School closures on Monday, Feb 3 for day without immigrants?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

this is a really sick and hostile attitude. My thinking is that if you can’t keep it together to keep a school open, then you should probably not be in the profession of education.

Those in charge of lamb have made it their business to hire as many friends as possible in the administration. This the admin is so bloated that they can’t afford to pay decent teacher salaries. This has been a problem for years. To manage their workforce at all the administration will grant these types of insane requests to make sure they don’t lose all their teachers. The exec director is weak and knows it. Any strong leader would have been able to manage this, supporting this totally worthwhile cause, while ensuring kids stay in school. No other school is closing Monday. This should tell you something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

I have two kids at LAMB. Out of the 8 teachers and 10+ aftercare teachers, I can’t think of a single teacher who isn’t an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. I think there might be a handful in upper EL.

That’s the problem.

Yeah, I get that parents are annoyed about this, but my understanding from talking to teachers is this is not a case of the school closing so that white teachers can have solidarity with immigrants. This is literally an overwhelming number of immigrant teachers saying that they are taking Monday off (which they are allowed to do) to the point where the school could not stay open.

Parents choose to send their kids to LAMB knowing very well that it is a school dependent on native Spanish-speaking speakers as teachers. What is the expectation here?

The vast, vast, vast majority of LAMB parents are incredibly invested in the community and show overwhelming kindness, and support to each other, the teachers, and the administration.

I hope that the parents who have so much anger to LAMB that they cannot support the teachers that make the school possible decide to leave.

Trump has been in office for 13 days. Is the school going to close every time he does something outrageous?

Just to be very clear here. The school is closing because they do not have enough non-immigrant staff to stay open on Monday. They had too many people decide to call in sick to safely open the school on Monday. It is not like the school is closing because they have a choice.

I suppose this could happen over and over again throughout the next four years, in which case I think parents and the administration will need to make choices about things like tolerance for teacher strikes and how to best support their immigrant teachers. But again, no one is forcing people to attend LAMB. People have choices.

So, let’s see.

Honestly, as a LAMB parent and federal employee who has been feeling so overwhelmed over the past few weeks, I am grateful for the LAMB community.

They definitely have enough non immigrant staff. They just chose to “stand in solidarity” and get their day off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

Charis was deeply unpopular with staff. Jessica is trying to keep her popularity at the expense of the children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the thing. No one gives a crap. No one cares about immigrants that much. Even the Hispanics that are here legally, do not care. We can’t go over there unless we play by their rules, then the same applies here. America can barely take care of their own damn people, let alone others. Take care of home first!

You say that, and yet... you're angry that you're being inconvenienced by something being closed, that you were apparently unaware was supported primarily by immigrant staff. So I guess you do care-- you just want it to be invisible.

The reality is that "legal" has become awfully tenuous these last two weeks. Tons of actions have been taken that are not "legal". The admin has talked openly about reversing naturalization (aka stripping CITIZENS of their CITIZENSHIP) and reversing birthright citizenship (which means, some folks that have a green card and are in the process of obtaining citizenship through someone with birthright citizenship might have all paths to citizenship revoked).

ICE raids are pulling in citizens and legal residents because they're basically rounding up anyone with the wrong color skin or the wrong name and sorting it out later. Folks that had their critical identity papers safely locked up now have to figure out a safe way to carry them ON THEM at all times, regardless of the mess or labor involved in their job. Or worse, kids-- how can you send a kid to school with their birth certificate or passport or residency papers? They will lose it. But what if you don't? Immigrants are being treated as illegal first, prove us wrong if you can.

We know you don't give a crap. Maybe you will when your food is 3x as expensive, a bunch of your favorite businesses have closed, and there is no lumber for building or repair and no labor in a huge number of industries. Oh, and when your retirement account is suddenly 1/2 of what it was last week.

just stop. By insulting parents who are upset that school unpredictably closed as merely “inconvenienced,” you are reprising the exact toxic dynamics of the COVID school closures. And we are still dealing with the aftermath of that. The fact is, keeping school open is such a deeply held norm that there are *actual laws* in DC making it illegal for teachers to strike.

LAMB chooses to ignore this norm and treat parents like they are customers, and the store can close whenever it wants. That should upset anyone who actually cares about education.

