Washington City Paper report on Inspired Teaching

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Anonymous wrote:there is nothing in that article that tells us how long staff were together the morning they were told about the positive cases the night before. And, most of us have been in that all purpose room. It is large and entirely possible for 80 people to be in there with distancing, masks, and 90%+ vaccination rate and be safe. Do I think the talking points were unnecessarily vague/obtuse? yes. do I think they were the equivalent of asking teachers to lie? absolutely not. I think it's likely the result of the staff processing the talking points to death and coming up with a bad document which doesn't mean bad intent. I also think it's a huge leap to treat this as an initial indictment of the new head of school. To act as such is unfair. A wide variety of stakeholders involved in the interview process found her to be an amazing candidate and I am looking forward to seeing what she can do to improve the learning experience for all. (and, before anyone accuses me of this, I'm not a staff member) I can understand anyone who is scared right now, I really can. But nothing in that article makes me think the school is engaging in truly unsafe practices.

So you think rapid tests for some of the staff is enough? Sorry but I expect a group of supposedly inspired teachers to go the extra mile and get tested. And they should have stopped meeting like that when they realized they had a positive case. And update the parents. We have heard nothing.

If they are going to do the bare minimum I expect we'll be spending a lot of time in quarantine this year.

Rapid tests should not be done on asymptomatic people. It is not accurate. They should be getting a PCR test.

The school told us they were waiting for PCR results. And all we know is that not 100% tested, not that it was only a small number. and obviously the school has been advised that is legally allowable even if the journalist got a quote disagreeing with that interpretation.

They might have dismissed everyone from that meeting after sharing info. We don’t know. Maybe they told staff in closest contact immediately and the whistleblower didn’t know. There is a lot we don’t know and I don’t think we can ignore the slant/click bait nature of the article too. I hope and expect we will hear more when they have more to tell us (for instance: if more staff were positive on PCR they might have needed today to come up with strategies to make sure all kids can still have teachers this week)

Since when do PCR tests take this many days? We are less than 36 hours from dropoff FFS. If I were allowed in the building I would ask the teachers there test results to their faces.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an ITDS parent. I expect ITDS to engage staff with the same care I am required to engage with mine. If I were aware of a COVID outbreak among my staff and I told them about it at an in-person all-staff meeting, it would (appropriately) be a major issue with my staff union. If I justified my decision-making based on a legal judgment that was deeply flawed, and if after just 6 weeks on the job, I had a whistleblower complaint from my staff and a scathing report in the local paper, it would be an issue with my board. I care about whether the leadership at ITDS is treating the staff well. Here it seems like they missed the mark.

This is well said. I’m hoping the new director sees this as a wake up call

This. If the allegations in the article are true, they exposed their staff in a stunningly irresponsible manner. And if not all staff tested and we're negative, they are now about to expose the children.

Every school in town is currently exposing their staff in a stunningly irresponsible manner.
It's nuts. They're doing a ton of indoor trainings, indoor unmasked lunches, indoor unmasked concerts.
It's a trainwreck.
They're all operating on what worked out with last year's covid as if 'delta is more contagious' is just fear-mongering. They're all operating as if the risk of breakthrough infections is just fear-mongering.
They're all wearing shitty inadequate masks, and showing them because today's Spirit Week mask day.

They'll all be good and ready and contagious Nirvana style in time for the 30th this is not great.

It's like they're greasing (covid) the pans (teachers) before baking (infecting) the cinnamon rolls (kids).

Hahahahaha whaaaaaaat?! "It's like they're greasing the pans before baking the cinnamon rolls?" Pans? Cinnamon rolls? This isn't a metaphor that....anyone....is familiar with.

Hang on, I'm usually really good at interpreting these. I'll give it a shot, but I don't know if I can do this one.

So, it seems like they are rubbing covid on teachers to make it easy to remove children from inside of them once they've got covid? No, no that's not it. Covid is somehow both grease and baking. Okay, I will try that again. They are deliberately infecting the baking pan teachers before infecting the baking pans again in the oven?

Wait. Don't we want the cinnamon rolls to be baked? Aren't you supposed to grease the pan? Aren't these good things? In this metaphor if we do the good (bad?) thing, we would end up with a dry pan filled with unbaked doughy cinnamon rolls. Does that mean the children will be loose and unformed?

