How many families are in pods?

[Anonymous]

Washingtonpost article the other day about the proliferation of pods—but at our NW DC elementary I just have no idea how many people are in pods.
Is it 25%?

[Anonymous]

I know of one in my child’s grade at our charter.

[Anonymous]

we are in a pod but not telling everyone....no need to.

[Anonymous]

My kid already spotted another student (same grade, different class) in the background of a classmate's video call. She had a lot of questions about why those kids got to "do school together.". But given all the hysteria about podding up, those are the only families I know who have done so.

[Anonymous]

So far I haven’t seen any other kids “podding” in my kids’ classes. I have one friend who is in a pod with three other kids from her kids’ school.

[Anonymous]

We are waiting to see what distance learning actually looks like before throwing a bunch of money at a solution that may or may not be the right one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we are in a pod but not telling everyone....no need to.

Um, ok

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we are in a pod but not telling everyone....no need to.

Everyone knows and is talking about it behind your back.

[Anonymous]

We’re at a NW elementary. Not in a pod.

[Anonymous]

We were asked to pair up with three different families but declined because of high risk for covid. Afaik they haven't found partners. I think they wanted me because I have an easy going only child and am a former teacher with a flexible work schedule. They're all families of 3+ kids. Somehow they didn't want to pair up among themselves, maybe because six kids sounds like a lot.

[Anonymous]

For what it is worth: I'm a DCPS teacher (at a ward 3 elementary school), and about 10% of my students are in pods. Talking to teachers at other local schools, it seems like in general teachers are seeing somewhere in the 10-20% range of their students in pods. Obviously this is anecdotal, and it might be different for other parts of the city.

[Anonymous]

We had two different would be pods approach us, NWDC. One fell apart for various reasons and we didn’t even consider the second.

[Anonymous]

My PK4er is in a pod in Upper NW. He needed socialization.

[Anonymous]

Why don't you ask around and see, OP?

[Anonymous]

I know of 10 students who podded up in one 5th grade class. So that's 10 out of 25 total students.