Snow day Friday? Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us.

But this isn't new, DCPS closes when there's mere mention of snow, let alone actual snow.

That is absolutely not true. DCPS is notorious for not closing.

--former DCPS student, now DCPS parent

Ha, hard agree and I have the same stays. I have such sad memories of listening to the radio as they scrolled through all the closed jurisdictions MoCo, PG, universities, etc) before finally announcing DC was open

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

Why does anyone bother with school at all, right? It's obviously that education isn't important to 1) parents, 2) DCPS, 3) the non-parents of DC, 4) the government of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

I had 87% of kids yesterday and taught.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

I had 87% of kids yesterday and taught.

That’s great! I can promise your situation is not the norm, and if you look at submission data district wide, the wealthier wards got significantly higher attendance yesterday.

All this blustering from DCUM over lower income families doesn’t seem to realize how each of the decisions they support in DCPS is causing more inequity and less education for our students furthest from opportunity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic. Excuses left and right. That's what we're teaching our kids. Everything, even keeping schools open is just too hard for us.

But this isn't new, DCPS closes when there's mere mention of snow, let alone actual snow.

This isn't really typically the case. But under the specific circumstances, it's not that shocking. Lots of teachers don't live in D.C., but in suburbs where there may be more snow. There's still snow around in some spots from Monday. Snow removal is slower than it would usually be, because of DPW employees out with covid. Metrobus is running on a Saturday schedule, because of drivers and maintenance workers out with covid. Metrorail is running on some crazy schedule because they had to take half the train cars out of service lest they kill riders. They've already had a problem getting substitutes all year, so it was pretty likely that any teachers calling out because they couldn't commute into work due to snow would be tough to replace -- and because of covid, they're already short-staffed at a lot of schools.

I think it's too pat to say "this isn't really because of snow, it's because of covid" -- they released the data just last night that showed positivity rates were not completely out of hand at most schools, and it seems unlikely that would have changed wildly in the one day of school we had this week. But it's a confluence of factors, with covid influencing many of them. Oh well. Let's hope for a warm front next week.

This!!! It’s this!!! I’m not sure why people on here refuse to see this. I can only think it’s trolls.

[Anonymous]

Not sure there has ever been a case where the Feds closed and DCPS stayed open. Especially when the feds announce it the night before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

I had 87% of kids yesterday and taught.

That’s great! I can promise your situation is not the norm, and if you look at submission data district wide, the wealthier wards got significantly higher attendance yesterday.

All this blustering from DCUM over lower income families doesn’t seem to realize how each of the decisions they support in DCPS is causing more inequity and less education for our students furthest from opportunity

Why can’t you teach the 50% of the students that showed up. They have been out of school for 2 weeks and certainly could use a review of what was taught the week before break. Couldn’t you have some small group instruction, or one on one help in areas they need it.
If you gave your students a playdate, that’s on you, not the parents that sent their kids to school on a school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

I had 87% of kids yesterday and taught.

That’s great! I can promise your situation is not the norm, and if you look at submission data district wide, the wealthier wards got significantly higher attendance yesterday.

All this blustering from DCUM over lower income families doesn’t seem to realize how each of the decisions they support in DCPS is causing more inequity and less education for our students furthest from opportunity

Why can’t you teach the 50% of the students that showed up. They have been out of school for 2 weeks and certainly could use a review of what was taught the week before break. Couldn’t you have some small group instruction, or one on one help in areas they need it.
If you gave your students a playdate, that’s on you, not the parents that sent their kids to school on a school day.

Agree. I don't understand why we need to follow the lead of parents least committed to education, by having teachers only teach when the rarely-in-school kids show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

I had 87% of kids yesterday and taught.

That’s great! I can promise your situation is not the norm, and if you look at submission data district wide, the wealthier wards got significantly higher attendance yesterday.

All this blustering from DCUM over lower income families doesn’t seem to realize how each of the decisions they support in DCPS is causing more inequity and less education for our students furthest from opportunity

submission of tests in the online system =/= indication of attendance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

I had 87% of kids yesterday and taught.

That’s great! I can promise your situation is not the norm, and if you look at submission data district wide, the wealthier wards got significantly higher attendance yesterday.

All this blustering from DCUM over lower income families doesn’t seem to realize how each of the decisions they support in DCPS is causing more inequity and less education for our students furthest from opportunity

Why can’t you teach the 50% of the students that showed up. They have been out of school for 2 weeks and certainly could use a review of what was taught the week before break. Couldn’t you have some small group instruction, or one on one help in areas they need it.
If you gave your students a playdate, that’s on you, not the parents that sent their kids to school on a school day.

Agree. I don't understand why we need to follow the lead of parents least committed to education, by having teachers only teach when the rarely-in-school kids show up.

I don’t know what you mean by rarely in school kids. Typically I have a class of about 25, who almost all show up. This is entirely due to the uncertainty around omicron and positive tests.

Whateve, DCUM has all the answers I’m going to go enjoy my snow day and leave this toxic wasteland

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

No one, least of all DCPS, is listening to DMV area parents, my friend. But go off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure there has ever been a case where the Feds closed and DCPS stayed open. Especially when the feds announce it the night before.

It happened in the 18-19 SY.

[Anonymous]

They cancelled schools because of this amount of snow?! Give me a break. A delay would have been completely fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They cancelled schools because of this amount of snow?! Give me a break. A delay would have been completely fine.

If you read through the thread it appears that there would have been staffing issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had less than 50% of students yesterday. Today, who knows what we would have had. Many districts made a pivot to virtual for this week so that students wouldn’t lose a week of learning. The DMV area parents have dug their heels in and made virtual a non starter, and in doing so, you got one day of “school” which was essentially a play date for your kids bc no teaching was going on yesterday.

Now, the rapids they took last week are USELESS in terms of data. You know DCPS isn’t going to re test on Sunday and require negatives for Monday. All theatre

I had 87% of kids yesterday and taught.

That’s great! I can promise your situation is not the norm, and if you look at submission data district wide, the wealthier wards got significantly higher attendance yesterday.

All this blustering from DCUM over lower income families doesn’t seem to realize how each of the decisions they support in DCPS is causing more inequity and less education for our students furthest from opportunity

Why can’t you teach the 50% of the students that showed up. They have been out of school for 2 weeks and certainly could use a review of what was taught the week before break. Couldn’t you have some small group instruction, or one on one help in areas they need it.
If you gave your students a playdate, that’s on you, not the parents that sent their kids to school on a school day.

Agree. I don't understand why we need to follow the lead of parents least committed to education, by having teachers only teach when the rarely-in-school kids show up.

+2. The reasoning is weird and frankly lazy (and no, I don't think all teachers are lazy!).