All schools should offer an all-virtual option

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter) relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.

Do you see how you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing? "Oh no, I know what these families TRULY want. It happens to be the same thing I want. Weird, right?"

No, that's what the poster argued. I don't know what those families want, but I think they should speak for themselves. They did, and the survey data overwhelmingly showed that Ward 5 (which is offset by Brookland where many families favor in-person), 7 and 8 wanted a virtual option. These are parents who do not trust DCPS to keep their children safe. They are often the most poorly resourced schools. Those of you who are arguing equity, equity, equity are ignoring the fact that your upper NW ward 3 school or your Capitol Hill cluster school has better resources than schools across the river.

"Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school." (see link below for source)

Less than 30% of wards 5, 7 and 8 want to keep their kids home!


But feel free to keep pretending to speak for these communities when it aligns with what you want.

BTW, hat tip to the person who called a parent needing to protect a kid with cancer by an option to put her sibling in virtual "idiosyncratic" - way to show your heart DCUM. As usual the D should be an S.

Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school.

The intensive focus on reopening “really frustrates me,” Ward 7 parent Patricia Stamper said. DCPS “surveyed the parents, the parents told you, ‘Hey I want to stay home.’ … And you’re like, ‘Nah, we’re going to open the schools.’ What?”

https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/

Bottom line: DCPS has completely screwed up in not creating a thoughtful, virtual option. They think that because "prefers virtual option" and "at risk" kids happen to live in the same ward, the answer is to ramrod in person learning. Guess what - the schools weren't exactly serving this population as well as they are serving other wards! And many, many many of these parents, who managed to get coveted OOB spots that your Larla might like to get your hands on, don't want to lose those as they try to "homeschool" their kids because, with good reason, they don't trust DCPS to keep their kids safe. Fact: DCPS steps to mitigate infection risk are woefully ineadequte. This is not just my opinion, this is compared to what the health experts recommend. They aren't even taking all the steps that were needed to address the pre- DELTA variant pandemic. Scan other pages of these forums for threatening to call CPS on parents for absences, yet parents should be then expected to keep mildly symptomatic kids home? Do all schools equally have the HVAC upgrades they needed? Do they have the best None of this works.

I think most people DO think that the mayor is going to offer some virtual options, but that it will take some real misfortunate first.

DCPS has to make sound decisions guided by health and educational policy that ensure DC kids get educated. That means - in person. Period.

We should bookmark this post in a few weeks as large swaths of kids are out of school with relatively minor Delta, some are out really sick, and some die. But as long as your precious snowflake genius gets IPL it's all fine, right?

Why does it sound like you are looking forward to this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter) relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.

Do you see how you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing? "Oh no, I know what these families TRULY want. It happens to be the same thing I want. Weird, right?"

No, that's what the poster argued. I don't know what those families want, but I think they should speak for themselves. They did, and the survey data overwhelmingly showed that Ward 5 (which is offset by Brookland where many families favor in-person), 7 and 8 wanted a virtual option. These are parents who do not trust DCPS to keep their children safe. They are often the most poorly resourced schools. Those of you who are arguing equity, equity, equity are ignoring the fact that your upper NW ward 3 school or your Capitol Hill cluster school has better resources than schools across the river.

"Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school." (see link below for source)

Less than 30% of wards 5, 7 and 8 want to keep their kids home!


But feel free to keep pretending to speak for these communities when it aligns with what you want.

BTW, hat tip to the person who called a parent needing to protect a kid with cancer by an option to put her sibling in virtual "idiosyncratic" - way to show your heart DCUM. As usual the D should be an S.

Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school.

The intensive focus on reopening “really frustrates me,” Ward 7 parent Patricia Stamper said. DCPS “surveyed the parents, the parents told you, ‘Hey I want to stay home.’ … And you’re like, ‘Nah, we’re going to open the schools.’ What?”

https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/

Bottom line: DCPS has completely screwed up in not creating a thoughtful, virtual option. They think that because "prefers virtual option" and "at risk" kids happen to live in the same ward, the answer is to ramrod in person learning. Guess what - the schools weren't exactly serving this population as well as they are serving other wards! And many, many many of these parents, who managed to get coveted OOB spots that your Larla might like to get your hands on, don't want to lose those as they try to "homeschool" their kids because, with good reason, they don't trust DCPS to keep their kids safe. Fact: DCPS steps to mitigate infection risk are woefully ineadequte. This is not just my opinion, this is compared to what the health experts recommend. They aren't even taking all the steps that were needed to address the pre- DELTA variant pandemic. Scan other pages of these forums for threatening to call CPS on parents for absences, yet parents should be then expected to keep mildly symptomatic kids home? Do all schools equally have the HVAC upgrades they needed? Do they have the best None of this works.

