Test To Return for DCPS

[Anonymous]

Please stop asking parents to contact their principals over this. Principals have no say in the COVID theater but they do have a ton of other very important things on their plate now in order to get their schools ready for students. If you want to be a thorn in the side of central office, have at it. But piling onto the school principals is really counterproductive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

Covid theater is not small. It’s threatening to keep a huge number of mostly black kids out of school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

Covid theater is not small. It’s threatening to keep a huge number of mostly black kids out of school.

Is it though? They haven’t announced whether there will be quarantines for exposure. They have just announced test to return.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

There are classrooms throughout the city without doors that lock, without A/C that works, without working bathrooms, with leaky roofs. And you are circling the wagons over something you could google image search and send in on day one.

Oh, your child's teachers still don't have a contract despite every other agency in DC getting theirs renewed this summer. This is so incredibly lame that this is what gets the parent voice escalated

[Anonymous]

If you don't test your kid before school, then on the first day, they will show up and be sent to a special room where a school nurse will test them. So either way they will get tested. I agree it is stupid and pointless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

Covid theater is not small. It’s threatening to keep a huge number of mostly black kids out of school.

Is it though? They haven’t announced whether there will be quarantines for exposure. They have just announced test to return.

The mandatory vaccine policy isn't going anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

Covid theater is not small. It’s threatening to keep a huge number of mostly black kids out of school.

Is it though? They haven’t announced whether there will be quarantines for exposure. They have just announced test to return.

The mandatory vaccine policy isn't going anywhere.

That policy will not be enforced.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

Covid theater is not small. It’s threatening to keep a huge number of mostly black kids out of school.

Is it though? They haven’t announced whether there will be quarantines for exposure. They have just announced test to return.

They HAVE announced the covid vaccine mandate. And we have data that Black kids in DC are less likely to be vaccinated.

The CDC no longer differentiates for vaccinated and not, so it shouldn't matter for transmission if kids are vaccinated. Ergo, vaccine requirements are theater that have the potential to keep disproportionately more Black kids out of school.

And if the response is "Oh DC doesn't enforce vaccines" then that just goes to show even more that it's theater.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

Covid theater is not small. It’s threatening to keep a huge number of mostly black kids out of school.

Is it though? They haven’t announced whether there will be quarantines for exposure. They have just announced test to return.

The mandatory vaccine policy isn't going anywhere.

That policy will not be enforced.

Why is the policy there, then? Virtual signal?

[Anonymous]

The vaccination requirement is in a different category because the Council passed a law.

All of this other stuff -- test to return, whatever other nonsense gets announced on Thursday -- has no basis in law. The public health emergency has expired. And OSSE/DCPS has not undertaken regulatory or policy process for any of this stuff.

So sure, they can try to make whatever rules they want. But ultimately they will not be able to enforce them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vaccination requirement is in a different category because the Council passed a law.

All of this other stuff -- test to return, whatever other nonsense gets announced on Thursday -- has no basis in law. The public health emergency has expired. And OSSE/DCPS has not undertaken regulatory or policy process for any of this stuff.

So sure, they can try to make whatever rules they want. But ultimately they will not be able to enforce them.

So would TTR be un-enforceable?

Or any other covid restriction?

They aren't laws.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.

Do you bother central office about everything else that they are doing wrong? If you do, then please continue, and add this to the list. If this is the only thing that you are complaining about, then you really need to wake up and realize that plenty of students in this district are suffering greatly from so many needs, and this is really such a small issue.

Covid theater is not small. It’s threatening to keep a huge number of mostly black kids out of school.

Is it though? They haven’t announced whether there will be quarantines for exposure. They have just announced test to return.

The mandatory vaccine policy isn't going anywhere.

That policy will not be enforced.

Why is the policy there, then? Virtual signal?

They are trying to get as many kids vaccinated as possible. But ultimately, they will not bar kids from school over this. It would disproportionately affect a certain demographic that needs the support of school more than any other.

[Anonymous]

Kids have a constitutional right to attend public school. You can't just make up random rules and then exclude kids from school on the basis of non-compliance. There needs to be some legal basis and, in addition to that, some rational basis underlying the law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't test your kid before school, then on the first day, they will show up and be sent to a special room where a school nurse will test them. So either way they will get tested. I agree it is stupid and pointless.

I don’t really care about TTR and will comply. But I do care about medical procedures without my permission. What’s your source for this info?