What are the next 3-4 weeks of school going to be like? (APS)

[Anonymous]

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/587717-fda-expected-to-authorize-pfizer-boosters-for-ages-12-to-15

Set to authorize on Monday

[Anonymous]

So maybe a pause so those who want to boost can, would be nice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And now some jerk on AEM is suggesting the teachers should plan a sick-out to force APS to go virtual the next couple of weeks.

Ha. Nobody in my circle of colleagues wants to, or has even given thought to doing that. Does that person actually think teachers would want to switch to virtual?

ES Teacher

[Anonymous]

Can anyone summarize what the other DMV school districts are doing? I think the following, but please correct and/or add to what I have below:

Arlington public: Normal return to school on schedule 1/3/22, but extracurricular sports, theater, band etc cancelled for 2 weeks to reduce spread.

DMV public: Requiring negative covid test FIRST before kids can return to school. Kids who can't supply such a test will be sent home (though it seems more likely that schools will just do an in person test when kid shows up).

Fairfax public: Testing is open for symptomatic staff and kids I think, but otherwise schools starts as planned.

Maryland: Testing? What is going on there, I don't know.

DMV privates: Most seem to be opening on time as far as I can tell.

Please add/edit this with correct info if you can. I almost started a new thread but didn't see a good place to put it.

According to the county board letter published on AEM, I suspect that Arlington can't do test to stay like DC is doing (wish we were doing this!) because of the intense shortage on tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And now some jerk on AEM is suggesting the teachers should plan a sick-out to force APS to go virtual the next couple of weeks.

Ha. Nobody in my circle of colleagues wants to, or has even given thought to doing that. Does that person actually think teachers would want to switch to virtual?

ES Teacher

+1 I swear there are about 20 staff members in the district who are very loud and online making the other 7,000 of us look bad. I'd rather stroll in Monday morning unmasked with a sign that says "cough on me" than return to virtual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone summarize what the other DMV school districts are doing? I think the following, but please correct and/or add to what I have below:

Arlington public: Normal return to school on schedule 1/3/22, but extracurricular sports, theater, band etc cancelled for 2 weeks to reduce spread.

DC public: Requiring negative covid test FIRST before kids can return to school. Kids who can't supply such a test will be sent home (though it seems more likely that schools will just do an in person test when kid shows up).

Fairfax public: Testing is open for symptomatic staff and kids I think, but otherwise schools starts as planned. Piloting test to stay at some schools.

Maryland: Testing? What is going on there, I don't know.

DMV privates: Most seem to be opening on time as far as I can tell.

Please add/edit this with correct info if you can. I almost started a new thread but didn't see a good place to put it.

According to the county board letter published on AEM, I suspect that Arlington can't do test to stay like DC is doing (wish we were doing this!) because of the intense shortage on tests.

I think you meant DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone summarize what the other DMV school districts are doing? I think the following, but please correct and/or add to what I have below:

Arlington public: Normal return to school on schedule 1/3/22, but extracurricular sports, theater, band etc cancelled for 2 weeks to reduce spread.there is symptomatic testing at Kenmore

DMV public: Requiring negative covid test FIRST before kids can return to school. Kids who can't supply such a test will be sent home (though it seems more likely that schools will just do an in person test when kid shows up).

Fairfax public: Testing is open for symptomatic staff and kids I think, but otherwise schools starts as planned.

Maryland: Testing? What is going on there, I don't know.

DMV privates: Most seem to be opening on time as far as I can tell.

Please add/edit this with correct info if you can. I almost started a new thread but didn't see a good place to put it.

According to the county board letter published on AEM, I suspect that Arlington can't do test to stay like DC is doing (wish we were doing this!) because of the intense shortage on tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone summarize what the other DMV school districts are doing? I think the following, but please correct and/or add to what I have below:

Arlington public: Normal return to school on schedule 1/3/22, but extracurricular sports, theater, band etc cancelled for 2 weeks to reduce spread.

DC public: Requiring negative covid test FIRST before kids can return to school. Kids who can't supply such a test will be sent home (though it seems more likely that schools will just do an in person test when kid shows up).

Fairfax public: Testing is open for symptomatic staff and kids I think, but otherwise schools starts as planned. Piloting test to stay at some schools.

Maryland: Testing? What is going on there, I don't know.

DMV privates: Most seem to be opening on time as far as I can tell.

Please add/edit this with correct info if you can. I almost started a new thread but didn't see a good place to put it.

According to the county board letter published on AEM, I suspect that Arlington can't do test to stay like DC is doing (wish we were doing this!) because of the intense shortage on tests.

I think you meant DC?

Yes, I totally meant DC public. Thank you (and thanks for the other corrections!)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This would have been nice and I favor safety (and love what DC schools are doing — their plan beats everyone else’s) but no way can APS implement anything like this at this point, Wednesday night before school starts again on Monday. Wish APS would have done this, but no way can they do it now. Ha ha. I wish.

I will just keep my kids in the weekly testing program and get them the best masks I can.

I favor kids’ health, and I know that health is much more than 1 respiratory virus that is less than flu level risk (prior to vaccines) and mental health is extremely important to kids after all that Arlington has robbed from our kids after 2 years in the fruitless paranoid view of “in an abundance of caution.”

That’s why our kids don’t wear masks except where legally required and we only get tested if we’re actually sick.

Us too. On a beach vacation now with other families, acting like normal. Kids are excited to be back at school on Monday. They’re very hopeful that masks will be gone on January 15th because they want to see their friends’ faces at school, not just outside of school. Even they know it’s all theater at school to make a few nutty parents “feel” their kids are safe.