I think most people DO think that the mayor is going to offer some virtual options, but that it will take some real misfortunate first.

DCPS has to make sound decisions guided by health and educational policy that ensure DC kids get educated. That means - in person. Period.

We should bookmark this post in a few weeks as large swaths of kids are out of school with relatively minor Delta, some are out really sick, and some die. But as long as your precious snowflake genius gets IPL it's all fine, right?

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+1

And no, not a Russian bot. Not a Trumper either. Get out of your bubble and stop watching MSNBC, which is what I had to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter) relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.

Do you see how you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing? "Oh no, I know what these families TRULY want. It happens to be the same thing I want. Weird, right?"

No, that's what the poster argued. I don't know what those families want, but I think they should speak for themselves. They did, and the survey data overwhelmingly showed that Ward 5 (which is offset by Brookland where many families favor in-person), 7 and 8 wanted a virtual option. These are parents who do not trust DCPS to keep their children safe. They are often the most poorly resourced schools. Those of you who are arguing equity, equity, equity are ignoring the fact that your upper NW ward 3 school or your Capitol Hill cluster school has better resources than schools across the river.

"Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school." (see link below for source)

Less than 30% of wards 5, 7 and 8 want to keep their kids home!


But feel free to keep pretending to speak for these communities when it aligns with what you want.

BTW, hat tip to the person who called a parent needing to protect a kid with cancer by an option to put her sibling in virtual "idiosyncratic" - way to show your heart DCUM. As usual the D should be an S.

Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school.

The intensive focus on reopening “really frustrates me,” Ward 7 parent Patricia Stamper said. DCPS “surveyed the parents, the parents told you, ‘Hey I want to stay home.’ … And you’re like, ‘Nah, we’re going to open the schools.’ What?”

https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/

Bottom line: DCPS has completely screwed up in not creating a thoughtful, virtual option. They think that because "prefers virtual option" and "at risk" kids happen to live in the same ward, the answer is to ramrod in person learning. Guess what - the schools weren't exactly serving this population as well as they are serving other wards! And many, many many of these parents, who managed to get coveted OOB spots that your Larla might like to get your hands on, don't want to lose those as they try to "homeschool" their kids because, with good reason, they don't trust DCPS to keep their kids safe. Fact: DCPS steps to mitigate infection risk are woefully ineadequte. This is not just my opinion, this is compared to what the health experts recommend. They aren't even taking all the steps that were needed to address the pre- DELTA variant pandemic. Scan other pages of these forums for threatening to call CPS on parents for absences, yet parents should be then expected to keep mildly symptomatic kids home? Do all schools equally have the HVAC upgrades they needed? Do they have the best None of this works.

I think most people DO think that the mayor is going to offer some virtual options, but that it will take some real misfortunate first.

DCPS has to make sound decisions guided by health and educational policy that ensure DC kids get educated. That means - in person. Period.

We should bookmark this post in a few weeks as large swaths of kids are out of school with relatively minor Delta, some are out really sick, and some die. But as long as your precious snowflake genius gets IPL it's all fine, right?

Why does it sound like you are looking forward to this?

Ugh not at all, I'm just tired of anyone who questions IPL or asking for a good virtual option being told that SCIENCE AND GOOD PUBLIC POLICY DICTATE X, Y, Z. If only it were that cut and dry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter) relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.

Do you see how you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing? "Oh no, I know what these families TRULY want. It happens to be the same thing I want. Weird, right?"

No, that's what the poster argued. I don't know what those families want, but I think they should speak for themselves. They did, and the survey data overwhelmingly showed that Ward 5 (which is offset by Brookland where many families favor in-person), 7 and 8 wanted a virtual option. These are parents who do not trust DCPS to keep their children safe. They are often the most poorly resourced schools. Those of you who are arguing equity, equity, equity are ignoring the fact that your upper NW ward 3 school or your Capitol Hill cluster school has better resources than schools across the river.

"Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school." (see link below for source)

Less than 30% of wards 5, 7 and 8 want to keep their kids home!


But feel free to keep pretending to speak for these communities when it aligns with what you want.

BTW, hat tip to the person who called a parent needing to protect a kid with cancer by an option to put her sibling in virtual "idiosyncratic" - way to show your heart DCUM. As usual the D should be an S.

Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school.

The intensive focus on reopening “really frustrates me,” Ward 7 parent Patricia Stamper said. DCPS “surveyed the parents, the parents told you, ‘Hey I want to stay home.’ … And you’re like, ‘Nah, we’re going to open the schools.’ What?”

https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/

Bottom line: DCPS has completely screwed up in not creating a thoughtful, virtual option. They think that because "prefers virtual option" and "at risk" kids happen to live in the same ward, the answer is to ramrod in person learning. Guess what - the schools weren't exactly serving this population as well as they are serving other wards! And many, many many of these parents, who managed to get coveted OOB spots that your Larla might like to get your hands on, don't want to lose those as they try to "homeschool" their kids because, with good reason, they don't trust DCPS to keep their kids safe. Fact: DCPS steps to mitigate infection risk are woefully ineadequte. This is not just my opinion, this is compared to what the health experts recommend. They aren't even taking all the steps that were needed to address the pre- DELTA variant pandemic. Scan other pages of these forums for threatening to call CPS on parents for absences, yet parents should be then expected to keep mildly symptomatic kids home? Do all schools equally have the HVAC upgrades they needed? Do they have the best None of this works.

I think most people DO think that the mayor is going to offer some virtual options, but that it will take some real misfortunate first.

DCPS has to make sound decisions guided by health and educational policy that ensure DC kids get educated. That means - in person. Period.

We should bookmark this post in a few weeks as large swaths of kids are out of school with relatively minor Delta, some are out really sick, and some die. But as long as your precious snowflake genius gets IPL it's all fine, right?

Why does it sound like you are looking forward to this?

Different poster from 10-15 pages ago.

You are projecting your deficient process on your adversary.
You may be making statements based on what you want to see happening, but those of us making alarmed statements and dire predictions are not describing what we want, just flatly what we see coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter) relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.

Do you see how you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing? "Oh no, I know what these families TRULY want. It happens to be the same thing I want. Weird, right?"

No, that's what the poster argued. I don't know what those families want, but I think they should speak for themselves. They did, and the survey data overwhelmingly showed that Ward 5 (which is offset by Brookland where many families favor in-person), 7 and 8 wanted a virtual option. These are parents who do not trust DCPS to keep their children safe. They are often the most poorly resourced schools. Those of you who are arguing equity, equity, equity are ignoring the fact that your upper NW ward 3 school or your Capitol Hill cluster school has better resources than schools across the river.

"Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school." (see link below for source)

Less than 30% of wards 5, 7 and 8 want to keep their kids home!


But feel free to keep pretending to speak for these communities when it aligns with what you want.

BTW, hat tip to the person who called a parent needing to protect a kid with cancer by an option to put her sibling in virtual "idiosyncratic" - way to show your heart DCUM. As usual the D should be an S.

Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school.

The intensive focus on reopening “really frustrates me,” Ward 7 parent Patricia Stamper said. DCPS “surveyed the parents, the parents told you, ‘Hey I want to stay home.’ … And you’re like, ‘Nah, we’re going to open the schools.’ What?”

https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/

Bottom line: DCPS has completely screwed up in not creating a thoughtful, virtual option. They think that because "prefers virtual option" and "at risk" kids happen to live in the same ward, the answer is to ramrod in person learning. Guess what - the schools weren't exactly serving this population as well as they are serving other wards! And many, many many of these parents, who managed to get coveted OOB spots that your Larla might like to get your hands on, don't want to lose those as they try to "homeschool" their kids because, with good reason, they don't trust DCPS to keep their kids safe. Fact: DCPS steps to mitigate infection risk are woefully ineadequte. This is not just my opinion, this is compared to what the health experts recommend. They aren't even taking all the steps that were needed to address the pre- DELTA variant pandemic. Scan other pages of these forums for threatening to call CPS on parents for absences, yet parents should be then expected to keep mildly symptomatic kids home? Do all schools equally have the HVAC upgrades they needed? Do they have the best None of this works.

