Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 10:54     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:LAMB is finally allowing some parents into the building. But parents have to show proof of vaccination to take a tour of the building.



Did LAMB go to voluntary masking last year?


LAMB had mandatory masking when the community rate was higher than "low" and when there were fewer than some number of cases on (either?) campus in a week. I think that number was 5. In practice it meant that LAMB had optional masking for one week last year.

So, I think that means that LAMB did not have voluntary masking.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 10:42     Subject: Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:I have kids who have been at Inspired for many years and I've given the school the benefit of the doubt on lots and lots of decisions and have, by and large, been happy to sit back and let them do their thing.

But, after 2.5 years of pandemic, with CDC guidance where it is, and with literally every other institution relaxing their mitigation strategies, I feel like it's appropriate to give families a lot more explanation than "we are masking."

I'd like to know more so that I can explain to my kids why they are required to wear masks at school and not anywhere else. Because right now? I don't have it in me to carry the school's water on this. I am also really bummed that my kids are starting another year with (at least some) teacher attention diverted to mask compliance vs. building classroom community and teaching/learning.


This is the result of you giving ITDS the "benefit of the doubt" and letting "them do their thing" while other parents have been speaking out about the school's pathetic handling of COVID (closure, masks, on and on). You should have been speaking out and supporting parents who were pushing back on the school years ago. 2.5 years later and your kid is still forced to wear a mask.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 10:36     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Any word from Lee Montessori? We are high on the waitlist for East End and would like to know the mask policy before we get an offer, if possible. Not determinative for us but a factor.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 10:35     Subject: Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
MV said masks at least until Mid-oct.

Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 10:11     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:LAMB is finally allowing some parents into the building. But parents have to show proof of vaccination to take a tour of the building.



Given LAMB’s history, excluding parents from the school is really disturbing.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 10:10     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:ITDS requiring masks. I am so unhappy about this. No clear path for reconsidering like some other schools. It’s just too much.


Are masks required for the meet your teacher night or for students going returning to school?


Confirmed. I just clarified with an ITDS teacher that all students are required to wear masks. We need to start a petition to at least make it optional. Or go to a different school, which sounds a million times nicer at this point.


I and every other ITDS parent I've talked to since this got announced would absolutely sign this. Do it!!


Are you posting about this to the school listserv?
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 10:09     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:LAMB is finally allowing some parents into the building. But parents have to show proof of vaccination to take a tour of the building.



Did LAMB go to voluntary masking last year?
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 10:08     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
LAMB is finally allowing some parents into the building. But parents have to show proof of vaccination to take a tour of the building.

Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 09:35     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Charters should be following DCPS.


Logically maybe, but their ability to not follow DCPS is the fundamental principle behind charters. You can’t ask for autonomy only when it suits you


But isn't that autonomy supposed to be about educational choices? Like, could a charter bring back paddling?
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 08:56     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:Charters should be following DCPS.


Better to say they should follow DC DOH and CDC health guidance instead of making up their own. Independence from DCPS does not make charters experts in health and safety.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 08:51     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:Charters should be following DCPS.


Logically maybe, but their ability to not follow DCPS is the fundamental principle behind charters. You can’t ask for autonomy only when it suits you
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 08:49     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Charters should be following DCPS.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 08:15     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:Inspired Teaching requiring masks in fall of 2022 is simply part of their social justice immersion curriculum. You can't turn kids into true political activists without the proper religious facewear.

+1
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 07:03     Subject: Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am an ITDS parent and am fine with continued masking. Can’t wait to hear more entitled parents complain though!


What makes following the CDC “entitled”? Is that just a new catch-all slur now?


It’s more the endless whining and foot stomping.


I’m sorry it is whining to want to follow the CDC?

I get that the parents won’t make any difference at all on the school. People who are looking at charters should take note that parents hold zero ability to change a school, aside from perhaps trickling out over time and having the school eventually close. But since DCPS sucks so badly in most of the city, the charters will always have a foothold.

Mostly the only option is to get out of DC.


Parents don’t have much ability to change DCPS either….


Well DCPS parents aren’t facing another year of this insanity, so the political process is doing SOMETHING.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2022 06:50     Subject: Re:Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:ITDS requiring masks. I am so unhappy about this. No clear path for reconsidering like some other schools. It’s just too much.


Are masks required for the meet your teacher night or for students going returning to school?


Confirmed. I just clarified with an ITDS teacher that all students are required to wear masks. We need to start a petition to at least make it optional. Or go to a different school, which sounds a million times nicer at this point.


I and every other ITDS parent I've talked to since this got announced would absolutely sign this. Do it!!


Yes!