I know of 10 students who podded up in one 5th grade class. So that's 10 out of 25 total students.

Why don't you ask around and see, OP?

My PK4er is in a pod in Upper NW. He needed socialization.

We had two different would be pods approach us, NWDC. One fell apart for various reasons and we didn’t even consider the second.

For what it is worth: I'm a DCPS teacher (at a ward 3 elementary school), and about 10% of my students are in pods. Talking to teachers at other local schools, it seems like in general teachers are seeing somewhere in the 10-20% range of their students in pods. Obviously this is anecdotal, and it might be different for other parts of the city.

We were asked to pair up with three different families but declined because of high risk for covid. Afaik they haven't found partners. I think they wanted me because I have an easy going only child and am a former teacher with a flexible work schedule. They're all families of 3+ kids. Somehow they didn't want to pair up among themselves, maybe because six kids sounds like a lot.

We’re at a NW elementary. Not in a pod.

Anonymous wrote:we are in a pod but not telling everyone....no need to.

Everyone knows and is talking about it behind your back.

Anonymous wrote:we are in a pod but not telling everyone....no need to.

Um, ok

We are waiting to see what distance learning actually looks like before throwing a bunch of money at a solution that may or may not be the right one.

So far I haven’t seen any other kids “podding” in my kids’ classes. I have one friend who is in a pod with three other kids from her kids’ school.

My kid already spotted another student (same grade, different class) in the background of a classmate's video call. She had a lot of questions about why those kids got to "do school together.". But given all the hysteria about podding up, those are the only families I know who have done so.

we are in a pod but not telling everyone....no need to.

I know of one in my child’s grade at our charter.

Washingtonpost article the other day about the proliferation of pods—but at our NW DC elementary I just have no idea how many people are in pods.
Is it 25%?