Why are DC privates the most conservative when in comes to COVID precautions?

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Anonymous wrote:This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

Wow. You're such a kind person.

Read the last six pages. Your team isn’t exactly deserving of sympathy. You’re so upset you aren’t getting what you want that you’ve lost all perspective and can’t imagine that other people have good intentions and just disagree with you.

I also hope that if your school goes to hybrid learning that all of you are put in a cohort together and only allowed in a campus once a month.

Unlike you, I don't see myself on a "team" that is in a power struggle, or competing against anyone else. I understand that is how you look at this - we are right, you are wrong and therefore, everyone should play by my rules. I care most about the welfare of the kids, including their mental health. Frankly, I'm not sure you can say that.

Your "hopes" are rather juvenile, but if that's what makes you feel better, and helps you cope with the fact that your kids are staring at screens for 5 - 8 hours a day and everyone is pretending that is OK -- well, whatever helps you get through the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are too many lawyers in the DMV area. The culture is determined by a bunch of litigious, anxious, insecure assholes. That’s why we can’t have nice things here.

Actually there is a lot of focus on kids here- kid safety- when the real drivers here both in terms of spreaders of infection and those at risk for serious illness/ death are the adult employees ( teachers, staff , house keepers, lunch crew, janitors, etc...)

Schools could re-open safely but they are shooting themselves in the foot by putting their Facilities Director in change- a person who is most concerned about profit/ cost and has no medical credientials to inform planning. Add to that corporate greed based HR that, pre- pandemic was looking to cut faculty benefits anyway while paying self and HOS more AND facilities director MORE and you now have perfect storm of:

illegal employment practices such as failing to inform teachers of all 5 of the DC Mayor's listed medical leave pre-existing qualifying conditions

conflict of interest riddled Admin teams and Boards who are killing the trust of their teachers and parents

no independent medical oversight = dysfunction and inability to serve their students

All of you stoking the same DC vs. MD vs. VA....read the newspaper.

Unless your private has students communing from Danville or Mecklenburg County, our metrics in the entire metro area are are below community spread levels. You are blowing smoke because you personally benefit from DL and are stringing along increasingly desperate weak arguments to keep it going. Old news and it won’t last much longer.

Uh, no they're not. ??. I'm not advocated for full DL (our school is open on a hybrid model and doing well), but where are you getting your statistics? Community spread is defined as 1-9 cases per 100,000 people on rolling 7 day average. No county in the DMV is anywhere near that.
https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/

The data PP is referencing comes from local public health metrics provided by local health departments. You have to go on each public health department’s webpage. The local news media like News4 and WTOP put this together every few days using this method. So does Hopkins but their data is of a larger scale that is not useful for a little private school BOT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

Wow. You're such a kind person.

Read the last six pages. Your team isn’t exactly deserving of sympathy. You’re so upset you aren’t getting what you want that you’ve lost all perspective and can’t imagine that other people have good intentions and just disagree with you.

I also hope that if your school goes to hybrid learning that all of you are put in a cohort together and only allowed in a campus once a month.

It’s a board members who is in over his head.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

Keep dreaming, Betsy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are too many lawyers in the DMV area. The culture is determined by a bunch of litigious, anxious, insecure assholes. That’s why we can’t have nice things here.

Actually there is a lot of focus on kids here- kid safety- when the real drivers here both in terms of spreaders of infection and those at risk for serious illness/ death are the adult employees ( teachers, staff , house keepers, lunch crew, janitors, etc...)

Schools could re-open safely but they are shooting themselves in the foot by putting their Facilities Director in change- a person who is most concerned about profit/ cost and has no medical credientials to inform planning. Add to that corporate greed based HR that, pre- pandemic was looking to cut faculty benefits anyway while paying self and HOS more AND facilities director MORE and you now have perfect storm of:

illegal employment practices such as failing to inform teachers of all 5 of the DC Mayor's listed medical leave pre-existing qualifying conditions

conflict of interest riddled Admin teams and Boards who are killing the trust of their teachers and parents

no independent medical oversight = dysfunction and inability to serve their students

All of you stoking the same DC vs. MD vs. VA....read the newspaper.

Unless your private has students communing from Danville or Mecklenburg County, our metrics in the entire metro area are are below community spread levels. You are blowing smoke because you personally benefit from DL and are stringing along increasingly desperate weak arguments to keep it going. Old news and it won’t last much longer.

+1

Per Worldometer:

DC had ZERO deaths yesterday (9/19) and only 50 new cases in the entire city. This has been the track for at least a week.

