What FCPS option are you choosing and why?

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Anonymous wrote:Your plan sounds like it will work out for you, assuming you don’t have misgivings about FCPS handling the whole virus thing... I figure my kid will have all of his afternoons after DL free to work on projects, or play, as the situation demands. Once he has virtual classmates we plan to reach out and schedule in-person meet ups too. Whatever the decision is that we make, we made it clear that the decision is ours as parents, not his. We take the blame for whatever happens! It definitely shouldn’t be on his shoulders, though we are taking his feelings about it all into account. This all sucks. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

We're sitting on our hands about completing that form to make the choice for fall, because we do have misgivings about FCPS handling of all of this. However, I trust her school. The principal is a good guy, and seems to have good instincts. For instance, on that Thursday before school closed in March, he told the entire school to take all their school stuff with them, although FCPS hadn't officially announced. I think that he will do the right thing. They're holding a chat next week, so parents can ask questions, and (hopefully) get some clarity on how it will all work in their school. I will pick up and drop off DD, so there will be no bus issues. If the kids essentially stay with same 10 kids in class (her class size was 20 last year), eat in class, and have specials teachers coming to them, the risk won't be that great.

Note that if you do not explicitly reply, they will mark your kid response as "in-person". However, you can always change when it comes down to it. I think it may be easier to say you will attendnow, then change to being remote than the other way around.

Good luck in your choice.

In person option is an year long commitment as well.

I thought if life is back to normal, DL is no longer an option. Everyone needs be back in school.

Who's going to make the vaccine and have it available to children in the next 12 months? No one. If you pick DL, you will be DL for the year. If you pick hybrid, you will be DL a couple of months after school starts.

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Anonymous wrote:Your plan sounds like it will work out for you, assuming you don’t have misgivings about FCPS handling the whole virus thing... I figure my kid will have all of his afternoons after DL free to work on projects, or play, as the situation demands. Once he has virtual classmates we plan to reach out and schedule in-person meet ups too. Whatever the decision is that we make, we made it clear that the decision is ours as parents, not his. We take the blame for whatever happens! It definitely shouldn’t be on his shoulders, though we are taking his feelings about it all into account. This all sucks. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

We're sitting on our hands about completing that form to make the choice for fall, because we do have misgivings about FCPS handling of all of this. However, I trust her school. The principal is a good guy, and seems to have good instincts. For instance, on that Thursday before school closed in March, he told the entire school to take all their school stuff with them, although FCPS hadn't officially announced. I think that he will do the right thing. They're holding a chat next week, so parents can ask questions, and (hopefully) get some clarity on how it will all work in their school. I will pick up and drop off DD, so there will be no bus issues. If the kids essentially stay with same 10 kids in class (her class size was 20 last year), eat in class, and have specials teachers coming to them, the risk won't be that great.

Note that if you do not explicitly reply, they will mark your kid response as "in-person". However, you can always change when it comes down to it. I think it may be easier to say you will attendnow, then change to being remote than the other way around.

Good luck in your choice.

In person option is an year long commitment as well.

I thought if life is back to normal, DL is no longer an option. Everyone needs be back in school.

Who's going to make the vaccine and have it available to children in the next 12 months? No one. If you pick DL, you will be DL for the year. If you pick hybrid, you will be DL a couple of months after school starts.

I just can't see how public school can stop DL from coming back to assigned school. If hybrid student can move between DL and in-schools (depending on risk factor) so should DL student be able to. 74K students are going to do DL.
FCPS will need to make sure DL and in-school students gets same standard of education. If not, there will be high resentment on either side.
IMO, FCPS should have given only one option every semester based on current Covid data/projection. Locking in child for 1 year in DL or in-school is just inviting trouble. No one needs to play the system to re-enroll in school.

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Anonymous wrote:DL - Not worth the risk for reasons outlines below. Four(4) days are better than two(2) days. We also have concerned due to diabetic family member.
We were not happy with spring online learning, but it wasn't bad either (mainly due to awesome AAP teacher).
After hearing our school principal, seems AAP DL should be as good as in-school teaching. AAP teacher will be assigned to DL. Grading/assessment strategy is not yet defined but hopefully there will be something in place by the time school opens. Fall DL program will definitely better than spring experience .
Another concern is various sites/articles are suggesting (worldometer prediction) things could get worst for Virginia
Schools are not going to be same this year. There is no play time. Face mask is mandatory (how much of it will be enforced is anyone’s guess!). Desks will be facing forward and 3-6 feet apart.
No group work, limited opportunities for conversations with friends, no sharing materials, limited opportunities to move around the room. Lunch in the classroom and possibly limited recess. If someone is infected, whole class goes online.
If teacher is sick, then substitute teacher is required. Usually they never teach in class. This has happened to us in AAP lvl IV base school during normal time.
All this risk for 2 days a week (3-3.5 hrs/day study time) in-school experience.
So many countries (e.g. Israel) have reopened schools and closed again. I just can’t see how we will be different!!

+1 - pretty much our thought process in choosing DL for both our elementary and middle school kids. We went back and forth about it being an year long commitment, but couldn't take the risk at this time.

I think FCPS will revert back to semester base approach. It not fair to lock in DL student for 1 year remote.

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I think the problem is the planning. There are some kids in LL4 who will need to be assigned a DL teacher not at their school. Same with other programs and whatnot. It won’t be so easy to go back and forth.

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Anonymous wrote:DL - Not worth the risk for reasons outlines below. Four(4) days are better than two(2) days. We also have concerned due to diabetic family member.
We were not happy with spring online learning, but it wasn't bad either (mainly due to awesome AAP teacher).
After hearing our school principal, seems AAP DL should be as good as in-school teaching. AAP teacher will be assigned to DL. Grading/assessment strategy is not yet defined but hopefully there will be something in place by the time school opens. Fall DL program will definitely better than spring experience .
Another concern is various sites/articles are suggesting (worldometer prediction) things could get worst for Virginia
Schools are not going to be same this year. There is no play time. Face mask is mandatory (how much of it will be enforced is anyone’s guess!). Desks will be facing forward and 3-6 feet apart.
No group work, limited opportunities for conversations with friends, no sharing materials, limited opportunities to move around the room. Lunch in the classroom and possibly limited recess. If someone is infected, whole class goes online.
If teacher is sick, then substitute teacher is required. Usually they never teach in class. This has happened to us in AAP lvl IV base school during normal time.
All this risk for 2 days a week (3-3.5 hrs/day study time) in-school experience.
So many countries (e.g. Israel) have reopened schools and closed again. I just can’t see how we will be different!!

+1 - pretty much our thought process in choosing DL for both our elementary and middle school kids. We went back and forth about it being an year long commitment, but couldn't take the risk at this time.

I think FCPS will revert back to semester base approach. It not fair to lock in DL student for 1 year remote.

For elementary school, there's no reason to offer a semester choice and several reasons not to, aside from the logistical problems. Continuity of teacher and class style is a big reason not to offer choice for the second semester.

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Anonymous wrote:2 w compromised breathing in our household. DL

So you kids were not at risk pre-covid when things were less hygienic?

Obviously, not at risk for this virus, which is not yet well understood — what don’t you get?

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Anonymous wrote:Doing hybrid to keep the option open depending on circumstances. If we want to do virtual in 2 months we'll just homeschool and do it ourselves.

This is exactly our plan.