Bowser says she hopes private schools will be virtual

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought today's announcement was for DCPS only and does not apply to the charter schools. Maybe that's what she was referring to mostly since those are funded with tax dollars.

Almost all charters have announced full distance learning at this point. (Sadly, I was holding out hope ours might be different.) I think KIPP schools are still saying hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is incredibly sad that the Mayor does not value education - the great equalizer. Education is hope. Hope for each and every child regardless or race, color or creed.
The directive is no school - but bars and gyms and protestors - please continue to go about your activities.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools will not open. The liability is too great. Sorry elitist parents!

Go back to you Public school page as your input here does not matter at all.

I think the poster is angry about his/her kids being in DC public school and is venting here.

Sorry, now go figure out ow you can help your kid work with the DL rather than complaining here..

LOL, no darling, my kids are already grown. I’m just a DC resident and Bowser supporter watching all of this with interest, and find it amusing you thought you could buy your way back into the classroom. Not gonna happen!

So you support a mayor who doesn’t support education and doesn’t lead by example when taking maternity leave?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a private school in DC and want to point out that many of our students are on scholarship, some close to full scholarship. It’s not all kids who come from privilege. Also, I want us to be a good member of the community, and I recognize that that may mean we can’t open, but it’s absolutely backwards that gyms and bars and restaurants are allowed to open. If we’re sharing the risk, it’s all for nothing if community spread continues unabated for other reasons. I could accept closing the privates much more readily if I thought we truly were working as a community to reduce transmission. But the fact is that we are not. And I may be cynical, but I think Bowser and the private heads are in cahoots. They each want the other to soften the blow of closing. Which, let’s keep it real, may be the right decision, but then we should be shutting down those bars etc. too.

I'm an administrator at local private school and I can assure you there is no conspiracy. We will open unless forced to close. The parents want to open, the kids want to open and the staff wants to open. We do not have to bend to politics or unreasonable demands. Teachers who do not want to return can take FMLA. We have no shortage of qualified applicants.

I will leave it at that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of these crazy threads are literally private school parents who never wanted to have kids and can’t stand actually having kids at home. And the wife’s ‘tennis lessons’ And the husband’s ‘lunch dates.’ Listen. Your affairs aren’t worth teachers dying. Your inability to take care of your own kids isn’t worth teachers’ lives. You fail at parenting and cloak it as some sort of ‘we paid for this and it needs to happen’ bulls:it. You’re miserable parents who don’t want to actually have children. You can’t pay that away.

Lookie here! We have an Einstein 2.0.

Very intelligent analysis. Will you be giving a TED talk anytime soon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope many of you realize that many students post on this board with the intent of staring flame wars. It looks like many of you are eager to give these kids what they want.

What's your evidence? My kids and their friends at privates all want school to be in-person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Browser also said:

“You know, I’m just going to speak candidly, if we don’t have teachers who want to come in person, we would have to find another set of adults who want to come in person.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-public-schools-to-go-virtual-through-at-least-november

Finally someone said it.

[Anonymous]

Yep! I loved Bowser’s statement on that. Someone has to stand up to the union.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I teach in a private school in DC and want to point out that many of our students are on scholarship, some close to full scholarship. It’s not all kids who come from privilege. Also, I want us to be a good member of the community, and I recognize that that may mean we can’t open, but it’s absolutely backwards that gyms and bars and restaurants are allowed to open. If we’re sharing the risk, it’s all for nothing if community spread continues unabated for other reasons. I could accept closing the privates much more readily if I thought we truly were working as a community to reduce transmission. But the fact is that we are not. And I may be cynical, but I think Bowser and the private heads are in cahoots. They each want the other to soften the blow of closing. Which, let’s keep it real, may be the right decision, but then we should be shutting down those bars etc. too.

I'm an administrator at local private school and I can assure you there is no conspiracy. We will open unless forced to close. The parents want to open, the kids want to open and the staff wants to open. We do not have to bend to politics or unreasonable demands. Teachers who do not want to return can take FMLA. We have no shortage of qualified applicants.

I will leave it at that.

Im not at your school but thank you to your team!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of these crazy threads are literally private school parents who never wanted to have kids and can’t stand actually having kids at home. And the wife’s ‘tennis lessons’ And the husband’s ‘lunch dates.’ Listen. Your affairs aren’t worth teachers dying. Your inability to take care of your own kids isn’t worth teachers’ lives. You fail at parenting and cloak it as some sort of ‘we paid for this and it needs to happen’ bulls:it. You’re miserable parents who don’t want to actually have children. You can’t pay that away.

Lookie here! We have an Einstein 2.0.

Very intelligent analysis. Will you be giving a TED talk anytime soon?

Lol she's been reading too many romance novels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I watched the whole thing. There’s nothing else in the press conference. She talks about how infrastructure and staffing prevent them from opening - very little about COVID-19 rates impacting decisions. So I gather it was union and inability to satisfy CDC guidelines, similar to same issues as MCPS.

There is someone trying to start drama over this issue because it’s clearly not what she said.

Thank you for clarifying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of these crazy threads are literally private school parents who never wanted to have kids and can’t stand actually having kids at home. And the wife’s ‘tennis lessons’ And the husband’s ‘lunch dates.’ Listen. Your affairs aren’t worth teachers dying. Your inability to take care of your own kids isn’t worth teachers’ lives. You fail at parenting and cloak it as some sort of ‘we paid for this and it needs to happen’ bulls:it. You’re miserable parents who don’t want to actually have children. You can’t pay that away.

And some of us private school parents have full time jobs-in health care actually, helping to deal with this crisis of humanity. We aren’t all playing tennis full time, and even if we did, it’s a nice break from the absolute lunacy and far left agenda that is strangulating this country!

Our children NEED to be educated. That is ESSENTIAL. We all should be very afraid that it isn’t going to happen in any meaningful fashion for potentially YEARS to come. Where are the metrics being established for Reopening schools safely? Teachers should just get a blank check and have no accountability-now I am hearing they want tight regulation on DL too as well as not returning to this classroom? Is a vaccine that is maybe 50% effective for a few months going to all of a sudden be the Holy Grail? The only thing I am glad about is businesses staying open and not totally nuking the economy along with the schools. I can at least make sure my own kids get educated while administrators like Bowser perpetuate the cycle of poverty and widen the socioeconomic divide for the kids in DC with this decision. SMH....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep! I loved Bowser’s statement on that. Someone has to stand up to the union.

OH NOES! The help is getting uppity so we gotta put them in their place!

There’s nothing more amusing than rich people getting upset when labor pushes back in even the smallest amount.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep! I loved Bowser’s statement on that. Someone has to stand up to the union.

OH NOES! The help is getting uppity so we gotta put them in their place!

There’s nothing more amusing than rich people getting upset when labor pushes back in even the smallest amount.

But private schools don’t have unions so why do people care?

[Anonymous]

I WANT "TENNIS LESSONS"!!!!!!