I think most people DO think that the mayor is going to offer some virtual options, but that it will take some real misfortunate first.

DCPS has to make sound decisions guided by health and educational policy that ensure DC kids get educated. That means - in person. Period.

We should bookmark this post in a few weeks as large swaths of kids are out of school with relatively minor Delta, some are out really sick, and some die. But as long as your precious snowflake genius gets IPL it's all fine, right?

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+1

And no, not a Russian bot. Not a Trumper either. Get out of your bubble and stop watching MSNBC, which is what I had to do.

MSNBC is bad, entertainment based crap. All cable “news” rots your brain and we should all stop watching it.

But 700,000 Americans died with COVID and Delta is worse. It spreads in schools, despite Emily Oster’s attention seeking BS.

Don’t minimize this disease. It’s probably ok to go back to school in person. But delta is no joke.

[Anonymous]

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

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If my kid had gotten even a small amount of in person school in the last 18 months, I might be among the people raising alarms about Delta. I agree it’s a serious issue and it’s making sending my kid back to school very, very difficult for me. There are absolutely days where I just want to homeschool. Ask my husband: we’ve been 9 rounds on this and I am not taking Delta lightly.

The problem is that before Delta even emerged, we had alarm bells ringing all over our life, saying “This kid needs to be in school!!!!!” Before delta, we were hanging on by a thread, focused on the hope of IPL this fall to help us address what can only be called a crisis in our home. An ongoing, critical, five alarm fire. So for us, it’s not a simple question of “is it safe?” It’s a complex weighing of competing harms. In the end, the risks of staying home outweigh the risk if delta.

The people who advocated against in person school last fall and winter should be quiet now. Many of us explicitly said that a major reason we needed in person school back then was because we didn’t know what the future held and we feared Covid had surprises in store that would make school more difficult. Some of us advocated for starting the school year early last year and shutting down for an extended winter break/DL session to weather the winter surge. Some of us lobbied consistently for outdoor school and shortened school days. All we heard was that those things were logistically too difficult, that we didn’t know what we were talking about, that the smart thing to do was to start virtually and return to school when cases died down or teachers could be vaccinated.

We were right. You were wrong. And now we are all a little screwed together. It sucks, but it doesn’t make me inclined to listen to you this time.

[Anonymous]

I’m sitting here, depressed on Sunday morning after having read far too many pages of these post.

Schools open tomorrow, and cases notifications will come
almost immediately. And I just now realized that the same parents railing against a virtual option will be screaming
at schools when entire classrooms are shut down because of covid, or their kids having to go on quarantine. I’m just convinced folks here are just FINE with half of the school getting sick. Stay open at any cost, that’s the motto.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+100

If my kid had gotten even a small amount of in person school in the last 18 months, I might be among the people raising alarms about Delta. I agree it’s a serious issue and it’s making sending my kid back to school very, very difficult for me. There are absolutely days where I just want to homeschool. Ask my husband: we’ve been 9 rounds on this and I am not taking Delta lightly.

The problem is that before Delta even emerged, we had alarm bells ringing all over our life, saying “This kid needs to be in school!!!!!” Before delta, we were hanging on by a thread, focused on the hope of IPL this fall to help us address what can only be called a crisis in our home. An ongoing, critical, five alarm fire. So for us, it’s not a simple question of “is it safe?” It’s a complex weighing of competing harms. In the end, the risks of staying home outweigh the risk if delta.

The people who advocated against in person school last fall and winter should be quiet now. Many of us explicitly said that a major reason we needed in person school back then was because we didn’t know what the future held and we feared Covid had surprises in store that would make school more difficult. Some of us advocated for starting the school year early last year and shutting down for an extended winter break/DL session to weather the winter surge. Some of us lobbied consistently for outdoor school and shortened school days. All we heard was that those things were logistically too difficult, that we didn’t know what we were talking about, that the smart thing to do was to start virtually and return to school when cases died down or teachers could be vaccinated.

