School closures on Monday, Feb 3 for day without immigrants?

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

To recap. According to you:

It's ok for Jessica to announce this on ParentSquare

It's not ok for parents to respond to the announcement on DCUM because it's not ParentSquare

If parents do ask Jessica questions on ParentSquare, it's ok if she doesn't answer them on ParentSquare

Do we know if Jessica has answered anyone's questions in any format?

Reading these comments it’s clear:

(1) you’re a jerk and probably racist if you can’t take a day off of work on a random Monday.

(2) how dare you expect a school to keep their doors open based on a calendar they set

(3) your kids come second after our personal political beliefs

(4) there is no way to respectfully disagree with any decision made by the school. If you expect the school to be open when it says they will be open, you can only expect this at private school. I read all the comments on Parentsquare. They were really respectful and pointed out some serious concerns- kids deserve an education, the federal workforce has been ordered back to work, this could have been planned better to give parents a way to schedule some care, etc. but the responses to those good points were not respectful- “you have to learn a lesson” “go elsewhere if you disagree” “you are intolerant”. That’s straight up not indicative of the “loving and warm” school described elsewhere.

This is all really troubling, particularly in a school with LAMB’s history.

What?!

I find this day off annoying, but I have found the admin super accessible every time I’ve reached out. I haven’t been in touch with them on this issues because it’s not really one I care that much about one way or another.

There has not been any intolerance from the school supporting us with an issue we had with a teacher last year. They were very helpful in intervening and took our concerns seriously.

That’s because you discreetly raised concerns privately in a way that let them massage the situation (and likely not really change anything). That’s what they want.

[Anonymous]

Is DCI closing on Monday too? That’s what someone implied on ParentSquare. Any other schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

To recap. According to you:

It's ok for Jessica to announce this on ParentSquare

It's not ok for parents to respond to the announcement on DCUM because it's not ParentSquare

If parents do ask Jessica questions on ParentSquare, it's ok if she doesn't answer them on ParentSquare

Do we know if Jessica has answered anyone's questions in any format?

I’m PP, and I’m not OK with any of it. Just stating facts that (a) she said to email her with questions, and (b) she has yet to respond to any question on ParentSqaure. Ergo, it makes no sense to expect a response there.

I emailed her. Have not heard back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is DCI closing on Monday too? That’s what someone implied on ParentSquare. Any other schools?

I haven’t heard anything. I’m off all social media (except DCUM) so I’ve heard zero about any of this. It really changes your perspective and shows how much of the outrage and activism are echo chambers. Not super effective as organizing tactics.

[Anonymous]

This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

Nah. I’m just sorry it’s not happening in red states where people voted for Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers,
friends, family.

What will they accomplish with this day off? Besides a 3 day weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

To shut down a school because of a political grievance that's completely unrelated to the school is an abuse of power, an abuse of tax dollars and it's also illegal in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

Will they feel any better on Tuesday?

[Anonymous]

Are they making sure the kids who get meals at school will be able to eat?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is like if the fire department closed for the day because all the firefighters wanted to go to a Trump rally. It is so completely inappropriate.

It speaks to a deep sense of entitlement among LAMB staff.

Hardly. It speaks to their fear and concern for their students, coworkers, friends, family.

To shut down a school because of a political grievance that's completely unrelated to the school is an abuse of power, an abuse of tax dollars and it's also illegal in DC.

This is my understanding as well. LAMB employees are District employees:

Code of the District of Columbia
§ 1–617.05. Strikes prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any District government employee or labor organization to participate in, authorize, or ratify a strike against the District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is DCI closing on Monday too? That’s what someone implied on ParentSquare. Any other schools?

DCI is not closing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you would have most certainly been calling folks marching, boycotting buses, and occupying lunch counters, and staging sit-ins performative and pointless and it shows.

As a LAMB parent, my first concern were the families who can't take time off and can't find or afford childcare, but within hours, the parents where in the group chat for our classroom community making sure all the families had childcare. It's called showing up for your community- classroom and beyond.

This definitely didn’t happen in my classroom. I am absolutely screwed Monday. I can’t take time off. I’m glad you have a nice community at LAMB. However, your snide tone is really off putting particularly since lamb is known for having a few good teachers and a lot of mediocre ones. Your experience at lamb 100% depends on the type of classroom your kiddo gets. And I guess we got the short straw.

I truly wish you all were as brave in ParentSquare. If the teachers and staff who care for your children everyday making a stand for basic human rights is such an inconvenience, put your kids in private school.

Let's talk about bravery and ParentSquare. What I saw was Jessica ambush parents with a last second announcement on a Friday afternoon, provide barely any explanation about why any of this is happening and then ignore the many, many questions parents asked on ParentSquare. Jessica has lost a whole lot of goodwill here. She looks like Charis all over again.

I’m just as disappointed with the lack of notice, but the post says to email her with questions. She is not going to answer those on ParentSquare.

To recap. According to you:

It's ok for Jessica to announce this on ParentSquare

It's not ok for parents to respond to the announcement on DCUM because it's not ParentSquare

If parents do ask Jessica questions on ParentSquare, it's ok if she doesn't answer them on ParentSquare

Do we know if Jessica has answered anyone's questions in any format?

Reading these comments it’s clear:

(1) you’re a jerk and probably racist if you can’t take a day off of work on a random Monday.

(2) how dare you expect a school to keep their doors open based on a calendar they set

(3) your kids come second after our personal political beliefs

(4) there is no way to respectfully disagree with any decision made by the school. If you expect the school to be open when it says they will be open, you can only expect this at private school. I read all the comments on Parentsquare. They were really respectful and pointed out some serious concerns- kids deserve an education, the federal workforce has been ordered back to work, this could have been planned better to give parents a way to schedule some care, etc. but the responses to those good points were not respectful- “you have to learn a lesson” “go elsewhere if you disagree” “you are intolerant”. That’s straight up not indicative of the “loving and warm” school described elsewhere.

This is all really troubling, particularly in a school with LAMB’s history.

What?!

I find this day off annoying, but I have found the admin super accessible every time I’ve reached out. I haven’t been in touch with them on this issues because it’s not really one I care that much about one way or another.

There has not been any intolerance from the school supporting us with an issue we had with a teacher last year. They were very helpful in intervening and took our concerns seriously.

That’s because you discreetly raised concerns privately in a way that let them massage the situation (and likely not really change anything). That’s what they want.

Yes, it’s almost like working collaboratively with them in a constructive, respectful way is a good way to get things done? We were very happy with the resolution by the way, and did not feel like it was window dressing.