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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one like simulcast. No one is/was advocating for it.  Even Ted Cruz probably doesn't like it.  Or AOC.  Can we move on from that?[/quote]

I mean, the union supporter speaking here brought up that they would have liked simulcast.  S/he was doing that to trash Bowser, despite it being a thing that the WTU opposed.  That's why we were talking about it.[/quote]

Except, the WTU negotiated a stipend for us if we had to simulcast, so we didn’t totally oppose it. We don’t like it, but we would have preferred to teach our kids rather than have them sit home for days with no content[/quote]

I'm sorry why couldn't you deliver content, to kids that were quarantined due to DC following CDC guidance?  No packets, even?[/quote]

DP/parent here.  Creating packets for one or two kids is different than large scale teaching both in-person and remote at the same time.  If Bowser had put money towards staffing up for the challenge then that might have worked well, but nope. 
Even something creative, like assistant teachers to help the main teachers manage logistics.  I don't even know what Bowser did with the extra COVID money?  Glossy flyers tooting her own horn?[/quote]

Yes, this pretty much sums it up. Bowser did also promise Covid Coordinators who presumably could have supported in packet creation, but they also never arrived. Promises made, promsises not kept.[/quote]

Oh come on. “packets” are idiotic. the problem here is the [b]quarantine policy which is on Bowser[/b] but I’m sure WTU would have fought a better policy. again I ask - wtf happened to the “test to stay” idea? quarantine needs to end. it’s racist.[/quote]

I'm still lost how following CDC guidance is some mistake Bowser made.  You all damn well know that if she didn't then a select group of parents' heads would have exploded.

It's laughable that someone is trying to argue that the UNION would have supported doing something LESS covid-cautious than CDC policy.[/quote]

I think at this point Bowser needs to be accountable for the quarantine policy. But yeah I have no illusions that White would do better. [/quote]

You're going to need to clarify what you mean by "quarantine policy", then.  DCPS is just following CDC guidelines.  It's patently absurd to propose that Bowser controls CDC guidance.[/quote]

Making unvaccinated kids quarantine for 5-10 days instead of giving them a test every day. DCPS does not have to follow CDC guidelines particularly when the result is a clearly racially disparate impact. [/quote]

Ah, I think there are two people disparaging the quarantine policy here.  The first is saying "quarantine is bad because it hurt teachers' evaluations" and you (I think) are saying "quarantine is bad because it kept kids out of school, even when we had the alternative (TTS)".  Person 1 doesn't really seem to care about TTS, but is just saying classes/schools should pivot to virtual instead of quarantine.  Person 2 is saying "why the eff can't the unvaccinated kids TTS instead of quarantining."

Anyway, TTS person is blaming Bowser for not instituting TTS for unvaccinated, exposed kids over the age of 5 (there was TTS for the Pre-k and K kids in DCPS).  I'd agree with that.  I'd imagine there's either some administrative reason why this is challenging (tracking kids, for example), or there's some stupid conflicting guidance from the CDC (there always is), or CDC hasn't just made it explicitly supported enough, or DC DOH just sucks a lot and can't figure things out.

Sidenote: kids could keep out of quarantine by getting vaccinated.  If the kids can choose to do that but don't, is the impact racist?  I'm at a loss about that one.  Certainly it's not good that disproportionately Black kids are being quarantined, because they are disproportionately not vaccinated.  Certainly a way out of this would be TTS.[/quote]

The point is, teachers who care about their kids learning (either for their own good or the teacher’s evaluation) should be against quarantines.

and YES is is racist. it impacts children who are not the ones who control whether they get vaccinated. moreover, disparate impact law is that the governmental policy that creates the disparate impact has to have substantial, legitimate purpose. DC is on very shakey grounds. Vaccination is minimally effective in reducing infection and it’s not clear if it has any impact at all on transmission. A huge percentage of these kids likely have natural immunity anyway. test-to-stay is proven to mitigate the need for quarantine. the only rationale here is that the policy is intended to coerce parents into vaccinating their kids.  I don’t think that will be an acceptable reason to create a disparate impact. [/quote]

I think you want to say, "teachers who care about their kids learning should be for TTS instead of quarantines."  The teacher (?) here is saying that virtual is the solution to quarantines.  Which seems absolutely stupid if s/he wants better educational outcomes for kids.

Interestingly, you can say your most of your second paragraph about school closures.  But it has always been difficult to suggest the thing that Black parents in DC disproportionately preferred (school closures), with their disparate impacts for Black kids, and minimal effectiveness at reducing transmissions, were racist.  [/quote]

It’s not hard to argue that it’s racist at all. The supposed uniform opinion was never supported, and now we have objective facts on the disparate impact. Someone should file a complaint with the federal office of civil rights but they won’t b/c left advocacy groups have been absolutely and shamefully hypocritical on schools, race, and covid. [/quote]

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