I'm sorry. I couldn't help much here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an ITDS parent. I expect ITDS to engage staff with the same care I am required to engage with mine. If I were aware of a COVID outbreak among my staff and I told them about it at an in-person all-staff meeting, it would (appropriately) be a major issue with my staff union. If I justified my decision-making based on a legal judgment that was deeply flawed, and if after just 6 weeks on the job, I had a whistleblower complaint from my staff and a scathing report in the local paper, it would be an issue with my board. I care about whether the leadership at ITDS is treating the staff well. Here it seems like they missed the mark.

This is well said. I’m hoping the new director sees this as a wake up call

This. If the allegations in the article are true, they exposed their staff in a stunningly irresponsible manner. And if not all staff tested and we're negative, they are now about to expose the children.

Every school in town is currently exposing their staff in a stunningly irresponsible manner.
It's nuts. They're doing a ton of indoor trainings, indoor unmasked lunches, indoor unmasked concerts.
It's a trainwreck.
They're all operating on what worked out with last year's covid as if 'delta is more contagious' is just fear-mongering. They're all operating as if the risk of breakthrough infections is just fear-mongering.
They're all wearing shitty inadequate masks, and showing them because today's Spirit Week mask day.

They'll all be good and ready and contagious Nirvana style in time for the 30th this is not great.

It's like they're greasing (covid) the pans (teachers) before baking (infecting) the cinnamon rolls (kids).

What? Details on concerts and indoor unmasked events?

ITS staff is doing unmasked indoor concerts to prepare for school? I'm sad I overlooked this while trying to figure out that wild metaphor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an ITDS parent. I expect ITDS to engage staff with the same care I am required to engage with mine. If I were aware of a COVID outbreak among my staff and I told them about it at an in-person all-staff meeting, it would (appropriately) be a major issue with my staff union. If I justified my decision-making based on a legal judgment that was deeply flawed, and if after just 6 weeks on the job, I had a whistleblower complaint from my staff and a scathing report in the local paper, it would be an issue with my board. I care about whether the leadership at ITDS is treating the staff well. Here it seems like they missed the mark.

This is well said. I’m hoping the new director sees this as a wake up call

This. If the allegations in the article are true, they exposed their staff in a stunningly irresponsible manner. And if not all staff tested and we're negative, they are now about to expose the children.

Every school in town is currently exposing their staff in a stunningly irresponsible manner.
It's nuts. They're doing a ton of indoor trainings, indoor unmasked lunches, indoor unmasked concerts.
It's a trainwreck.
They're all operating on what worked out with last year's covid as if 'delta is more contagious' is just fear-mongering. They're all operating as if the risk of breakthrough infections is just fear-mongering.
They're all wearing shitty inadequate masks, and showing them because today's Spirit Week mask day.

They'll all be good and ready and contagious Nirvana style in time for the 30th this is not great.

It's like they're greasing (covid) the pans (teachers) before baking (infecting) the cinnamon rolls (kids).

What? Details on concerts and indoor unmasked events?

Unmasked concert:

Unmasked indoor lunch:

Good teachers proudly wearing bad masks:

Uh, the audience in that concert clip are wearing masks. There's a performance exception in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Uh, the audience in that concert clip are wearing masks. There's a performance exception in DC.

A performance exception that is best applied for a volunteer audience, not a captive one, and not an audience that is 7 days from being in a room full of unvaccinated people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Uh, the audience in that concert clip are wearing masks. There's a performance exception in DC.

A performance exception that is best applied for a volunteer audience, not a captive one, and not an audience that is 7 days from being in a room full of unvaccinated people.

None of this is about ITS. Who cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an ITDS parent. I expect ITDS to engage staff with the same care I am required to engage with mine. If I were aware of a COVID outbreak among my staff and I told them about it at an in-person all-staff meeting, it would (appropriately) be a major issue with my staff union. If I justified my decision-making based on a legal judgment that was deeply flawed, and if after just 6 weeks on the job, I had a whistleblower complaint from my staff and a scathing report in the local paper, it would be an issue with my board. I care about whether the leadership at ITDS is treating the staff well. Here it seems like they missed the mark.

This is well said. I’m hoping the new director sees this as a wake up call

This. If the allegations in the article are true, they exposed their staff in a stunningly irresponsible manner. And if not all staff tested and we're negative, they are now about to expose the children.

Every school in town is currently exposing their staff in a stunningly irresponsible manner.
It's nuts. They're doing a ton of indoor trainings, indoor unmasked lunches, indoor unmasked concerts.
It's a trainwreck.
They're all operating on what worked out with last year's covid as if 'delta is more contagious' is just fear-mongering. They're all operating as if the risk of breakthrough infections is just fear-mongering.
They're all wearing shitty inadequate masks, and showing them because today's Spirit Week mask day.

