20,000 kids missing from DCPS

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP and again i dont watch Hannity and don't vote Republican but you are wrong. This virus has run its course regardless of what you think. Just look at
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic

stats and tell me how I'm wrong not call me names.

I'm going to with the CDC on this one. Not your twitter account. There are no credible infectious disease experts who think this is not going to come back, or isn't still in the midst of the first wave.

There's a lot of back and forth right now even between experts. I live next to the CDC, everyone in my neighborhood works there or Emory. We have doctors and experts arguing back and forth in our neighborhood school facebook group whether we should open or stay closed. Everyone has strong opinions, it's pretty evenly split.

I think one of the big differences is how much faith you have in the government and community to take the steps needed to re-open safely. A lot of the people who are against reopening probably believe that the schools won't be properly supported to reopen safely.

The plural of anecdote isn’t data, but our family moved out of DCPS to MCPS over the summer because I have zero expectation that Bowser or OSSE will put the interests of the kids first, or handle either DL or reopening with even a modicum of competency. Obviously we feel guilty as Hell about being the rats to jump ship. So that’s one out of 20,000 accounted for.

Don't sweat it, we're good without you. But congrats on your overinflated sense in thinking that your moving should make you feel guilty about abandoning poor DC.

Just remember that mindset every time someone complains that their EOTP school would be better if not for all the charter schools.

No charters are different, they are literally stealing money. They should just be private and have parents pay, the idea that people have to pay taxes for a private ‘public’ school is insane.

lol

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Anonymous wrote:One out every five kids in DC has never attended school this year.

This is unconscionable.

Yep. Doubt it’s kids who have gone private so might even shift some schools out of the title 1 classification

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As if, I’m the middle of a recession, a bunch of parents just found an extra $40,000 to send their kid to private school. These are not rich kids who are missing.

Lmao. No, if you are at risk you cannot afford an extra 40 k out of pocket. If you are middle class you are not in the at risk category. You’re doing those kids a favor by leaving so they will able to KEEP the title 1 status.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP and again i dont watch Hannity and don't vote Republican but you are wrong. This virus has run its course regardless of what you think. Just look at
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic

stats and tell me how I'm wrong not call me names.

I'm going to with the CDC on this one. Not your twitter account. There are no credible infectious disease experts who think this is not going to come back, or isn't still in the midst of the first wave.

There's a lot of back and forth right now even between experts. I live next to the CDC, everyone in my neighborhood works there or Emory. We have doctors and experts arguing back and forth in our neighborhood school facebook group whether we should open or stay closed. Everyone has strong opinions, it's pretty evenly split.

I think one of the big differences is how much faith you have in the government and community to take the steps needed to re-open safely. A lot of the people who are against reopening probably believe that the schools won't be properly supported to reopen safely.

The plural of anecdote isn’t data, but our family moved out of DCPS to MCPS over the summer because I have zero expectation that Bowser or OSSE will put the interests of the kids first, or handle either DL or reopening with even a modicum of competency. Obviously we feel guilty as Hell about being the rats to jump ship. So that’s one out of 20,000 accounted for.

Don't sweat it, we're good without you. But congrats on your overinflated sense in thinking that your moving should make you feel guilty about abandoning poor DC.

Just remember that mindset every time someone complains that their EOTP school would be better if not for all the charter schools.

No charters are different, they are literally stealing money. They should just be private and have parents pay, the idea that people have to pay taxes for a private ‘public’ school is insane.

lol

Betsy is that you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One out every five kids in DC has never attended school this year.

This is unconscionable.

On the other hand, the prison industry is stoked.

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I suspect many MD residents and people with PreK.

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How many teachers didn’t show up?

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Anonymous wrote:The cure is worse than the disease. Open the schools.

Is it time for Hannity already?

Nancy Pelosi says schools should be open. Chuck Schumer too.

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The reporter should follow up on this and clarify their numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:The reporter should follow up on this and clarify their numbers.

Love all these people trying to rationalize 20,000 kids missing from school. You sound like Trump. Fake news right?

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Anonymous wrote:Numbers will only get worse as people tire of distance learning

Yep

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Anonymous wrote:The reporter should follow up on this and clarify their numbers.

Our school had kids pre certified to reenroll. They didn’t need to submit proof of residency or something like that. I wonder if the 20,000 includes these kids.

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Anonymous wrote:The reporter should follow up on this and clarify their numbers.

Love all these people trying to rationalize 20,000 kids missing from school. You sound like Trump. Fake news right?

No it’s because they care and they shouldn’t. Everyone with kids can move, still 600k people to pay taxes. I have no clue why other parents think this is an issue. DC literally doesn’t need more students.

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Anonymous wrote:You can continue to make these flippant comments but they aren't true and more of the country is waking up to this fact as I see in these threads. People are tired of this act. My kids have been in preschool since June. Nobody's gotten sick and we've worn a mask and taken our temperature daily. You can tell me I'm in the minority (which isn't true) or point to the death stat (normal talking point) but none of it matters and it simply isn't true. There are large portions of this country that have moved on with their lives while you fear mongerers will keep it going. So please tell us we watch too much FoxNews again (which I dont watch by the way).

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Anonymous wrote:The cure is worse than the disease. Open the schools.

Is it time for Hannity already?

You don't speak for "more" or most of the country and if you're judging "more" of the country by threads on DCUM, you're dumb as a rock.

I see plenty of people on DCUM (again, a tiny fragment of one tiny corner of the internet, with a very specific demographic slant) who do NOT agree with you.

Once again for the slow people, the pandemic doesn't give a crap that you've "moved on with your life." Grow up.

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Anonymous wrote:The reporter should follow up on this and clarify their numbers.

Love all these people trying to rationalize 20,000 kids missing from school. You sound like Trump. Fake news right?

Actually, I am concerned and think the numbers are concerning. Not at all what you are inferring and not a trump supporter.

It’s real news that was poorly reported on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The reporter should follow up on this and clarify their numbers.

Love all these people trying to rationalize 20,000 kids missing from school. You sound like Trump. Fake news right?

No it’s because they care and they shouldn’t. Everyone with kids can move, still 600k people to pay taxes. I have no clue why other parents think this is an issue. DC literally doesn’t need more students.

It sounds like the registration requirements were too stiff for many low SES families. Nothing more than that. Fix it.