APS concurrent for grades 3-5

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a big old middle bird to the virtual students.

And the in-person ones, too. The teachers will be teaching to them from computers at their desks, if they are even in the classroom. But there really isn’t another way. They don’t have the staff to accomplish both hybrid and distance at the same time.

I have friends who kids schools have been using this set up since September. What I have heard from them is that the teacher essentially just ignores the kids who are remote and only teaches to the kids in the classroom. So it is particularly brutal for these kids on days when they are remote. APS could end up being different but this is what I have heard from friends in other parts of the country.

I'm curious how hybrid parents will respond to this. Some really just need their kids in the classroom. I wonder if this will still be worth it, or if they made that choice based on a presumption that it would be a bit more like "real" school.

We opted for hybrid back in October. If my child will just get virtual inside of a classroom, I’m seriously considering pulling them back to virtual. I’m also privileged enough to be able to pull them entirely and homeschool the rest of the year if that is what needs to happen.

But here’s the thing... is that even an option? We were all told back in October that our decisions were binding for the entire school year (I realize you can homeschool anytime— I mean switching back to virtual).

Yes, you can go from hybrid to virtual but not the other way around

You can go virtual to hybrid if there is room.

There should be room as the vast majority chose hybrid.

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Anonymous wrote:Instead of concurrent for elementary at least I wish they would just have kids go for two hours a day every day. No eating lunch in school. Just math and reading/writing in person. Then teacher gets a break and the other group comes in. Specials via DL at home. That is what they have been doing in my hometown. It has worked great. Kids who are DL the entire time have a different teacher (but there are fewer of them since the risk is less if you are only in school two hours a day).

I would like that, too, actually.

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Anonymous wrote:Instead of concurrent for elementary at least I wish they would just have kids go for two hours a day every day. No eating lunch in school. Just math and reading/writing in person. Then teacher gets a break and the other group comes in. Specials via DL at home. That is what they have been doing in my hometown. It has worked great. Kids who are DL the entire time have a different teacher (but there are fewer of them since the risk is less if you are only in school two hours a day).

I would like that, too, actually.

Although.... my kid is actually enjoying DL. She likes sleeping late and wearing PJs! I figure hybrid is a good way to start.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

Wow- I’m an APS teacher and that is the first pregnant waiver I’ve heard of. Most have been given a short term accommodation to not have to show up until students actually return. But once that starts they must show up.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a big old middle bird to the virtual students.

And the in-person ones, too. The teachers will be teaching to them from computers at their desks, if they are even in the classroom. But there really isn’t another way. They don’t have the staff to accomplish both hybrid and distance at the same time.

I have friends who kids schools have been using this set up since September. What I have heard from them is that the teacher essentially just ignores the kids who are remote and only teaches to the kids in the classroom. So it is particularly brutal for these kids on days when they are remote. APS could end up being different but this is what I have heard from friends in other parts of the country.

I'm curious how hybrid parents will respond to this. Some really just need their kids in the classroom. I wonder if this will still be worth it, or if they made that choice based on a presumption that it would be a bit more like "real" school.

We opted for hybrid back in October. If my child will just get virtual inside of a classroom, I’m seriously considering pulling them back to virtual. I’m also privileged enough to be able to pull them entirely and homeschool the rest of the year if that is what needs to happen.

But here’s the thing... is that even an option? We were all told back in October that our decisions were binding for the entire school year (I realize you can homeschool anytime— I mean switching back to virtual).

For 3rd+ there's no more virtual teacher- you just stay home and log onto the same Teams link you log into the other 2 days of synchronous. In the previous plan, it was a different teacher for virtual so you couldn't switch back and forth. Hybrid families get this luxury of going back and forth, virtual must stay virtual.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

Wow- I’m an APS teacher and that is the first pregnant waiver I’ve heard of. Most have been given a short term accommodation to not have to show up until students actually return. But once that starts they must show up.

Someone told me that the vaccine destroys placental tissue. Have no idea if that is true but if it is, might be the explanation.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

You can’t blame her for being nervous!

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

Wow- I’m an APS teacher and that is the first pregnant waiver I’ve heard of. Most have been given a short term accommodation to not have to show up until students actually return. But once that starts they must show up.

Someone told me that the vaccine destroys placental tissue. Have no idea if that is true but if it is, might be the explanation.

Oh, please. No, it’s not true. How in the world would that happen? It’s a little piece of mRNA, it’s taken up by a cell, which creates a protein to display to the immune system to induce an immune response. A vaccine simply has no ability to destroy anything.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

Wow- I’m an APS teacher and that is the first pregnant waiver I’ve heard of. Most have been given a short term accommodation to not have to show up until students actually return. But once that starts they must show up.

Someone told me that the vaccine destroys placental tissue. Have no idea if that is true but if it is, might be the explanation.

You are an idiot. Please stop repeating made up crap. The vaccine is recommended for pregnant women by people who actually know stuff, i.e., scientists.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

Wow- I’m an APS teacher and that is the first pregnant waiver I’ve heard of. Most have been given a short term accommodation to not have to show up until students actually return. But once that starts they must show up.

I am 100% “open schools now” and even i think pregnant teachers should get waivers. I would be uncomfortable taking the vaccine when pregnant and now that it’s clear teachers aren’t coming back until they are vaccinated, pregnant folks should be accommodate for DL. Everyone else that probably would have been accommodate is now being offered the vaccine, so they should be back. I don’t get the nursing accommodations. They should be getting the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Again less than 1/3 of APS staff has received the first vaccine dose. There are not enough spots for all staff. Staff who got the first dose are unsure of when we will get dose 2. Hasn’t been scheduled yet.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

Wow- I’m an APS teacher and that is the first pregnant waiver I’ve heard of. Most have been given a short term accommodation to not have to show up until students actually return. But once that starts they must show up.

I am 100% “open schools now” and even i think pregnant teachers should get waivers. I would be uncomfortable taking the vaccine when pregnant and now that it’s clear teachers aren’t coming back until they are vaccinated, pregnant folks should be accommodate for DL. Everyone else that probably would have been accommodate is now being offered the vaccine, so they should be back. I don’t get the nursing accommodations. They should be getting the vaccine.

I understand why pregnant women would be hesitant as it is a new vaccine. Most likely in time it will be routinely recommended like Flu and Tdap for pregnant women. I know teachers (3)that worked in other states that opened back in August and all within the last month had healthy babies. 1 thinks she had a mild case of COVID while pregnant.I am not certain if COVID-19 crosses the placenta or not from mom to baby,but unknown at this point. At any rate don't think I would be comfortable going back , and CDC says pregnant women are at higher risk of contracting COVID as with any in infection due to immune compromise a pregnant body naturally has. Newborns are said to be at low risk of having COVID. If mom were to get COVID would probably be told to keep breastfeeding to build babies immunity to it as they are told with any other infection or bug. NO mom wants to die before seeing their baby, I'm just saying it should be the staff choice to come back or not if pregnant. It is too bad front line workers in other professions don't get this accommodation though.

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There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.



My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

"My pregnant teacher?" I think you mean that it's your child's teacher; they are not your personal servant. Also, I doubt any teacher would tell a parent that they would quit if they didn't get a waiver.

Methinks you are a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home.

My pregnant teacher got an ADA waiver, and she told me if she didn’t, she’d quit.

Wow- I’m an APS teacher and that is the first pregnant waiver I’ve heard of. Most have been given a short term accommodation to not have to show up until students actually return. But once that starts they must show up.

Someone told me that the vaccine destroys placental tissue. Have no idea if that is true but if it is, might be the explanation.

That someone is a crackpot.