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This is 100% false. Source: I know many families with kids in various private schools in SF, and not one of them had uninterrupted in-person learning throughou
by pmonks 4y ago
This is 100% false.
Source: I know many families with kids in various private schools in SF, and not one of them had uninterrupted in-person learning throughout the pandemic.
That said, SF public schools were slower to reopen to in-person learning than private schools, which seems to me to have mostly been due to pushback by the SFUSD teacher’s union (who, imvho, responded to this crisis poorly).
- dilap 4y agoI wasn't intending to claim that there were no interruptions at all to in-person learning in private schools, but rather, that for much of the pandemic private schools were open and public schools were closed. My dad and his wife had to switch my half-sister to private school, so she could attend in person. I have never seen a kid so happy to go to school...
- pmonks 4y agoYou literally said: > During the pandemic, SF had in-person schooling at private schools, but not in public schools. This is patently false. All of the private schools in SF that I’m aware of switched to remote learning from March 2020 to the end of that school year, and many had “hybrid” models (e.g. alternating one week in-person, one week remote) when they resumed in August / September.
- dilap 4y agoI don't feel like you're making a good faith effort to understand me...
- pmonks 4y agoFair enough. FTR I think you’re trying to dunk on SF using factually incorrect claims about what actually happened at local schools during the course of 2020 and into 2021.
- dilap 4y agoIt's surprisingly hard to find an authoritative history of this. Like you, my source is having been there and experienced it: my cousins, who were in private school, were quickly able to go back to in-person instruction; my sister, who was in public school, was not (until she switched). Kids without the financial resources to do that just lost out. Here's an NYT article from Nov 4, 2020, headline "In San Francisco, Closed Public Schools, Open Private Schools": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/san-francisco-closed-public-schools-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/san-francisco-closed-p... Here's an SFUSD memo six months later announcing the partial return of some kids to in-person learning: https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/covid-19-announcements-and-updates/family-digest/march-24-2021 https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resource... Sure I'm dunking on SF city gov, because it deserves it! Its citizens are uniquely poorly served, especially its poorer citizens, in a city that is one of wealthiest on earth.
- muaytimbo 4y agoLol: “Source, I know a guy.”
- pmonks 4y agoMy own family was one of them.
- muaytimbo 4y agoSo when you said, “I know many families” you actually meant “here is my anecdotal experience?”
- pmonks 4y agoNope. I literally meant what I wrote - that I do, in fact, know enough families in the city to personally know what happened at most of the schools, both public and private, in the city. Recall that SF isn’t that big a city - only 800,000 people (and with a low %age of children to boot) - so there aren’t that many schools in the city. [edit] it’s also the case that the only variation in response was on the private school side - SFUSD took a monolithic approach to their schools (which are the greatest in number and have most of the students in the city)