Has Duran gone mad? (APS)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup there are always ways to justify poor choice. CDC said don't travel. Not supposed to gather indoors.

doesn't give you a lot of cred when you say schools are safe, kids are safer at school. Maybe yours are safer at school as opposed to your own poor choices. Me, I'm following public health guidance so mine are not safer at school, especially bc they will be exposed to yours.

There is inherent risk unless you absolutely stay home with zero interaction. I have to imagine you are getting groceries, etc. If you're not, then fine.

At this point it's about the ability to make decisions that maximize safety even in the face of risk. We have not had COVID to date--not because we are unable to make safe decisions, but, because we are calculating every decision and weighing the risk vs. the possibility of staying safe using masks, distancing, etc etc even in light of that risk. If you are unable to contemplate those decisions for your family and children, that's fine. Stay home.

[Anonymous]

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Yes, it’d be dumb to open in a surge. Wait a month or two and open safely this semester. Take this time to get the air filters and contract with a local lab. I would have sent my kids in the fall if they had implemented sufficient safety measures then as other schools have done.

Oh please - that's what people say every single week! There has been a surge like every other day according to them '
summer vacation surge!
labor day surge!
halloween surge!
Thanksgiving surge!
variant surge!

Next week it will be cold weather surge!

The surges are visible on the city's case graph.

https://www.alexandriava.gov/performance/info/dashboard.aspx?id=114883

This is for Alexandria, this is a post about Arlington.

It must be hard to be this stupid. It defaults to Accomack where it says SELECT LOCALITY, you choose....Arlington.

What are you, 4 ? Geez.. it's for Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

What's frustrating is that we stretched our budget to live in Arlington due to the public school system.

I wish we could afford to send our kids to private, but we can't. I can understand the need for DL right now, but it's so poorly executed at the elementary level, it's just not working.

APS needs to find a way to significantly improve DL or figure out how to get elementary kids safely back in class asap.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. No one EVER thinks what’s happening elsewhere will happen here. Last month they swore it wouldn’t surge in VA because we wear masks. Now they’ll say we won’t be like CA or England. The new variant won’t come here! I’m with you. My only concern is that our home grown Arlington COVID deniers might convince APS to force the teachers back in the midst of this.

Do these “covid deniers” of whom you speak deny the existence of covid? Or do they believe that the weight of the evidence indicates that schools may reopen for in person instruction with proper safety instruction?

Cases have risen here but not exponentially the way they have in other places.

[Anonymous]

Four families in my son’s 2nd grade class went to Florida for break. Arlington doesn’t believe they can get sick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Four families in my son’s 2nd grade class went to Florida for break. Arlington doesn’t believe they can get sick

If Arlington generally understands the gravity and risks of the situation in a way that is inherently and uniquely correct, then why isn't the rest of America, and the world for that matter, following us??

Are all other private and public schools that are open all pro-Trump? Or pro-teachers dying? Or just in to lots of risk and sickness and death? I mean, come on.

It's time to be realistic. We've waited this out nearly 300 days at this point. COVID is not disappearing, we now know how to live with it in a way that is safer than where we were in March. Enough now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Four families in my son’s 2nd grade class went to Florida for break. Arlington doesn’t believe they can get sick

One student in my son's class said they went to Mexico over break....

[Anonymous]

Everyone of means in Arlington is traveling. The CDC recommendations and public health advice doesn’t apply to them. Because they really need to get away. Just like their kids really need to start school at the height of the pandemic. It’s astounding to me. We’ve learned a ton about our community through this. Much of it quite unflattering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone of means in Arlington is traveling. The CDC recommendations and public health advice doesn’t apply to them. Because they really need to get away. Just like their kids really need to start school at the height of the pandemic. It’s astounding to me. We’ve learned a ton about our community through this. Much of it quite unflattering.

A lot of my neighbors did too. I am starting to think they are secret Trumpies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone of means in Arlington is traveling. The CDC recommendations and public health advice doesn’t apply to them. Because they really need to get away. Just like their kids really need to start school at the height of the pandemic. It’s astounding to me. We’ve learned a ton about our community through this. Much of it quite unflattering.

This is simply not true. The only families I know that traveled for the holidays drove to rentals/houses with just their family for a change of scenery. I personally don't know one family that got on a plane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone of means in Arlington is traveling. The CDC recommendations and public health advice doesn’t apply to them. Because they really need to get away. Just like their kids really need to start school at the height of the pandemic. It’s astounding to me. We’ve learned a ton about our community through this. Much of it quite unflattering.

This is simply not true. The only families I know that traveled for the holidays drove to rentals/houses with just their family for a change of scenery. I personally don't know one family that got on a plane.

Many people I know flew. You must know 2 people here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Four families in my son’s 2nd grade class went to Florida for break. Arlington doesn’t believe they can get sick

No, they just weighed the risks and made a decision. We're not in school so it really doesn't matter. Had we been in school I bet a lot of families would have made a different decision. I know we would not have traveled. We're not, so we did.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Four families in my son’s 2nd grade class went to Florida for break. Arlington doesn’t believe they can get sick

If Arlington generally understands the gravity and risks of the situation in a way that is inherently and uniquely correct, then why isn't the rest of America, and the world for that matter, following us??

Are all other private and public schools that are open all pro-Trump? Or pro-teachers dying? Or just in to lots of risk and sickness and death? I mean, come on.

It's time to be realistic. We've waited this out nearly 300 days at this point. COVID is not disappearing, we now know how to live with it in a way that is safer than where we were in March. Enough now.

[Anonymous]

Many of our friends traveling. Some flew. Even some hard-core Ds.

Most seemed to wear masks and try to be safe. Measured risks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone of means in Arlington is traveling. The CDC recommendations and public health advice doesn’t apply to them. Because they really need to get away. Just like their kids really need to start school at the height of the pandemic. It’s astounding to me. We’ve learned a ton about our community through this. Much of it quite unflattering.

This is simply not true. The only families I know that traveled for the holidays drove to rentals/houses with just their family for a change of scenery. I personally don't know one family that got on a plane.

I do. I know a family who flew to Mexico, 1 who went to Colorado and one to Wyoming. None of them drove. I have the means to travel. But I’m not a selfish ahole.