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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm white and a two-fed family parent in Columbia Heights and I think the division is between west of Rock Creek Park and white parents east of Rock Creek Park. Here, we are in one of the city's COVID hotspots. Several nearby schools have reopened AND CLOSED due to COVID. We are in proximity to people getting COVID and looking out for our neighbors.

I'm going to stereotype you all west of Rock Creek Park, but you are nowhere in proximity to COID and reopening would allow you to telework better. You wonder why school can't just open and want to blame the union.

Over here white politics are different, we vote for Janeese Lewis George, not Brandon Todd, we support unions generally and the WTU (at least vaguely) and DCPS does stuff to us rather than with us (see, e.g., let's put Lafayette at the old LAMB location instead of let it serve the neighborhood, DCPS telling us they've got enough computers and hotspots for everybody, DGS "repairs" and all of that).

So it's a different lived experience and people shouldn't be surprised if the politics are different, even if scientists say "look, risk to kids and for transmission in schools is low." So I get that, but then what about air flow issues, closed windows, etc., that are not being reliably resolved, or confidence after cases of COVID are showing up IN YOUR KID'S CLASS?

Just - give a little leeway for lived experience, some of this stuff isn't so slam dunk in real life sometimes, unfortunately.[/quote]

+1 - White, MC family in Columbia Heights[/quote]

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