All schools should offer an all-virtual option

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh lord y'all.....

https://twitter.com/ZACHARYSBOE5/status/1430562764947435529/photo/1

I recommend reading the letter that SBOE sent to Bowser.

They are asking for a virtual option by LEAs, not each school. Each charter has its own LEA, but other schools’ LEA is “DCPS.” So it would be a centralized version, except for charters

This is a mess if you take into account the difference between a charter LEA and DCPS. They should just tell all charter students to enroll in their neighborhood school and opt into the virtual option if this is what they need to feel safe. Not that this seems likely to happen six days from now. (Way to be effective with their timing. And, especially as Delta is leveling off in DC and elsewhere.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh lord y'all.....

https://twitter.com/ZACHARYSBOE5/status/1430562764947435529/photo/1

I recommend reading the letter that SBOE sent to Bowser.

They are asking for a virtual option by LEAs, not each school. Each charter has its own LEA, but other schools’ LEA is “DCPS.” So it would be a centralized version, except for charters

This is a mess if you take into account the difference between a charter LEA and DCPS. They should just tell all charter students to enroll in their neighborhood school and opt into the virtual option if this is what they need to feel safe. Not that this seems likely to happen six days from now. (Way to be effective with their timing. And, especially as Delta is leveling off in DC and elsewhere.)

This is a PR piece not a policy that is happening, folks. Parker is setting up his Ward 5 Council run

[Anonymous]

Hahaha.

*except for charters, which enroll fully half of the students in the city.

[Anonymous]

This is all a farce. The charters have been able to have a virtual option if they wanted and made a clear Vincent case for. Three applied, two denied and one granted. Charters don’t want to do this. A letter to Bowser doesn’t do anything. This isn’t on her. It’s on the DC Charter Board who makes decisions to grant or approve. But first charters have to want to. They’ve always had this option

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is all a farce. The charters have been able to have a virtual option if they wanted and made a clear Vincent case for. Three applied, two denied and one granted. Charters don’t want to do this. A letter to Bowser doesn’t do anything. This isn’t on her. It’s on the DC Charter Board who makes decisions to grant or approve. But first charters have to want to. They’ve always had this option

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is all a farce. The charters have been able to have a virtual option if they wanted and made a clear Vincent case for. Three applied, two denied and one granted. Charters don’t want to do this. A letter to Bowser doesn’t do anything. This isn’t on her. It’s on the DC Charter Board who makes decisions to grant or approve. But first charters have to want to. They’ve always had this option

Charters had the option to APPLY for it, not to just do it. The PCSB made clear that they weren't going to just broadly approve and they didn't. The PCSB director sent out multiple communications to charter leaders saying that school was expected to be in person this fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is all a farce. The charters have been able to have a virtual option if they wanted and made a clear Vincent case for. Three applied, two denied and one granted. Charters don’t want to do this. A letter to Bowser doesn’t do anything. This isn’t on her. It’s on the DC Charter Board who makes decisions to grant or approve. But first charters have to want to. They’ve always had this option

Charters had the option to APPLY for it, not to just do it. The PCSB made clear that they weren't going to just broadly approve and they didn't. The PCSB director sent out multiple communications to charter leaders saying that school was expected to be in person this fall.

Well thank god for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh lord y'all.....

https://twitter.com/ZACHARYSBOE5/status/1430562764947435529/photo/1

I recommend reading the letter that SBOE sent to Bowser.

They are asking for a virtual option by LEAs, not each school. Each charter has its own LEA, but other schools’ LEA is “DCPS.” So it would be a centralized version, except for charters

This is a mess if you take into account the difference between a charter LEA and DCPS. They should just tell all charter students to enroll in their neighborhood school and opt into the virtual option if this is what they need to feel safe. Not that this seems likely to happen six days from now. (Way to be effective with their timing. And, especially as Delta is leveling off in DC and elsewhere.)

Students from charters can't join DCPS and opt into DCPS virtual just because their parents want them to be virtual. They still have to have a medical exemption. Since that's the case, they can just stay in their charter with the medical exemption and get access to the charter's virtual program. All of the charters and DCPS were required to have a virtual option but it is limited to students with the medical exemption (except for Friendship which had a pre-existing approved online program and KIPP and Maya Angelou which were just approved a few weeks ago).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh lord y'all.....

https://twitter.com/ZACHARYSBOE5/status/1430562764947435529/photo/1

I recommend reading the letter that SBOE sent to Bowser.

They are asking for a virtual option by LEAs, not each school. Each charter has its own LEA, but other schools’ LEA is “DCPS.” So it would be a centralized version, except for charters

This is a mess if you take into account the difference between a charter LEA and DCPS. They should just tell all charter students to enroll in their neighborhood school and opt into the virtual option if this is what they need to feel safe. Not that this seems likely to happen six days from now. (Way to be effective with their timing. And, especially as Delta is leveling off in DC and elsewhere.)

This is a PR piece not a policy that is happening, folks. Parker is setting up his Ward 5 Council run

He sucks and I hate him.

[Anonymous]

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Elissa Silverman (At Large): [e-mail]
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Thank you! Just emailed. Asked for virtual option.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A virtual option at every school (as has been repeatedly expressed throughout this thread) hurts the majority of children. Resources are not infinite.

