WP Article on LAMB's failure to re-open

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how many people wanting to reopen are entitled white people.

The dad with twins is paying for childcare but couldn't find spanish childcare in DC? Really?

And he found childcare outside his home - he drives to another state to drop off his kids and pick them up? Or are they going to grandma and grandma doesn't speak spanish?

That doesn't make sense.

All I see here are a bunch of people who couldn't hack it at being teachers whining that these people took a vow of poverty to teacher their kids. The idea that teachers don't care about their kids have never seen a teacher cry on a Sunday while she's preparing lesson plans.

And those are garbage people.

parent your kids; relax about the standards; and know the disrespect you are tossing around the people who you want to watch and die for your kids is being heard by your kids.

Teachers in this country take a bullet for kids and now they are to die alone in a hospital so your kid won't fall behind. give me a break - if you can find DCUM, find the time to post on DCUM and talk to the post about your daycare in MD - your kid is not suffering from educational loss.

Standing ovation. This just about brought me to tears!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how many people wanting to reopen are entitled white people.

The dad with twins is paying for childcare but couldn't find spanish childcare in DC? Really?

And he found childcare outside his home - he drives to another state to drop off his kids and pick them up? Or are they going to grandma and grandma doesn't speak spanish?

That doesn't make sense.

All I see here are a bunch of people who couldn't hack it at being teachers whining that these people took a vow of poverty to teacher their kids. The idea that teachers don't care about their kids have never seen a teacher cry on a Sunday while she's preparing lesson plans.

And those are garbage people.

parent your kids; relax about the standards; and know the disrespect you are tossing around the people who you want to watch and die for your kids is being heard by your kids.

Teachers in this country take a bullet for kids and now they are to die alone in a hospital so your kid won't fall behind. give me a break - if you can find DCUM, find the time to post on DCUM and talk to the post about your daycare in MD - your kid is not suffering from educational loss.

Standing ovation. This just about brought me to tears!

“garbage people” really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how many people wanting to reopen are entitled white people.

The dad with twins is paying for childcare but couldn't find spanish childcare in DC? Really?

And he found childcare outside his home - he drives to another state to drop off his kids and pick them up? Or are they going to grandma and grandma doesn't speak spanish?

That doesn't make sense.

All I see here are a bunch of people who couldn't hack it at being teachers whining that these people took a vow of poverty to teacher their kids. The idea that teachers don't care about their kids have never seen a teacher cry on a Sunday while she's preparing lesson plans.

And those are garbage people.

parent your kids; relax about the standards; and know the disrespect you are tossing around the people who you want to watch and die for your kids is being heard by your kids.

Teachers in this country take a bullet for kids and now they are to die alone in a hospital so your kid won't fall behind. give me a break - if you can find DCUM, find the time to post on DCUM and talk to the post about your daycare in MD - your kid is not suffering from educational loss.

Standing ovation. This just about brought me to tears!

“garbage people” really?

Also none of these critiques make sense. He drops his kids off in MD and that's bad why?

All the guy said was that he's rather be putting his money toward THE SCHOOL to help it reopen rather than toward the daycare, and he's a garbage person?

Get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how many people wanting to reopen are entitled white people.

The dad with twins is paying for childcare but couldn't find spanish childcare in DC? Really?

And he found childcare outside his home - he drives to another state to drop off his kids and pick them up? Or are they going to grandma and grandma doesn't speak spanish?

That doesn't make sense.

All I see here are a bunch of people who couldn't hack it at being teachers whining that these people took a vow of poverty to teacher their kids. The idea that teachers don't care about their kids have never seen a teacher cry on a Sunday while she's preparing lesson plans.

And those are garbage people.

parent your kids; relax about the standards; and know the disrespect you are tossing around the people who you want to watch and die for your kids is being heard by your kids.

Teachers in this country take a bullet for kids and now they are to die alone in a hospital so your kid won't fall behind. give me a break - if you can find DCUM, find the time to post on DCUM and talk to the post about your daycare in MD - your kid is not suffering from educational loss.

This person is not from the area.

[Anonymous]

Edit: The person making that comment is not from the area, if they don't understand that it is completely normal to drive to another state multiple times within the course of a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This article is a really skewed perspective- at every parent meeting, there has been an overwhelming majority of parents supportive of the school’s decision, and there have been a small handful (like 5) really vocal parents who want the school to re-open (two of whom are quoted in the article). I say this as a parent who is desperate for school to reopen, and disappointed in the decision, but also trust the school and want to go back only when it’s safe to do so.

