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We are already making plans for Fall 2021 for my kids, I think even if the public school kids go back next year, it won't be an environment that will be safe or conducive to learning.

Can you elaborate on why you think this?

Anonymous wrote:I really think most of this is all the shuffling around going on. Kids moving in with grandparents, enrolling or unenrolling at private schools, kindergartners being pulled to redshirt or attend an in person day care etc.

Let's see how things look in October before panicking.

Less than half have logged in at some schools in Chicago:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cps-...novhwlabow35a53fo3q-story.html

One quarter of students missing in Detroit:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/de...ct-online-learning/5816523002/

I'm beginning to wonder what I'm doing to my children, making them log on and attend classes.

Wow, those numbers are shocking. Horrifying.

The numbers surely understate how little engaged students are. The schools are making it incredibly easy to declare yourself present -- you have to do almost nothing -- and yet the attendance numbers are still incredibly bad.

Anonymous wrote:Update per Mayor Bowser's townhall today (9/17)

As of 9/15 - 87.6K enrolled in DCPS or DCPCS [last year # was 92K]


Now "missing" 5K students year over year

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Anonymous wrote:I love how little concern there is on this thread about thousands of kids not attending school AT ALL. It’s just belly aching about Perry Stein or hairsplitting over the numbers. No one expresses any concern whatsoever about the kids.

Learn to read. The thread title is about the "20,000 kids missing". The issue I took with both the headline and the article is that is provides no evidence to support that conclusion. As I (and others) have already explained to you several times, the number isn't down 20,000 from years prior at this point in the process. Assuming it is "only" overstating the issue by 10,000 that's a huge, intellectually dishonest overstatement. Plus, as we have also explained, even the article acknowledges that many students typically do registration confirmation in person so it isn't clear whether some of these "missing" students are even missing, or just attending after having failed to register.

No one is saying kids shouldn't be in school. What we are saying is that this article provides fuel for a fire where there might not even be smoke.

I am loving the DCUM Hill and upper NW parents who don't want these poor and homeless kids anywhere near their schools but have recently decided to mention them because it tracks with their narrative that they want to go back to school.

Last year, there were 99,000 students in the system.

This year, only 77,000 have logged into a class at least once.

That means almost one-quarter of the students have yet to attend a single class this year.

How many thousands more have attended only one or two or three classes and then quit?

This translates to an astronomical absentee rate.

This is happening across the country. It's not just DC.

Seattle just released numbers showing less than half of elementary students there logged on for online learning.

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/limited-data-show-less-than-half-of-seattles-elementary-school-kids-logged-in-to-districts-online-portal-last-spring/

Less than half have logged in at some schools in Chicago:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cps-first-day-remote-learning-attendance-20200911-o7bnmhjnovhwlabow35a53fo3q-story.html

One quarter of students missing in Detroit:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/09/16/detroit-school-district-online-learning/5816523002/

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Anonymous wrote:I love how little concern there is on this thread about thousands of kids not attending school AT ALL. It’s just belly aching about Perry Stein or hairsplitting over the numbers. No one expresses any concern whatsoever about the kids.

Learn to read. The thread title is about the "20,000 kids missing". The issue I took with both the headline and the article is that is provides no evidence to support that conclusion. As I (and others) have already explained to you several times, the number isn't down 20,000 from years prior at this point in the process. Assuming it is "only" overstating the issue by 10,000 that's a huge, intellectually dishonest overstatement. Plus, as we have also explained, even the article acknowledges that many students typically do registration confirmation in person so it isn't clear whether some of these "missing" students are even missing, or just attending after having failed to register.

No one is saying kids shouldn't be in school. What we are saying is that this article provides fuel for a fire where there might not even be smoke.

I am loving the DCUM Hill and upper NW parents who don't want these poor and homeless kids anywhere near their schools but have recently decided to mention them because it tracks with their narrative that they want to go back to school.

Last year, there were 99,000 students in the system.

This year, only 77,000 have logged into a class at least once.

That means almost one-quarter of the students have yet to attend a single class this year.

How many thousands more have attended only one or two or three classes and then quit?

This translates to an astronomical absentee rate.

