DCPS exodus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the parents who plan to just move to a different city for a year, or send their daughter to live with her grandmother in NY for a year of school, how do your kids feel about that? Will the transition to fitting in with a whole new group of kids for just a year be worth it, particularly for MS students? If I am going to move to a different school because DCPS is not opening, I would want to do it permanently so my kids could feel invested in finding a place for themselves in this new setting.

I think in some cases this is the solution to serious mental health issues.

Yeah, my kids have been essentially alone for a year. I'm not ripping them away from anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS is in fact looking for reopening, WTU is mirroring the views of its members and the parents of the bulk of the schools (not those of Ward 3) and the equilibrium is not rapid reopening. Most of us do engage in law, politics, rhetoric, communications, or logical thinking, right?

The huffy "do what I want or I'm taking my business elsewhere line" just doesn't seem inclined to win arguments or allies.

I can appreciate an anonymous rant but really, think about the way out of this. A lot of you seem like the lady screaming at the counter worker at the DMV, and have you seen that work?

+1 and nicely written.

There was another thread about how DC parents are weak and stupid because they haven't banded together to advocate for reopening. And you look at the way some people rant and rave about this stuff, and insult and denigrate anyone who disagrees, and think...maybe it's because they aren't effective advocates? There seems to be no interest in building any kind of coalition -- let alone the ability. It's a bunch of super-entitled people who take inconvenience as a personal affront, and think that throwing their weight around is the way to get somewhere. They're just the flip side of the "you want to kill teachers" and "you are just sick of having to be a parent" people, who are also irritating and ineffective.

I mean, personally, I think we'll be back in person in the fall, based on vaccination rates.

Who the hell are you talking about? The anonymous posts on DCUM? Because this description does not fit the actual organizing that is going on. Please come and join the FB group OpenDCSchools and see for yourself. They are absolutely having constructive discussions and are looking to be inclusive. If it's not good enough, maybe you can help make it better, instead of ranting on DCUM yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the parents who plan to just move to a different city for a year, or send their daughter to live with her grandmother in NY for a year of school, how do your kids feel about that? Will the transition to fitting in with a whole new group of kids for just a year be worth it, particularly for MS students? If I am going to move to a different school because DCPS is not opening, I would want to do it permanently so my kids could feel invested in finding a place for themselves in this new setting.

I think in some cases this is the solution to serious mental health issues.

+1. DP here. DH and I discussed the idea of relocating elsewhere in the country (near family) where schools are open if DCPS doesn't open in the fall. Our current thinking is that it would be way too much adjustment for our elementary school-aged kids who have been doing ok this year. If things change with their mental health, however, then relocating is an option we will revisit.

We know a couple of families who sent their kids to live with family members in other parts of the country in order to attend school in person. It doesn't sound ideal and I can only speculate on how bad things must've been for that decision to get made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the parents who plan to just move to a different city for a year, or send their daughter to live with her grandmother in NY for a year of school, how do your kids feel about that? Will the transition to fitting in with a whole new group of kids for just a year be worth it, particularly for MS students? If I am going to move to a different school because DCPS is not opening, I would want to do it permanently so my kids could feel invested in finding a place for themselves in this new setting.

I think in some cases this is the solution to serious mental health issues.

Yeah, my kids have been essentially alone for a year. I'm not ripping them away from anything.

I asked the question and that is a good point. If they aren't seeing their classmates anyway....

[Anonymous]

The New York Times did a large survey of health experts on school re-openings. Here's what they said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/upshot/covid-opening-schools-experts.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people apparently so certain that DCPS won't open in the fall? They're clearly going to have SOME distance learning for kids who can't or won't return to school; we know that. The fact that they're planning for that doesn't seem like reason to assume the worst.

There's also no way they're going to announce (or decide) in March what the plans for August or September are. We have no idea what the epidemic is going to look like in a few weeks, let alone a few months. Would you be happier if they promised open schools and then closed them? Or does it maybe make some sense to wait and see, given that this whole once-in-a-lifetime (I hope) situation continues to evolve?

