that accommodates that specific situation. And as a parent of a child who is enrolled OOB, my response is: It’s a pandemic! You can’t expect it to be convenient for you.

And the solution, if it is parents wanting to keep charter or OOB spots, is to advocate for the ability to hold that spot for XX amount of time while homeschooling, not to demand an overhaul of all schools.

[Anonymous]

I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

And is she, as the PP guesses, a charter or OOB parent just hoping to keep her kids' spots?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

Let me guess-- is she a stay at home mom who is educated enough to oversee the homeschooling of her children?

[Anonymous]

My biggest problem with the people who are advocating for "all schools to offer an opt-in virtual option" is that their advocacy (and anxiety, let's be realistic) is fear-based. And is likely stoking fear among people who otherwise would feel fine about sending their kids to school in DC. It's a local version of the fear-based right-wing garbage that spreads on social media.

Relative to the rest of the country, our testing, mitigation, and precautions here are VERY VERY strong. They are not perfect, they will not prevent every COVID case, but they are GOOD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

Let me guess-- is she a stay at home mom who is educated enough to oversee the homeschooling of her children?

A SAHP, huh? And how do you feel about SAHPs, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

Let me guess-- is she a stay at home mom who is educated enough to oversee the homeschooling of her children?

Yes, yes she is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

Let me guess-- is she a stay at home mom who is educated enough to oversee the homeschooling of her children?

Yes, yes she is.

Is she also a WW who spent a lot of time calling people racist if they wanted schools open last year?

[Anonymous]

Oooo it’s like the DCUM version of that old game “guess who”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My biggest problem with the people who are advocating for "all schools to offer an opt-in virtual option" is that their advocacy (and anxiety, let's be realistic) is fear-based. And is likely stoking fear among people who otherwise would feel fine about sending their kids to school in DC. It's a local version of the fear-based right-wing garbage that spreads on social media.

Relative to the rest of the country, our testing, mitigation, and precautions here are VERY VERY strong. They are not perfect, they will not prevent every COVID case, but they are GOOD.

This.

I'm watching friends in other parts of the country just trying to get mask mandates at their schools. When I tell them about what DC is doing they say they'd be thrilled to have their kids here -- in school, in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

Let me guess-- is she a stay at home mom who is educated enough to oversee the homeschooling of her children?

Yes, yes she is.

Is she also the “pumpkin thief” mom who has been posting ridiculous things all over Twitter? BSC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

Let me guess-- is she a stay at home mom who is educated enough to oversee the homeschooling of her children?

Yes, yes she is.

Is she also the “pumpkin thief” mom who has been posting ridiculous things all over Twitter? BSC

Pumpkin thief? Can I get a link to that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

Let me guess-- is she a stay at home mom who is educated enough to oversee the homeschooling of her children?

Yes, yes she is.

Is she also the “pumpkin thief” mom who has been posting ridiculous things all over Twitter? BSC

Pumpkin thief? Can I get a link to that?

Google pumpkin thief mom dc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

Let me guess-- is she a stay at home mom who is educated enough to oversee the homeschooling of her children?

Yes, yes she is.

Is she also the “pumpkin thief” mom who has been posting ridiculous things all over Twitter? BSC

Pumpkin thief? Can I get a link to that?

Google pumpkin thief mom dc

I'm not sure she's the one who started this thread, but she's definitely the rabble rouser in our neighborhood about this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know the OP of this post. She destabilized our school community and ensured the school never opened for the vast majority of kids last year. She could definitely afford private school. She needs to homeschool.

How many kids got back into the classroom at that school? I feel lucky that the moms at our school who might have been inclinded to do this aren't that personally effective. And, I think overall once parents were vaccinated, our school values mom's careers and kids in school enough that they were fighting over in-person seats for T4. At the end of the day, we had about 2/3 of the kids back, which just a few left behind who wanted seats. I felt a little annoyed that they had turned on a dime so quickly from "it's not safe" to "MY KID NEEDS TO BE IN PERSON", but at the end of the day, was glad that they were being more realistic.