This is happening across the country. It's not just DC.

Our school district is now just throwing out crazy numbers. 93% login rate! Yay! 7 out of 10 of the kids in the district qualify for free lunch and live in transient housing and yet magically they're at 93% login rates with no explanation of what counts as a login or how long they're actually staying on. The four schools in the district who are in multimillion dollar neighborhoods meanwhile have a facebook group with a 1,000 parents in it saying that distance learning is not working. We switched to a private after seeing those numbers, the outright lying is just too much.

This made me LOL. OMG, a whole fb page???!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I love how little concern there is on this thread about thousands of kids not attending school AT ALL. It’s just belly aching about Perry Stein or hairsplitting over the numbers. No one expresses any concern whatsoever about the kids.

Learn to read. The thread title is about the "20,000 kids missing". The issue I took with both the headline and the article is that is provides no evidence to support that conclusion. As I (and others) have already explained to you several times, the number isn't down 20,000 from years prior at this point in the process. Assuming it is "only" overstating the issue by 10,000 that's a huge, intellectually dishonest overstatement. Plus, as we have also explained, even the article acknowledges that many students typically do registration confirmation in person so it isn't clear whether some of these "missing" students are even missing, or just attending after having failed to register.

No one is saying kids shouldn't be in school. What we are saying is that this article provides fuel for a fire where there might not even be smoke.

I am loving the DCUM Hill and upper NW parents who don't want these poor and homeless kids anywhere near their schools but have recently decided to mention them because it tracks with their narrative that they want to go back to school.

Last year, there were 99,000 students in the system.

This year, only 77,000 have logged into a class at least once.

That means almost one-quarter of the students have yet to attend a single class this year.

How many thousands more have attended only one or two or three classes and then quit?

This translates to an astronomical absentee rate.

This is happening across the country. It's not just DC.

Our school district is now just throwing out crazy numbers. 93% login rate! Yay! 7 out of 10 of the kids in the district qualify for free lunch and live in transient housing and yet magically they're at 93% login rates with no explanation of what counts as a login or how long they're actually staying on. The four schools in the district who are in multimillion dollar neighborhoods meanwhile have a facebook group with a 1,000 parents in it saying that distance learning is not working. We switched to a private after seeing those numbers, the outright lying is just too much.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how little concern there is on this thread about thousands of kids not attending school AT ALL. It’s just belly aching about Perry Stein or hairsplitting over the numbers. No one expresses any concern whatsoever about the kids.

Learn to read. The thread title is about the "20,000 kids missing". The issue I took with both the headline and the article is that is provides no evidence to support that conclusion. As I (and others) have already explained to you several times, the number isn't down 20,000 from years prior at this point in the process. Assuming it is "only" overstating the issue by 10,000 that's a huge, intellectually dishonest overstatement. Plus, as we have also explained, even the article acknowledges that many students typically do registration confirmation in person so it isn't clear whether some of these "missing" students are even missing, or just attending after having failed to register.

No one is saying kids shouldn't be in school. What we are saying is that this article provides fuel for a fire where there might not even be smoke.

I am loving the DCUM Hill and upper NW parents who don't want these poor and homeless kids anywhere near their schools but have recently decided to mention them because it tracks with their narrative that they want to go back to school.

Last year, there were 99,000 students in the system.

This year, only 77,000 have logged into a class at least once.

That means almost one-quarter of the students have yet to attend a single class this year.

How many thousands more have attended only one or two or three classes and then quit?

This translates to an astronomical absentee rate.

This is happening across the country. It's not just DC.

Seattle just released numbers showing less than half of elementary students there logged on for online learning.
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/limited-data-show-less-than-half-of-seattles-elementary-school-kids-logged-in-to-districts-online-portal-last-spring/

Less than half have logged in at some schools in Chicago:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cps-first-day-remote-learning-attendance-20200911-o7bnmhjnovhwlabow35a53fo3q-story.html

One quarter of students missing in Detroit:
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/09/16/detroit-school-district-online-learning/5816523002/

Please listen the daily podcast on homeless children to get a sense of the obstacles these children have to engaging in learning. It broke my heart that this is how we as a society treat the most vulnerable.

unbelievable.

