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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I just hope nobody tests.

+100. Several family at our schools (over 100 kids so far) coordinated not to opt into asymptomatic testing because of these rules

How were you able to coordinate this?

On PTA and room parent every year for multiple kids at the school - so I’m close and have rapport with multiple families. And it’s a close knit community.

“close knit community” = PP believes she can bully other parents into doing what she and two other Room Moms want. Suprise, peoole will smile and nod, but not do it. Or you’ll have an ugly surprise, like the “close knit” class at our school that all opted to stay remote because they thought they could keep “their” teacher from going in person. Surprise!

My money is on Lafayette

It actually sounds like our school (will not name it). I can assure PP that their prior attempts to organize stunts like that were not successful - parents called the principal to inform them of what you were up to. I’m ambivalent about asymptomatic testing when spread is low - but we don’t know what the future really holds this year. PP’s “pact” is really reckless.

Principal is aware. Came up during a PTA meeting last week. It’s not a pact. It was a discussion where this issue was being discussed and then multiple families chimed in saying they fully agree and were already planning not to opt into asymptomatic testing. It was actually a discussion promoted in large part to make sure other families were comfortable with that and share thoughts about tactics for the upcoming year. Only about 30% of the in person families had opted into asymptomatic testing schoolwide in the Spring, so this is not surprising or even new. For us, however, it will mean proactively withdrawing our prior consent since I had provided it in the Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I just hope nobody tests.

+100. Several family at our schools (over 100 kids so far) coordinated not to opt into asymptomatic testing because of these rules

How were you able to coordinate this?

On PTA and room parent every year for multiple kids at the school - so I’m close and have rapport with multiple families. And it’s a close knit community.

“close knit community” = PP believes she can bully other parents into doing what she and two other Room Moms want. Suprise, peoole will smile and nod, but not do it. Or you’ll have an ugly surprise, like the “close knit” class at our school that all opted to stay remote because they thought they could keep “their” teacher from going in person. Surprise!

Close knit community with no black or brown kids….hmmm….

Except I (OP) literally just said i am “brown” (ugh I and many of “my” people hate that term btw...). It’s a JKLM school. It’s no secret that we POC make up a very small percentage

Anonymous wrote:If DCPS can stop being stupid and get kids to eat outside then this school year might not be a disaster.

They cannot. You clearly are not familiar with how schools operate. They might be able to do it on occasion for some classes but you cannot do it for all. Putting aside the obvious issue of rain, bitter cold, and snow, schools have rules regarding supervision of children. Teachers by law need breaks during the workday. You cannot simply have teachers watch their own class outside (or even inside their own classroom as some have proposed). And you cannot leave kids alone outside or even in their classroom. You need far less supervisory adults when there is a closed room cafeteria with two exits that can be manned and everyone readily seen across the room. You cannot do the same for open space outside, particularly if the kids are spread out. And there is not enough time in the say to do one or even two classes at a time outside, staggered. You would have to start lunch at 8:30 and end at 2:30 to make that work, and wel, obviously you can’t serve lunch at 8:30 and expect those kids to go until 3:30 and you can’t expect kids to wait until 3 to eat....

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Anonymous wrote:Well we are screwed.

Fairfax and Montgomery county are following the CDC.
DC students will once again be screwed.

There is no plan to educate kids who are quarantined. Each time there is a positive, our kids will miss 2 weeks of school and do NOTHING.

Though I have heard nothing from DCPS, as a teacher I can assure you we aren’t likely going to just send kids home to “do nothing.” I’m sure we will teach our class virtually. There’s no way I would just let one section of kids get two weeks behind my other sections. And, we do care about our students and want them learning...

Another teacher here and I was going to post something similar. There is NO way we would just send kids home for 2 weeks. We will be expected to pivot to virtual. I’m dreading it.

+1

And I teach HS so I imagine an exposure in another class will lead a few students in each of my classes to have to quarantine so it’s virtual teaching even when most kids are in the classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I just hope nobody tests.

Of course you do. God forbid you’re stuck with your own
children because they have Covid.

Pull your head out from your overly entitled and privileged throne to recognize that unnecessary quarantines have and will continue to cost parents jobs- limit or even prevent them from being able to put food on a table. Or worse yet, having to dangerously leave a too young child home alone to go to work and continue to feed that child. If you don’t realize the financial and livelihood impact, not to mention the incredibly huge impact that school closures and quarantines has on POC and women, you need more help and wokeness than Can be provided in this forum

Anonymous wrote:The problem is not the quarantines. Quarantines help stop the spread. The problem is if dcps is not taking advantage of its substantial investment in virtual learning during this year’s quarantine.

More than quarantines, I fear knowing that covid is running rampant in my kid’s school and having to send them anyhow because someone believes in this fiction that the infected child was properly wearing a well fitted mask all day.

See, this is where a lot of parents disagree. We fear the disruption to our kids’ lives more than Covid, because we understand that kids are at very low risk of severe illness.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I just hope nobody tests.