This is the problem. We are sick AF of uncertainty. If I can gain some certainty back in my life by planning to move to a place with full time school already, why not?

This is certainly going to be a lot of people if they keep bungling things. I don’t know if anyone really cares and that’s part of why I want to leave. Feels like DC hates me and every other white MC or UMC person. It’s starting to really suck living here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people apparently so certain that DCPS won't open in the fall? They're clearly going to have SOME distance learning for kids who can't or won't return to school; we know that. The fact that they're planning for that doesn't seem like reason to assume the worst.

There's also no way they're going to announce (or decide) in March what the plans for August or September are. We have no idea what the epidemic is going to look like in a few weeks, let alone a few months. Would you be happier if they promised open schools and then closed them? Or does it maybe make some sense to wait and see, given that this whole once-in-a-lifetime (I hope) situation continues to evolve?

This is the problem. We are sick AF of uncertainty. If I can gain some certainty back in my life by planning to move to a place with full time school already, why not?

This is certainly going to be a lot of people if they keep bungling things. I don’t know if anyone really cares and that’s part of why I want to leave. Feels like DC hates me and every other white MC or UMC person. It’s starting to really suck living here.

I would prefer Bowser show a little more commitment to reopening schools. Sometimes she seems like a passive observer to this whole process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people apparently so certain that DCPS won't open in the fall? They're clearly going to have SOME distance learning for kids who can't or won't return to school; we know that. The fact that they're planning for that doesn't seem like reason to assume the worst.

There's also no way they're going to announce (or decide) in March what the plans for August or September are. We have no idea what the epidemic is going to look like in a few weeks, let alone a few months. Would you be happier if they promised open schools and then closed them? Or does it maybe make some sense to wait and see, given that this whole once-in-a-lifetime (I hope) situation continues to evolve?

This is the problem. We are sick AF of uncertainty. If I can gain some certainty back in my life by planning to move to a place with full time school already, why not?

This is certainly going to be a lot of people if they keep bungling things. I don’t know if anyone really cares and that’s part of why I want to leave. Feels like DC hates me and every other white MC or UMC person. It’s starting to really suck living here.

I would prefer Bowser show a little more commitment to reopening schools. Sometimes she seems like a passive observer to this whole process.

Same. I would 100% be happier if Bowser announced that the baseline is full-time school in the Fall, with the caveat that things might change based on rates. However, we don't have that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people apparently so certain that DCPS won't open in the fall? They're clearly going to have SOME distance learning for kids who can't or won't return to school; we know that. The fact that they're planning for that doesn't seem like reason to assume the worst.

There's also no way they're going to announce (or decide) in March what the plans for August or September are. We have no idea what the epidemic is going to look like in a few weeks, let alone a few months. Would you be happier if they promised open schools and then closed them? Or does it maybe make some sense to wait and see, given that this whole once-in-a-lifetime (I hope) situation continues to evolve?

This is the problem. We are sick AF of uncertainty. If I can gain some certainty back in my life by planning to move to a place with full time school already, why not?

This is certainly going to be a lot of people if they keep bungling things. I don’t know if anyone really cares and that’s part of why I want to leave. Feels like DC hates me and every other white MC or UMC person. It’s starting to really suck living here.

You are not their priority. You never have been.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all the parents who plan to just move to a different city for a year, or send their daughter to live with her grandmother in NY for a year of school, how do your kids feel about that? Will the transition to fitting in with a whole new group of kids for just a year be worth it, particularly for MS students? If I am going to move to a different school because DCPS is not opening, I would want to do it permanently so my kids could feel invested in finding a place for themselves in this new setting.

My kids are old enough to know that they they aren't learning enough via DL to keep up with former public school peers, now in private schools, who attend 2-5 days a week. My kids want to grow up to attend great colleges and have interesting and fairly lucrative careers. None of us want to risk another school year of learning much less than they did when they could attend school.

If DCPS re-opens 5 days a week in the fall, great, we'll gladly stick around. If not, we're decamping to grandparents, where school has been open 5 days a week since Sept, at least until DCPS has reopened. The kids will be onboard.

