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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is where the mean girls go after hs. Reminds me of the kids on my middle school bus replaying last nights aim convos

I know it’s hard on your fragile feelings but you need to understand your Twitter bubble of neurotic irrational parents and rose-emoji teachers union supporters is a tiny minority of actual DCPS parents

+1. This is just another page in the union playbook to try to shame and suppress the voices of parents who want open schools. We're racists, lazy moms who don't want to parent our children, trumpers, and now mean girls.

Omg you are on a blind message board and you think this is the voice of parents lol.

For all we know the funny mean girl back and forth is the same person and they don’t have kids and lives in Iowa.

I’m pro open schools, pro union and for this testing deal pro-DCPS (gasp) and so are all the parents I talk to. I get you need a boogeyman but please stop w the union being your issue esp you parents w kids at charters.

I have union teacher friends in other locations and they promoting what DCPS has done to keep schools open and safe. Some have tweaks like masks should go out but they are sending ferabee’s letter last night to their union rep and asking for what we are doing. These are our area schools.

Teachers hate online schools but they also hate getting sick in a pandemic

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's a waste of resources to demand that every child get tested to be allowed to return to school. This is another case of the mayor giving in to unreasonable union demands. The union is pushing for metrics for # of positive cases to close schools and wants this data to close schools. Experts say the most important metrics are number of hospitalizations and deaths, not number of cases. Yet the union continues to fear monger about number of cases.

I'm so angry that the union keeps harming children and those who actually are more vulnerable to dying from covid despite being vaccinated. Do some actual risk management and consider all the impacts of covid on society, not just union members' irrational feelings.

No, it's not an unreasonable union demand. Testing to return actually makes overall closure LESS likely, because it screens out a good share of the people who are actively contagious for covid. That means both a reduction in the likelihood of having covid spread in the school (which is good for keeping school open) and a higher bar for arguing to close the schools just as a preventive measure. If you want school open (and I know I do!), you should be all for testing, the more, the better.

I call BS. It's a union demand and is serving as a data point for the union to demand school closures. Schools across the country have been reopened since Fall 2020 without doing any asymptomatic testing. Meanwhile DC was the last to reopen and the union members and supporters are screaming to pivot to virtual. Some DCPS schools have already moved to virtual this school year. It's really, really hard to believe that the union wants asymptomatic testing to stay open while their endorsees Robert White and Janeese Lewis George just introduced legislation to close schools based on covid case rates. Like impossible to believe the union wants covid case rate data to stay open.

This is just another example of the union's trickery in saying they want to stay open but then throwing in obstacles to doing so and claiming it's so we can stay open safely. Other school districts are staying open safely without all these other barriers like asymptomatic testing, daily ask ask look sheets, HVAC upgrades, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's a waste of resources to demand that every child get tested to be allowed to return to school. This is another case of the mayor giving in to unreasonable union demands. The union is pushing for metrics for # of positive cases to close schools and wants this data to close schools. Experts say the most important metrics are number of hospitalizations and deaths, not number of cases. Yet the union continues to fear monger about number of cases.

I'm so angry that the union keeps harming children and those who actually are more vulnerable to dying from covid despite being vaccinated. Do some actual risk management and consider all the impacts of covid on society, not just union members' irrational feelings.

No, it's not an unreasonable union demand. Testing to return actually makes overall closure LESS likely, because it screens out a good share of the people who are actively contagious for covid. That means both a reduction in the likelihood of having covid spread in the school (which is good for keeping school open) and a higher bar for arguing to close the schools just as a preventive measure. If you want school open (and I know I do!), you should be all for testing, the more, the better.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the tests that Biden Admin was promising?

Um, everywhere? We have had no trouble getting free at home rapid tests from the library and school, PCR tests from the library and curative.

Those aren't the tests the Biden administration promised, though -- the free tests from D.C. are because D.C. purchased 1 million tests. Maybe they'll get the feds to pay them back for that, but it's unrelated.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, of all the reasons not to test, reserving capacity for the unvaccinated is at the bottom of my list

"The unvaccinated," in general, may belong at the bottom of your list. But the unvaccinated who are patients of Children's are surely mostly too young to be vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:First, I don't know why people would go to them anyway when they got clear instructions they can pick up tests at any school.
Second, there is no such thing as unnecessary testing because for every vaccinated person who tests, if they catch a positive and change their behavior, they are breaking the chain of infection to more vulnerable people.