They'll all be good and ready and contagious Nirvana style in time for the 30th this is not great.

It's like they're greasing (covid) the pans (teachers) before baking (infecting) the cinnamon rolls (kids).

Hahahahaha whaaaaaaat?! "It's like they're greasing the pans before baking the cinnamon rolls?" Pans? Cinnamon rolls? This isn't a metaphor that....anyone....is familiar with.

Hang on, I'm usually really good at interpreting these. I'll give it a shot, but I don't know if I can do this one.

So, it seems like they are rubbing covid on teachers to make it easy to remove children from inside of them once they've got covid? No, no that's not it. Covid is somehow both grease and baking. Okay, I will try that again. They are deliberately infecting the baking pan teachers before infecting the baking pans again in the oven?

Wait. Don't we want the cinnamon rolls to be baked? Aren't you supposed to grease the pan? Aren't these good things? In this metaphor if we do the good (bad?) thing, we would end up with a dry pan filled with unbaked doughy cinnamon rolls. Does that mean the children will be loose and unformed?

I'm sorry. I couldn't help much here.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Uh, the audience in that concert clip are wearing masks. There's a performance exception in DC.

A performance exception that is best applied for a volunteer audience, not a captive one, and not an audience that is 7 days from being in a room full of unvaccinated people.

Ballou Stay is largely 16-21 year olds, all eligible to be vaccinated. You people are getting ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Who is going to disable the listserv reply to all first?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:there is nothing in that article that tells us how long staff were together the morning they were told about the positive cases the night before. And, most of us have been in that all purpose room. It is large and entirely possible for 80 people to be in there with distancing, masks, and 90%+ vaccination rate and be safe. Do I think the talking points were unnecessarily vague/obtuse? yes. do I think they were the equivalent of asking teachers to lie? absolutely not. I think it's likely the result of the staff processing the talking points to death and coming up with a bad document which doesn't mean bad intent. I also think it's a huge leap to treat this as an initial indictment of the new head of school. To act as such is unfair. A wide variety of stakeholders involved in the interview process found her to be an amazing candidate and I am looking forward to seeing what she can do to improve the learning experience for all. (and, before anyone accuses me of this, I'm not a staff member) I can understand anyone who is scared right now, I really can. But nothing in that article makes me think the school is engaging in truly unsafe practices.

So you think rapid tests for some of the staff is enough? Sorry but I expect a group of supposedly inspired teachers to go the extra mile and get tested. And they should have stopped meeting like that when they realized they had a positive case. And update the parents. We have heard nothing.

If they are going to do the bare minimum I expect we'll be spending a lot of time in quarantine this year.

Rapid tests should not be done on asymptomatic people. It is not accurate. They should be getting a PCR test.

The school told us they were waiting for PCR results. And all we know is that not 100% tested, not that it was only a small number. and obviously the school has been advised that is legally allowable even if the journalist got a quote disagreeing with that interpretation.

They might have dismissed everyone from that meeting after sharing info. We don’t know. Maybe they told staff in closest contact immediately and the whistleblower didn’t know. There is a lot we don’t know and I don’t think we can ignore the slant/click bait nature of the article too. I hope and expect we will hear more when they have more to tell us (for instance: if more staff were positive on PCR they might have needed today to come up with strategies to make sure all kids can still have teachers this week)

Since when do PCR tests take this many days? We are less than 36 hours from dropoff FFS. If I were allowed in the building I would ask the teachers there test results to their faces.

Yes, thankfully parents aren't allowed in. For both health reasons and people like you. I wouldn't mind if it stayed that way.

I think you should send an email. Put it in writing so that the school has a paper trail of how deeply unhinged you are. The teachers have done the best they could given the circumstances and deserve better than your caterwauling. If you don't trust the judgment of the people who are taking care of your child, you should consider why you're there at all when a perfectly lovely and fully accountable (lol) DCPS is right there in your neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:there is nothing in that article that tells us how long staff were together the morning they were told about the positive cases the night before. And, most of us have been in that all purpose room. It is large and entirely possible for 80 people to be in there with distancing, masks, and 90%+ vaccination rate and be safe. Do I think the talking points were unnecessarily vague/obtuse? yes. do I think they were the equivalent of asking teachers to lie? absolutely not. I think it's likely the result of the staff processing the talking points to death and coming up with a bad document which doesn't mean bad intent. I also think it's a huge leap to treat this as an initial indictment of the new head of school. To act as such is unfair. A wide variety of stakeholders involved in the interview process found her to be an amazing candidate and I am looking forward to seeing what she can do to improve the learning experience for all. (and, before anyone accuses me of this, I'm not a staff member) I can understand anyone who is scared right now, I really can. But nothing in that article makes me think the school is engaging in truly unsafe practices.

