Anonymous wrote:DC has lifted *all* coronavirus restrictions on schools. They're completely advisory now. None of the guidance is mandatory. Schools have no excuse not to reopen.

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/page_content/attachments/COVID-19_DC_Health_Guidance_For-Schools-Reopening_2021-05-17.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Stokes is only open for PK and K. So IMO its essentially not open since the only mandatory grade it’s doing IPL for is K.

LMAO, sorry that doesn't count unless they are CARES.

You are laughing because all 1st-5th graders are virtual? WTF is wrong with you? Stokes is running a daycare - that it.

Pretty sure the PP was just laughing in a sad way, and saying that PK and K are CARES and shouldn't count as IPL (so agreeing with you).

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

Well maybe now you can see how important teachers are. And how your children suffer when DCPS treats teachers poorly. It's sad that children are paying the price but I don't expect any teachers to be martyrs. And yes, they are working. At a lower quality but you can't say they are just eating bons bons at home not teaching. Unless you're one of the poor souls who have a teacher who was never good to begin with.

I prepared to say this to you now: stfu.

That's why you didn't get full IPL.

This is like the Trumpers who cough at people.

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Anonymous wrote:Stokes is only open for PK and K. So IMO its essentially not open since the only mandatory grade it’s doing IPL for is K.

LMAO, sorry that doesn't count unless they are CARES.

You are laughing because all 1st-5th graders are virtual? WTF is wrong with you? Stokes is running a daycare - that it.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

Neither am I. I’m so mad. I used to be a democrat... this has really moved the political needle for me...

A lot of the charters don’t have unionized teachers.
You are becoming a Republican over schools that did not open? Sounds like the Central Park liberal calling the cops on the black man. You all are funny.
Again, everyone seems to miss the point that there are a lot of families in the district not ready for in person. Step out of your white bubble.

People who don't feel ready for in-person shouldn't get to control what happens to my kids.

And yet white supremacy controls what happens to me and people who look like me.

The pandemic response is not going to solve white supremacy. Pick another battle, and stop using kids pawns.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

Neither am I. I’m so mad. I used to be a democrat... this has really moved the political needle for me...

A lot of the charters don’t have unionized teachers.
You are becoming a Republican over schools that did not open? Sounds like the Central Park liberal calling the cops on the black man. You all are funny.
Again, everyone seems to miss the point that there are a lot of families in the district not ready for in person. Step out of your white bubble.

People who don't feel ready for in-person shouldn't get to control what happens to my kids.

And yet white supremacy controls what happens to me and people who look like me.

#nonsequiter

#whitetears

It’s ironic because I’m actually coming around to the notion that it was white supremacy that kept/is keeping schools closed. By and large, the closed school districts are majority minority. I now think that was only tolerated because of the Democrats’ white supremacy, which made them willing to hurt black kids and families in order to retain political allies and make a point about Trump. White families in DCPS, LASD, SFUSD, are just collateral.

Agreed. Well-said.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

Neither am I. I’m so mad. I used to be a democrat... this has really moved the political needle for me...

A lot of the charters don’t have unionized teachers.
You are becoming a Republican over schools that did not open? Sounds like the Central Park liberal calling the cops on the black man. You all are funny.
Again, everyone seems to miss the point that there are a lot of families in the district not ready for in person. Step out of your white bubble.

People who don't feel ready for in-person shouldn't get to control what happens to my kids.

And yet white supremacy controls what happens to me and people who look like me.

"White supremacy"??? Take a look at the skin color of this city's leaders -- mayor, schools chancellors, most principals. Not a lot of white there.

I know it must be fun when you're learned some new "anti-racism" buzzwords to deploy them on threads like this, but you're not proving the point you think you are. The kids hurt the most by school closures nationwide aren't the white ones.

You seem to NOT know what white supremacy is and that is so pathetic but absolutely expected.

White supremacy is CLEARLY saying that black kids should be able to learn in schools!

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

Well maybe now you can see how important teachers are. And how your children suffer when DCPS treats teachers poorly. It's sad that children are paying the price but I don't expect any teachers to be martyrs. And yes, they are working. At a lower quality but you can't say they are just eating bons bons at home not teaching. Unless you're one of the poor souls who have a teacher who was never good to begin with.

I prepared to say this to you now: stfu.

That's why you didn't get full IPL.

Right, thanks for demonstrating that this has nothing to do with kids, public good, public funding, or what's "safe." it's all about certain sectors trying to get maximum resources and deference.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

#swimminginmisogyny

I agree; DC's school response to the pandemic is truly laden with misogyny.

And yet most of DCPS' teachers are female. Huh.

I didn't say anything about teachers. I think the overall response is a product of the mayor, the chancellor, the teachers, various principals and admins, and a general societal hatred of mothers and children.