The school communicated poorly, no question. They shouldn’t have made it seem like reopening in October was likely, when they shared at the end of September. But I don’t think is as big of a deal that the article is making it out to be. Especially when the reporter only talked with two disgruntled parents and didn’t mention the reopening status of any other charters, and barely mentioned DCPS’ current mess with reopening plans.

There are more than 5. Some like myself feel unable to express their opinions without being bullied by others on parent square.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how many people wanting to reopen are entitled white people.

The dad with twins is paying for childcare but couldn't find spanish childcare in DC? Really?

And he found childcare outside his home - he drives to another state to drop off his kids and pick them up? Or are they going to grandma and grandma doesn't speak spanish?

That doesn't make sense.

All I see here are a bunch of people who couldn't hack it at being teachers whining that these people took a vow of poverty to teacher their kids. The idea that teachers don't care about their kids have never seen a teacher cry on a Sunday while she's preparing lesson plans.

And those are garbage people.

parent your kids; relax about the standards; and know the disrespect you are tossing around the people who you want to watch and die for your kids is being heard by your kids.

Teachers in this country take a bullet for kids and now they are to die alone in a hospital so your kid won't fall behind. give me a break - if you can find DCUM, find the time to post on DCUM and talk to the post about your daycare in MD - your kid is not suffering from educational loss.

Standing ovation. This just about brought me to tears!

How dramatic. I guess it's fun to make an emotionally-laden post filled with hyperbole and manipulation instead of facts, but you do you.

No one took a vow of poverty. And I've been a teacher. Lesson planning isn't that stressful, and furthermore, tons of us have cried about our jobs. It's not special. That's facts.

Teachers are not in any special danger as empirical research has suggested so far. It's weird that you're basically like "they choose to be MARTYRS for our children!" But at the same time you are saying they shouldn't take the completely reasonable risks many of the rest of us are taking.

You're saying learning loss isn't occurring. And hey, so the research so far suggests that learning loss is real, and that online learning is to the detriment of special populations, including young learners. Here's facts: https://naeducation.org/covid-19-educational-inequities-roundtable-series-summary-report/

Or I guess, you could just claim without any evidence, that learning loss isn't happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did everyone missed that at risk and minority families are not willing to send the kids back to school? To all who say schools are not working on any plans, you are so wrong. DCPCB has requested detailed plans from every school, OSSE is overseeing this and the is coordination between LEAs. If anything, they are working more now than they were before. It’s like saying parents are lazy and they should just do what they need to do.. no?

Well, I know several at risk and minority parents from my school and most want to go back.

I also know that I've seen my school's plan as submitted to OSSE and they have outlined how they'd set up classrooms in the parking lot and other things there is no way they'll actually do. Those plans were check marks on a to do list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how many people wanting to reopen are entitled white people.

The dad with twins is paying for childcare but couldn't find spanish childcare in DC? Really?

And he found childcare outside his home - he drives to another state to drop off his kids and pick them up? Or are they going to grandma and grandma doesn't speak spanish?

That doesn't make sense.

All I see here are a bunch of people who couldn't hack it at being teachers whining that these people took a vow of poverty to teacher their kids. The idea that teachers don't care about their kids have never seen a teacher cry on a Sunday while she's preparing lesson plans.

And those are garbage people.

parent your kids; relax about the standards; and know the disrespect you are tossing around the people who you want to watch and die for your kids is being heard by your kids.

Teachers in this country take a bullet for kids and now they are to die alone in a hospital so your kid won't fall behind. give me a break - if you can find DCUM, find the time to post on DCUM and talk to the post about your daycare in MD - your kid is not suffering from educational loss.

Standing ovation. This just about brought me to tears!

How dramatic. I guess it's fun to make an emotionally-laden post filled with hyperbole and manipulation instead of facts, but you do you.

No one took a vow of poverty. And I've been a teacher. Lesson planning isn't that stressful, and furthermore, tons of us have cried about our jobs. It's not special. That's facts.

Teachers are not in any special danger as empirical research has suggested so far. It's weird that you're basically like "they choose to be MARTYRS for our children!" But at the same time you are saying they shouldn't take the completely reasonable risks many of the rest of us are taking.

You're saying learning loss isn't occurring. And hey, so the research so far suggests that learning loss is real, and that online learning is to the detriment of special populations, including young learners. Here's facts: https://naeducation.org/covid-19-educational-inequities-roundtable-series-summary-report/

Or I guess, you could just claim without any evidence, that learning loss isn't happening.

