Thousands of kids attend charters without in person option

[Anonymous]

I thought this article deserved its own thread. This is sickening.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-charter-schools-online-learning/2021/05/23/7e5816d2-ba2f-11eb-a6b1-81296da0339b_story.html?outputType=amp

[Anonymous]

societal breakdown

[Anonymous]

There should be a thorough investigation and charges should be filed against the school leadership at these schools. Charters should be revoked immediately over this.

[Anonymous]

Most of the charters in DC don’t serve students any better than traditional public schools. They are a drain on our tax dollars and I wish the city would put a moratorium on new ones opening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be a thorough investigation and charges should be filed against the school leadership at these schools. Charters should be revoked immediately over this.

Agree. And I think they should investigate DCPS schools as well because some of them are offering so little in person instruction that less than 10% of the enrolled students have been offered an in-person slot of even one day a week.

This really has been the year of the haves and the have-nots, even more than usual. We've really exposed how deep the inequity in DC public schools goes.

[Anonymous]

I think the underlying assumption in this article is that in these schools neither the staff nor the families want their kids back in person. While I would argue that is the wrong point of view to take, I think it's hard to expect schools to go against everyone and force reopening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the underlying assumption in this article is that in these schools neither the staff nor the families want their kids back in person. While I would argue that is the wrong point of view to take, I think it's hard to expect schools to go against everyone and force reopening.

But they are lying. I am a parent at one of these schools. Parents overwhelmingly want in person learning. Once the admin started getting responses to that effect, they stopped asking for feedback.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the underlying assumption in this article is that in these schools neither the staff nor the families want their kids back in person. While I would argue that is the wrong point of view to take, I think it's hard to expect schools to go against everyone and force reopening.

But they are lying. I am a parent at one of these schools. Parents overwhelmingly want in person learning. Once the admin started getting responses to that effect, they stopped asking for feedback.

Ah. Well, that's a different story.

[Anonymous]

The article really points to the parents at the schools, however. School leadership is claiming they're all on board, and quotes show the same.

The parents quoted are not only afraid of Covid but afraid of the vaccine! A school which is 1/3 homeless kids cannot possibly be educating well virtually, but they think they are.

I also take offense to the claim that charters provided "high quality" virtual instead of going in person. High quality according to who, exactly? They are just deciding that themselves, there is absolutely no evidence (in fact, evidence is to the contrary).

[Anonymous]

Only two percent of kids in the entire country attend virtual only schools. Guess they all live in DC. This is what happens when politicians refuse to lead.

https://info.burbio.com/school-tracker-update-may-24/

[Anonymous]

OSSE/the mayor is the only group who can make sure this changes for the fall, at least.

[Anonymous]

Overall this article is not well written. It raises a lot of complex issues, but it does not answer them well. It seems like a bit of a hack job where she emailed a bunch of schools, interviewed 2 parents, and called it a day.

We need an in depth investigation of the travesty of keeping schools shut all year in the charter sector with zero oversight. I am pro-charter, but not if they can't be regulated whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

The apple tree examples kill me. These are the preschoolers! There are so few instances of Covid in this age group that it's insane. Appletree should be ashamed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Overall this article is not well written. It raises a lot of complex issues, but it does not answer them well. It seems like a bit of a hack job where she emailed a bunch of schools, interviewed 2 parents, and called it a day.

We need an in depth investigation of the travesty of keeping schools shut all year in the charter sector with zero oversight. I am pro-charter, but not if they can't be regulated whatsoever.

Agree. Where is the balance? They found no parents who are frustrated by the lack of effort and oversight? They apparently didn't look very hard.

[Anonymous]

A lot of these parents who don't want to send their kids to school are also anti-vaxxers. Maybe we should stop caring what they want because they are idiots.