Agreed. I think the general ethos is that it is perfectly appropriate to throw mothers and children under the bus. And every group playing a party in keeping schools in DC closed for this long played a part.

Anonymous wrote:You may be tired of 'it's a pandemic' but that's honestly too bad. Your feelings do not matter. Now that the United States is really on track to recovery we should have full IPL, the state of things now was not the state in January.
You may think you 'know' the science but ultimately DCPS decided that term 4 was not the time and their team of experts.

Again your feelings do not matter. You will get school in the Fall, this is a poor time in history. Feel free to call out schools but at the end of the day the only one we are all hurting is children.

If you want to be a part of that go right a ahead. You're just as bad as teachers who could have came back in term 4.

The numbers last summer were among the lowest of the pandemic -- we could have opened for 3 solid months of IPL back then. We chose not to.

I advocated hard for outdoor classes at my school, which has a large field space and could have offered at least some outdoor IPL during the temperate months (and honestly even most of the winter) with just a reasonable investment in materials. I was repeatedly told that this was a waste of time because we'd be opening the classrooms "in a month or so". They started saying that in August. It's May.

This is not about feelings, it's about practicality. There was no reason to wait until January to assess and then use the height of the pandemic to retroactively determine that we just weren't going to have IPL at all this year at many schools. And then by March it was "well lets get everyone vaccinated" and then by May it's "well there's only 6 weeks left." In the meantime, thousands of children in this city are dealing with real negative impacts from being out of school for this long. Yes learning loss, but that's not even my main concern. I'm talking about the socio-emotional impacts of being jerked around for a year, promised things that were not delivered, separated from friends and teachers. There are children at our school who have simply disappeared. You think this is just about my feelings? Wake up.

Oh, and speaking of that "many schools" issue -- how is it that we are in a school district where some schools are almost entirely IPL and some are almost entirely DL? You can claim it's about demand all you want, but I go to a majority black and hispanic school with almost no IPL and large demand for it. But we don't have the resources -- too many teachers with medical exceptions, others on allowed leave, insufficient funds for additional staff. It's not a space issue -- the school has unused classrooms even during a normal school year. And yet... no IPL. There are majority white schools in this city where every family who wants IPL is getting it. Explain it. Did the "team of experts" decide that only rich white kids should get IPL?

You can tell me all you want that this is about my feelings, that I should stop complaining, I don't care. This year has been a total failure at every level. The only children who have been well served by the decisions of this year are the wealthiest kids in the district who formed pods, successfully lobbied receptive school administrations, and had the extra cash to throw at the problem until they got what the wanted. The rest of us were completely failed.

I will not forget this. I will not forgive this.

You know women can be misogynist, right? Like have you met Republican women?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

#swimminginmisogyny

I agree; DC's school response to the pandemic is truly laden with misogyny.

And yet most of DCPS' teachers are female. Huh.

I didn't say anything about teachers. I think the overall response is a product of the mayor, the chancellor, the teachers, various principals and admins, and a general societal hatred of mothers and children.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

Neither am I. I’m so mad. I used to be a democrat... this has really moved the political needle for me...

A lot of the charters don’t have unionized teachers.
You are becoming a Republican over schools that did not open? Sounds like the Central Park liberal calling the cops on the black man. You all are funny.
Again, everyone seems to miss the point that there are a lot of families in the district not ready for in person. Step out of your white bubble.

People who don't feel ready for in-person shouldn't get to control what happens to my kids.

And yet white supremacy controls what happens to me and people who look like me.

#nonsequiter

#whitetears

It’s ironic because I’m actually coming around to the notion that it was white supremacy that kept/is keeping schools closed. By and large, the closed school districts are majority minority. I now think that was only tolerated because of the Democrats’ white supremacy, which made them willing to hurt black kids and families in order to retain political allies and make a point about Trump. White families in DCPS, LASD, SFUSD, are just collateral.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish Perry Stein or someone would publish a list to try and shame these schools into opening. It's infuriating!

We can all split up the schools, gather and yell “For Shame!” at the empty buildings.

Go troll someplace else. I want my child in school for in person learning. This is too important.

As long as you get what you want

Yall need to give it up for real. You think schools are going to make dramatic shifts with four weeks left in the school year.

Get.Over.It.

I’m never going to get over the way we casually threw away a mainstay of public support for families and children, all in supposedly liberal cities and states, because teacher’s unions are politically powerful.

Well maybe now you can see how important teachers are. And how your children suffer when DCPS treats teachers poorly. It's sad that children are paying the price but I don't expect any teachers to be martyrs. And yes, they are working. At a lower quality but you can't say they are just eating bons bons at home not teaching. Unless you're one of the poor souls who have a teacher who was never good to begin with.

I prepared to say this to you now: stfu.

That's why you didn't get full IPL.