Snow day Friday? Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm ok with it as there are a ton of Omicron cases and it can only help if everyone who can stays home tomorrow.

There’s no evidence that COVID spreads in schools

eyeroll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool. Winter break was basically extended by an entire week on an almost day by day basis.
Omicron is a cold. Get vaccinated and get over it. Sacrificing an entire generations education has now become ok.
I’m fairly certain kids in northern states that have constant winter weather figure out how to go to school on a daily basis.

+1 it’s not March 2020. Why did we all get vaccinated if we are still closing school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cool. Winter break was basically extended by an entire week on an almost day by day basis.
Omicron is a cold. Get vaccinated and get over it. Sacrificing an entire generations education has now become ok.
I’m fairly certain kids in northern states that have constant winter weather figure out how to go to school on a daily basis.

+1 it’s not March 2020. Why did we all get vaccinated if we are still closing school?

+2 — there is zero justifications for these closures at this point. Get vaccinated. Enough already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This week, man. I’m just so tired…

+1

I had a pretty relaxing holiday break but this week put me right back into the high levels of stress and exhaustion I had before Christmas. The lack of any type of routine or reliability this past week really got me.

Yep, have been able to do very little work this week…

[Anonymous]

Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us.

But this isn't new, DCPS closes when there's mere mention of snow, let alone actual snow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us.

But this isn't new, DCPS closes when there's mere mention of snow, let alone actual snow.

That is absolutely not true. DCPS is notorious for not closing.

--former DCPS student, now DCPS parent

[Anonymous]

Dcps closed tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us.

But this isn't new, DCPS closes when there's mere mention of snow, let alone actual snow.

This isn't really typically the case. But under the specific circumstances, it's not that shocking. Lots of teachers don't live in D.C., but in suburbs where there may be more snow. There's still snow around in some spots from Monday. Snow removal is slower than it would usually be, because of DPW employees out with covid. Metrobus is running on a Saturday schedule, because of drivers and maintenance workers out with covid. Metrorail is running on some crazy schedule because they had to take half the train cars out of service lest they kill riders. They've already had a problem getting substitutes all year, so it was pretty likely that any teachers calling out because they couldn't commute into work due to snow would be tough to replace -- and because of covid, they're already short-staffed at a lot of schools.

I think it's too pat to say "this isn't really because of snow, it's because of covid" -- they released the data just last night that showed positivity rates were not completely out of hand at most schools, and it seems unlikely that would have changed wildly in the one day of school we had this week. But it's a confluence of factors, with covid influencing many of them. Oh well. Let's hope for a warm front next week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This week, man. I’m just so tired…

+1

I had a pretty relaxing holiday break but this week put me right back into the high levels of stress and exhaustion I had before Christmas. The lack of any type of routine or reliability this past week really got me.

Yep, have been able to do very little work this week…

I've done a lot of work this week, but a disproportionate share of it was either (a) today or (b) after 10 p.m.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us.

But this isn't new, DCPS closes when there's mere mention of snow, let alone actual snow.

This isn't really typically the case. But under the specific circumstances, it's not that shocking. Lots of teachers don't live in D.C., but in suburbs where there may be more snow. There's still snow around in some spots from Monday. Snow removal is slower than it would usually be, because of DPW employees out with covid. Metrobus is running on a Saturday schedule, because of drivers and maintenance workers out with covid. Metrorail is running on some crazy schedule because they had to take half the train cars out of service lest they kill riders. They've already had a problem getting substitutes all year, so it was pretty likely that any teachers calling out because they couldn't commute into work due to snow would be tough to replace -- and because of covid, they're already short-staffed at a lot of schools.

I think it's too pat to say "this isn't really because of snow, it's because of covid" -- they released the data just last night that showed positivity rates were not completely out of hand at most schools, and it seems unlikely that would have changed wildly in the one day of school we had this week. But it's a confluence of factors, with covid influencing many of them. Oh well. Let's hope for a warm front next week.

At my school on my team, 1 teacher is out on quarantine. All 5 of us live out of DC (one an hour away). My daycare is closed. I was going to try to make it in with my partner taking off, but it would’ve been tough. I covered classes yesterday in addition to my own. I’ve doubt they could get the bodies for covid absences + childcare absences + transportation absences today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us.

But this isn't new, DCPS closes when there's mere mention of snow, let alone actual snow.

This isn't really typically the case. But under the specific circumstances, it's not that shocking. Lots of teachers don't live in D.C., but in suburbs where there may be more snow. There's still snow around in some spots from Monday. Snow removal is slower than it would usually be, because of DPW employees out with covid. Metrobus is running on a Saturday schedule, because of drivers and maintenance workers out with covid. Metrorail is running on some crazy schedule because they had to take half the train cars out of service lest they kill riders. They've already had a problem getting substitutes all year, so it was pretty likely that any teachers calling out because they couldn't commute into work due to snow would be tough to replace -- and because of covid, they're already short-staffed at a lot of schools.

I think it's too pat to say "this isn't really because of snow, it's because of covid" -- they released the data just last night that showed positivity rates were not completely out of hand at most schools, and it seems unlikely that would have changed wildly in the one day of school we had this week. But it's a confluence of factors, with covid influencing many of them. Oh well. Let's hope for a warm front next week.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

I tested negative and taught yesterday but started feeling unwell towards end of day. I also covered other classes yesterday. It would have been tough to be down even one more staff member today. The subs are beginning to need subs!

[Anonymous]

We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

[Anonymous]

WTAF.