All schools should offer an all-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.

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.

Actually, no one should get to choose.[/quote
How could we dare when we have you to choose for us, D?

Choose away. But the facts are that this city has Wards with low Vax rates. The fact is many children in the same Wards are losing significant time in school. Facts. To what extent are folks supposed to break out the violins when all of these choices don’t seem to be working out too well? No violins and no more artificial safety nets.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Becky put herself out there and her name was used in a quote that she freely gave to a newspaper. She is a school council representative. As a public official (albeit a minor one), she does indeed need to face the fact that people will disagree with her positions, and will use her name in public dialogues.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Becky put herself out there and her name was used in a quote that she freely gave to a newspaper. She is a school council representative. As a public official (albeit a minor one), she does indeed need to face the fact that people will disagree with her positions, and will use her name in public dialogues.

Yes, and I don’t know her, but people are saying she wants to “shut down schools”. That’s not what she said in the article that was pasted - she said she wanted a virtual option. I didn’t even see anything specific about all schools having virtual. The level of vitriol for a parent who simply wants a safer option in a still developing, still no cure, still killing people including kids pandemic, is just nuts to me. It’s been a while since I’ve been on DCUM regularly but some of you are just really low people.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Becky put herself out there and her name was used in a quote that she freely gave to a newspaper. She is a school council representative. As a public official (albeit a minor one), she does indeed need to face the fact that people will disagree with her positions, and will use her name in public dialogues.

Yes, and I don’t know her, but people are saying she wants to “shut down schools”. That’s not what she said in the article that was pasted - she said she wanted a virtual option. I didn’t even see anything specific about all schools having virtual. The level of vitriol for a parent who simply wants a safer option in a still developing, still no cure, still killing people including kids pandemic, is just nuts to me. It’s been a while since I’ve been on DCUM regularly but some of you are just really low people.

+1. These are the same people who laughed when I suggested there were other good schools outside of Wilson/deal/hardy, and “wished” my kids would go to schools that they deemed subpar. It’s really a gross collection of people on here who love to pat themselves on the back for owning the w3 corridor, but also get mad when they get called out for segregating dcps. I try to come here and counteract the vitriol but sometimes it’s really depressing to know that I’ve probably taught some of these peoples kids.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Becky put herself out there and her name was used in a quote that she freely gave to a newspaper. She is a school council representative. As a public official (albeit a minor one), she does indeed need to face the fact that people will disagree with her positions, and will use her name in public dialogues.

Yes, and I don’t know her, but people are saying she wants to “shut down schools”. That’s not what she said in the article that was pasted - she said she wanted a virtual option. I didn’t even see anything specific about all schools having virtual. The level of vitriol for a parent who simply wants a safer option in a still developing, still no cure, still killing people including kids pandemic, is just nuts to me. It’s been a while since I’ve been on DCUM regularly but some of you are just really low people.

She is a public figure. Do people get all riled up about people being “mean” about Bowser or Ferebee?

[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.

I don't know - isn't the entire requirement to send your kids to school reeking of paternalism? Should we do away with that as well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PG just announced that it is enrolling 12,000 kids in all-virtual.

There are over 136,000 students in PG County public schools. And they granted every request for virtual (via a centralized academy). DCPS is only 50k kids total. Yes they are offering a more robust virtual program, but it’s not as stark a contrast as you might think. Also, as a smaller school district with fewer total resources, it’s harder for DCPS to scale this offering.

I will say PGPS has been much more proactive than DCPS throughout the pandemic— better leadership all around. But I also think you have to careful with an apples to apples comparison because they are pretty different in a number of ways.

[Anonymous]

I couldn’t careless whether these fool of parents want to deprive their kids even further by sending them to virtual school this year. My problem is that they are the same people who in a month or two, if not less, will be crying and protesting about the “unfair, better education” in person students are getting and the need to make everyone go virtual for “equity” sake

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PG just announced that it is enrolling 12,000 kids in all-virtual.

There are over 136,000 students in PG County public schools. And they granted every request for virtual (via a centralized academy). DCPS is only 50k kids total. Yes they are offering a more robust virtual program, but it’s not as stark a contrast as you might think. Also, as a smaller school district with fewer total resources, it’s harder for DCPS to scale this offering.

I will say PGPS has been much more proactive than DCPS throughout the pandemic— better leadership all around. But I also think you have to careful with an apples to apples comparison because they are pretty different in a number of ways.

The virtual program is for K-6 (vaccine inaccessible), so it doesn’t cover the entire 136k school system. My kid is going in-person, but this is a significant late-stage development. I have to wonder if this will put pressure on DC to do the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Becky put herself out there and her name was used in a quote that she freely gave to a newspaper. She is a school council representative. As a public official (albeit a minor one), she does indeed need to face the fact that people will disagree with her positions, and will use her name in public dialogues.

Yes, and I don’t know her, but people are saying she wants to “shut down schools”. That’s not what she said in the article that was pasted - she said she wanted a virtual option. I didn’t even see anything specific about all schools having virtual. The level of vitriol for a parent who simply wants a safer option in a still developing, still no cure, still killing people including kids pandemic, is just nuts to me. It’s been a while since I’ve been on DCUM regularly but some of you are just really low people.

She is a public figure. Do people get all riled up about people being “mean” about Bowser or Ferebee?

She’s also public in her Twitter feed, and yes, is a school representative. If she’s disrupting school options for other people in that role, she deserves to be questioned on that. Just like any other public representative.

[Anonymous]

PG isn’t comparable in that they don’t have half of kids attending charters. Logistically a very different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Becky put herself out there and her name was used in a quote that she freely gave to a newspaper. She is a school council representative. As a public official (albeit a minor one), she does indeed need to face the fact that people will disagree with her positions, and will use her name in public dialogues.

Yes, and I don’t know her, but people are saying she wants to “shut down schools”. That’s not what she said in the article that was pasted - she said she wanted a virtual option. I didn’t even see anything specific about all schools having virtual. The level of vitriol for a parent who simply wants a safer option in a still developing, still no cure, still killing people including kids pandemic, is just nuts to me. It’s been a while since I’ve been on DCUM regularly but some of you are just really low people.

She is a public figure. Do people get all riled up about people being “mean” about Bowser or Ferebee?

She’s also public in her Twitter feed, and yes, is a school representative. If she’s disrupting school options for other people in that role, she deserves to be questioned on that. Just like any other public representative.

Her own posts undermine her cause. Like the pumpkin cover photo. It just reeks of, “don’t credit anything I say.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PG just announced that it is enrolling 12,000 kids in all-virtual.

There are over 136,000 students in PG County public schools. And they granted every request for virtual (via a centralized academy). DCPS is only 50k kids total. Yes they are offering a more robust virtual program, but it’s not as stark a contrast as you might think. Also, as a smaller school district with fewer total resources, it’s harder for DCPS to scale this offering.

I will say PGPS has been much more proactive than DCPS throughout the pandemic— better leadership all around. But I also think you have to careful with an apples to apples comparison because they are pretty different in a number of ways.

Proactive? If you mean had fewer kids in person and for fewer days, and more draconian approach to the pandemic fine. I am glad I don’t live there. Vax rates likely low as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PG isn’t comparable in that they don’t have half of kids attending charters. Logistically a very different story.

That makes things EASIER for DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t careless whether these fool of parents want to deprive their kids even further by sending them to virtual school this year. My problem is that they are the same people who in a month or two, if not less, will be crying and protesting about the “unfair, better education” in person students are getting and the need to make everyone go virtual for “equity” sake

Literally no one will be arguing that. You are absurd.