The LAMB “culture” to repress dissent and ostracize critics under the mantle of “community” is also extremely concerning in light of LAMB’s history. You would have though they would have leaned but I guess not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

I suspect this is what other schools are doing. But lamb doesn’t care about meeting the needs of its students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

The people posting on Parentsquare at dumb. They are all being trashed via text and will be talked about by the staff come Tuesday. Their kids will be treated poorly as a result from disagreeing with the school.

That’s what makes this post so extra disgusting. Anyone at lamb knows how badly they speak about parents who even question the school.

and this is how that sexual abuser got his way.

[Anonymous]

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Reading the time stamps on here, I feel like there is at least one possibly more people posting over and over again. The pace of responses in the short amount of time simply does not make sense given historical trends and pace of responses on this page.

Anyway, we will never know. (And this is a digression but in moments like this I always think of a friend of mine who once confessed to coming on DCurban mom and assuming multiple different “identities” and posting 20+ times per day during her third maternity leave because she was bored)

All that to say I never trust anything I read on here at all anymore.

I won’t debate the day off thing. It’s a conversation that can’t be had with any thoughtfulness over this medium.

I WILL say that the anger on this thread is not consistent with the overall tenor of dialogue in either of my children’s class WhatsApp groups OR in the ParentSquare app OR in the many friend groups.

There are many things to be said about LAMB, but our family has found the community to be kind and loving in a way that is so very needed in this world. If that’s not what you value in a school, there are other places to go.

First of all, you don’t get to dictate who goes to a public school. Second, my phone has been blowing up with texts from parents who are freaking out and furious. Everyone at lamb knows teachers will talk crap about you if you disagree with the school. It’s only kind and loving to your face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

The people posting on Parentsquare at dumb. They are all being trashed via text and will be talked about by the staff come Tuesday. Their kids will be treated poorly as a result from disagreeing with the school.

That’s what makes this post so extra disgusting. Anyone at lamb knows how badly they speak about parents who even question the school.

and this is how that sexual abuser got his way.

You would think they would have learned, but the culture of “if you don’t like it leave” persists. “Disagreement means your kids will suffer”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s really weird for LAMB to close and the non immigrant teachers to take the day off. It’s sort of the opposite of the point of the protest. I absolutely think principals should excuse immigrant teachers who don’t show up to teach on Monday, but close the school entirely essentially given random non immigrant teachers the day off? Absolutely not.

I have two kids at LAMB. Out of the 8 teachers and 10+ aftercare teachers, I can’t think of a single teacher who isn’t an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. I think there might be a handful in upper EL.

That’s the problem.

Yeah, I get that parents are annoyed about this, but my understanding from talking to teachers is this is not a case of the school closing so that white teachers can have solidarity with immigrants. This is literally an overwhelming number of immigrant teachers saying that they are taking Monday off (which they are allowed to do) to the point where the school could not stay open.

Parents choose to send their kids to LAMB knowing very well that it is a school dependent on native Spanish-speaking speakers as teachers. What is the expectation here?

The vast, vast, vast majority of LAMB parents are incredibly invested in the community and show overwhelming kindness, and support to each other, the teachers, and the administration.

I hope that the parents who have so much anger to LAMB that they cannot support the teachers that make the school possible decide to leave.

You’re not paying attention to the real problem. The problem is that the school doesn’t care about how their unpredictable decisions affect students and their families. No one (or at least very few) are upset about the reason for staying home. They’re upset because this was done in such a chaotic and unorganized way. They’re upset because lamb could have planned appropriately. They’re also upset because anyone who cannot find childcare is being villainized for questioning this choice. I see on Parentsquare there are some truly stressed out parents (fed workers, people who can’t take the day, etc). No one is being unreasonable or aggressive (as of now anyway).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

To recap. According to you:

It's ok for Jessica to announce this on ParentSquare

It's not ok for parents to respond to the announcement on DCUM because it's not ParentSquare

If parents do ask Jessica questions on ParentSquare, it's ok if she doesn't answer them on ParentSquare

Do we know if Jessica has answered anyone's questions in any format?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

The people posting on Parentsquare at dumb. They are all being trashed via text and will be talked about by the staff come Tuesday. Their kids will be treated poorly as a result from disagreeing with the school.

That’s what makes this post so extra disgusting. Anyone at lamb knows how badly they speak about parents who even question the school.

and this is how that sexual abuser got his way.

