OMICRON to send us back to distance learning

[Anonymous]

From the way it is reported and the subsequent flights cancelled from Africa to numerous countries should we expect virtual learning starting next year (right after Christmas celebrations)?

[Anonymous]

No.

Omicron would have to be confirmed as a variant that evades vaccines and triggers serious illness for schools to go back into 100% distant learning.

Right now, we don't know.

[Anonymous]

Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

[Anonymous]

Lock this thread. Never happening

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

No, schools are not safe. Most aren't following the CDC guidelines including testing and social distancing. Most have 35+ students to a classroom and in MS and HS those kids rotate classes. Many are only doing opt in testing and its random so out of 1000 students maybe 50 are tested and its the same kids all the time as any parent who is engaging in risky behavior isn't going to opt in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

No, schools are not safe. Most aren't following the CDC guidelines including testing and social distancing. Most have 35+ students to a classroom and in MS and HS those kids rotate classes. Many are only doing opt in testing and its random so out of 1000 students maybe 50 are tested and its the same kids all the time as any parent who is engaging in risky behavior isn't going to opt in.

How many covid deaths in DMV are attributable to covid? 0?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
No.

Omicron would have to be confirmed as a variant that evades vaccines and triggers serious illness for schools to go back into 100% distant learning.

Right now, we don't know.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

No, schools are not safe. Most aren't following the CDC guidelines including testing and social distancing. Most have 35+ students to a classroom and in MS and HS those kids rotate classes. Many are only doing opt in testing and its random so out of 1000 students maybe 50 are tested and its the same kids all the time as any parent who is engaging in risky behavior isn't going to opt in.

Where do you get this number? I teach in FCPS (elementary) and 35+ exceeds what we can have in k-6. I've been teaching for a long time and our classes are usually in the mid-20s. Sure I've had lager and smaller classes, but I've never known an ES class to have 35.

As far as not being "safe", we will never be 100% safe. As far as Covid, we are a two teacher family and between the two schools we've had 15 reported student cases total between the two schools and no known spread. That's 15 out of 1,700 students over 3 months. Neither of us have ever felt "unsafe".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

No, schools are not safe. Most aren't following the CDC guidelines including testing and social distancing. Most have 35+ students to a classroom and in MS and HS those kids rotate classes. Many are only doing opt in testing and its random so out of 1000 students maybe 50 are tested and its the same kids all the time as any parent who is engaging in risky behavior isn't going to opt in.

How many covid deaths in DMV are attributable to covid? 0?

Several kids recently died in VA from covid, but many people have died in the DMV from covid and its more than just dying for us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

No, schools are not safe. Most aren't following the CDC guidelines including testing and social distancing. Most have 35+ students to a classroom and in MS and HS those kids rotate classes. Many are only doing opt in testing and its random so out of 1000 students maybe 50 are tested and its the same kids all the time as any parent who is engaging in risky behavior isn't going to opt in.

Where do you get this number? I teach in FCPS (elementary) and 35+ exceeds what we can have in k-6. I've been teaching for a long time and our classes are usually in the mid-20s. Sure I've had lager and smaller classes, but I've never known an ES class to have 35.

As far as not being "safe", we will never be 100% safe. As far as Covid, we are a two teacher family and between the two schools we've had 15 reported student cases total between the two schools and no known spread. That's 15 out of 1,700 students over 3 months. Neither of us have ever felt "unsafe".

In other areas, middle school is 6-8th and that's great if your school has smaller classes but our school has 32-35 students per class. There is no distancing, old building with a boiler system and just some portable air filters spread out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No.

Omicron would have to be confirmed as a variant that evades vaccines and triggers serious illness for schools to go back into 100% distant learning.

Right now, we don't know.

+1

+2 this sums it up OP.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see public schools going back to virtual. Some in MCPS might want to, but they’d need a waiver from the state Board of Education to drop in-person classes. A lot of new things would have to come together to make that even a remote possibility. The new variant would need to evade vaccines to a large degree. it would need to be much more infectious in schools than Delta. Ans there would have to be some reason to think it would end at some point.

That last one is the big one. School districts found out how hard it is to reopen after closing. They’re not going to close again unless they’re able to confidently pick a return date from the start.

Schools and students did far more than their fair share to protect old and sick people from covid (with school closures ending up being fairly worthless, anyway). It will be up to those people to protect themselves in Omicron isn’t overblown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

No, schools are not safe. Most aren't following the CDC guidelines including testing and social distancing. Most have 35+ students to a classroom and in MS and HS those kids rotate classes. Many are only doing opt in testing and its random so out of 1000 students maybe 50 are tested and its the same kids all the time as any parent who is engaging in risky behavior isn't going to opt in.

Where do you get this number? I teach in FCPS (elementary) and 35+ exceeds what we can have in k-6. I've been teaching for a long time and our classes are usually in the mid-20s. Sure I've had lager and smaller classes, but I've never known an ES class to have 35.

As far as not being "safe", we will never be 100% safe. As far as Covid, we are a two teacher family and between the two schools we've had 15 reported student cases total between the two schools and no known spread. That's 15 out of 1,700 students over 3 months. Neither of us have ever felt "unsafe".

In other areas, middle school is 6-8th and that's great if your school has smaller classes but our school has 32-35 students per class. There is no distancing, old building with a boiler system and just some portable air filters spread out.

I still want to know from where you got the "most schools have 35+ to a classroom" statement.

How are you determining that schools "are not safe"? Assuming most schools aren't following CDC guidelines as you say (I don't know that that is true), have schools had widespread Covid outbreaks? Personally we aren't experiencing that, but maybe you have some data to the contrary.