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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.[/quote]

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.[/quote]

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.[/quote]

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.[/quote]

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?[/quote]

Now that I have seen close up how a persistent group of parents or “neighbors” can completely dominate a situation with uniformed and self-centered demands, I fully understand and support training on how to effectively deal with them. If only the Council had that training. [/quote]

The Council is a bunch of pandering a$$holes and I fully support voting for anyone who runs against any of them.  Also, this vocal group of parents are a bunch of a$$holes who don’t give a crap about increasing teacher workload just so they can get their bespoke school option.  I hate them all.[/quote]

that’s about where I am. I cannot wrap my head around how any marginally sane parent or educator is thinking ANYTHING right now other than “good god, how do we dig out of this hole.” It’s just maddening to see the same astoundingly ignorant forces that closed schools for 18 months still having any political power. Alls I can say is I better not hear a single word from them against mandatory vaccination. [/quote]

Agreed. The Council is filled with pandering a$$holes out for their own power who couldn't scrape together a functioning set of morals between all of them. I would volunteer on the campaign of anyone who runs against the incumbent for Ward 4 or either of the At Large members. It's unbelievable to me that even after we see the negative effects of keeping schools closed for 18 months, there's still ANY talk of "pivoting" to close schools again or giving more power to WTU via the proposed legislation by Janeese Lewis George and Robert White and also the recent proposed legislation by several Council members to expand virtual school.[/quote]

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