So you think rapid tests for some of the staff is enough? Sorry but I expect a group of supposedly inspired teachers to go the extra mile and get tested. And they should have stopped meeting like that when they realized they had a positive case. And update the parents. We have heard nothing.

If they are going to do the bare minimum I expect we'll be spending a lot of time in quarantine this year.

Rapid tests should not be done on asymptomatic people. It is not accurate. They should be getting a PCR test.

The school told us they were waiting for PCR results. And all we know is that not 100% tested, not that it was only a small number. and obviously the school has been advised that is legally allowable even if the journalist got a quote disagreeing with that interpretation.

They might have dismissed everyone from that meeting after sharing info. We don’t know. Maybe they told staff in closest contact immediately and the whistleblower didn’t know. There is a lot we don’t know and I don’t think we can ignore the slant/click bait nature of the article too. I hope and expect we will hear more when they have more to tell us (for instance: if more staff were positive on PCR they might have needed today to come up with strategies to make sure all kids can still have teachers this week)

Since when do PCR tests take this many days? We are less than 36 hours from dropoff FFS. If I were allowed in the building I would ask the teachers there test results to their faces.

Yes, thankfully parents aren't allowed in. For both health reasons and people like you. I wouldn't mind if it stayed that way.

I think you should send an email. Put it in writing so that the school has a paper trail of how deeply unhinged you are. The teachers have done the best they could given the circumstances and deserve better than your caterwauling. If you don't trust the judgment of the people who are taking care of your child, you should consider why you're there at all when a perfectly lovely and fully accountable (lol) DCPS is right there in your neighborhood.

Wouldn't it be nice to have an update from the school? Sure would! 23 hours until dropoff and not a peep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:there is nothing in that article that tells us how long staff were together the morning they were told about the positive cases the night before. And, most of us have been in that all purpose room. It is large and entirely possible for 80 people to be in there with distancing, masks, and 90%+ vaccination rate and be safe. Do I think the talking points were unnecessarily vague/obtuse? yes. do I think they were the equivalent of asking teachers to lie? absolutely not. I think it's likely the result of the staff processing the talking points to death and coming up with a bad document which doesn't mean bad intent. I also think it's a huge leap to treat this as an initial indictment of the new head of school. To act as such is unfair. A wide variety of stakeholders involved in the interview process found her to be an amazing candidate and I am looking forward to seeing what she can do to improve the learning experience for all. (and, before anyone accuses me of this, I'm not a staff member) I can understand anyone who is scared right now, I really can. But nothing in that article makes me think the school is engaging in truly unsafe practices.

So you think rapid tests for some of the staff is enough? Sorry but I expect a group of supposedly inspired teachers to go the extra mile and get tested. And they should have stopped meeting like that when they realized they had a positive case. And update the parents. We have heard nothing.

If they are going to do the bare minimum I expect we'll be spending a lot of time in quarantine this year.

Rapid tests should not be done on asymptomatic people. It is not accurate. They should be getting a PCR test.

The school told us they were waiting for PCR results. And all we know is that not 100% tested, not that it was only a small number. and obviously the school has been advised that is legally allowable even if the journalist got a quote disagreeing with that interpretation.

They might have dismissed everyone from that meeting after sharing info. We don’t know. Maybe they told staff in closest contact immediately and the whistleblower didn’t know. There is a lot we don’t know and I don’t think we can ignore the slant/click bait nature of the article too. I hope and expect we will hear more when they have more to tell us (for instance: if more staff were positive on PCR they might have needed today to come up with strategies to make sure all kids can still have teachers this week)

Since when do PCR tests take this many days? We are less than 36 hours from dropoff FFS. If I were allowed in the building I would ask the teachers there test results to their faces.

Yes, thankfully parents aren't allowed in. For both health reasons and people like you. I wouldn't mind if it stayed that way.

