Anonymous
Post 12/30/2021 09:13     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:So quit complaining about 5 days virtual, and lock your kids down in the interim. That way, we won’t have to make it 10, or 20, or 50 days. It’s the refusal to take basic precautions - vaccines, masks, avoiding indoor gatherings - that is prolonging this nightmare.


Communities that do all that still get Covid. It’s the comorbidity people who do or don’t do that who get more sick from any infection.

Stop closing doWn life for healthy people who get infected or exposed. Lockdowns are over. Lengthy quarantines for exposures are over.

Even omicron knows that; it changed to be a highly contagious mild cold (for healthy people) instead of less contagious but more severe.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2021 09:10     Subject: Re:Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Our kid is new to private this year, and spent 18 mo of virtual in MCPS - with significant mental impact. How does one WEEK of virtual - to allow delayed testing on Weds or Thurs - impact our kids' mental health?

Agree. All the people whining about the supposed mental health harms of five days of virtual are either disingenuous or stupid or both.


says someone who hasn't spoken to a psychologist or psychiatrist in the DMV.


Five days is fine.


I don't think most people are actually that worried about five days. Heck, I wouldn't even both with virtual for five days - just extend the break and call it good. They're worried that once you go virtual for five days, it's very, very easy to see the benchmarks get moved and five days become 15, become 25, become 50. Going virtual without clear metrics for why and for returning feels like the path to another virtual year. Whether it really is is obviously open to debate (and only time will really tell), but I think that's the real concern.


This.

Then it will be virtual week with extra days off to prepare.
Then it will be virtual weeks after the BS 3-4 day weekends.
Then it will be virtual after the ludicrous two week March break.

Pretty soon your pampered private school kid will have 130 days of school versus its usual 150, meanwhile public is 180 and rest of work is 220.

But hey, not everyone gets the special Kumbaya Mission Centric curricula that Wash DC serves up Pk-8 especially.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2021 08:52     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
By teacher volunteers I mean parents, preferably
Moms.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2021 08:47     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


The Parents of DCUM have long since decided that any old warm body can be a teacher and that it’s not a special skill.

Quite how that reconciles with the notion that private schools are The Best Ever isn’t clear but never mind that.


Bs- just saying we can find a solution to a sub shortage.

I teach my kids a can do philosophy, a champions’ philosophy of possibilities and a preachers philosophy of favor and victory.

You sound like you read a trade unionist philosophy of negativity and exclusion. Sad.



Excellent! What is your solution?


Pay more for subs. Current pay is laughable- look it up.

Qualify teacher volunteers.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2021 08:27     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


The Parents of DCUM have long since decided that any old warm body can be a teacher and that it’s not a special skill.

Quite how that reconciles with the notion that private schools are The Best Ever isn’t clear but never mind that.


Bs- just saying we can find a solution to a sub shortage.

I teach my kids a can do philosophy, a champions’ philosophy of possibilities and a preachers philosophy of favor and victory.

You sound like you read a trade unionist philosophy of negativity and exclusion. Sad.



Excellent! What is your solution?
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2021 07:49     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


The Parents of DCUM have long since decided that any old warm body can be a teacher and that it’s not a special skill.

Quite how that reconciles with the notion that private schools are The Best Ever isn’t clear but never mind that.


Bs- just saying we can find a solution to a sub shortage.

I teach my kids a can do philosophy, a champions’ philosophy of possibilities and a preachers philosophy of favor and victory.

You sound like you read a trade unionist philosophy of negativity and exclusion. Sad.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2021 00:52     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


The Parents of DCUM have long since decided that any old warm body can be a teacher and that it’s not a special skill.

Quite how that reconciles with the notion that private schools are The Best Ever isn’t clear but never mind that.


Because they are paying thousands of dollars to keep their kids away from the poor kids.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2021 19:49     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


The Parents of DCUM have long since decided that any old warm body can be a teacher and that it’s not a special skill.

Quite how that reconciles with the notion that private schools are The Best Ever isn’t clear but never mind that.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2021 19:10     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


Not hard to get subs if you pay them. And plenty of parents would volunteer. This is a canard.


If you have a list of background checked and qualified subs, by all means, please share.


This is the job of schools. They need to be prepared. No reason parents couldn't have been background checked and ready to go. They've been asking to volunteer in order to keep school doors open for two years now.


Just because some parents may be theoretically qualified to teach doesn’t mean they know how to teach. Your solution seems worse than virtual.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2021 19:08     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


Not hard to get subs if you pay them. And plenty of parents would volunteer. This is a canard.


If you have a list of background checked and qualified subs, by all means, please share.


This is the job of schools. They need to be prepared. No reason parents couldn't have been background checked and ready to go. They've been asking to volunteer in order to keep school doors open for two years now.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2021 15:51     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
If they move to virtual, they should just cancel school entirely. The educational outcome is the same.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2021 15:42     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


Not hard to get subs if you pay them. And plenty of parents would volunteer. This is a canard.


If you have a list of background checked and qualified subs, by all means, please share.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2021 15:39     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School

Not hard to get subs if you pay them. And plenty of parents would volunteer. This is a canard.

A parent volunteer???

I’d rather my kids do virtual school with a real teacher than in-person school with a fake teacher.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2021 15:20     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
Anonymous wrote:The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School


Not hard to get subs if you pay them. And plenty of parents would volunteer. This is a canard.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2021 15:05     Subject: Sidwell, GDS, Maret: Keep schools open
The issue remains staffing. If you don't have enough healthy staff and you don't have enough subs it's very hard to run School