How do you think the fall will be in fcps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they will start working on it until July. Not sure they will commit to 5 days then. Definitely not enough time to make other plans.

The hang up is going to be the DL part and not doing a central DL system.

No idea but July seems reasonable. And variants withstanding, the numbers and community spread should be very low. The FCPS health dashboard today finally had percent positivity in the orange. First time I’ve seen that in months and months.

https://www.fcps.edu/return-school/fcps-confirmed-covid-19-case-reporting

Even better, it is in the yellow at 7.9%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they will start working on it until July. Not sure they will commit to 5 days then. Definitely not enough time to make other plans.

The hang up is going to be the DL part and not doing a central DL system.

No idea but July seems reasonable. And variants withstanding, the numbers and community spread should be very low. The FCPS health dashboard today finally had percent positivity in the orange. First time I’ve seen that in months and months.

https://www.fcps.edu/return-school/fcps-confirmed-covid-19-case-reporting

Even better, it is in the yellow at 7.9%.

Whoa yellow?! Fairfax???

[Anonymous]

I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

Awwwww hell no. Just no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they will start working on it until July. Not sure they will commit to 5 days then. Definitely not enough time to make other plans.

The hang up is going to be the DL part and not doing a central DL system.

No idea but July seems reasonable. And variants withstanding, the numbers and community spread should be very low. The FCPS health dashboard today finally had percent positivity in the orange. First time I’ve seen that in months and months.

https://www.fcps.edu/return-school/fcps-confirmed-covid-19-case-reporting

Even better, it is in the yellow at 7.9%.

Whoa yellow?! Fairfax???

Yeah. Look at the link.

I'm not surprised. NoVA districts have been relatively low compared to the rest of the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

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Agree w/homeschooling PP who mentions 21-22 as simmering (review) year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

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Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

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Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

You all don’t think the dropping virus numbers and ramping up a vaccine distribution, to include all teachers, will lead to five days a week? At least for elementary? Or are you just scared it won’t? (No snark trying to understand)

I do think it will end up being a year with heavy review and teaching of concepts that were cut from the curriculums this year or just not able to be done well this year virtually

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

+1
Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

You all don’t think the dropping virus numbers and ramping up a vaccine distribution, to include all teachers, will lead to five days a week? At least for elementary? Or are you just scared it won’t? (No snark trying to understand)

I do think it will end up being a year with heavy review and teaching of concepts that were cut from the curriculums this year or just not able to be done well this year virtually

Its not just all teachers. Its likely all or nearly all adults who want the vaccine will have it before the next school year starts. Cases will continue to plummet, deaths and hospitalizations will plummet. 5 days in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

+1
Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

You all don’t think the dropping virus numbers and ramping up a vaccine distribution, to include all teachers, will lead to five days a week? At least for elementary? Or are you just scared it won’t? (No snark trying to understand)

I do think it will end up being a year with heavy review and teaching of concepts that were cut from the curriculums this year or just not able to be done well this year virtually

Its not just all teachers. Its likely all or nearly all adults who want the vaccine will have it before the next school year starts. Cases will continue to plummet, deaths and hospitalizations will plummet. 5 days in person.

I'm actually very pro-DL, my kid has been very successful with it. And we have played life very safely in regard to the virus. But for the aforementioned reasons, I 100% believe school should be full time in the Fall, assuming everything goes well. Will that be the case? I'm less than 100% positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

+1
Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

You all don’t think the dropping virus numbers and ramping up a vaccine distribution, to include all teachers, will lead to five days a week? At least for elementary? Or are you just scared it won’t? (No snark trying to understand)

I do think it will end up being a year with heavy review and teaching of concepts that were cut from the curriculums this year or just not able to be done well this year virtually

Concurrent doesn't mean two days in-person. Those are mutually exclusive concepts. We'll almost certainly be back 5 days next fall. The question is what do you do with the parent holdouts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

+1
Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

You all don’t think the dropping virus numbers and ramping up a vaccine distribution, to include all teachers, will lead to five days a week? At least for elementary? Or are you just scared it won’t? (No snark trying to understand)

I do think it will end up being a year with heavy review and teaching of concepts that were cut from the curriculums this year or just not able to be done well this year virtually

Concurrent doesn't mean two days in-person. Those are mutually exclusive concepts. We'll almost certainly be back 5 days next fall. The question is what do you do with the parent holdouts.