I think you should send an email. Put it in writing so that the school has a paper trail of how deeply unhinged you are. The teachers have done the best they could given the circumstances and deserve better than your caterwauling. If you don't trust the judgment of the people who are taking care of your child, you should consider why you're there at all when a perfectly lovely and fully accountable (lol) DCPS is right there in your neighborhood.

Wouldn't it be nice to have an update from the school? Sure would! 23 hours until dropoff and not a peep.

"Nice" does not equal "required." My kids are going tomorrow. So are everyone else's, judging by the extremely lukewarm response on the ITS email list.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:there is nothing in that article that tells us how long staff were together the morning they were told about the positive cases the night before. And, most of us have been in that all purpose room. It is large and entirely possible for 80 people to be in there with distancing, masks, and 90%+ vaccination rate and be safe. Do I think the talking points were unnecessarily vague/obtuse? yes. do I think they were the equivalent of asking teachers to lie? absolutely not. I think it's likely the result of the staff processing the talking points to death and coming up with a bad document which doesn't mean bad intent. I also think it's a huge leap to treat this as an initial indictment of the new head of school. To act as such is unfair. A wide variety of stakeholders involved in the interview process found her to be an amazing candidate and I am looking forward to seeing what she can do to improve the learning experience for all. (and, before anyone accuses me of this, I'm not a staff member) I can understand anyone who is scared right now, I really can. But nothing in that article makes me think the school is engaging in truly unsafe practices.

So you think rapid tests for some of the staff is enough? Sorry but I expect a group of supposedly inspired teachers to go the extra mile and get tested. And they should have stopped meeting like that when they realized they had a positive case. And update the parents. We have heard nothing.

If they are going to do the bare minimum I expect we'll be spending a lot of time in quarantine this year.

Rapid tests should not be done on asymptomatic people. It is not accurate. They should be getting a PCR test.

The school told us they were waiting for PCR results. And all we know is that not 100% tested, not that it was only a small number. and obviously the school has been advised that is legally allowable even if the journalist got a quote disagreeing with that interpretation.

They might have dismissed everyone from that meeting after sharing info. We don’t know. Maybe they told staff in closest contact immediately and the whistleblower didn’t know. There is a lot we don’t know and I don’t think we can ignore the slant/click bait nature of the article too. I hope and expect we will hear more when they have more to tell us (for instance: if more staff were positive on PCR they might have needed today to come up with strategies to make sure all kids can still have teachers this week)

Since when do PCR tests take this many days? We are less than 36 hours from dropoff FFS. If I were allowed in the building I would ask the teachers there test results to their faces.

Yes, thankfully parents aren't allowed in. For both health reasons and people like you. I wouldn't mind if it stayed that way.

I think you should send an email. Put it in writing so that the school has a paper trail of how deeply unhinged you are. The teachers have done the best they could given the circumstances and deserve better than your caterwauling. If you don't trust the judgment of the people who are taking care of your child, you should consider why you're there at all when a perfectly lovely and fully accountable (lol) DCPS is right there in your neighborhood.

Wouldn't it be nice to have an update from the school? Sure would! 23 hours until dropoff and not a peep.

"Nice" does not equal "required." My kids are going tomorrow. So are everyone else's, judging by the extremely lukewarm response on the ITS email list.

Doing The Bare Minimum Required Demonstration School? Sorry, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:there is nothing in that article that tells us how long staff were together the morning they were told about the positive cases the night before. And, most of us have been in that all purpose room. It is large and entirely possible for 80 people to be in there with distancing, masks, and 90%+ vaccination rate and be safe. Do I think the talking points were unnecessarily vague/obtuse? yes. do I think they were the equivalent of asking teachers to lie? absolutely not. I think it's likely the result of the staff processing the talking points to death and coming up with a bad document which doesn't mean bad intent. I also think it's a huge leap to treat this as an initial indictment of the new head of school. To act as such is unfair. A wide variety of stakeholders involved in the interview process found her to be an amazing candidate and I am looking forward to seeing what she can do to improve the learning experience for all. (and, before anyone accuses me of this, I'm not a staff member) I can understand anyone who is scared right now, I really can. But nothing in that article makes me think the school is engaging in truly unsafe practices.

So you think rapid tests for some of the staff is enough? Sorry but I expect a group of supposedly inspired teachers to go the extra mile and get tested. And they should have stopped meeting like that when they realized they had a positive case. And update the parents. We have heard nothing.

If they are going to do the bare minimum I expect we'll be spending a lot of time in quarantine this year.

Rapid tests should not be done on asymptomatic people. It is not accurate. They should be getting a PCR test.

