A warning for those interested in CARE classrooms

[Anonymous]

Just advice. DCPS’ CARES classrooms will be 11 children learning on a tablet, while 1-2 adults who are not teachers will watch them. DCPS has 5, really 4, days to find and hire and train these people and also do background checks..let’s talk about DCPS history with background checks...


Last summer some of you may remember when an after school staff meme we assaulted and had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only was a background check never done on the accused adult, but no background checks were completed by the Springboard program that year in most schools. This was a time when DCPS had more than enough time to follow proper procedure and didn’t. I can also tell you that a week or so before the news got out to the public DCPS tried to have the remaining after school teachers submit a background check. They scheduled a date for all the employees to get fingerprinted and then cancelled it. A day later the mess was in the news. These people do not care about the children they just needed to cover their ass. And when they couldn’t stop themselves from looking bad they just somehow made it disappear from the media..

This is all to say..DCPS DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD. You are throwing your child to the wolves with whoever else they can find off the street desperate for employment in a pandemic. They will not have background checks or fingerprints completed in 4 days time. Take your chances but I’ll be keeping me and mine safe from Covid AND predators by rejecting the seat.

[Anonymous]

teachers are very concerned that the cares classrooms will open and no one will get sick and then even more people will ask why teachers arent back in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

wow yet another scare tactic! how low will you stoop, honestly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:teachers are very concerned that the cares classrooms will open and no one will get sick and then even more people will ask why teachers arent back in the classroom.

No teacher I know thinks that. They are concerned about the safety of the kids in the room. At my school less than 25% of the people accepted the inperson spots. This is upper NW. so I’m not sure what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow yet another scare tactic! how low will you stoop, honestly.

Is it low to state facts? This is googlable information. How much do you hate your kids? Clearly a lot to not even consider how stupid ferebee’s plan is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:teachers are very concerned that the cares classrooms will open and no one will get sick and then even more people will ask why teachers arent back in the classroom.

No teacher I know thinks that. They are concerned about the safety of the kids in the room. At my school less than 25% of the people accepted the inperson spots. This is upper NW. so I’m not sure what you are talking about.

+1 I don’t know a single teacher who thinks this or a single person interested in taking a CARES room seat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:teachers are very concerned that the cares classrooms will open and no one will get sick and then even more people will ask why teachers arent back in the classroom.

No teacher I know thinks that. They are concerned about the safety of the kids in the room. At my school less than 25% of the people accepted the inperson spots. This is upper NW. so I’m not sure what you are talking about.

Out of 13 students, only 3 of mine are considering in person and even they are weary of their child going into school. I’m fighting for those 3 to have reasonable accommodations at my school even if they aren’t in my class. Outside of this forum, a majority of parents have sense enough to question the logistics of CARES classrooms and in person learning in general. This site is truly disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Pp from the NW school that posted stats, what is your source? I work in. Nwdc Dcps and my principal hasn’t given us any info like this. I would love more from them.

[Anonymous]

Wasn't it the PTAs though that were managing the relationship with the after school provider, Springboard?

[Anonymous]

CARE classrooms don't start next week. Why do you say dcps has 4 days to get this together? I think CARE classrooms will be valuable for families that need it. We're not interested and we don't know anyone in our circle who is but we don't represent every family at our school. There are kids in my kid's class who are alone all day or are being watched by an older sibling or cousin. Those families may be interested and I hope they are offered spots. I recognize that CARE classes are not designed for my family where we have two parents with flexible understanding jobs working from home full time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp from the NW school that posted stats, what is your source? I work in. Nwdc Dcps and my principal hasn’t given us any info like this. I would love more from them.

I’m on the leadership team. We have grades that only have 1-2 kids in the in person learning classroom. So when I read these posts I’m not sure what some of these people are talking about. There are no parents banging down the doors for these classrooms. These people have to be trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just advice. DCPS’ CARES classrooms will be 11 children learning on a tablet, while 1-2 adults who are not teachers will watch them. DCPS has 5, really 4, days to find and hire and train these people and also do background checks..let’s talk about DCPS history with background checks...


Last summer some of you may remember when an after school staff meme we assaulted and had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only was a background check never done on the accused adult, but no background checks were completed by the Springboard program that year in most schools. This was a time when DCPS had more than enough time to follow proper procedure and didn’t. I can also tell you that a week or so before the news got out to the public DCPS tried to have the remaining after school teachers submit a background check. They scheduled a date for all the employees to get fingerprinted and then cancelled it. A day later the mess was in the news. These people do not care about the children they just needed to cover their ass. And when they couldn’t stop themselves from looking bad they just somehow made it disappear from the media..

This is all to say..DCPS DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD. You are throwing your child to the wolves with whoever else they can find off the street desperate for employment in a pandemic. They will not have background checks or fingerprints completed in 4 days time. Take your chances but I’ll be keeping me and mine safe from Covid AND predators by rejecting the seat.

