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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason the open schools NOW debate comes off as racist is because people pose the argument from their own lens.  My school has running water; my school has X, Y and Z, etc.

If you only know what your school looks like then you don't understand how the whole system works and in a city with a LOT of Black and Brown kids and in a city where being Black and Brown means a bigger income gap, it looks very very tone deaf.

It is like saying, if you just listen to the cop you won't die.  We all know that isn't true.

I hear people saying oh the score card on dcps' website but they haven't been in the school; they haven't seen the system lie about what they have and don't have.

If all DCPS schools were the same why aren't you sending your kid to a school EOTR/P etc.

Also not understanding the challenges other families have about going back in person - real risk for medical problems; perceived risk of medical problems; access to healthcare; access to quarantine or recovery time, etc.

As people are learning to not be racist if you are white LISTEN first and then ask why what you said or did is perceived as racist.

its not about opening school for your kid its about opening it for all kids and all kids don't live like yours.

as for the problems we will have later what are you doing to ask for remediation for ALL kids.  dcps summer camp is a huge help for families, are you screaming for it to be open, for it to be open more this summer, asking for summer school options for outside.

i see people in my community complaining we can't tent our school fields for outside school because the community (i.e. 20 year olds with no kids) need it for their outside time.  [/quote]

Nothing of what you just said has anything to do with whether it’s safe for rich white kids in well maintained schools in ward 3 to return to in person learning. Obviously the mayors office and DCPS has a lot of trust to build with folks EOTR, and they should do that! Where you’re losing people is suggesting that kids in ward 3 should stay virtual - against the parents wishes, against CDC guidance - until that happens. It comes across like you’re trying to punish kids with virtual learning until their parents have all spent a sufficient amount of time learning to be anti-racist.[/quote]

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