Reply to Tell me again why we aren’t opening elementary schools in at least a hybrid format?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Tell me again why we aren’t opening elementary schools in at least a hybrid format? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the poster above (sorry, I refuse to quote that long back and forth) who claims that people who want to open elementary schools in some capacity are all white parents (not true) and don't car about POC.

What do you have to say about the daycare that I send my daughter to every day, in which every single person who works there, and many of the kids, is a POC? Do their lives not matter?

You can't argue that we have to keep schools closed to protect POC, and then shift the burden of educating and taking care of young children onto an almost unanimously POC workforce who are working in conditions no better than the public schools, and without the protection of contracts or a union, and getting paid far less.

The idea that closed schools is somehow the ideal solution to this problem for POC is bizarre. That doesn't mean we should be working very hard to address the concerns of parents who are worried about the potential risks of in-person school, especially POC who have every reason to distrust DCPS and the white parents who tend to dominate conversations about education policy. But that's not the same as claiming that we must keep schools closed (a terrible outcome for everyone but especially for the city's neediest kids) because that's what POC want. That's a gross oversimplification.[/quote]

exactly. that PP apparently thinks we should keep schools closed until all racial disparities are ameliorated, which is ... some kind of reasoning. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics