APS - Three cases yesterday

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Anonymous wrote:0 new cases reported in Arlington today....

Yes - lots of yellows and blues on the dashboard. Even a green!
https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/aps-covid-19-dashboard/

And that dashboard was from last Friday before the 0 cases. So this Friday's dashboard will look even better.

The cases are dramatically down across the different DMV counties. The vaccines and associated rollout have been unbelievably effective.

And many of our school neighbors were able to plan accordingly and act aggressively to prioritize the return of kids to the classroom for as much of the remaining year as they could, so, wait, what? why didn't or couldn't APS do the same????

And still have falling numbers BTW...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:0 new cases reported in Arlington today....

Yes - lots of yellows and blues on the dashboard. Even a green!
https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/aps-covid-19-dashboard/

And that dashboard was from last Friday before the 0 cases. So this Friday's dashboard will look even better.

The cases are dramatically down across the different DMV counties. The vaccines and associated rollout have been unbelievably effective.

And many of our school neighbors were able to plan accordingly and act aggressively to prioritize the return of kids to the classroom for as much of the remaining year as they could, so, wait, what? why didn't or couldn't APS do the same????

There are 4 weeks left. SOLs have already started......

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:0 new cases reported in Arlington today....

Yes - lots of yellows and blues on the dashboard. Even a green!
https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/aps-covid-19-dashboard/

And that dashboard was from last Friday before the 0 cases. So this Friday's dashboard will look even better.

The cases are dramatically down across the different DMV counties. The vaccines and associated rollout have been unbelievably effective.

And many of our school neighbors were able to plan accordingly and act aggressively to prioritize the return of kids to the classroom for as much of the remaining year as they could, so, wait, what? why didn't or couldn't APS do the same????

I vote for one symbolic day of sending everyone back in person. Make it the last day of school. Show up, do a slow clap, then leave.

[Anonymous]

Question on VDH case data - is that the number of positives for people who live in Arlington or is that the number of positives for people tested in Arlington?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:0 new cases reported in Arlington today....

Yes - lots of yellows and blues on the dashboard. Even a green!
https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/aps-covid-19-dashboard/

And that dashboard was from last Friday before the 0 cases. So this Friday's dashboard will look even better.

The cases are dramatically down across the different DMV counties. The vaccines and associated rollout have been unbelievably effective.

And many of our school neighbors were able to plan accordingly and act aggressively to prioritize the return of kids to the classroom for as much of the remaining year as they could, so, wait, what? why didn't or couldn't APS do the same????

There are 4 weeks left. SOLs have already started......

No SOLs for K-2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:0 new cases reported in Arlington today....

Yes - lots of yellows and blues on the dashboard. Even a green!
https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/aps-covid-19-dashboard/

And that dashboard was from last Friday before the 0 cases. So this Friday's dashboard will look even better.

The cases are dramatically down across the different DMV counties. The vaccines and associated rollout have been unbelievably effective.

And many of our school neighbors were able to plan accordingly and act aggressively to prioritize the return of kids to the classroom for as much of the remaining year as they could, so, wait, what? why didn't or couldn't APS do the same????

There are 4 weeks left. SOLs have already started......

No SOLs for K-2.

No but they have lots of other testing to do.

[Anonymous]

Am I right that there were no new covid cases reported in Arlington yesterday? Really disheartened my kids are sitting at home doing nothing right now, instead of being educated in school where they belong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I right that there were no new covid cases reported in Arlington yesterday? Really disheartened my kids are sitting at home doing nothing right now, instead of being educated in school where they belong.

We are having a pretty great day at home here, frankly. I only have one kid, but he went to virtual office hours with 2 different teachers today to check on assignments. Did 40 minutes of work in 3 different subjects. Now working on math which is the nemesis. Half hour videogame break in between a few of these. He made himself lunch and ran around the house a few times as well. This is 7th grade so ymmv. I understand everyone doesn't have it this easy (and most days here are not this easy tbh) but right now it's nice to be tying this out as I work from home and have had this whole day home with the kiddo working as well. It's actually nice. *soft rain gently falls*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess that's interesting, but in the end does it really matter how much of the increased numbers came directly from the school vs. from increased parental exposure? Those 800 people (some of whom included teachers, which presumably were actual school contact fwiw) still died, numbers are numbers. Folks here have been saying for a while that opening up schools has had no negative effects on covid spread. That's actually quite wrong according to this study.

Then close all the bars and stupid leisure stuff where the spread is happening. Not the schools. We’ve punished children because of adults getting sick. Under the guise of protecting teachers, but the teachers don’t seem to be getting sick from school since school itself is not the spreading location. This whole pandemic response has been such garbage for families with young kids. Not one person under 40 has died in Arlington the entire pandemic. But yes, let’s close schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Am I right that there were no new covid cases reported in Arlington yesterday? Really disheartened my kids are sitting at home doing nothing right now, instead of being educated in school where they belong.

We are having a pretty great day at home here, frankly. I only have one kid, but he went to virtual office hours with 2 different teachers today to check on assignments. Did 40 minutes of work in 3 different subjects. Now working on math which is the nemesis. Half hour videogame break in between a few of these. He made himself lunch and ran around the house a few times as well. This is 7th grade so ymmv. I understand everyone doesn't have it this easy (and most days here are not this easy tbh) but right now it's nice to be tying this out as I work from home and have had this whole day home with the kiddo working as well. It's actually nice. *soft rain gently falls*

As a parent of a kindergartner I’m SO over smug responses from parents of tweens/teens about how their kid is thriving or whatever with distance learning. As if we aren’t just making the best of it.

It’s not going great here. My career has been hanging on by a thread and my kid (who does wonderful on in-person days) cries because he doesn’t want to do school on an iPad. Virtual learning f-ing SUCKS for the young kids. And no, I haven’t let him know how I feel about it. I try to have a positive attitude, but a “make it work” attitude isn’t going to make a 5 year old not doing school virtually.

So whatever. Your independent 7th grader who can make himself lunch and do school on his own has absolutely ZERO bearing on my things are going for A LOT of other families. So you’re little post about enjoying the “soft rain” and day “with your kiddo” is pretty tone deaf.

I am lucky that I’m healthy and am not at high risk of COVID, but I’m not making proclamations that working from is “actually nice” because I’m cognizant enough to realize there are essential workers and high risk people who have been going into the office in-person this whole time. JFC of course others’ mileage is going to vary in regard to virtual learning. You could try gaining some freaking perspective and not making obnoxious posts like this. I guarantee people don’t like you in real life because you are tone deaf and clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Am I right that there were no new covid cases reported in Arlington yesterday? Really disheartened my kids are sitting at home doing nothing right now, instead of being educated in school where they belong.

We are having a pretty great day at home here, frankly. I only have one kid, but he went to virtual office hours with 2 different teachers today to check on assignments. Did 40 minutes of work in 3 different subjects. Now working on math which is the nemesis. Half hour videogame break in between a few of these. He made himself lunch and ran around the house a few times as well. This is 7th grade so ymmv. I understand everyone doesn't have it this easy (and most days here are not this easy tbh) but right now it's nice to be tying this out as I work from home and have had this whole day home with the kiddo working as well. It's actually nice. *soft rain gently falls*

As a parent of a kindergartner I’m SO over smug responses from parents of tweens/teens about how their kid is thriving or whatever with distance learning. As if we aren’t just making the best of it.

It’s not going great here. My career has been hanging on by a thread and my kid (who does wonderful on in-person days) cries because he doesn’t want to do school on an iPad. Virtual learning f-ing SUCKS for the young kids. And no, I haven’t let him know how I feel about it. I try to have a positive attitude, but a “make it work” attitude isn’t going to make a 5 year old not doing school virtually.

So whatever. Your independent 7th grader who can make himself lunch and do school on his own has absolutely ZERO bearing on my things are going for A LOT of other families. So you’re little post about enjoying the “soft rain” and day “with your kiddo” is pretty tone deaf.

I am lucky that I’m healthy and am not at high risk of COVID, but I’m not making proclamations that working from is “actually nice” because I’m cognizant enough to realize there are essential workers and high risk people who have been going into the office in-person this whole time. JFC of course others’ mileage is going to vary in regard to virtual learning. You could try gaining some freaking perspective and not making obnoxious posts like this. I guarantee people don’t like you in real life because you are tone deaf and clueless.

I also have a kindergartner and I’ve basically given up on virtual days. I make the kid sign in the morning and after lunch and ignore everything else that happens. If he’s sitting there playing with toys while the iPad class is running I truly don’t care anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I right that there were no new covid cases reported in Arlington yesterday? Really disheartened my kids are sitting at home doing nothing right now, instead of being educated in school where they belong.

We are having a pretty great day at home here, frankly. I only have one kid, but he went to virtual office hours with 2 different teachers today to check on assignments. Did 40 minutes of work in 3 different subjects. Now working on math which is the nemesis. Half hour videogame break in between a few of these. He made himself lunch and ran around the house a few times as well. This is 7th grade so ymmv. I understand everyone doesn't have it this easy (and most days here are not this easy tbh) but right now it's nice to be tying this out as I work from home and have had this whole day home with the kiddo working as well. It's actually nice. *soft rain gently falls*

As a parent of a kindergartner I’m SO over smug responses from parents of tweens/teens about how their kid is thriving or whatever with distance learning. As if we aren’t just making the best of it.

It’s not going great here. My career has been hanging on by a thread and my kid (who does wonderful on in-person days) cries because he doesn’t want to do school on an iPad. Virtual learning f-ing SUCKS for the young kids. And no, I haven’t let him know how I feel about it. I try to have a positive attitude, but a “make it work” attitude isn’t going to make a 5 year old not doing school virtually.