[Anonymous]

"doesn't cater to you first" and "hates you" aren't the same thing....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people apparently so certain that DCPS won't open in the fall? They're clearly going to have SOME distance learning for kids who can't or won't return to school; we know that. The fact that they're planning for that doesn't seem like reason to assume the worst.

There's also no way they're going to announce (or decide) in March what the plans for August or September are. We have no idea what the epidemic is going to look like in a few weeks, let alone a few months. Would you be happier if they promised open schools and then closed them? Or does it maybe make some sense to wait and see, given that this whole once-in-a-lifetime (I hope) situation continues to evolve?

This is the problem. We are sick AF of uncertainty. If I can gain some certainty back in my life by planning to move to a place with full time school already, why not?

This is certainly going to be a lot of people if they keep bungling things. I don’t know if anyone really cares and that’s part of why I want to leave. Feels like DC hates me and every other white MC or UMC person. It’s starting to really suck living here.

You are not their priority. You never have been.

Thanks. That’s exactly what I said isn’t it. Years of this does have an effect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people apparently so certain that DCPS won't open in the fall? They're clearly going to have SOME distance learning for kids who can't or won't return to school; we know that. The fact that they're planning for that doesn't seem like reason to assume the worst.

There's also no way they're going to announce (or decide) in March what the plans for August or September are. We have no idea what the epidemic is going to look like in a few weeks, let alone a few months. Would you be happier if they promised open schools and then closed them? Or does it maybe make some sense to wait and see, given that this whole once-in-a-lifetime (I hope) situation continues to evolve?

This is the problem. We are sick AF of uncertainty. If I can gain some certainty back in my life by planning to move to a place with full time school already, why not?

This is certainly going to be a lot of people if they keep bungling things. I don’t know if anyone really cares and that’s part of why I want to leave. Feels like DC hates me and every other white MC or UMC person. It’s starting to really suck living here.

I would prefer Bowser show a little more commitment to reopening schools. Sometimes she seems like a passive observer to this whole process.

Same. I would 100% be happier if Bowser announced that the baseline is full-time school in the Fall, with the caveat that things might change based on rates. However, we don't have that.

It is strange how passive the Bowser administration is on. Compare her to Chicago's mayor or the mayor of NYC. It's like Bowser is ambivalent about whether kids should be allowed to attend school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people apparently so certain that DCPS won't open in the fall? They're clearly going to have SOME distance learning for kids who can't or won't return to school; we know that. The fact that they're planning for that doesn't seem like reason to assume the worst.

There's also no way they're going to announce (or decide) in March what the plans for August or September are. We have no idea what the epidemic is going to look like in a few weeks, let alone a few months. Would you be happier if they promised open schools and then closed them? Or does it maybe make some sense to wait and see, given that this whole once-in-a-lifetime (I hope) situation continues to evolve?

This is the problem. We are sick AF of uncertainty. If I can gain some certainty back in my life by planning to move to a place with full time school already, why not?

This is certainly going to be a lot of people if they keep bungling things. I don’t know if anyone really cares and that’s part of why I want to leave. Feels like DC hates me and every other white MC or UMC person. It’s starting to really suck living here.

I would prefer Bowser show a little more commitment to reopening schools. Sometimes she seems like a passive observer to this whole process.

+1. I also don't see how it's helping Bowser. The WTU supporters such as Robert White, Janeese Lewis George, and Christina Henderson are continuing to work against her, WTU doesn't support her, and the apple vote won't go to her either way. If she actually opened schools anyway, then she could garner a lot of support from people who historically haven't voted for her.

[Anonymous]

This is the problem. We are sick AF of uncertainty. If I can gain some certainty back in my life by planning to move to a place with full time school already, why not?

This is certainly going to be a lot of people if they keep bungling things. I don’t know if anyone really cares and that’s part of why I want to leave. Feels like DC hates me and every other white MC or UMC person. It’s starting to really suck living here.

Seriously? This is the most privileged white BS I've ever heard...

Oh boo hoo almost anywhere in the whole country caters to white people but you choose HERE to live.

Yes, np one give AF if you leave but it's not because you're white, it's due to the fact that you are self-absorbed and whiny.