You would think they would have learned, but the culture of “if you don’t like it leave” persists. “Disagreement means your kids will suffer”.

+100. This gives me bad memories of our elementary with a similar vibe. I was SO happy to move on to a middle school where everything was so much more straightforward and about the school, not about “community” and “support.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

To recap. According to you:

It's ok for Jessica to announce this on ParentSquare

It's not ok for parents to respond to the announcement on DCUM because it's not ParentSquare

If parents do ask Jessica questions on ParentSquare, it's ok if she doesn't answer them on ParentSquare

Do we know if Jessica has answered anyone's questions in any format?

Reading these comments it’s clear:

(1) you’re a jerk and probably racist if you can’t take a day off of work on a random Monday.

(2) how dare you expect a school to keep their doors open based on a calendar they set

(3) your kids come second after our personal political beliefs

(4) there is no way to respectfully disagree with any decision made by the school. If you expect the school to be open when it says they will be open, you can only expect this at private school. I read all the comments on Parentsquare. They were really respectful and pointed out some serious concerns- kids deserve an education, the federal workforce has been ordered back to work, this could have been planned better to give parents a way to schedule some care, etc. but the responses to those good points were not respectful- “you have to learn a lesson” “go elsewhere if you disagree” “you are intolerant”. That’s straight up not indicative of the “loving and warm” school described elsewhere.

This is all really troubling, particularly in a school with LAMB’s history.

[Anonymous]

LAMB is a mess unfortunately.
What will this strike do - nothing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

To recap. According to you:

It's ok for Jessica to announce this on ParentSquare

It's not ok for parents to respond to the announcement on DCUM because it's not ParentSquare

If parents do ask Jessica questions on ParentSquare, it's ok if she doesn't answer them on ParentSquare

Do we know if Jessica has answered anyone's questions in any format?

Reading these comments it’s clear:

(1) you’re a jerk and probably racist if you can’t take a day off of work on a random Monday.

(2) how dare you expect a school to keep their doors open based on a calendar they set

(3) your kids come second after our personal political beliefs

(4) there is no way to respectfully disagree with any decision made by the school. If you expect the school to be open when it says they will be open, you can only expect this at private school. I read all the comments on Parentsquare. They were really respectful and pointed out some serious concerns- kids deserve an education, the federal workforce has been ordered back to work, this could have been planned better to give parents a way to schedule some care, etc. but the responses to those good points were not respectful- “you have to learn a lesson” “go elsewhere if you disagree” “you are intolerant”. That’s straight up not indicative of the “loving and warm” school described elsewhere.

This is all really troubling, particularly in a school with LAMB’s history.

What?!

I find this day off annoying, but I have found the admin super accessible every time I’ve reached out. I haven’t been in touch with them on this issues because it’s not really one I care that much about one way or another.

There has not been any intolerance from the school supporting us with an issue we had with a teacher last year. They were very helpful in intervening and took our concerns seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

To recap. According to you:

It's ok for Jessica to announce this on ParentSquare

It's not ok for parents to respond to the announcement on DCUM because it's not ParentSquare

If parents do ask Jessica questions on ParentSquare, it's ok if she doesn't answer them on ParentSquare

Do we know if Jessica has answered anyone's questions in any format?

Reading these comments it’s clear:

(1) you’re a jerk and probably racist if you can’t take a day off of work on a random Monday.

(2) how dare you expect a school to keep their doors open based on a calendar they set

(3) your kids come second after our personal political beliefs

(4) there is no way to respectfully disagree with any decision made by the school. If you expect the school to be open when it says they will be open, you can only expect this at private school. I read all the comments on Parentsquare. They were really respectful and pointed out some serious concerns- kids deserve an education, the federal workforce has been ordered back to work, this could have been planned better to give parents a way to schedule some care, etc. but the responses to those good points were not respectful- “you have to learn a lesson” “go elsewhere if you disagree” “you are intolerant”. That’s straight up not indicative of the “loving and warm” school described elsewhere.

This is all really troubling, particularly in a school with LAMB’s history.

What?!

I find this day off annoying, but I have found the admin super accessible every time I’ve reached out. I haven’t been in touch with them on this issues because it’s not really one I care that much about one way or another.

There has not been any intolerance from the school supporting us with an issue we had with a teacher last year. They were very helpful in intervening and took our concerns seriously.

Lucky you! Can’t say the same.