I see what you’re saying. Good point. I will be less than impressed however if it’s five days a week but the kids are still sitting on laptops in the classroom in order to accommodate the kids who stay home. I’d be fine if the classes were beamed to the kids at home but the kids in the room still had a normal experience (of course with masks and some distancing), there’s no reason they should be staring at laptops all day just because kids at home are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

+1
Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

You all don’t think the dropping virus numbers and ramping up a vaccine distribution, to include all teachers, will lead to five days a week? At least for elementary? Or are you just scared it won’t? (No snark trying to understand)

I do think it will end up being a year with heavy review and teaching of concepts that were cut from the curriculums this year or just not able to be done well this year virtually

Concurrent doesn't mean two days in-person. Those are mutually exclusive concepts. We'll almost certainly be back 5 days next fall. The question is what do you do with the parent holdouts.

I see what you’re saying. Good point. I will be less than impressed however if it’s five days a week but the kids are still sitting on laptops in the classroom in order to accommodate the kids who stay home. I’d be fine if the classes were beamed to the kids at home but the kids in the room still had a normal experience (of course with masks and some distancing), there’s no reason they should be staring at laptops all day just because kids at home are.

Pre-COVID my DC's second grade teacher estimated that they would spend 25% of their time on the classroom laptops. It goes up from there. They already are on the laptops for much of the day, just fewer parents noticed before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

+1
Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

You all don’t think the dropping virus numbers and ramping up a vaccine distribution, to include all teachers, will lead to five days a week? At least for elementary? Or are you just scared it won’t? (No snark trying to understand)

I do think it will end up being a year with heavy review and teaching of concepts that were cut from the curriculums this year or just not able to be done well this year virtually

Concurrent doesn't mean two days in-person. Those are mutually exclusive concepts. We'll almost certainly be back 5 days next fall. The question is what do you do with the parent holdouts.

Not at our school. My 5th grader said in 3rd grade they didn't even use the laptops every day and in 4th grade, pre-Covid, they used laptops for an average of an hour a day, but sometimes more and sometimes not at all. Our K-2 did not even have one-to-one devices.

I see what you’re saying. Good point. I will be less than impressed however if it’s five days a week but the kids are still sitting on laptops in the classroom in order to accommodate the kids who stay home. I’d be fine if the classes were beamed to the kids at home but the kids in the room still had a normal experience (of course with masks and some distancing), there’s no reason they should be staring at laptops all day just because kids at home are.

Pre-COVID my DC's second grade teacher estimated that they would spend 25% of their time on the classroom laptops. It goes up from there. They already are on the laptops for much of the day, just fewer parents noticed before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we will be in the concurrent model for most of 2021-22. If we are lucky.

+1
Yep, I agree. I don't see anything that make me think they will change anything from Fall 2021. In one of the town halls or something I swear I heard Spring 2022 at the earliest. I have not heard or read it since, but I always keep that in the back of my head.

You all don’t think the dropping virus numbers and ramping up a vaccine distribution, to include all teachers, will lead to five days a week? At least for elementary? Or are you just scared it won’t? (No snark trying to understand)

I do think it will end up being a year with heavy review and teaching of concepts that were cut from the curriculums this year or just not able to be done well this year virtually

Concurrent doesn't mean two days in-person. Those are mutually exclusive concepts. We'll almost certainly be back 5 days next fall. The question is what do you do with the parent holdouts.

I see what you’re saying. Good point. I will be less than impressed however if it’s five days a week but the kids are still sitting on laptops in the classroom in order to accommodate the kids who stay home. I’d be fine if the classes were beamed to the kids at home but the kids in the room still had a normal experience (of course with masks and some distancing), there’s no reason they should be staring at laptops all day just because kids at home are.

Pre-COVID my DC's second grade teacher estimated that they would spend 25% of their time on the classroom laptops. It goes up from there. They already are on the laptops for much of the day, just fewer parents noticed before.

Sorry--messed up the quoting.

Not at our school. My 5th grader said in 3rd grade they didn't even use the laptops every day and in 4th grade, pre-Covid, they used laptops for an average of an hour a day, but sometimes more and sometimes not at all. Our K-2 did not even have one-to-one devices.