Organizing to lobby DC to allow larger class sizes under Phase 2/3

[educatedc]

Per the ReOpen guidelines, schools, under each of Phase 2 and 3 must limit class sizes to 10, inclusive of the teachers, so really a max of 8 or 9. Restaurants and bars are allowed much more. Gatherings up to 250 are permitted. DC has chosen bars/restaurants over schools - no surprises that the school system is a failed system.

Schools cannot educate under these constraints - public schools are far worse off due to higher class sizes. The alternative is to sit your child alone at home on zoom - numerous studies have demonstrated this to be ineffective, and developmentally, lead to diminished social capacity.

DC Government needs to be heavily lobbied, and if that doesn't work, suing DC to revoke Mayor Bowser's order, which she has issued on shaky legal ground.

I am a lawyer, but more importantly, a parent. Anyone interested send an email to [e-mail] to get a group started.

[Anonymous]

Do you have any affiliation with charter schools? Have you worked for any group that has taken money from the Waltons or other conservatives that want to harm public education?

I’m cautiously on board with trying to increase class sizes.

However, I don’t want my voice to contribute in any way to the DeVos agenda of damaging real public schools.

[Anonymous]

No thank you. What they are doing is not safe, and a one-time visit to a restaurant for an hour or two is less risky than going to school for many hours every single day.

[educatedc]

No affiliation - I owe all I have to education and don't want to watch Bowser take that away from the next generation.

[Anonymous]

I'm here for a regular school year. This isn't sustainable for working parents with no support systems around. It will crush our economy.

[educatedc]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have any affiliation with charter schools? Have you worked for any group that has taken money from the Waltons or other conservatives that want to harm public education?

I’m cautiously on board with trying to increase class sizes.

However, I don’t want my voice to contribute in any way to the DeVos agenda of damaging real public schools.

No affiliation - I owe all I have to education and don't want to watch Bowser take that away from the next generation.

[Anonymous]

It's interesting that you think you can sue a virus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that you think you can sue a virus.

She says she owes all she has to education. She didn’t say how much she had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that you think you can sue a virus.

hahahahahaha.

Separate note- it sounds like people who are responding are looking out for their best interests and not the publics.

[Anonymous]

educatedc wrote:Per the ReOpen guidelines, schools, under each of Phase 2 and 3 must limit class sizes to 10, inclusive of the teachers, so really a max of 8 or 9. Restaurants and bars are allowed much more. Gatherings up to 250 are permitted. DC has chosen bars/restaurants over schools - no surprises that the school system is a failed system.

Schools cannot educate under these constraints - public schools are far worse off due to higher class sizes. The alternative is to sit your child alone at home on zoom - numerous studies have demonstrated this to be ineffective, and developmentally, lead to diminished social capacity.

DC Government needs to be heavily lobbied, and if that doesn't work, suing DC to revoke Mayor Bowser's order, which she has issued on shaky legal ground.

I am a lawyer, but more importantly, a parent. Anyone interested send an email to [e-mail] to get a group started.

[e-mail] is also posting the same message on the private school forum.

Weird flex, bro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that you think you can sue a virus.

hahahahahaha.

Separate note- it sounds like people who are responding are looking out for their best interests and not the publics.

What does that even mean? I’m not sure how ridiculing your idea is equivalent to looking out for best interests of (I take it you are assuming) people with kids in private. That’s a lot of mental gymnastics to reach that conclusion.

[educatedc]

Anonymous wrote:

educatedc wrote:Per the ReOpen guidelines, schools, under each of Phase 2 and 3 must limit class sizes to 10, inclusive of the teachers, so really a max of 8 or 9. Restaurants and bars are allowed much more. Gatherings up to 250 are permitted. DC has chosen bars/restaurants over schools - no surprises that the school system is a failed system.

Schools cannot educate under these constraints - public schools are far worse off due to higher class sizes. The alternative is to sit your child alone at home on zoom - numerous studies have demonstrated this to be ineffective, and developmentally, lead to diminished social capacity.

DC Government needs to be heavily lobbied, and if that doesn't work, suing DC to revoke Mayor Bowser's order, which she has issued on shaky legal ground.

I am a lawyer, but more importantly, a parent. Anyone interested send an email to [e-mail] to get a group started.

[e-mail] is also posting the same message on the private school forum.

Weird flex, bro.

Yeah - this impacts everyone - why let the mayor implement a policy that, frankly, private schools have the financial resources to navigate, further exacerbating inequality?

[Anonymous]

educatedc wrote:Per the ReOpen guidelines, schools, under each of Phase 2 and 3 must limit class sizes to 10, inclusive of the teachers, so really a max of 8 or 9. Restaurants and bars are allowed much more. Gatherings up to 250 are permitted. DC has chosen bars/restaurants over schools - no surprises that the school system is a failed system.

Schools cannot educate under these constraints - public schools are far worse off due to higher class sizes. The alternative is to sit your child alone at home on zoom - numerous studies have demonstrated this to be ineffective, and developmentally, lead to diminished social capacity.

DC Government needs to be heavily lobbied, and if that doesn't work, suing DC to revoke Mayor Bowser's order, which she has issued on shaky legal ground.

I am a lawyer, but more importantly, a parent. Anyone interested send an email to [e-mail] to get a group started.

Please respond to the following questions/comments in detail:

1. If the "school system" is already "failed," why are you doing this?

2. Distance learning in DCPS at many schools has been much more than just a kid sitting alone at home on Zoom.

3. On what studies are you relying that suggest that distance learning in DCPS has been ineffective? Seems a bit premature to reach this conclusion.

4. On what basis do you claim that Bowser's order is on "shaky legal ground"?

[Anonymous]

It's interesting that people are saying OP is looking out for the public, they are not this is also self-interest.

Why are they not lobbying against school budget cuts or at the very least a better school lunch, they are absolutely abysmal. I'm not how school districts get away with pizza being a vegetable. And prison food tends to be better.

Those things 100% effect the majority of DCPS children but I imagine since she/he practices law they are not on that side of the spectrum.

Bars and restaurants are businesses that make money, this is a capitalist nation OF COURSE DC choose that.

We have no idea what September will look like yet, there's a chance we will have mostly in person. At least I hope we will, speaking as a sped teacher here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have any affiliation with charter schools? Have you worked for any group that has taken money from the Waltons or other conservatives that want to harm public education?

I’m cautiously on board with trying to increase class sizes.

However, I don’t want my voice to contribute in any way to the DeVos agenda of damaging real public schools.

Seems like you might be on to something. This person creates an account and then posts nothing but this. Seems like someone paid to astroturf that didn't take the time to realize no one has an account here.

I don't have a strong opinion on what schools should do, but this seems fishy.