Any rumors on when Hogan is going to make an announcement?

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Anonymous wrote:What did Salmon say about A/B days or alternate weeks?

She said the MD Together Recovery Plan outlines ideas and suggestions that systems can use to recover...and cited those as examples of things that could be considered. She clarified that there are no mandates in that document.

Thank you. Was that as Phase 2 or for the fall?

She didn't specify but did say that "full return" could not be until Phase 3...Phase 2 could include small groups of students with social distancing in place (like for small group instruction for students with disabilities)

Well since we are miraculously at phase 1 next week I’m pretty sure they’ll be back in school in the fall.

You are pretty wrong. Phase 3 is vaccine or effective treatment. Not anytime soon.

No it’s not.
Schools are 100% open in the fall.

Read the Plan. Read the words. Read.

I have. Are you saying that Hogan says kids are not going back to school until there’s a vaccine? Because thats 100% false. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Then you didn't read. Try again.

What exactly are you trying to say?

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Anonymous wrote:Doubling down on PPs question - how will working parents handle “alternating days/weeks” with PK-2 crowd?

My incoming K can’t be left home alone when I’m forced to go back to my office in the Fall.

Presumably you will figure out a routine over the summer when your kid won’t have camp and you will likely have to be back in the office. One option would be HS kids who also would have alternative days may be looking for work.

So we can't re-open schools, but we can have high school kids running around providing child care to elementary school kids?

This makes no sense. With commutes, most parents work 10-12 days. High Schools are not going to show up at your house at 530 am so you can leave to get to work.

Almost all of the reopen suggestions don't work for working parents, especially working parents of Elem school kids. I work PT, and could scramble around most of them, but all my friends with FT jobs are already panicked about how they will likely have to resign in order to manage the suggested reopenings.

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You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

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Anonymous wrote:Doubling down on PPs question - how will working parents handle “alternating days/weeks” with PK-2 crowd?

My incoming K can’t be left home alone when I’m forced to go back to my office in the Fall.

Presumably you will figure out a routine over the summer when your kid won’t have camp and you will likely have to be back in the office. One option would be HS kids who also would have alternative days may be looking for work.

So we can't re-open schools, but we can have high school kids running around providing child care to elementary school kids?

Yes. Don’t you see a difference between having hundreds of kids together v just a few?

You know all that stuff they've been telling us, about how staying at home is useless if you do something like set up a playdate with a neighbor's kid? I guess it's not true?

We are currently in that phase. As we start to reopen, more things will be allowed, although not everything.

For example, small groups to allow parents to work might be ok, but hundreds of people together won’t be.

We won’t be fully locked down forever and the reopening will be phased.

Where do you work, and how do you get there? Where I work, there are thousands of people, and I get there via public transportation.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

I mean, this is literally exactly what happened in 1918. One initial wave in the spring, and one in the fall that was much worse and killed many more people. I guess it's a sign of current American aggressive ignorance that looking to history for examples is "insane." We're bored with the pandemic, therefore it's over and everything will be fine, because it has to be!

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

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Anonymous wrote:Doubling down on PPs question - how will working parents handle “alternating days/weeks” with PK-2 crowd?

My incoming K can’t be left home alone when I’m forced to go back to my office in the Fall.

Same for teachers who have kids.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

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If you listened to the Superintendent of Schools today - the school boards are going to be given extraordinary latitude to fashion educational responses in Phase II - it's not going to be anything like what we had prior to covid - she talked about going to school on alternate days or weeks - smaller class sizes with no movement between classrooms, still some distance learning, etc. etc. Give up on the fantasy that this will all be over by August. We are in this for the long haul, and fortunately, we have some smart, dedicated people who are going to try to put systems in place to handle this. That said, as smart,dedicated parents, it is incumbent on all of us for our children to figure out what we want for our individual children - and start putting in place that scaffolding now - Do you want your high schooler to enroll in college classes online (because they may be able to - and it would be challenging) - Do you want to engage a tutor for your ES or MS'er to supplement what will likely be less than ideal educational programming from the county? What would an ideal learning plan look like for your child? What does your child need? You have time to figure that out, and leaving it up to the County to 100% figure it out is not fair to them or to your kids.

I do not think that this will all be over by August.

I do think that the schools must open in August. It's not about what I, as an individual parent, will do for my individual children. It's that the public school system needs to be open. Schools are a higher priority than tourism, or plastic surgery, or haircuts.

If that’s the case, why can people get elective cosmetic procedures, but schools were closed the rest of the year? In the exact same announcement.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

I mean, this is literally exactly what happened in 1918. One initial wave in the spring, and one in the fall that was much worse and killed many more people. I guess it's a sign of current American aggressive ignorance that looking to history for examples is "insane." We're bored with the pandemic, therefore it's over and everything will be fine, because it has to be!

It's actually literally not exactly what happened in 1918.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

I mean, this is literally exactly what happened in 1918. One initial wave in the spring, and one in the fall that was much worse and killed many more people. I guess it's a sign of current American aggressive ignorance that looking to history for examples is "insane." We're bored with the pandemic, therefore it's over and everything will be fine, because it has to be!

It's actually literally not exactly what happened in 1918.

I thought was literally not exactly like the flu. Why are you comparing it to the flu? Actually?

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

I mean, this is literally exactly what happened in 1918. One initial wave in the spring, and one in the fall that was much worse and killed many more people. I guess it's a sign of current American aggressive ignorance that looking to history for examples is "insane." We're bored with the pandemic, therefore it's over and everything will be fine, because it has to be!

It's actually literally not exactly what happened in 1918.

I thought was literally not exactly like the flu. Why are you comparing it to the flu? Actually?

I'm the PP right above you, and yes, it's literally not exactly what happened in 1918, because what happened in 1918 was the flu. (Smiley not about the flu, or pandemics, but rather about the two of us having similar thoughts.)

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

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If you listened to the Superintendent of Schools today - the school boards are going to be given extraordinary latitude to fashion educational responses in Phase II - it's not going to be anything like what we had prior to covid - she talked about going to school on alternate days or weeks - smaller class sizes with no movement between classrooms, still some distance learning, etc. etc. Give up on the fantasy that this will all be over by August. We are in this for the long haul, and fortunately, we have some smart, dedicated people who are going to try to put systems in place to handle this. That said, as smart,dedicated parents, it is incumbent on all of us for our children to figure out what we want for our individual children - and start putting in place that scaffolding now - Do you want your high schooler to enroll in college classes online (because they may be able to - and it would be challenging) - Do you want to engage a tutor for your ES or MS'er to supplement what will likely be less than ideal educational programming from the county? What would an ideal learning plan look like for your child? What does your child need? You have time to figure that out, and leaving it up to the County to 100% figure it out is not fair to them or to your kids.

I do not think that this will all be over by August.

I do think that the schools must open in August. It's not about what I, as an individual parent, will do for my individual children. It's that the public school system needs to be open. Schools are a higher priority than tourism, or plastic surgery, or haircuts.

If that’s the case, why can people get elective cosmetic procedures, but schools were closed the rest of the year? In the exact same announcement.

People can only get elective procedures IF their doctors will perform them. Doctors/Dentists are only performing procedures IF they have PPE. They aren't risking their lives for your warts.

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So glad some of you are not in charge. Sigh!