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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]African-American women are disproportionately like to a) get; b) die from COVID. There are also twice as likely as white people to be caring for elderly parents/relatives. Many white parents on DCUM use poor children (who they couldn't give zero effs about, normally) as a shield for their racist and misogynistic response to African-American teachers and the WTU. It is not laziness and a lack of caring for children that makes teacher skeptical about  DCPS/DCPCS back to in-person school plans. It's fear and distrust. You have to counter fear and distrust with confidence building-measures like rapid testing and isolating students within the school building like they do in Scandinavia. [/quote]

I'd suggest learning a little more before you slander people you don't know as racist. Almost two-thirds of the people who've died in DC from coronavirus are elderly (at least 70 years old). Most elderly people in DC are 1. African-American and 2. Female. [/quote]

Do you mean libel?  :oops:

Who do we think are taking care of elderly African-American women? Their African-American daughters, nieces, and daughters-in-law...wait for it...a lot of them work for DCPS or DCPCS.  :roll: [/quote]

Not at LAMB! LAMB is an extremely white school. [/quote]

I mean, it's half Hispanic, about 15% African-American, and about a quarter white non-Hispanic.

Maybe that's a higher percentage of white kids than other schools, but I wouldn't call that "extremely white".

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2017_Equity_Report_Public%20Charter%20School_Latin%20American%20Montessori%20Bilingual%20PCS.pdf[/quote]

The school could ask its African-American families how many are taking care of elderly relatives (the answer is probably close to zero), and if they want schools to reopen, instead of simply assuming. But that would require LAMB to consult with parents, which is not its strong suit. [/quote]

I can't find rates specifically for DC (just totals), but at least on a wider scale death rates for Latino/as are similar to African Americans from covid.

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race[/quote]

Not in DC. 75 percent of the people who've died were black. 13 percent were Hispanic (about the same as their share of the overall population).

[b]More importantly, the number of people in DC dying from coronavirus has fallen consistently and dramatically. Here's the number of people who've died in DC each month, according to the city:

March -- 11 people
April -- 220 people
May -- 237 people
June -- 85 people
July -- 32 people
August -- 22 people
September -- 21 people
October -- 16 people

16 people is about how many people are murdered in DC each month.[/b] [/quote]

No one cares about facts anymore. Only feelings matter. [/quote]

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