Riiiiiiiight. Your kids figured that out all on their own huh.

I can't count the number of conversations I've been in where people complain about people they think are overly cautious, then look at me and say "oh but of course I'm not talking about you, you need to take the precautions for your at risk children (now child since only 1 is under 5)." Give me a break people. There are more of us with at risk kids than you realize. Maybe we're not waving our kids' health info under your noses every 5 minutes, but we're also not going to mass play dates where we know kids won't be masking, and we're not getting beach houses with y'all. We're still here even if you refuse to acknowledge us and our kids.

A child under 5 is not risk. Only COVIDian paranoid people think that.

And any truly at risk can handle COVID just like they do for the 200 other endemic respiratory viruses.

Children’s hospitals are filling up and pediatricians offices are stretched thin, yet here you are mocking concerned parents and calling them names. Disgusting and shameful.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/27/health/covid-kids-hospitals/index.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This would have been nice and I favor safety (and love what DC schools are doing — their plan beats everyone else’s) but no way can APS implement anything like this at this point, Wednesday night before school starts again on Monday. Wish APS would have done this, but no way can they do it now. Ha ha. I wish.

I will just keep my kids in the weekly testing program and get them the best masks I can.

I favor kids’ health, and I know that health is much more than 1 respiratory virus that is less than flu level risk (prior to vaccines) and mental health is extremely important to kids after all that Arlington has robbed from our kids after 2 years in the fruitless paranoid view of “in an abundance of caution.”

That’s why our kids don’t wear masks except where legally required and we only get tested if we’re actually sick.

Us too. On a beach vacation now with other families, acting like normal. Kids are excited to be back at school on Monday. They’re very hopeful that masks will be gone on January 15th because they want to see their friends’ faces at school, not just outside of school. Even they know it’s all theater at school to make a few nutty parents “feel” their kids are safe.

Riiiiiiiight. Your kids figured that out all on their own huh.

I can't count the number of conversations I've been in where people complain about people they think are overly cautious, then look at me and say "oh but of course I'm not talking about you, you need to take the precautions for your at risk children (now child since only 1 is under 5)." Give me a break people. There are more of us with at risk kids than you realize. Maybe we're not waving our kids' health info under your noses every 5 minutes, but we're also not going to mass play dates where we know kids won't be masking, and we're not getting beach houses with y'all. We're still here even if you refuse to acknowledge us and our kids.

A child under 5 is not risk. Only COVIDian paranoid people think that.

And any truly at risk can handle COVID just like they do for the 200 other endemic respiratory viruses.

Children’s hospitals are filling up and pediatricians offices are stretched thin, yet here you are mocking concerned parents and calling them names. Disgusting and shameful.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/27/health/covid-kids-hospitals/index.html

This pure CNN fear porn. Walensky herself said on MSNBC yesterday that the increase in hospitalization is from kids incidentally testing positive for COVID when going for other things.

“Yeah, really important question. So, we are seeing higher numbers of children in the hospitals. Of course, this is a common time of year for children to be admitted in the hospitals. And some of the things we’re seeing in the trends is they’re not heading to the ICU more often, that we can tell. Many of them are actually coming in for another reason. But they happen to be tested when they come in and they’re found incidentally to have COVID. And third, and really importantly, most of those children are not yet vaccinated. So, the message here is get your children vaccinated.”

[Anonymous]

Over on AEM…just another day in paradise where grammar is now racist

[Anonymous]

It’s not just CNN reporting these issues with hospitalization.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-sees-rise-in-pediatric-covid-patients-as-who-warns-of-global-tsunami-of-cases?utm_campaign=NewsHour&utm_content=1640890815&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Y-TwUt0qblpGC6HpvLqMu44yiOfPcxO9mPztCskfkUQ_n7A37qTe4UFw

And Virginia ER doctors are seeking a state of emergency declaration.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2021/12/30/virginia-emergency-doctors-want-covid-related-state-emergency/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over on AEM…just another day in paradise where grammar is now racist

And the pro-voucher DBs are being flaming a-holes.

Just another day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over on AEM…just another day in paradise where grammar is now racist

And the pro-voucher DBs are being flaming a-holes.

Just another day.

The president of the union probably should have at least used the blue squiggly line before sending that in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone summarize what the other DMV school districts are doing? I think the following, but please correct and/or add to what I have below:

Arlington public: Normal return to school on schedule 1/3/22, but extracurricular sports, theater, band etc cancelled for 2 weeks to reduce spread. There is symptomatic testing at Kenmore.[\b]

[b]DC public: Requiring negative covid test FIRST before kids can return to school. Kids who can't supply such a test will be sent home (though it seems more likely that schools will just do an in person test when kid shows up).

Fairfax public: Testing is open for symptomatic staff and kids I think, but otherwise schools starts as planned. Piloting test to stay at some schools.

Maryland: Testing? What is going on there, I don't know.

DMV privates: Most seem to be opening on time as far as I can tell. [b]Many seem to be following DC public’s lead by requiring a negative test to return to school, some having no school Monday or Tuesday to allow testing to happen.[\b]

Please add/edit this with correct info if you can. I almost started a new thread but didn't see a good place to put it.

According to the county board letter published on AEM, I suspect that Arlington can't do test to stay like DC is doing (wish we were doing this!) because of the intense shortage on tests.

I think you meant DC?

Yes, I totally meant DC public. Thank you (and thanks for the other corrections!)