So whatever. Your independent 7th grader who can make himself lunch and do school on his own has absolutely ZERO bearing on my things are going for A LOT of other families. So you’re little post about enjoying the “soft rain” and day “with your kiddo” is pretty tone deaf.

I am lucky that I’m healthy and am not at high risk of COVID, but I’m not making proclamations that working from is “actually nice” because I’m cognizant enough to realize there are essential workers and high risk people who have been going into the office in-person this whole time. JFC of course others’ mileage is going to vary in regard to virtual learning. You could try gaining some freaking perspective and not making obnoxious posts like this. I guarantee people don’t like you in real life because you are tone deaf and clueless.

Honestly, if my kid were in kindergarten, I'm sure I'd be having a hard time, too. But it's also not correct to say that virtual learning is hard for everyone, which is what the original post seemed to imply ("where they belong" = basically "where they all belong"). My kid is fine at home and I'm allowed to say that in response to the posts that are saying that virtual isn't working for anyone

[Anonymous]

and making work from home and school from home hasn't always been a picnic over here, either. If I said it wasn't hard, I meant it wasn't hard TODAY, and that this was a relatively nice and light day for us by comparison to some of the others we have had involving long hours for me and husband in fitting work schedule around school schedule. But it isn't always terrible and today with the rain was sort of nice by comparison. Sorry that that obviously got on your nerves, I shouldn't make things sound better than they actually are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I right that there were no new covid cases reported in Arlington yesterday? Really disheartened my kids are sitting at home doing nothing right now, instead of being educated in school where they belong.

We are having a pretty great day at home here, frankly. I only have one kid, but he went to virtual office hours with 2 different teachers today to check on assignments. Did 40 minutes of work in 3 different subjects. Now working on math which is the nemesis. Half hour videogame break in between a few of these. He made himself lunch and ran around the house a few times as well. This is 7th grade so ymmv. I understand everyone doesn't have it this easy (and most days here are not this easy tbh) but right now it's nice to be tying this out as I work from home and have had this whole day home with the kiddo working as well. It's actually nice. *soft rain gently falls*

As a parent of a kindergartner I’m SO over smug responses from parents of tweens/teens about how their kid is thriving or whatever with distance learning. As if we aren’t just making the best of it.

It’s not going great here. My career has been hanging on by a thread and my kid (who does wonderful on in-person days) cries because he doesn’t want to do school on an iPad. Virtual learning f-ing SUCKS for the young kids. And no, I haven’t let him know how I feel about it. I try to have a positive attitude, but a “make it work” attitude isn’t going to make a 5 year old not doing school virtually.

So whatever. Your independent 7th grader who can make himself lunch and do school on his own has absolutely ZERO bearing on my things are going for A LOT of other families. So you’re little post about enjoying the “soft rain” and day “with your kiddo” is pretty tone deaf.

I am lucky that I’m healthy and am not at high risk of COVID, but I’m not making proclamations that working from is “actually nice” because I’m cognizant enough to realize there are essential workers and high risk people who have been going into the office in-person this whole time. JFC of course others’ mileage is going to vary in regard to virtual learning. You could try gaining some freaking perspective and not making obnoxious posts like this. I guarantee people don’t like you in real life because you are tone deaf and clueless.

Honestly, if my kid were in kindergarten, I'm sure I'd be having a hard time, too. But it's also not correct to say that virtual learning is hard for everyone, which is what the original post seemed to imply ("where they belong" = basically "where they all belong"). My kid is fine at home and I'm allowed to say that in response to the posts that are saying that virtual isn't working for anyone

But this is why reopening always should have been a separate discussion for the youngest learners vs. students who can read and do some things independently. APS handled this past year so poorly for the learners who are least capable of adapting to online learning (ESOL, SPED, K-2). Why couldn’t we have looked into using middle and high schools to space out these kids while the older kids learned from home? I think as a K parent I have every right to think the school board and Duran botched this. I will vote against the incumbent school board members from this year any chance I get. As more comes to light, it’s clear how school districts like APS have really allowed a significant number of children to fall behind.

[Anonymous]

I just think these other measures you're talking about are harder than you think and because of that don't merit the extreme anger you have about them. (For example, there are lots of people out there like you who are upset there isn't more school but who actually have middle school and high school kids -- you take it as a given that these parents aren't going to be angry that their chance at in person school is being totally cut off by another group of kids, but in Arlington that's something that could totally happen. Get off my lawn! And then arguments for another month before the school board would need to make a contentious ruling. there may be other reasons why a high school building might not be appropriate for an elementary school kid, just in terms of safety, like some of the very very long wide staircases. Had you even considered something like that? But to you this is something you can send the kids into blind.) But whatever, you're not going to convince me and I'm not going to convince you and it's pointless to argue anymore.