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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we are in a pod but not telling everyone....no need to.[/quote]

Everyone knows and is talking about it behind your back.[/quote]

What? We are at a bilingual charter and know a few families that are working together in our kids' grades. (We are sharing a babysitter with another family a few afternoons a week ourselves.) And we know others in bilingual charters that have pods with 3-4 families total. While there are certainly issues with equity and who can and who can't afford help, there is no gossip and or talking behind backs. Everyone understands that everyone has to make life work right now however than can.

Maybe I love our charter partly because the judgmental crap is kept to a minimum?[/quote]

+1 exactly.  We are at an immersion charter and was approached to join a pod as soon as the class list came out.  We declined because we will be away all fall.  But no judgement or ill will against families who do have them if that is what will work best for their families.

I don’t get why people are putting families down who need pods or being so judgmental.  Maybe this happens more at the DCPS schools EOTP where there is a wider disparity of socioeconomic classes.  Even so, it achieves nothing and will just drive these families away.

The blame for this mess is not the families forming the pods.  It’s this administration who failed to have a national plan.  It’s the mayor who opened the bars and restaurants and failed to have any semblance of a DL plan from the getgo for DCPS schools, not ordering enough chromebooks in a timely manner, not giving the teachers enough training and time to prepare, etc.., etc...[/quote]

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