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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many parent have good reason to suspect DCPS is slow walking testing and downplaying outbreaks to deflect from persistent case spikes early in school year  They've never remotely come close to hitting the stated targets for testing, which is kind of straight from the Trump playbook.  The just incessant inane  flex over their non-response with pointless "Re-open strong" bs.

Kids who don't feel well get sent home without testing.  Siblings remain in class.  In the rare cases where testing actually does occur it takes up to a week to get results with no information in the interim or follow up with contact tracing where appropriate.  No one can be considered a "close contact" because they blindly assert that masks are uniformly worn and perfectly fitted at all times no matter the real world application.  The so-called HVAC improvements are overblown, unevenly distributed and often insufficient.  Very few children get to eat lunch outside even in perfect weather.

If you plant your head in the sand I guess you can honestly say 'I don't see a cloud in sight', but how dumb would you have to be to believe anything they say?

This all goes back to the Mayor's effort to expedite reopening and downplay necessary pandemic response measures.  She owns all of this.[/quote]

“many parents” think no such thing. the vast majority of us are extremely happy school reopening is going so well. truly the only change in my perspective is that I now agree early release Weds could be appropriate to give teachers more planning time. I was against the loss in instructional time before, but now see how much extra work adjusting it has been. [/quote]

Enjoy the kool aid!

You can support re-opening AND still be critical of the poor performance.  The two are not mutually exclusive[/quote]

You’re living in an alternate universe. Covid is not spreading in schools. We’ve had two cases in our school and kids will be vaccinated in a matter of weeks and all teachers who want them have boosters, and starting next month all adults will have to be vaccinated. It’s going very, very well. [/quote]

I also agree that things are going well in terms of Covid mitigation and think that people who think it isn't are increasingly living in some other world.

That said, some of the things that people raise as issues don't have to do with covid -- regardless of whether HVACs are highly pertinent to reducing covid spread, we can agree that they are important for creating a better learning environment.  The ineptitude that is pretty much always on display from DCPS (which may be deliberate slow-walking or might just be that THIS IS DC AND EVERYTHING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT RUNS SLOWLY) could be helped with....maybe better quality people?  Idk.  If there's obvious LYING from the Chancellor, that's certainly not ok and undermines trust of parents in the district to provide education.  That might be helped.

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I agree; I think Covid put a microscope on schools and the Mayor's impact on schools, at least for me. While a lot of the failures the PP wrote about have nothing to do with Covid, they're indicative of a poisoned system, top down.[/quote]

I disagree with your conclusion.  I can get on board with certain increased oversight but I think dispersing control of schools would be far, far worse in terms of fixing the problems.[/quote]

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