We were right. You were wrong. And now we are all a little screwed together. It sucks, but it doesn’t make me inclined to listen to you this time.

Give your kids delta to own the “is it safe” folks, that’ll show ‘em!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+100

If my kid had gotten even a small amount of in person school in the last 18 months, I might be among the people raising alarms about Delta. I agree it’s a serious issue and it’s making sending my kid back to school very, very difficult for me. There are absolutely days where I just want to homeschool. Ask my husband: we’ve been 9 rounds on this and I am not taking Delta lightly.

The problem is that before Delta even emerged, we had alarm bells ringing all over our life, saying “This kid needs to be in school!!!!!” Before delta, we were hanging on by a thread, focused on the hope of IPL this fall to help us address what can only be called a crisis in our home. An ongoing, critical, five alarm fire. So for us, it’s not a simple question of “is it safe?” It’s a complex weighing of competing harms. In the end, the risks of staying home outweigh the risk if delta.

The people who advocated against in person school last fall and winter should be quiet now. Many of us explicitly said that a major reason we needed in person school back then was because we didn’t know what the future held and we feared Covid had surprises in store that would make school more difficult. Some of us advocated for starting the school year early last year and shutting down for an extended winter break/DL session to weather the winter surge. Some of us lobbied consistently for outdoor school and shortened school days. All we heard was that those things were logistically too difficult, that we didn’t know what we were talking about, that the smart thing to do was to start virtually and return to school when cases died down or teachers could be vaccinated.

We were right. You were wrong. And now we are all a little screwed together. It sucks, but it doesn’t make me inclined to listen to you this time.

Give your kids delta to own the “is it safe” folks, that’ll show ‘em!

Nice reading comprehension skills. Maybe you need some in person learning, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+100

If my kid had gotten even a small amount of in person school in the last 18 months, I might be among the people raising alarms about Delta. I agree it’s a serious issue and it’s making sending my kid back to school very, very difficult for me. There are absolutely days where I just want to homeschool. Ask my husband: we’ve been 9 rounds on this and I am not taking Delta lightly.

The problem is that before Delta even emerged, we had alarm bells ringing all over our life, saying “This kid needs to be in school!!!!!” Before delta, we were hanging on by a thread, focused on the hope of IPL this fall to help us address what can only be called a crisis in our home. An ongoing, critical, five alarm fire. So for us, it’s not a simple question of “is it safe?” It’s a complex weighing of competing harms. In the end, the risks of staying home outweigh the risk if delta.

The people who advocated against in person school last fall and winter should be quiet now. Many of us explicitly said that a major reason we needed in person school back then was because we didn’t know what the future held and we feared Covid had surprises in store that would make school more difficult. Some of us advocated for starting the school year early last year and shutting down for an extended winter break/DL session to weather the winter surge. Some of us lobbied consistently for outdoor school and shortened school days. All we heard was that those things were logistically too difficult, that we didn’t know what we were talking about, that the smart thing to do was to start virtually and return to school when cases died down or teachers could be vaccinated.

We were right. You were wrong. And now we are all a little screwed together. It sucks, but it doesn’t make me inclined to listen to you this time.

Give your kids delta to own the “is it safe” folks, that’ll show ‘em!

You were lobbying for things that WERE unreasonable and logistically impossible in a public school district. The people who told you that were correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+100

If my kid had gotten even a small amount of in person school in the last 18 months, I might be among the people raising alarms about Delta. I agree it’s a serious issue and it’s making sending my kid back to school very, very difficult for me. There are absolutely days where I just want to homeschool. Ask my husband: we’ve been 9 rounds on this and I am not taking Delta lightly.

The problem is that before Delta even emerged, we had alarm bells ringing all over our life, saying “This kid needs to be in school!!!!!” Before delta, we were hanging on by a thread, focused on the hope of IPL this fall to help us address what can only be called a crisis in our home. An ongoing, critical, five alarm fire. So for us, it’s not a simple question of “is it safe?” It’s a complex weighing of competing harms. In the end, the risks of staying home outweigh the risk if delta.