Also, there were "only" 650 deaths in the entire country yesterday, so definitely trending downward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are too many lawyers in the DMV area. The culture is determined by a bunch of litigious, anxious, insecure assholes. That’s why we can’t have nice things here.

Actually there is a lot of focus on kids here- kid safety- when the real drivers here both in terms of spreaders of infection and those at risk for serious illness/ death are the adult employees ( teachers, staff , house keepers, lunch crew, janitors, etc...)

Schools could re-open safely but they are shooting themselves in the foot by putting their Facilities Director in change- a person who is most concerned about profit/ cost and has no medical credientials to inform planning. Add to that corporate greed based HR that, pre- pandemic was looking to cut faculty benefits anyway while paying self and HOS more AND facilities director MORE and you now have perfect storm of:

illegal employment practices such as failing to inform teachers of all 5 of the DC Mayor's listed medical leave pre-existing qualifying conditions

conflict of interest riddled Admin teams and Boards who are killing the trust of their teachers and parents

no independent medical oversight = dysfunction and inability to serve their students

All of you stoking the same DC vs. MD vs. VA....read the newspaper.

Unless your private has students communing from Danville or Mecklenburg County, our metrics in the entire metro area are are below community spread levels. You are blowing smoke because you personally benefit from DL and are stringing along increasingly desperate weak arguments to keep it going. Old news and it won’t last much longer.

Uh, no they're not. ??. I'm not advocated for full DL (our school is open on a hybrid model and doing well), but where are you getting your statistics? Community spread is defined as 1-9 cases per 100,000 people on rolling 7 day average. No county in the DMV is anywhere near that.
https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/

This website is politically motivated. No wonder we are still DL. Our board members can’t tell the difference between political bs data and valid public health data.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

One board member is politically motivated and overly emotional and sympathetic to the teachers posting on here. Call and email them. I know I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

One board member is politically motivated and overly emotional and sympathetic to the teachers posting on here. Call and email them. I know I am.

I wish I knew which school you are talking about! If it is our school, I'd call you for coffee today to join forces on how we can get this ball moving.

But in any case, yes, I will add board outreach to my list of contacts. I don't know any of these people personally, but that doesn't matter at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

One board member is politically motivated and overly emotional and sympathetic to the teachers posting on here. Call and email them. I know I am.

I wish I knew which school you are talking about! If it is our school, I'd call you for coffee today to join forces on how we can get this ball moving.

But in any case, yes, I will add board outreach to my list of contacts. I don't know any of these people personally, but that doesn't matter at this point.

+1. And make sure you leave your name and contact info so they can call you back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

Keep dreaming, Betsy.

It’s obvious who this is.

You can’t literally run a school by yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

One board member is politically motivated and overly emotional and sympathetic to the teachers posting on here. Call and email them. I know I am.

I wish I knew which school you are talking about! If it is our school, I'd call you for coffee today to join forces on how we can get this ball moving.

But in any case, yes, I will add board outreach to my list of contacts. I don't know any of these people personally, but that doesn't matter at this point.

+1. And make sure you leave your name and contact info so they can call you back.

He wants to tamper with your kid’s transcript and get your kid kicked out. He wants to run the school.

So our HOS is afraid of this guy? Seriously? Anyone who knows him knows who he is. If you are at a different school, your board has one or two and it’s political. Our kids are political pawns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

Keep dreaming, Betsy.

PP, I am sorry to hear that you are so hurt. You cannot let your anger and pain ruin your child’s school. She does not want to go to school by herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

The holdout board members are posting here. This must be getting somewhere.

8:28 again. That's what I think. I am personally encouraging every parent that I know at our Big 3 to start speaking out about this issue. It is insane that we have simply accepted the school's platitudes on this issue for so long.

One board member is politically motivated and overly emotional and sympathetic to the teachers posting on here. Call and email them. I know I am.

I wish I knew which school you are talking about! If it is our school, I'd call you for coffee today to join forces on how we can get this ball moving.

But in any case, yes, I will add board outreach to my list of contacts. I don't know any of these people personally, but that doesn't matter at this point.

+1. And make sure you leave your name and contact info so they can call you back.

He wants to tamper with your kid’s transcript and get your kid kicked out. He wants to run the school.

So our HOS is afraid of this guy? Seriously? Anyone who knows him knows who he is. If you are at a different school, your board has one or two and it’s political. Our kids are political pawns.

And you think I don’t already know who you are? Start looking for a new school