Learning loss is happening but why is that an issue. There is a pandemic happening.

If you were able to find the study - you are able to read to your kid. You are able to talk to your kid in math.

If one of these teachers gets sick - there is no sub. What will the learning loss be then?

[Anonymous]

Yes I’m a teacher and my FEELING is I can’t do my job if I get covid. And then you can explain to your kid who will be home w no DL how your need to get them out of the house was so important they won’t get to see me again.

I love how everyone is so worried about Thor kids education all of su

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

If one of these teachers gets sick - there is no sub. What will the learning loss be then?

Yeah, the kids will just be....where we are now. With parents providing most education. I'd rather they get some education from people who are trained to educate, rather than none.

The reality is that most people recover from the virus fully. This is statistically true, and I also have seen this in person. I understand teachers with pre-existing conditions or other risk factors not wanting to go in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how many people wanting to reopen are entitled white people.

The dad with twins is paying for childcare but couldn't find spanish childcare in DC? Really?

And he found childcare outside his home - he drives to another state to drop off his kids and pick them up? Or are they going to grandma and grandma doesn't speak spanish?

That doesn't make sense.

All I see here are a bunch of people who couldn't hack it at being teachers whining that these people took a vow of poverty to teacher their kids. The idea that teachers don't care about their kids have never seen a teacher cry on a Sunday while she's preparing lesson plans.

And those are garbage people.

parent your kids; relax about the standards; and know the disrespect you are tossing around the people who you want to watch and die for your kids is being heard by your kids.

Teachers in this country take a bullet for kids and now they are to die alone in a hospital so your kid won't fall behind. give me a break - if you can find DCUM, find the time to post on DCUM and talk to the post about your daycare in MD - your kid is not suffering from educational loss.

Standing ovation. This just about brought me to tears!

How dramatic. I guess it's fun to make an emotionally-laden post filled with hyperbole and manipulation instead of facts, but you do you.

No one took a vow of poverty. And I've been a teacher. Lesson planning isn't that stressful, and furthermore, tons of us have cried about our jobs. It's not special. That's facts.

Teachers are not in any special danger as empirical research has suggested so far. It's weird that you're basically like "they choose to be MARTYRS for our children!" But at the same time you are saying they shouldn't take the completely reasonable risks many of the rest of us are taking.

You're saying learning loss isn't occurring. And hey, so the research so far suggests that learning loss is real, and that online learning is to the detriment of special populations, including young learners. Here's facts: https://naeducation.org/covid-19-educational-inequities-roundtable-series-summary-report/

Or I guess, you could just claim without any evidence, that learning loss isn't happening.

Learning loss is happening but why is that an issue. There is a pandemic happening.

If you were able to find the study - you are able to read to your kid. You are able to talk to your kid in math.

If one of these teachers gets sick - there is no sub. What will the learning loss be then?

Because children have a right to an appropriate education. That has literally been settled in constitutional law. The fact that there is a pandemic does not abridge these rights, which I recall has also been recently litigated. Many children who are in special populations--kids with special needs, young children, children in poverty, etc., are not receiving an appropriate education. It is a generally accepted fact in education circles that distance learning is detrimental for these groups.

And it's weird that you're like "well YOU can read to your child, so that means everything is fine!" Maybe there are skills I cannot effectively impart to my child. Maybe I care about my kid's classmates, maybe I care about the multiple functions of schooling aside from disciplinary concerns, all of which cannot be adequately performed through DL.

Here, try reading chapter 5 here: https://www.nap.edu/read/25858/chapter/5

[Anonymous]

Learning loss is happening but why is that an issue. There is a pandemic happening.

If you were able to find the study - you are able to read to your kid. You are able to talk to your kid in math.

If one of these teachers gets sick - there is no sub. What will the learning loss be then?

What will happen is they will just assign worksheets LIKE NOW and it won't be different.

[Anonymous]

Obviously every school is different but at our dual language charter, I see teachers working their asses off. It seems like admin. is using them as their main excuse for not reopening. But based on the scant information they've offered it seems like many many teachers would go back if they were asked to but its simply easier for the school to stay shut (no pivoting, no contingency planning, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obviously every school is different but at our dual language charter, I see teachers working their asses off. It seems like admin. is using them as their main excuse for not reopening. But based on the scant information they've offered it seems like many many teachers would go back if they were asked to but its simply easier for the school to stay shut (no pivoting, no contingency planning, etc.)

And maybe that is the case for other schools, but it sounds like for LAMB, the issue is teachers.