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Why is GDS unable to lead on Covid??
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Anonymous
You keep telling yourself that... |
Anonymous
LS and M have four full days 8-3 |
Anonymous
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Q. Why is Gds not leading any Covid responses the last 12 months?
A. Primarily because: It allowed a bunch of inexperienced staff committees to make up health and logistic Re-opening decisions based on non-expertise and emotions It made an experienced health committee of community, parent and independents experts over the summer... and then did the OPPOSITE of what they advised in August. Again, based on staff emotions or anecdotes and not data or science. Pitting its staff against students and family for many months. It never surveyed the parents until mid Fall. GDS was never transparent and often deflected and avoided answering key questions. LMS building wasn’t up to code and ready to open until well into the Fall. Whether this was due to GdS not pushing them to work since they didn’t want to open or assumed no one would open is a key question. Basically the only reasons they are open in person since Thanksgiving at all is because other schools around the country lead the way since August and the staff agreed to bimonthly and now weekly Covid testing. The test results pierce through the staff biases and emotions. (The staff that elects to actually show up and teach, that is) However there was that one time that ONE staff member tested positive and GDS unilaterally decided to shut down all 13 grades from two buildings and do virtual for 7-10 days. They can pretend Bowser or the over-their-heads DC DoH told them to do that but it was yet another example of NON leadership and emotional and fear-based decision making from GDS. Btw, NO ONE tested positive 3-7 days after that debacle. No one. The fake super spreader who shut down school in December. That was a nice touch a couple weeks after finally opening since March 2020. |
Anonymous
Since two weeks ago only. And why not five days, the kids are way behind. Being home goofing off fridays or Wednesdays is a detractor not an enhancer. |
Anonymous
Name your school. |
Anonymous
Very true. They won’t do a post mortem on that, too much cognitive dissonance. |
Anonymous
Yeah, folks keep ignoring that MD, VA, and DC schools are under different sets of rules. You can reasonably compare GDS only to what other DC schools have done. |
Anonymous
Or what? Weird that posters keep posting this same phrase. |
Anonymous
It’s because we know you’re a liar. Put up or shut up. |
Anonymous
More lame excuses, sounds familiar at GdS. Definitely not a leader. Nor a follower. More like a watch, wait and don’t respond strategy the last 12 months. |
Anonymous
Beauvoir Pk-3 was open early on in September, and is in DC. They have been doing a fantastic job of it plus effective communication, transparency and use of science and data. Teachers are happy as well. They didn’t go down the fear and emotional death spiral like some DC based schools and people did. |
Anonymous
| Deer in headlights strategy. Only the deer stood there from March- December not listening to anyone, just standing here in daze, thinking only to itself going in circles and circles. Then it’s other dazed deer buddies joined in and the delusional echo chamber seems bigger and louder, so they all just stood there while other animals marched on through the seasons just fine. |
Anonymous
clearly I hit a nerve. I am doing just fine thank you very much for your concern |
Anonymous
Are you saying that’s where your kid is, or are you just throwing out some BS to avoid admitting you don’t have kids in any local school? |
Anonymous
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There was no BS in that. Get a grip. What are you, a brainless attack dog? Those are easy facts to check, call the school or ask one of your friends that go there. They’ve had opt-in in-person since early Fall 2020.
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