Public and public charter school students in the District have returned to the classroom amid concerns about the heavy presence of federal law enforcement personnel in their neighborhoods and around their Metro stops. Last week, Ferdinand counted among several public school teachers who heard, and reacted to, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s insistence that only she, not D.C. teachers and administrators, focus on politics this school year. “In terms of what my role is this year, I want it to be as much facilitating what students care about as possible,” Ferdinand told The Informer. It does not mean that we have an agenda walking into that classroom,” Ferdinand told The Informer. She expressed her fear that, with the new bus system, and some confusion among young people traveling from Lafayette Elementary School, Deal Junior High School, and Jackson-Reed High School, students could be in danger at any time.