My kids have had a decent year with distance learning and their teachers are great. I completely understand why in-person schooling has been closed.
I work in healthcare and it's been a nerve wracking year.

That said, we will move and leave DC if school is not in-person next fall. We have portable jobs. I know a lot of people in our position. It's pretty much
the only thing parents at our school and my friend group are talking about. We're all transplants from other areas who came here in our 20's or 30s and
have always wondered (since having kids) "will/should I move back home?" Heck, i was talking to a TEACHER at our school who has a daughter entering
kindergarten in the fall (different district) and she is going to move if school is not in person.


I harbor NO ill will against teachers for this year but I also will not put my kids in another year of distance learning.
I think there are countless families like us in this position. Our homes will be bought by the next wave of pregnant families.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no. My kids are going to school in person full time (they will wear masks if necessary). Even if we have to go stay with grandparents in another state, I absolutely refuse to do distance learning beyond the end of this year.

Same. DCs tax base will take a beating. There will be teacher layoffs. No one is sticking around for fall hybrid.

This.

Teachers need to get it through their thick heads that their funding is based on enrollment. If DC remains in hybrid while other districts are completely open, parents will vote with their feet and then teachers will be screwed.

It’s funny you think the surrounding districts won’t be hybrid as well.

Perhaps you haven't noticed but:

1. DC is a city of transients -- people don't stick around long as it is.
2. Schools are open in most of the rest of the country. See here: https://info.burbio.com/school-tracker-update-feb-1/

If people move, it won't be the friggin' suburbs.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no. My kids are going to school in person full time (they will wear masks if necessary). Even if we have to go stay with grandparents in another state, I absolutely refuse to do distance learning beyond the end of this year.

Same. DCs tax base will take a beating. There will be teacher layoffs. No one is sticking around for fall hybrid.

Us, too. One of us will go stay with grandparents in the fall if we don't have access to full-time school we can afford in the DC Metro area. My 8-year-old just isn't learning enough, and isn't happy enough with hybrid. I've have more than enough of the stress the dearth of in-person learning is placing on our whole family. We won't put up with another season of this travesty.

Same. My real question is: does anyone care? Isn't city and school leadership, and most teachers and the WTU, sending a strong message - don't let the door hit you on the way out? We don't want you white people in our school district messing up things anyhow? The upper NW schools are overcrowded and make the city look bad because of how they provide a better education for the white people, and the gentrifying schools are in even worse shape, with annoying white parents trying to open them and hoard education and stuff.

I am seriously getting that strong hint, and considering where to move or which private schools to try for. Don't really like going where I'm not wanted.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no. My kids are going to school in person full time (they will wear masks if necessary). Even if we have to go stay with grandparents in another state, I absolutely refuse to do distance learning beyond the end of this year.

Same. DCs tax base will take a beating. There will be teacher layoffs. No one is sticking around for fall hybrid.

This.

Teachers need to get it through their thick heads that their funding is based on enrollment. If DC remains in hybrid while other districts are completely open, parents will vote with their feet and then teachers will be screwed.

It’s funny you think the surrounding districts won’t be hybrid as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no. My kids are going to school in person full time (they will wear masks if necessary). Even if we have to go stay with grandparents in another state, I absolutely refuse to do distance learning beyond the end of this year.

Same. DCs tax base will take a beating. There will be teacher layoffs. No one is sticking around for fall hybrid.

This.

Teachers need to get it through their thick heads that their funding is based on enrollment. If DC remains in hybrid while other districts are completely open, parents will vote with their feet and then teachers will be screwed.

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are never going back full time. There will always be a variant or some excuse. With Wednesdays off and intermittent naps, would you go back and wrangle 25 kindergartners? I didn’t think so.

With parents like yourself to have to deal with? Likely not. All your negative energy must be draining you.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are never going back full time. There will always be a variant or some excuse. With Wednesdays off and intermittent naps, would you go back and wrangle 25 kindergartners? I didn’t think so.

Sounds like you are going through a divorce. You should do something about your rage.

You are odd.

She was just desperate to find something personally insulting to say to the PP and couldn't think of anything less of a non sequitur.

Saying teachers are taking naps during work hours seems desperate too. My DS is currently busy in his small reading group. And my DD is enjoying IPL.

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Anonymous wrote:Who knew, one party rule isn’t such a great idea after all.

This. It’s like we are on a sinking ship. There will never be school again.

DC voters have created a system of government where elected officials have little fear of making bad decisions or no decisions at all. Once in office the mayor and council are way too insulated. It’s not a healthy form of government and one reason DC will never be a state.

You're right.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are never going back full time. There will always be a variant or some excuse. With Wednesdays off and intermittent naps, would you go back and wrangle 25 kindergartners? I didn’t think so.

Sounds like you are going through a divorce. You should do something about your rage.

You are odd.

She was just desperate to find something personally insulting to say to the PP and couldn't think of anything less of a non sequitur.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are never going back full time. There will always be a variant or some excuse. With Wednesdays off and intermittent naps, would you go back and wrangle 25 kindergartners? I didn’t think so.

Sounds like you are going through a divorce. You should do something about your rage.

You are odd.

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Anonymous wrote:Who knew, one party rule isn’t such a great idea after all.

This. It’s like we are on a sinking ship. There will never be school again.

DC voters have created a system of government where elected officials have little fear of making bad decisions or no decisions at all. Once in office the mayor and council are way too insulated. It’s not a healthy form of government and one reason DC will never be a state.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm hoping for hybrid in Fall, 2021, and then maybe full IP in Fall, 2022. If by some miracle there's a pediatric vaccine by Winter, 2021. Otherwise I'd imagine we will be in hybrid until 2023? Whenever there's a pediatric vaccine.

Note: I don't think that's scientifically the right thing. I think that's what the DMV teachers' unions will allow.

Then the DMV teachers unions need to be busted. At some point we need to start following the science and doing right by the kids, like the rest of the world.

What part of the rest of the world are you speaking of? Not Germany, the UK, Denmark ... https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-schools-are-closing-again-on-concerns-they-spread-covid-19-11610805601

Many elementary schools in Germany are staying open on a hybrid basis, even through this lockdown. I know because my kids are in school there right now.

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are never going back full time. There will always be a variant or some excuse. With Wednesdays off and intermittent naps, would you go back and wrangle 25 kindergartners? I didn’t think so.

Sounds like you are going through a divorce. You should do something about your rage.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no. My kids are going to school in person full time (they will wear masks if necessary). Even if we have to go stay with grandparents in another state, I absolutely refuse to do distance learning beyond the end of this year.

Same. DCs tax base will take a beating. There will be teacher layoffs. No one is sticking around for fall hybrid.

Us, too. One of us will go stay with grandparents in the fall if we don't have access to full-time school we can afford in the DC Metro area. My 8-year-old just isn't learning enough, and isn't happy enough with hybrid. I've have more than enough of the stress the dearth of in-person learning is placing on our whole family. We won't put up with another season of this travesty.

Teachers are never going back full time. There will always be a variant or some excuse. With Wednesdays off and intermittent naps, would you go back and wrangle 25 kindergartners? I didn’t think so.