There it is - ACPS pivots

[Anonymous]

That email is just to lay the groundwork for returning to virtual. Take your bets people. And get your child care lined up.

What an embrassment and abject failure the entire system is. And to dump this at the last possible momment. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Your subject line is misleading.

[Anonymous]

How so? ACPS was promising a return to normal. Now they send an email out on the last day of break that essentially says:

"Hold up, find a baby sitter, we might close."

[Anonymous]

They can’t close the whole system but people might experience sporadic closures until they can implement the test to stay program. Most school divisions in the area are saying this exact same thing.

[Anonymous]

Some of you are incredible. When the news of Delta and then Omicron hit, didn't you stop and think that it might impact schools? You didn't? At all??? If you didn't, then your surprise is because you weren't doing your due diligence as parents. That's on you.

For the most part, we've been very happy with how ACPS has been handling the openings and closures. Our kids also had a great experience with DL last year; their teachers were great and did a fabulous job under intense conditions.

Our family is ready. If school buildings are open, great. If school buildings are not open, no problem. We've got it handled either way.

Note to ACPS: if schools go to partial closing then our preference is that priority for learning in the school buildings be given to children of first responders like nurses, hospital employees, doctors, assisted living and elder care employees, teachers and school staff, police, and fire fighters. We need to support the people on the front lines and who are doing the most valued work.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, that email stunk. It doesn't really affect me personally because my kid is a 12-year-old 7th grader that can stay home alone and learn virtually (as long as not asynchronous), but where in the world are people in different situations supposed to find last minute child care that they may or may not need at this belated juncture?

[Anonymous]

Are we reading the same message? I thought it was pretty tame. I was expecting a lot worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are incredible. When the news of Delta and then Omicron hit, didn't you stop and think that it might impact schools? You didn't? At all??? If you didn't, then your surprise is because you weren't doing your due diligence as parents. That's on you.

For the most part, we've been very happy with how ACPS has been handling the openings and closures. Our kids also had a great experience with DL last year; their teachers were great and did a fabulous job under intense conditions.

Our family is ready. If school buildings are open, great. If school buildings are not open, no problem. We've got it handled either way.

Note to ACPS: if schools go to partial closing then our preference is that priority for learning in the school buildings be given to children of first responders like nurses, hospital employees, doctors, assisted living and elder care employees, teachers and school staff, police, and fire fighters. We need to support the people on the front lines and who are doing the most valued work.

What are you talking about? You want a parallel school system for first responders? How would that be staffed? Is this board where good ideas go to never be formulated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are incredible. When the news of Delta and then Omicron hit, didn't you stop and think that it might impact schools? You didn't? At all??? If you didn't, then your surprise is because you weren't doing your due diligence as parents. That's on you.

For the most part, we've been very happy with how ACPS has been handling the openings and closures. Our kids also had a great experience with DL last year; their teachers were great and did a fabulous job under intense conditions.

Our family is ready. If school buildings are open, great. If school buildings are not open, no problem. We've got it handled either way.

Note to ACPS: if schools go to partial closing then our preference is that priority for learning in the school buildings be given to children of first responders like nurses, hospital employees, doctors, assisted living and elder care employees, teachers and school staff, police, and fire fighters. We need to support the people on the front lines and who are doing the most valued work.

Congrats on your forethinking and immense resources. You had a "fabulous" experience with DL? Let me see if I can ID your school. From your happy homemaker tone, I'm guessing Beverly Hills/Charles Barrett.

[Anonymous]

TTS won't work with an endemic virus - people get colds - they don't stay home from school with them.

And wow - the privilege - not everyone is a first responder but we STILL HAVE JOBS we need to go to and can't stay home with our children or afford to hire someone else to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are incredible. When the news of Delta and then Omicron hit, didn't you stop and think that it might impact schools? You didn't? At all??? If you didn't, then your surprise is because you weren't doing your due diligence as parents. That's on you.

For the most part, we've been very happy with how ACPS has been handling the openings and closures. Our kids also had a great experience with DL last year; their teachers were great and did a fabulous job under intense conditions.

Our family is ready. If school buildings are open, great. If school buildings are not open, no problem. We've got it handled either way.

Note to ACPS: if schools go to partial closing then our preference is that priority for learning in the school buildings be given to children of first responders like nurses, hospital employees, doctors, assisted living and elder care employees, teachers and school staff, police, and fire fighters. We need to support the people on the front lines and who are doing the most valued work.

Congrats on your forethinking and immense resources. You had a "fabulous" experience with DL? Let me see if I can ID your school. From your happy homemaker tone, I'm guessing Beverly Hills/Charles Barrett.

Yep, the forethinking to be a SAHM, WFH, or the resources to hire a nanny? Explain this awesome forethinking for us.

[Anonymous]

Note to ACPS: if schools go to partial closing then our preference is that priority for learning in the school buildings be given to children of first responders like nurses, hospital employees, doctors, assisted living and elder care employees, teachers and school staff, police, and fire fighters. We need to support the people on the front lines and who are doing the most valued work.

Yes, because a public school system was just sitting on edge waiting to see what the preference of some poster on DCUM was so that it could adjust its plans accordingly. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Ah, the unprepared naysayers, stomp their feet, we won't wear masks and you can't make us, only my kid counts, bully parents have found the thread. They must have gotten bored with FB and ND. We're another family also are ready for short-term closures. We aren't like Henry Ford and most of the other posters here so we don't believe that history is bunk and we learned from our expierience last year. It won't be easy but if "ACPS pivots" then we can pivot too. Community safety is more important to us than a few days of school. These other people must be the people having their parties, filling the restaurants and all-around jeopardizing the rest of us. Jerks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, the unprepared naysayers, stomp their feet, we won't wear masks and you can't make us, only my kid counts, bully parents have found the thread. They must have gotten bored with FB and ND. We're another family also are ready for short-term closures. We aren't like Henry Ford and most of the other posters here so we don't believe that history is bunk and we learned from our expierience last year. It won't be easy but if "ACPS pivots" then we can pivot too. Community safety is more important to us than a few days of school. These other people must be the people having their parties, filling the restaurants and all-around jeopardizing the rest of us. Jerks.

Lol at this whole ridiculous post. Remember that one time when a few days of school in March of 2020 turned into a full year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are incredible. When the news of Delta and then Omicron hit, didn't you stop and think that it might impact schools? You didn't? At all??? If you didn't, then your surprise is because you weren't doing your due diligence as parents. That's on you.

For the most part, we've been very happy with how ACPS has been handling the openings and closures. Our kids also had a great experience with DL last year; their teachers were great and did a fabulous job under intense conditions.

Our family is ready. If school buildings are open, great. If school buildings are not open, no problem. We've got it handled either way.

Note to ACPS: if schools go to partial closing then our preference is that priority for learning in the school buildings be given to children of first responders like nurses, hospital employees, doctors, assisted living and elder care employees, teachers and school staff, police, and fire fighters. We need to support the people on the front lines and who are doing the most valued work.

Congrats on your forethinking and immense resources. You had a "fabulous" experience with DL? Let me see if I can ID your school. From your happy homemaker tone, I'm guessing Beverly Hills/Charles Barrett.

Yep, the forethinking to be a SAHM, WFH, or the resources to hire a nanny? Explain this awesome forethinking for us.

+1000. What a disgusting display of privilege. I can guarantee this was written by a fat, white, SAHM in one of the east end schools. Not allof us (actually, most of us) can afford to take another break to teach or kids- or hire someone to do it.

You are a vile pig. I pray your kids don't grow up like you.