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Anonymous wrote:Any family that supports schools to be closed or on a rotating schedule in the fall is absolutely privileged. As one of the previous post already stated: The economic strain, the ever widening of the achievement gap, and the socioemotional damage cannot be overstated.

Only those (predominantly white middle class families) who are able to afford help, private tutors are pushing for this. Their privilege completely blinds them. These people don’t care about black, brown or any other underprivileged families without resources, and wants our kids to stay underprivileged while their kids get ahead with private help.

To those who continue to push for school closure due to Covid-19, look inside your hearts and souls when you go out protesting for BLM with your privileged children. You don’t really care about our lives, you just want to virtue signal that you are better than others and that you are not racists.

Thank you social justice warrior. I, however, am concerned about the HEALTH of those same groups. I don’t want their older family members to die. I don’t want our African American teachers to die. I don’t want kids to experience more trauma surrounding deaths of loved ones.

Anonymous wrote:When the schools open I give it two weeks before they close again in mass. The teachers will give it to each other due to co-teaching, specials, taking the metro to work. Teachers are real people and many may not be making good decisions with regard to exposure (especially the younger ones). But sure open it up full swing, but just don’t be surprised when it’s closing back down.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any family that supports schools to be closed or on a rotating schedule in the fall is absolutely privileged. As one of the previous post already stated: The economic strain, the ever widening of the achievement gap, and the socioemotional damage cannot be overstated.

Only those (predominantly white middle class families) who are able to afford help, private tutors are pushing for this. Their privilege completely blinds them. These people don’t care about black, brown or any other underprivileged families without resources, and wants our kids to stay underprivileged while their kids get ahead with private help.

To those who continue to push for school closure due to Covid-19, look inside your hearts and souls when you go out protesting for BLM with your privileged children. You don’t really care about our lives, you just want to virtue signal that you are better than others and that you are not racists.

Thank you social justice warrior. I, however, am concerned about the HEALTH of those same groups. I don’t want their older family members to die. I don’t want our African American teachers to die. I don’t want kids to experience more trauma surrounding deaths of loved ones.

The risk of dying for the average individual is small. The overall increase in deaths from opening schools, according to presently available data, would be minimal. The harms from keeping schools closed, both educational as well as economic and social, are an absolute certainty, and will be added to the already existing and likely, even if we keep schools closed, continuing trauma inflicted by the virus.

Can you find data from another country with our obesity and diabetes rate? No? Right, so your data from Germany and Sweden doesn’t relate here. Beijing just had to close schools again. If you don’t think that is going to happen here you are nuts.

Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of this thread is parents saying their kids won’t wear masks and we are talking a Janney parent. You should have been practicing this the last four months. My kid with autism and sensory issues will wear a mask because we practiced and worked at it. You say you want schools open, but are unwilling to do anything to help that along. Let me guess, you will be back at the gym Monday morning. Either teach your kid to wear a mask as a requirement for going out or homeschool.

Anonymous wrote:Parents are looking out for the best interest of themselves and their children.
Schools are looking out for the best interest of the most vulnerable students and staff. It’s a different outlook. They don’t want to be the reason people get sick and die.

I don’t understand why that is so hard for people to see. We need to look out for the “we” not the “me”.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stokes seems to have a good plan that addresses all the complaints on this board. Opening up for kids with special needs, kids who are significantly behind grade level and kids who had a very hard time with distance learning. I think it’s a great plan. It prioritizes what’s important and let’s everyone else distance learn. I hope DCPS implements this.

No. Stokes has no in person learning even for kids where the entire point of going to school in SEL. Stokes assumes all parents have and can afford to have full time childcare in place indefinitely. Stokes says they won’t open until their is a vaccine or a cure. FWIW, there could never be a vaccine and viruses don’t have “cures,” so this is obviously written by scientifically illiterate morons.

So you don’t like it because the school is refusing to cater to you and your children. They are prioritizing the most vulnerable students. This is what this board has been screaming about for months. It’s a great plan especially if you really do care about the most vulnerable in society.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stokes seems to have a good plan that addresses all the complaints on this board. Opening up for kids with special needs, kids who are significantly behind grade level and kids who had a very hard time with distance learning. I think it’s a great plan. It prioritizes what’s important and let’s everyone else distance learn. I hope DCPS implements this.

No. Stokes has no in person learning even for kids where the entire point of going to school in SEL. Stokes assumes all parents have and can afford to have full time childcare in place indefinitely. Stokes says they won’t open until their is a vaccine or a cure. FWIW, there could never be a vaccine and viruses don’t have “cures,” so this is obviously written by scientifically illiterate morons.

Anonymous wrote:Stokes seems to have a good plan that addresses all the complaints on this board. Opening up for kids with special needs, kids who are significantly behind grade level and kids who had a very hard time with distance learning. I think it’s a great plan. It prioritizes what’s important and let’s everyone else distance learn. I hope DCPS implements this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any family that supports schools to be closed or on a rotating schedule in the fall is absolutely privileged. As one of the previous post already stated: The economic strain, the ever widening of the achievement gap, and the socioemotional damage cannot be overstated.

Only those (predominantly white middle class families) who are able to afford help, private tutors are pushing for this. Their privilege completely blinds them. These people don’t care about black, brown or any other underprivileged families without resources, and wants our kids to stay underprivileged while their kids get ahead with private help.

To those who continue to push for school closure due to Covid-19, look inside your hearts and souls when you go out protesting for BLM with your privileged children. You don’t really care about our lives, you just want to virtue signal that you are better than others and that you are not racists.

Thank you social justice warrior. I, however, am concerned about the HEALTH of those same groups. I don’t want their older family members to die. I don’t want our African American teachers to die. I don’t want kids to experience more trauma surrounding deaths of loved ones.