As a DC Govt employee who volunteered to work in the CARES classrooms, I find this highly offensive. We're not teachers, but we are skilled professionals. We're librarians, therapists, counselors, analysts and IT staff ( among other things). We're volunteering to try to help. We also have to pass background checks. We're not just some random people off of the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just advice. DCPS’ CARES classrooms will be 11 children learning on a tablet, while 1-2 adults who are not teachers will watch them. DCPS has 5, really 4, days to find and hire and train these people and also do background checks..let’s talk about DCPS history with background checks...


Last summer some of you may remember when an after school staff meme we assaulted and had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only was a background check never done on the accused adult, but no background checks were completed by the Springboard program that year in most schools. This was a time when DCPS had more than enough time to follow proper procedure and didn’t. I can also tell you that a week or so before the news got out to the public DCPS tried to have the remaining after school teachers submit a background check. They scheduled a date for all the employees to get fingerprinted and then cancelled it. A day later the mess was in the news. These people do not care about the children they just needed to cover their ass. And when they couldn’t stop themselves from looking bad they just somehow made it disappear from the media..

This is all to say..DCPS DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD. You are throwing your child to the wolves with whoever else they can find off the street desperate for employment in a pandemic. They will not have background checks or fingerprints completed in 4 days time. Take your chances but I’ll be keeping me and mine safe from Covid AND predators by rejecting the seat.

As a DC Govt employee who volunteered to work in the CARES classrooms, I find this highly offensive. We're not teachers, but we are skilled professionals. We're librarians, therapists, counselors, analysts and IT staff ( among other things). We're volunteering to try to help. We also have to pass background checks. We're not just some random people off of the street.

thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just advice. DCPS’ CARES classrooms will be 11 children learning on a tablet, while 1-2 adults who are not teachers will watch them. DCPS has 5, really 4, days to find and hire and train these people and also do background checks..let’s talk about DCPS history with background checks...


Last summer some of you may remember when an after school staff meme we assaulted and had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only was a background check never done on the accused adult, but no background checks were completed by the Springboard program that year in most schools. This was a time when DCPS had more than enough time to follow proper procedure and didn’t. I can also tell you that a week or so before the news got out to the public DCPS tried to have the remaining after school teachers submit a background check. They scheduled a date for all the employees to get fingerprinted and then cancelled it. A day later the mess was in the news. These people do not care about the children they just needed to cover their ass. And when they couldn’t stop themselves from looking bad they just somehow made it disappear from the media..

This is all to say..DCPS DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD. You are throwing your child to the wolves with whoever else they can find off the street desperate for employment in a pandemic. They will not have background checks or fingerprints completed in 4 days time. Take your chances but I’ll be keeping me and mine safe from Covid AND predators by rejecting the seat.

As a DC Govt employee who volunteered to work in the CARES classrooms, I find this highly offensive. We're not teachers, but we are skilled professionals. We're librarians, therapists, counselors, analysts and IT staff ( among other things). We're volunteering to try to help. We also have to pass background checks. We're not just some random people off of the street.

What school have you been assigned to? Hopefully it’ll be at my nieces school. I highly doubt all you government agents will volunteer to come to ward 8...maybe I’m wrong. My Sister raised concern about who the people are going to be in the cares class... Mr/Ms Government Volunteer can you speak to what training or what you know about the class you’ll be in so far? It’s be nice to get communication from DCPS but that’s too much to ask...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just advice. DCPS’ CARES classrooms will be 11 children learning on a tablet, while 1-2 adults who are not teachers will watch them. DCPS has 5, really 4, days to find and hire and train these people and also do background checks..let’s talk about DCPS history with background checks...


Last summer some of you may remember when an after school staff meme we assaulted and had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only was a background check never done on the accused adult, but no background checks were completed by the Springboard program that year in most schools. This was a time when DCPS had more than enough time to follow proper procedure and didn’t. I can also tell you that a week or so before the news got out to the public DCPS tried to have the remaining after school teachers submit a background check. They scheduled a date for all the employees to get fingerprinted and then cancelled it. A day later the mess was in the news. These people do not care about the children they just needed to cover their ass. And when they couldn’t stop themselves from looking bad they just somehow made it disappear from the media..

This is all to say..DCPS DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD. You are throwing your child to the wolves with whoever else they can find off the street desperate for employment in a pandemic. They will not have background checks or fingerprints completed in 4 days time. Take your chances but I’ll be keeping me and mine safe from Covid AND predators by rejecting the seat.

As a DC Govt employee who volunteered to work in the CARES classrooms, I find this highly offensive. We're not teachers, but we are skilled professionals. We're librarians, therapists, counselors, analysts and IT staff ( among other things). We're volunteering to try to help. We also have to pass background checks. We're not just some random people off of the street.

What school have you been assigned to? Hopefully it’ll be at my nieces school. I highly doubt all you government agents will volunteer to come to ward 8...maybe I’m wrong. My Sister raised concern about who the people are going to be in the cares class... Mr/Ms Government Volunteer can you speak to what training or what you know about the class you’ll be in so far? It’s be nice to get communication from DCPS but that’s too much to ask...

It hasn't been finalized, but I'll go wherever I'm needed.