What FCPS option are you choosing and why?

[Anonymous]

I have lower/mid elementary level kids and I am opting for virtual for consistency purpose. It's also easier to supplement for them at home as they are younger. Also I am not sure if younger kids will effectively socially distance each other. School will look a lot different and they will not get the social interaction that they crave given the current situation anyways.

[Anonymous]

DC starting middle school. Choosing as much time in the actual school as we can get. Distance learning has been disastrous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In person. For mental health reasons. Also, even if 100% pick in person option, the school will be filled to no more than 50% capacity on any given day.

I actually really hope many people will choose distance learning, so that the school is less crowded for those who choose to do in person instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In person. For mental health reasons. Also, even if 100% pick in person option, the school will be filled to no more than 50% capacity on any given day.

I actually really hope many people will choose distance learning, so that the school is less crowded for those who choose to do in person instruction.

I am personally not holding my breath on that, especially since the default is in person and you have to affirmatively opt out of that for all online.

[Anonymous]

What I am trying to understand is this: how will the DL program compare with face-to-face option? Are the kids supposed to cover the same program, just in different ways? That's the most logical answer.

How about the kids who go back to school, but have difficulty with independent work? Plenty of those in AAP, mine included. We will send DC to school for social interaction, but he doesn't do well with independent assignments and we don't have time to sit with him. DC will probably end up just doing half of the program, while in school.

[Anonymous]

Lots of discussion with the other parent about this. Our AAP kid would get much better instruction from DL, because functionally that means we'd be homeschooling. On the other hand, he's a social butterfly and the isolation has been really hard for the poor guy. (Not to mention rough on the other parent, who does most of the household instruction.) On the gripping hand, we have old people living in the house with us.

[Anonymous]

I already answered above but another part of the reason that I’m just gonna send my kids back to school is because my husband is a middle school teacher in FCPS. Our kids are in elementary and I think he’s the bigger risk for our family, more so than our own kids who will only have contact with a small elementary class meanwhile he’ll have contact with hundreds of older students.

He doesn’t want to request online teaching and even if he did I feel it’s unlikely he would get it because we don’t have any documented health issues in our household.

[Anonymous]

Choosing DL doesn’t require medical reason. You can choose it for whatever reason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Choosing DL doesn’t require medical reason. You can choose it for whatever reason

If you’re responding me - I see how my response is not clear now but I didn’t mean for our kids - I meant teachers.
I think for the teachers to elect distance learning, they are prioritizing those with health issues themselves or in their household.

[Anonymous]

I think the answer is FCPS just doesn't know yet, but did anyone hear/see answer to this question in Board materials: If select in-person and a household member ends up sick such that child would not be sick themselves but required to self-isolate given contact, could the child join an online class or just out of school for 2 weeks? I'm guessing would not join b/c would be too disruptive to online and may be different materials and would just have to coordinate with in-person class as if kid was sick themselves for that time period. Maybe different if child/family circumstances change that health reasons dictate could not go back to school at all.

[Anonymous]

Has it been addressed whether kids being sent to a center continue to do so? Are center kids being sent back to base? I didn’t pore over the materials so might have missed it but have not seen this addressed (either way)?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Will AAP even be an option with DL?

[Anonymous]

B. Both kids moving up to a new school, so important for socialization reasons.Also, both kids are ADHD, and DL was not successful for either of them. I am hoping that smaller classes, more time sitting butts in seats and fewer distractions with interactive and group projects might actually help them. Plus, we are a two full time working parent family, and it will be much easier to supervise independent work three days a week vs. 5.

Also very happy that work will be graded. That was a nightmare this spring, because both kids dismissed assignments with "they don't count".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has it been addressed whether kids being sent to a center continue to do so? Are center kids being sent back to base? I didn’t pore over the materials so might have missed it but have not seen this addressed (either way)?

It wasn't directly addressed. However center start times are being moved to 10:05, with the earlier start time being something around 9 (I forget exactly, because our base is a center so I didn't pay attention). So they still do have time to bus to centers. Since they may juggle students around - one of my kids' teachers dropped something off today and confirmed that both teachers and students may be asked to move - I don't know that we know for sure where kids will end up, even those of us who are at a center no matter what.