We are already making plans for Fall 2021 for my kids, I think even if the public school kids go back next year, it won't be an environment that will be safe or conducive to learning.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how little concern there is on this thread about thousands of kids not attending school AT ALL. It’s just belly aching about Perry Stein or hairsplitting over the numbers. No one expresses any concern whatsoever about the kids.

Learn to read. The thread title is about the "20,000 kids missing". The issue I took with both the headline and the article is that is provides no evidence to support that conclusion. As I (and others) have already explained to you several times, the number isn't down 20,000 from years prior at this point in the process. Assuming it is "only" overstating the issue by 10,000 that's a huge, intellectually dishonest overstatement. Plus, as we have also explained, even the article acknowledges that many students typically do registration confirmation in person so it isn't clear whether some of these "missing" students are even missing, or just attending after having failed to register.

No one is saying kids shouldn't be in school. What we are saying is that this article provides fuel for a fire where there might not even be smoke.

I am loving the DCUM Hill and upper NW parents who don't want these poor and homeless kids anywhere near their schools but have recently decided to mention them because it tracks with their narrative that they want to go back to school.

Last year, there were 99,000 students in the system.

This year, only 77,000 have logged into a class at least once.

That means almost one-quarter of the students have yet to attend a single class this year.

How many thousands more have attended only one or two or three classes and then quit?

This translates to an astronomical absentee rate.

This is happening across the country. It's not just DC.

Seattle just released numbers showing less than half of elementary students there logged on for online learning.

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/limited-data-show-less-than-half-of-seattles-elementary-school-kids-logged-in-to-districts-online-portal-last-spring/

Less than half have logged in at some schools in Chicago:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cps-first-day-remote-learning-attendance-20200911-o7bnmhjnovhwlabow35a53fo3q-story.html

One quarter of students missing in Detroit:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/09/16/detroit-school-district-online-learning/5816523002/

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Anonymous wrote:For everyone saying that schools should open, where were you in the spring/summer? Were you contacting the Mayor/DME/your school (DCPS/charter)? I was, and I got crickets. I got support from very few other parents.

Instead of commenting here, please make sure you are advocating for schools to reopen, in whatever way you can.

In spring we thought we'd be back in the fall. Over the summer that carrot was still there. The full DL switch was very late summer

Anyone who ever thought school would go back in October is just foolish, I'm sorry. I was staunchly opposed to virtual learning, especially for the younger kids, partly because I knew that DCPS was just telling us October to prevent a freak out. It will be all school year. It's always been until a vaccine; they just won't say it.

You were duped, I'm sorry to say it. It's all year. Start advocating for spring/next fall NOW if you're so fed up with distance learning or worried about kids (which was also predictable).

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Anonymous wrote:I love how little concern there is on this thread about thousands of kids not attending school AT ALL. It’s just belly aching about Perry Stein or hairsplitting over the numbers. No one expresses any concern whatsoever about the kids.

Learn to read. The thread title is about the "20,000 kids missing". The issue I took with both the headline and the article is that is provides no evidence to support that conclusion. As I (and others) have already explained to you several times, the number isn't down 20,000 from years prior at this point in the process. Assuming it is "only" overstating the issue by 10,000 that's a huge, intellectually dishonest overstatement. Plus, as we have also explained, even the article acknowledges that many students typically do registration confirmation in person so it isn't clear whether some of these "missing" students are even missing, or just attending after having failed to register.

No one is saying kids shouldn't be in school. What we are saying is that this article provides fuel for a fire where there might not even be smoke.

I am loving the DCUM Hill and upper NW parents who don't want these poor and homeless kids anywhere near their schools but have recently decided to mention them because it tracks with their narrative that they want to go back to school.

Last year, there were 99,000 students in the system.

This year, only 77,000 have logged into a class at least once.

That means almost one-quarter of the students have yet to attend a single class this year.

How many thousands more have attended only one or two or three classes and then quit?

This translates to an astronomical absentee rate.

This is happening across the country. It's not just DC.

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Anonymous wrote:The cure is worse than the disease. Open the schools.

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