Will the Mayor allow schools to open inside restaurants and gyms?

[Anonymous]

Such an awesome suggestion in another thread that it deserves its own thread! If the Mayor thinks indoor dining is such a great idea, then let's start holding classes inside restaurants and gyms.

[Anonymous]

Only if you charge the kids an extra COVID tax. Apparently COVID can't survive in the presence of money- particularly tax-generating commercial activities.

[Anonymous]

Why not - of course there could be no more than 50% capacity and no one can stay longer than 90 minutes (length of time to eat a leisurely sit down meal).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not - of course there could be no more than 50% capacity and no one can stay longer than 90 minutes (length of time to eat a leisurely sit down meal).

I would be thrilled for my kids to go to in-person class for 90 minutes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not - of course there could be no more than 50% capacity and no one can stay longer than 90 minutes (length of time to eat a leisurely sit down meal).

I would be thrilled for my kids to go to in-person class for 90 minutes!

Same! That’s about how much instruction they get in a day of DL anyway.

[Anonymous]

This is one of the best thread titles I've ever seen on DCUM and I've been here for 18 years.

(dc resident, too and I think the idea is brilliant).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is one of the best thread titles I've ever seen on DCUM and I've been here for 18 years.

(dc resident, too and I think the idea is brilliant).

+1 Love it!
Can have class in church or a tattoo parlor too. I'm not picky.

[Anonymous]

I was thinking the same thing as I walked by the packed brewery in my neighborhood. Wouldn't it be nice if my kid could sit at a table like the people in the brewery and learn in person? No, apparently public education is the least important thing in our lives. Way less important than bars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was thinking the same thing as I walked by the packed brewery in my neighborhood. Wouldn't it be nice if my kid could sit at a table like the people in the brewery and learn in person? No, apparently public education is the least important thing in our lives. Way less important than bars.

Or protecting kids and teachers is more important than protecting restaurant workers and diners? Plus diners can be barred if they don't comply. Will schools be able to bar kids who don't comply?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was thinking the same thing as I walked by the packed brewery in my neighborhood. Wouldn't it be nice if my kid could sit at a table like the people in the brewery and learn in person? No, apparently public education is the least important thing in our lives. Way less important than bars.

Or protecting kids and teachers is more important than protecting restaurant workers and diners? Plus diners can be barred if they don't comply. Will schools be able to bar kids who don't comply?

You’re allowing the spectre of the “kid who won’t wear a mask” to effectively have more power than an actual kid who won’t wear a mask. Because you keep on trotting out that mythical kid as a way to block schools from opening.

[Anonymous]

Its the same three women having the same conversation on every thread. So tired.

You do get a restaurant a) has a smaller space and serves smaller amounts of people and b) people don't spend 8 hours in a restaurant.

But hey keep whining because you have to spend time with your kids. We are going on a hike.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is one of the best thread titles I've ever seen on DCUM and I've been here for 18 years.

(dc resident, too and I think the idea is brilliant).

+1 Love it!
Can have class in church or a tattoo parlor too. I'm not picky.

You can totally have class in my church building..since it hasn’t been used since March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its the same three women having the same conversation on every thread. So tired.

You do get a restaurant a) has a smaller space and serves smaller amounts of people and b) people don't spend 8 hours in a restaurant.

But hey keep whining because you have to spend time with your kids. We are going on a hike.

I just find it annoying that the brewery is packed every night while public schools are not open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is one of the best thread titles I've ever seen on DCUM and I've been here for 18 years.

(dc resident, too and I think the idea is brilliant).

+1 Love it!
Can have class in church or a tattoo parlor too. I'm not picky.

You can totally have class in my church building..since it hasn’t been used since March.

This would actually be a good option to hold one class - huge space; kids can sit far apart; good acoustics for the teacher.

I see so many of these massive churches empty - the could have been used for homeless housing or large space classrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its the same three women having the same conversation on every thread. So tired.

You do get a restaurant a) has a smaller space and serves smaller amounts of people and b) people don't spend 8 hours in a restaurant.

But hey keep whining because you have to spend time with your kids. We are going on a hike.

Wrong. Because of turnover, restaurants serve several times the number of people. A restaurant that can say seat 15 people at any one time may serve 100 people over the day, with NO MASKS. Whereas the plan to return to school was limited to ELEVEN kids in a cohort that doesn't change. If you can't see the difference between 100 different people every day, with no masks, day in and day out, and a stable cohort of 11 masked kids ... maybe you shouldn't even be giving your opinion. Because you are dumb.