What Becky wants is to harm the majority of students. That's really not ok.

If Becky truly wanted something that did not harm other children, she'd probably get more support. As it is, people should vehemently oppose a virtual option at all schools.

More resources could be poured into public education to allow a virtual option for all who want it, but doing it on a per school basis is too inefficient.

But you know what would happen? The virtual option would be flooded with kids who live in W 7 and 8, the same ones whose parents refused to send them to even one day of in person school last year, and many of whom disappeared entirely throughout the school year. THAT is why Bowser doesn't want to do it. These kids are the ones who need in person school far more than any others.

And that is why it’s icky for a ww who admittedly has means to keep her kids home shouldn’t be driving this train.

I am a PP wanting virtual. I’m absolutely fine with this. The problem is there are not slots for virtual for anyone who needs it - only for those with narrowly defined medical exemptions. I’m also not “Becky” who was misquoted as wanting to close down all schools - nor the OP. Many parents afraid to lose spots at charters and feed. That’s not my issue but it’s one I understand. As a single mom homeschool would be tough if not impossible.

And that is why you and I and everyone else needs to get off DCUM and let the powers that be know we support the school board’s position. Each LEA should determine if they want to do a virtual option. I support a virtual option for the LEA where my kids go to school. A centralized virtual option for all of DCPS, run by CO and not by individual schools (which are not LEAs) where the students in virtual school can return to the school in which they are enrolled either in January 2022 or August 2022. I do not think it is reasonable for individual schools in DCPS to run a virtual school for the small percentage of families that want it. And no hybrid.

I am off to write to the SBOE, the mayor, etc.

[Anonymous]

I note there are some "I need virtual at MY charter/OOB school!" parents who are like "it's a PANDEMIC so I should get the thing I want!"

Yeah? It's a pandemic and you're terrified, but you want to hang onto your charter seat? That's your priority? Come on. The better argument is that it's a pandemic and you can't have everything you want. Might have to give up a charter seat. If you're so terrified for your child's health, that should be an easy choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I note there are some "I need virtual at MY charter/OOB school!" parents who are like "it's a PANDEMIC so I should get the thing I want!"

Yeah? It's a pandemic and you're terrified, but you want to hang onto your charter seat? That's your priority? Come on. The better argument is that it's a pandemic and you can't have everything you want. Might have to give up a charter seat. If you're so terrified for your child's health, that should be an easy choice.

The mayor believes that the people who are most likely to opt for virtual are in wards 7 and 8. What she seems to be missing is that those are also the same people who will pull their kids out entirely, leaving them with NO school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A virtual option at every school (as has been repeatedly expressed throughout this thread) hurts the majority of children. Resources are not infinite.

What Becky wants is to harm the majority of students. That's really not ok.

If Becky truly wanted something that did not harm other children, she'd probably get more support. As it is, people should vehemently oppose a virtual option at all schools.

More resources could be poured into public education to allow a virtual option for all who want it, but doing it on a per school basis is too inefficient.

But you know what would happen? The virtual option would be flooded with kids who live in W 7 and 8, the same ones whose parents refused to send them to even one day of in person school last year, and many of whom disappeared entirely throughout the school year. THAT is why Bowser doesn't want to do it. These kids are the ones who need in person school far more than any others.

Omg. This REEKS of paternalism and is blatantly racist. There are plenty of families you’d like to decide for making the best decisions they can for their kids. Just because they live in a demographically low income ward theh don’t get to choose?

I said it before and I’ll say it again. Fools, assholes (now including racists and people who will name someone’s actual name and then say what she wants is to hurt kids or shut schools down). Btw one of the posters on here is a ward 5 mom who did not stop posting on every social media page (community, hers, pool, school, etc) about her positions and also kept using the “think of the poor ward 8 kids” and got her ass handed to her by just about every person of color who saw her posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A virtual option at every school (as has been repeatedly expressed throughout this thread) hurts the majority of children. Resources are not infinite.

What Becky wants is to harm the majority of students. That's really not ok.

If Becky truly wanted something that did not harm other children, she'd probably get more support. As it is, people should vehemently oppose a virtual option at all schools.

More resources could be poured into public education to allow a virtual option for all who want it, but doing it on a per school basis is too inefficient.

But you know what would happen? The virtual option would be flooded with kids who live in W 7 and 8, the same ones whose parents refused to send them to even one day of in person school last year, and many of whom disappeared entirely throughout the school year. THAT is why Bowser doesn't want to do it. These kids are the ones who need in person school far more than any others.

Omg. This REEKS of paternalism and is blatantly racist. There are plenty of families you’d like to decide for making the best decisions they can for their kids. Just because they live in a demographically low income ward theh don’t get to choose?

I said it before and I’ll say it again. Fools, assholes (now including racists and people who will name someone’s actual name and then say what she wants is to hurt kids or shut schools down). Btw one of the posters on here is a ward 5 mom who did not stop posting on every social media page (community, hers, pool, school, etc) about her positions and also kept using the “think of the poor ward 8 kids” and got her ass handed to her by just about every person of color who saw her posts.

Making a statements based on cold data (ward 7 and 8 kids had by far the highest rates of delinquencies, ie not attending virtual at all) and survey data (wards 7 and 8 parents by far voiced more preference for virtual than parents in any other wards)