Of course you do. God forbid you’re stuck with your own
children because they have Covid.

I’m fine to be “stuck with my kids” if they have Covid. I’m not fine if they have to miss school for two weeks because a classmate had Covid. I’m also not fine if their completely asymptomatic sibling has to stay home for another two weeks after the first kid’s quarantine ends instead of being able to test daily and go back.

And your continued attempts to make this about parents wanting to get rid of their kids are pathetic and clueless.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone hear realize DCPS has stated the quarantine guidelines are currently being updated at DOH and they are waiting on them? People are posting on here with incorrect information just freaking people out

Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I just hope nobody tests.

+100. Several family at our schools (over 100 kids so far) coordinated not to opt into asymptomatic testing because of these rules

How were you able to coordinate this?

On PTA and room parent every year for multiple kids at the school - so I’m close and have rapport with multiple families. And it’s a close knit community.

“close knit community” = PP believes she can bully other parents into doing what she and two other Room Moms want. Suprise, peoole will smile and nod, but not do it. Or you’ll have an ugly surprise, like the “close knit” class at our school that all opted to stay remote because they thought they could keep “their” teacher from going in person. Surprise!

My money is on Lafayette

It actually sounds like our school (will not name it). I can assure PP that their prior attempts to organize stunts like that were not successful - parents called the principal to inform them of what you were up to. I’m ambivalent about asymptomatic testing when spread is low - but we don’t know what the future really holds this year. PP’s “pact” is really reckless.

Anonymous wrote:CDC's guidance says that students do not need to quarantine if they were in close contact with another student who tests positive "if both the infected student and the exposed student(s) correctly and consistently wore well-fitting masks the entire time." https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html#contact

DCPS's definition of "close contact" does not include this exception. Even if the infected student and all other students were masked, they still have to quarantine. https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/health/response/

So much for following the science.

I thought science said that masks prevent spread?

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Anonymous wrote:Well we are screwed.

Fairfax and Montgomery county are following the CDC.
DC students will once again be screwed.

There is no plan to educate kids who are quarantined. Each time there is a positive, our kids will miss 2 weeks of school and do NOTHING.

Though I have heard nothing from DCPS, as a teacher I can assure you we aren’t likely going to just send kids home to “do nothing.” I’m sure we will teach our class virtually. There’s no way I would just let one section of kids get two weeks behind my other sections. And, we do care about our students and want them learning...

Another teacher here and I was going to post something similar. There is NO way we would just send kids home for 2 weeks. We will be expected to pivot to virtual. I’m dreading it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I just hope nobody tests.

+100. Several family at our schools (over 100 kids so far) coordinated not to opt into asymptomatic testing because of these rules

How were you able to coordinate this?

On PTA and room parent every year for multiple kids at the school - so I’m close and have rapport with multiple families. And it’s a close knit community.

“close knit community” = PP believes she can bully other parents into doing what she and two other Room Moms want. Suprise, peoole will smile and nod, but not do it. Or you’ll have an ugly surprise, like the “close knit” class at our school that all opted to stay remote because they thought they could keep “their” teacher from going in person. Surprise!

My money is on Lafayette

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I just hope nobody tests.

+100. Several family at our schools (over 100 kids so far) coordinated not to opt into asymptomatic testing because of these rules

How were you able to coordinate this?

On PTA and room parent every year for multiple kids at the school - so I’m close and have rapport with multiple families. And it’s a close knit community.

“close knit community” = PP believes she can bully other parents into doing what she and two other Room Moms want. Suprise, peoole will smile and nod, but not do it. Or you’ll have an ugly surprise, like the “close knit” class at our school that all opted to stay remote because they thought they could keep “their” teacher from going in person. Surprise!

Close knit community with no black or brown kids….hmmm….

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I just hope nobody tests.

+100. Several family at our schools (over 100 kids so far) coordinated not to opt into asymptomatic testing because of these rules

How were you able to coordinate this?

On PTA and room parent every year for multiple kids at the school - so I’m close and have rapport with multiple families. And it’s a close knit community.

“close knit community” = PP believes she can bully other parents into doing what she and two other Room Moms want. Suprise, peoole will smile and nod, but not do it. Or you’ll have an ugly surprise, like the “close knit” class at our school that all opted to stay remote because they thought they could keep “their” teacher from going in person. Surprise!

Anonymous wrote:Well we are screwed.

Fairfax and Montgomery county are following the CDC.
DC students will once again be screwed.

There is no plan to educate kids who are quarantined. Each time there is a positive, our kids will miss 2 weeks of school and do NOTHING.

Though I have heard nothing from DCPS, as a teacher I can assure you we aren’t likely going to just send kids home to “do nothing.” I’m sure we will teach our class virtually. There’s no way I would just let one section of kids get two weeks behind my other sections. And, we do care about our students and want them learning...