The people who advocated against in person school last fall and winter should be quiet now. Many of us explicitly said that a major reason we needed in person school back then was because we didn’t know what the future held and we feared Covid had surprises in store that would make school more difficult. Some of us advocated for starting the school year early last year and shutting down for an extended winter break/DL session to weather the winter surge. Some of us lobbied consistently for outdoor school and shortened school days. All we heard was that those things were logistically too difficult, that we didn’t know what we were talking about, that the smart thing to do was to start virtually and return to school when cases died down or teachers could be vaccinated.

We were right. You were wrong. And now we are all a little screwed together. It sucks, but it doesn’t make me inclined to listen to you this time.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter) relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.

Do you see how you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing? "Oh no, I know what these families TRULY want. It happens to be the same thing I want. Weird, right?"

No, that's what the poster argued. I don't know what those families want, but I think they should speak for themselves. They did, and the survey data overwhelmingly showed that Ward 5 (which is offset by Brookland where many families favor in-person), 7 and 8 wanted a virtual option. These are parents who do not trust DCPS to keep their children safe. They are often the most poorly resourced schools. Those of you who are arguing equity, equity, equity are ignoring the fact that your upper NW ward 3 school or your Capitol Hill cluster school has better resources than schools across the river.

"Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school." (see link below for source)

Less than 30% of wards 5, 7 and 8 want to keep their kids home!


But feel free to keep pretending to speak for these communities when it aligns with what you want.

BTW, hat tip to the person who called a parent needing to protect a kid with cancer by an option to put her sibling in virtual "idiosyncratic" - way to show your heart DCUM. As usual the D should be an S.

Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school.

The intensive focus on reopening “really frustrates me,” Ward 7 parent Patricia Stamper said. DCPS “surveyed the parents, the parents told you, ‘Hey I want to stay home.’ … And you’re like, ‘Nah, we’re going to open the schools.’ What?”

https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/

Bottom line: DCPS has completely screwed up in not creating a thoughtful, virtual option. They think that because "prefers virtual option" and "at risk" kids happen to live in the same ward, the answer is to ramrod in person learning. Guess what - the schools weren't exactly serving this population as well as they are serving other wards! And many, many many of these parents, who managed to get coveted OOB spots that your Larla might like to get your hands on, don't want to lose those as they try to "homeschool" their kids because, with good reason, they don't trust DCPS to keep their kids safe. Fact: DCPS steps to mitigate infection risk are woefully ineadequte. This is not just my opinion, this is compared to what the health experts recommend. They aren't even taking all the steps that were needed to address the pre- DELTA variant pandemic. Scan other pages of these forums for threatening to call CPS on parents for absences, yet parents should be then expected to keep mildly symptomatic kids home? Do all schools equally have the HVAC upgrades they needed? Do they have the best None of this works.

I think most people DO think that the mayor is going to offer some virtual options, but that it will take some real misfortunate first.

DCPS has to make sound decisions guided by health and educational policy that ensure DC kids get educated. That means - in person. Period.

We should bookmark this post in a few weeks as large swaths of kids are out of school with relatively minor Delta, some are out really sick, and some die. But as long as your precious snowflake genius gets IPL it's all fine, right?

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+1

And no, not a Russian bot. Not a Trumper either. Get out of your bubble and stop watching MSNBC, which is what I had to do.

MSNBC is bad, entertainment based crap. All cable “news” rots your brain and we should all stop watching it.

But 700,000 Americans died with COVID and Delta is worse. It spreads in schools, despite Emily Oster’s attention seeking BS.

Don’t minimize this disease. It’s probably ok to go back to school in person. But delta is no joke.

You are missing the point. We are not minimizing the disease. You are minimizing the consequences of closed schools, which will be much more widespread and long-lasting than any other mistakes that were made during this pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter) relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.

Do you see how you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing? "Oh no, I know what these families TRULY want. It happens to be the same thing I want. Weird, right?"

No, that's what the poster argued. I don't know what those families want, but I think they should speak for themselves. They did, and the survey data overwhelmingly showed that Ward 5 (which is offset by Brookland where many families favor in-person), 7 and 8 wanted a virtual option. These are parents who do not trust DCPS to keep their children safe. They are often the most poorly resourced schools. Those of you who are arguing equity, equity, equity are ignoring the fact that your upper NW ward 3 school or your Capitol Hill cluster school has better resources than schools across the river.

"Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school." (see link below for source)

Less than 30% of wards 5, 7 and 8 want to keep their kids home!


But feel free to keep pretending to speak for these communities when it aligns with what you want.

BTW, hat tip to the person who called a parent needing to protect a kid with cancer by an option to put her sibling in virtual "idiosyncratic" - way to show your heart DCUM. As usual the D should be an S.

Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school.

The intensive focus on reopening “really frustrates me,” Ward 7 parent Patricia Stamper said. DCPS “surveyed the parents, the parents told you, ‘Hey I want to stay home.’ … And you’re like, ‘Nah, we’re going to open the schools.’ What?”

https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/

Bottom line: DCPS has completely screwed up in not creating a thoughtful, virtual option. They think that because "prefers virtual option" and "at risk" kids happen to live in the same ward, the answer is to ramrod in person learning. Guess what - the schools weren't exactly serving this population as well as they are serving other wards! And many, many many of these parents, who managed to get coveted OOB spots that your Larla might like to get your hands on, don't want to lose those as they try to "homeschool" their kids because, with good reason, they don't trust DCPS to keep their kids safe. Fact: DCPS steps to mitigate infection risk are woefully ineadequte. This is not just my opinion, this is compared to what the health experts recommend. They aren't even taking all the steps that were needed to address the pre- DELTA variant pandemic. Scan other pages of these forums for threatening to call CPS on parents for absences, yet parents should be then expected to keep mildly symptomatic kids home? Do all schools equally have the HVAC upgrades they needed? Do they have the best None of this works.

I think most people DO think that the mayor is going to offer some virtual options, but that it will take some real misfortunate first.

DCPS has to make sound decisions guided by health and educational policy that ensure DC kids get educated. That means - in person. Period.

We should bookmark this post in a few weeks as large swaths of kids are out of school with relatively minor Delta, some are out really sick, and some die. But as long as your precious snowflake genius gets IPL it's all fine, right?

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+1

And no, not a Russian bot. Not a Trumper either. Get out of your bubble and stop watching MSNBC, which is what I had to do.

MSNBC is bad, entertainment based crap. All cable “news” rots your brain and we should all stop watching it.

But 700,000 Americans died with COVID and Delta is worse. It spreads in schools, despite Emily Oster’s attention seeking BS.

Don’t minimize this disease. It’s probably ok to go back to school in person. But delta is no joke.

You are missing the point. We are not minimizing the disease. You are minimizing the consequences of closed schools, which will be much more widespread and long-lasting than any other mistakes that were made during this pandemic.

Nobody is advocating for closed schools, bro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sitting here, depressed on Sunday morning after having read far too many pages of these post.

Schools open tomorrow, and cases notifications will come
almost immediately. And I just now realized that the same parents railing against a virtual option will be screaming
at schools when entire classrooms are shut down because of covid, or their kids having to go on quarantine. I’m just convinced folks here are just FINE with half of the school getting sick. Stay open at any cost, that’s the motto.

Almost no one is rallying against a virtual option. Many are rallying against a virtual option for each school, for very valid reasons. Keep the dialogue honest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the mentality we are dealing with. A woman I know from my kids' school, (upper class wealthy white family with 2 kids in a charter) relentlessly coopted ward 8 voices and claimed to be speaking for POC (even though POC would literally confront you on your page) about the harms to that population through school closing. Even when people would say "actually, POC are more at risk from this disease and actually are the ones who want the virtual option) would say all the reasons why her opinion on their needs was more right than the parents. Despite all this, same person just posted about "joy and relief" in the air with kids going back to school...when a friend said to the contrary, many of us were worried, this person doled out unsolicited advice to friends, telling them to avoid mainstream media and read Emily Oster so they can be less anxious. I mean honestly, this is what we are dealing with, and this person has lots of free time and is organizing, organizing, organizing. Reason to post this is that, this is just one person. For every other person actively trying to limit the ability of scared parents (JUSTIFIABLY scared parents including the ones with medically vulnerable family members at home but also just any parent has a damn good reason to be wary given Delta's hospitalization rate for kids), just know we see you all in real life, and while we may not say something, we think so much less of you for what you're doing to take away OUR kids right to be safe - making us choose between their safety and their education. Literally ZERO people in the past 10 - 20 pages have advocated for "no in person school." you're just not even willing to share the table scraps that Covid has left all of us, and truly, you should be damn ashamed of your greed. This is not a zero sum game, DCPS made a foolish, bad decision, propped up by all the petitions and letter writing of people like this, who are COVID kid impact deniers. Best wishes to your kids, truly, but as for you, you suck.