That would only be true if test weren't a limited resource:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/covid-test-shortage/621149/

The idiot author wants tests reserved for the unvaccinated. They put themselves in a position that makes them vulnerable, there is no reason to expend limited resources on them

I agree, that article is asinine. My entire family is vaccinated, booster where eligible except the under 5s. On Christmas Eve we tested 25 family members with rapid tests and one of the was positive (vaccinated 8 YO) so that family didn’t join the gathering. The alternative would have been to to see each other at all or to potentially risk infecting a few parents in their 80s or not gather. None of us had any qualms about using rapid tests that had been purchased when they were in easy supply to test for a gathering.

The thing about proposals like this is that sometimes the right thing to do in terms of social health and safety issues is that sometimes the most logical and effective thing to do goes against "common sense" and most especially morality. We often prefer policies that punish the deserving, even if they're objectively less effective social policies. These kinds of proposals are often met with moral outrage. Unfortunately, the people who communicate these proposals often don't do much to prevent this.

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Anonymous wrote:This is where the mean girls go after hs. Reminds me of the kids on my middle school bus replaying last nights aim convos

I know it’s hard on your fragile feelings but you need to understand your Twitter bubble of neurotic irrational parents and rose-emoji teachers union supporters is a tiny minority of actual DCPS parents

Awww so you have more friends than me? Are you also trying to sleep with my boyfriend

you seem like you maybe have some unresolved trauma. i'm sorry hs was so hard for you.

Anonymous wrote:I find it ironic that Children’s National doesn’t want to help test public school kids when they have several large private school contracts for which they are making a hefty profit AND their former board chair is Biden’s COVID czar.

There is a difference between providing surveillance testing to schools and having your ER blow up with tons of kids who should not be coming there just for a Covid test. You really cannot compare the two.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is where the mean girls go after hs. Reminds me of the kids on my middle school bus replaying last nights aim convos

I know it’s hard on your fragile feelings but you need to understand your Twitter bubble of neurotic irrational parents and rose-emoji teachers union supporters is a tiny minority of actual DCPS parents

+1. This is just another page in the union playbook to try to shame and suppress the voices of parents who want open schools. We're racists, lazy moms who don't want to parent our children, trumpers, and now mean girls.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is where the mean girls go after hs. Reminds me of the kids on my middle school bus replaying last nights aim convos

I know it’s hard on your fragile feelings but you need to understand your Twitter bubble of neurotic irrational parents and rose-emoji teachers union supporters is a tiny minority of actual DCPS parents

Awww so you have more friends than me? Are you also trying to sleep with my boyfriend

You don’t have a boyfriend. Stop trying to pretend that bc Robert looked at you that one time that it means he’s in love with you. Girl you need to get a grip.

LOL best comment on this thread!

I find it ironic that Children’s National doesn’t want to help test public school kids when they have several large private school contracts for which they are making a hefty profit AND their former board chair is Biden’s COVID czar.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is where the mean girls go after hs. Reminds me of the kids on my middle school bus replaying last nights aim convos

I know it’s hard on your fragile feelings but you need to understand your Twitter bubble of neurotic irrational parents and rose-emoji teachers union supporters is a tiny minority of actual DCPS parents

Awww so you have more friends than me? Are you also trying to sleep with my boyfriend

You don’t have a boyfriend. Stop trying to pretend that bc Robert looked at you that one time that it means he’s in love with you. Girl you need to get a grip.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First, I don't know why people would go to them anyway when they got clear instructions they can pick up tests at any school.
Second, there is no such thing as unnecessary testing because for every vaccinated person who tests, if they catch a positive and change their behavior, they are breaking the chain of infection to more vulnerable people.

That would only be true if test weren't a limited resource:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/covid-test-shortage/621149/

The idiot author wants tests reserved for the unvaccinated. They put themselves in a position that makes them vulnerable, there is no reason to expend limited resources on them

I agree, that article is asinine. My entire family is vaccinated, booster where eligible except the under 5s. On Christmas Eve we tested 25 family members with rapid tests and one of the was positive (vaccinated 8 YO) so that family didn’t join the gathering. The alternative would have been to to see each other at all or to potentially risk infecting a few parents in their 80s or not gather. None of us had any qualms about using rapid tests that had been purchased when they were in easy supply to test for a gathering.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is where the mean girls go after hs. Reminds me of the kids on my middle school bus replaying last nights aim convos

I know it’s hard on your fragile feelings but you need to understand your Twitter bubble of neurotic irrational parents and rose-emoji teachers union supporters is a tiny minority of actual DCPS parents

Awww so you have more friends than me? Are you also trying to sleep with my boyfriend

Anonymous wrote:This is where the mean girls go after hs. Reminds me of the kids on my middle school bus replaying last nights aim convos

I know it’s hard on your fragile feelings but you need to understand your Twitter bubble of neurotic irrational parents and rose-emoji teachers union supporters is a tiny minority of actual DCPS parents