My kids are going back 5 days a week in person next week. AMA!

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Totally jealous. We are in Fairfax and chose hybrid but I have come to realize there is no chance we are going in. All our friends in other parts of the country keep posting on social media that there kids are in school and doing sports. I think the catholic schools around here and Trinity are all back 5 days a week full time. We tried to go to the private schools after full virtual was announced but they were all full.

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Florida public school that started week 3 today, and things are looking fine. School district has around 50k students (i think 20% or so doing DL) and there are 15 positive cases so far. Obviously within the first two weeks, we wouldn't expect to see school spread yet -- those kids were likely bringing it TO school, so time will tell over the next few weeks.

Next county over is similarly sized and started two weeks prior -- so they're starting week 5 today. I just checked their dashboard and they're at around 60 cases. That county is very similar in make up to ours, and since March has had extremely consistent COVID data as our county, so i see it as a good predictor of where we'll probably be in 2 weeks. I'd assume that number reflects typical community spread, and not a school explosion.

Also, there's discussion that Florida DOH is actively preventing local districts from publishing their data - i haven't bothered reading too deep into that. But our district and the one next door are each maintaining a public dashboard, with positive cases by school, and whether they are teacher vs student. It doesn't list quarantine numbers - just positive numbers. I feel like it would involve too much planning and sophistication for the local school board to overtly lie or fudge the numbers, so i'm assuming those numbers are legit.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh. Come back in 2 weeks when they've been forced to go online again.

Update: just finished up week nine and things are going GREAT! So grateful to our district and teachers who are working hard for our kids.

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Upstate NY here. We just finished our fifth week of K-5 kids going in person five days a week and it's been okay. My 2nd grader only gets his teacher for half the day because they had to distance the desks but he's loving being back around his friends. One class in the building had to be quarantined but no kids got sick.

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OP: I hate you, I love you, I want to be you.

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Anonymous wrote:Upstate NY here. We just finished our fifth week of K-5 kids going in person five days a week and it's been okay. My 2nd grader only gets his teacher for half the day because they had to distance the desks but he's loving being back around his friends. One class in the building had to be quarantined but no kids got sick.

we have relatived in Syracuse and I’m honestly considering relocating there.

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My kids have been back in-person since August 31. It's a private school, though, so we don't have a lot of the issues facing public schools. But it has been going great.

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The schools in my city are open but we chose the virtual option. It’s going terribly. Part of our city was on the list of 30 most coronavirus cases in the country. 30% of one elementary school is virtual, at least 25% of the high school, etc... yet they’re still open and think it’s fine! We have hit the community burden rate that they said would close the school with long ago.

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Small private school in the Midwest, grades PK3-8. We've been back 5 days a week, in person since September 2, with masks and distancing. Our school building had a lot of vacant unused space that the school was able to rehabilitate to implement distancing.

So far, so good. No forced closures, although we did do two days of virtual learning as a precaution after our fall break.

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update from Michigan: After 10 weeks of school, we did have one case of a staff member getting sick out in the community. It's a post high program with less than 35 kids, with about half that in the classroom; the rest picked remote.

So DS had to quarantine along with the rest of the staff and students for 14 days. Quarantine is now up, and no one got sick at the school. Their mitigation efforts of masking, social distancing and cleaning worked.

We look forward to school returning, hopefully in December.

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Anonymous wrote:Small private school in the Midwest, grades PK3-8. We've been back 5 days a week, in person since September 2, with masks and distancing. Our school building had a lot of vacant unused space that the school was able to rehabilitate to implement distancing.

So far, so good. No forced closures, although we did do two days of virtual learning as a precaution after our fall break.

Update: The school preemptively added three remote days before Thanksgiving break and two remote days after, due to knowledge of cases in the immediate area to which several families were exposed. Ultimately, none of the exposed children tested positive and only one staff member tested positive. So we are back in-person.