Do you see how you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing? "Oh no, I know what these families TRULY want. It happens to be the same thing I want. Weird, right?"

No, that's what the poster argued. I don't know what those families want, but I think they should speak for themselves. They did, and the survey data overwhelmingly showed that Ward 5 (which is offset by Brookland where many families favor in-person), 7 and 8 wanted a virtual option. These are parents who do not trust DCPS to keep their children safe. They are often the most poorly resourced schools. Those of you who are arguing equity, equity, equity are ignoring the fact that your upper NW ward 3 school or your Capitol Hill cluster school has better resources than schools across the river.

"Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school." (see link below for source)

Less than 30% of wards 5, 7 and 8 want to keep their kids home!


But feel free to keep pretending to speak for these communities when it aligns with what you want.

BTW, hat tip to the person who called a parent needing to protect a kid with cancer by an option to put her sibling in virtual "idiosyncratic" - way to show your heart DCUM. As usual the D should be an S.

Black D.C. residents make up about 45 percent of the population but 74 percent of the city’s COVID deaths. Some, despite DCPS’ school safety checklists, aren’t confident their school is safe, pointing to past instances where basics like hot water and soap were unavailable at their kids’ school.

The intensive focus on reopening “really frustrates me,” Ward 7 parent Patricia Stamper said. DCPS “surveyed the parents, the parents told you, ‘Hey I want to stay home.’ … And you’re like, ‘Nah, we’re going to open the schools.’ What?”

https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/

Bottom line: DCPS has completely screwed up in not creating a thoughtful, virtual option. They think that because "prefers virtual option" and "at risk" kids happen to live in the same ward, the answer is to ramrod in person learning. Guess what - the schools weren't exactly serving this population as well as they are serving other wards! And many, many many of these parents, who managed to get coveted OOB spots that your Larla might like to get your hands on, don't want to lose those as they try to "homeschool" their kids because, with good reason, they don't trust DCPS to keep their kids safe. Fact: DCPS steps to mitigate infection risk are woefully ineadequte. This is not just my opinion, this is compared to what the health experts recommend. They aren't even taking all the steps that were needed to address the pre- DELTA variant pandemic. Scan other pages of these forums for threatening to call CPS on parents for absences, yet parents should be then expected to keep mildly symptomatic kids home? Do all schools equally have the HVAC upgrades they needed? Do they have the best None of this works.

I think most people DO think that the mayor is going to offer some virtual options, but that it will take some real misfortunate first.

DCPS has to make sound decisions guided by health and educational policy that ensure DC kids get educated. That means - in person. Period.

We should bookmark this post in a few weeks as large swaths of kids are out of school with relatively minor Delta, some are out really sick, and some die. But as long as your precious snowflake genius gets IPL it's all fine, right?

Maybe if you hadn’t been crying wolf for the past year and a half, you’d have some ground to be commenting. but the fact is the “it’s not safe!!” crowd dug us into a deep, deep hole by keeping schools closed when it was completely uneccesary. And now here we are with kids who have to go back to school to avoid social, emotional, and educational harms. You don’t just disrupt THREE YEARS of schooling. You don’t.

+1

And no, not a Russian bot. Not a Trumper either. Get out of your bubble and stop watching MSNBC, which is what I had to do.

MSNBC is bad, entertainment based crap. All cable “news” rots your brain and we should all stop watching it.

But 700,000 Americans died with COVID and Delta is worse. It spreads in schools, despite Emily Oster’s attention seeking BS.

Don’t minimize this disease. It’s probably ok to go back to school in person. But delta is no joke.

You are missing the point. We are not minimizing the disease. You are minimizing the consequences of closed schools, which will be much more widespread and long-lasting than any other mistakes that were made during this pandemic.

Nobody is advocating for closed schools, bro.

Missing the point again.