The school told us they were waiting for PCR results. And all we know is that not 100% tested, not that it was only a small number. and obviously the school has been advised that is legally allowable even if the journalist got a quote disagreeing with that interpretation.

They might have dismissed everyone from that meeting after sharing info. We don’t know. Maybe they told staff in closest contact immediately and the whistleblower didn’t know. There is a lot we don’t know and I don’t think we can ignore the slant/click bait nature of the article too. I hope and expect we will hear more when they have more to tell us (for instance: if more staff were positive on PCR they might have needed today to come up with strategies to make sure all kids can still have teachers this week)

Since when do PCR tests take this many days? We are less than 36 hours from dropoff FFS. If I were allowed in the building I would ask the teachers there test results to their faces.

Yes, thankfully parents aren't allowed in. For both health reasons and people like you. I wouldn't mind if it stayed that way.

I think you should send an email. Put it in writing so that the school has a paper trail of how deeply unhinged you are. The teachers have done the best they could given the circumstances and deserve better than your caterwauling. If you don't trust the judgment of the people who are taking care of your child, you should consider why you're there at all when a perfectly lovely and fully accountable (lol) DCPS is right there in your neighborhood.

Wouldn't it be nice to have an update from the school? Sure would! 23 hours until dropoff and not a peep.

"Nice" does not equal "required." My kids are going tomorrow. So are everyone else's, judging by the extremely lukewarm response on the ITS email list.

Doing The Bare Minimum Required Demonstration School? Sorry, no.

So what are you going to do about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:there is nothing in that article that tells us how long staff were together the morning they were told about the positive cases the night before. And, most of us have been in that all purpose room. It is large and entirely possible for 80 people to be in there with distancing, masks, and 90%+ vaccination rate and be safe. Do I think the talking points were unnecessarily vague/obtuse? yes. do I think they were the equivalent of asking teachers to lie? absolutely not. I think it's likely the result of the staff processing the talking points to death and coming up with a bad document which doesn't mean bad intent. I also think it's a huge leap to treat this as an initial indictment of the new head of school. To act as such is unfair. A wide variety of stakeholders involved in the interview process found her to be an amazing candidate and I am looking forward to seeing what she can do to improve the learning experience for all. (and, before anyone accuses me of this, I'm not a staff member) I can understand anyone who is scared right now, I really can. But nothing in that article makes me think the school is engaging in truly unsafe practices.

So you think rapid tests for some of the staff is enough? Sorry but I expect a group of supposedly inspired teachers to go the extra mile and get tested. And they should have stopped meeting like that when they realized they had a positive case. And update the parents. We have heard nothing.

If they are going to do the bare minimum I expect we'll be spending a lot of time in quarantine this year.

Rapid tests should not be done on asymptomatic people. It is not accurate. They should be getting a PCR test.

The school told us they were waiting for PCR results. And all we know is that not 100% tested, not that it was only a small number. and obviously the school has been advised that is legally allowable even if the journalist got a quote disagreeing with that interpretation.

They might have dismissed everyone from that meeting after sharing info. We don’t know. Maybe they told staff in closest contact immediately and the whistleblower didn’t know. There is a lot we don’t know and I don’t think we can ignore the slant/click bait nature of the article too. I hope and expect we will hear more when they have more to tell us (for instance: if more staff were positive on PCR they might have needed today to come up with strategies to make sure all kids can still have teachers this week)

Since when do PCR tests take this many days? We are less than 36 hours from dropoff FFS. If I were allowed in the building I would ask the teachers there test results to their faces.

Yes, thankfully parents aren't allowed in. For both health reasons and people like you. I wouldn't mind if it stayed that way.

I think you should send an email. Put it in writing so that the school has a paper trail of how deeply unhinged you are. The teachers have done the best they could given the circumstances and deserve better than your caterwauling. If you don't trust the judgment of the people who are taking care of your child, you should consider why you're there at all when a perfectly lovely and fully accountable (lol) DCPS is right there in your neighborhood.

Wouldn't it be nice to have an update from the school? Sure would! 23 hours until dropoff and not a peep.

"Nice" does not equal "required." My kids are going tomorrow. So are everyone else's, judging by the extremely lukewarm response on the ITS email list.

Doing The Bare Minimum Required Demonstration School? Sorry, no.

So what are you going to do about it?

She's going to write strong words on an anonymous page geared towards disgruntled housewives, MWAHAHAHA

watch out, ITS