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Anonymous wrote:Well I am so glad that the preferences of 40% of families is not being disregarded. Especially since the other 60% get their preference either way, and have been getting their preference all along. 40% of 80K students is still a lot of students, and they matter too. I'm glad the school board does not agree with you that its not enough to bother with.

N O B O D Y said that! You are reading something that isn’t there. The Op wondered if anyone knew how many students they have in person and someone else asked how many are going back total. I gave my answers and a link. Nowhere did I or anyone else say anyone should have disregarded hybrid choice or those students didn’t matter , you need to chill.

It is an issue what they are going to do about all the classes with only one kid attending in person but that’s a separate issue. But there’s a lot of those due to the fact low numbers chose hybrid overall. My biggest in person class is 6. One has zero in person. Three have one student so they are going to have to figure out how to change things so teachers and kids aren’t alone in rooms together like that .

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Anonymous wrote:Well I am so glad that the preferences of 40% of families is not being disregarded. Especially since the other 60% get their preference either way, and have been getting their preference all along. 40% of 80K students is still a lot of students, and they matter too. I'm glad the school board does not agree with you that its not enough to bother with.

N O B O D Y said that! You are reading something that isn’t there. The Op wondered if anyone knew how many students they have in person and someone else asked how many are going back total. I gave my answers and a link. Nowhere did I or anyone else say anyone should have disregarded hybrid choice or those students didn’t matter , you need to chill.

It is an issue what they are going to do about all the classes with only one kid attending in person but that’s a separate issue. But there’s a lot of those due to the fact low numbers chose hybrid overall. My biggest in person class is 6. One has zero in person. Three have one student so they are going to have to figure out how to change things so teachers and kids aren’t alone in rooms together like that .

Maybe not. But there is a very active teacher poster saying she shouldn't have to teach hybrid to "only" X students. Thankfully my secondary student is A - in middle school, which had a higher number choosing hybrid than high school and B - is at a school where in general more kids chose hybrid. I have confidence that our principal will figure out what to do if a class only has 1 in-person student on a given day. Unlike Beth Barts, I don't see this as yet another reason to kill in-person.

[Anonymous]

I really don’t think Beth is trying to kill in person. She voted for hybrid. But it IS a problem to have this many classes with just one student. The liability and risk is too high to those students and teachers. So her trying to fix that is not a bad thing even though you clearly dislike her.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t think Beth is trying to kill in person. She voted for hybrid. But it IS a problem to have this many classes with just one student. The liability and risk is too high to those students and teachers. So her trying to fix that is not a bad thing even though you clearly dislike her.

PLEASE. Do you even watch the meetings? She clearly only supports hybrid for K-5 and is doing everything in her power to ensure that 6-12th graders never set foot inside a school this year.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t think Beth is trying to kill in person. She voted for hybrid. But it IS a problem to have this many classes with just one student. The liability and risk is too high to those students and teachers. So her trying to fix that is not a bad thing even though you clearly dislike her.

PLEASE. Do you even watch the meetings? She clearly only supports hybrid for K-5 and is doing everything in her power to ensure that 6-12th graders never set foot inside a school this year.

Well you’re weirdly invested in one board member which is kinda creepy so I’m gonna bow out of this convo

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I'm not "weirdly invested" in her. She is "weirdly invested" in single-handedly sabatoging return-to-school. If you don't believe me, go read her many many social media posts that she allows no comments on.

[Anonymous]

I do wonder what the class makeups will look like in the MS and HS that leaned heavily DL, like 70%+. I wonder how many in-person kids will be distributed in the core classes or if any will end up all DL.

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Anonymous wrote:I do wonder what the class makeups will look like in the MS and HS that leaned heavily DL, like 70%+. I wonder how many in-person kids will be distributed in the core classes or if any will end up all DL.

I am in one of those and teach a core class. I mentioned it above but I have 10 sections (5 classes split into 2 cohorts that I see one time a week each):

Section 1: 3 kids
Section 2: 2 kids
Section 3: 2 kids
Section 4: 1 kid
Section 5: 3 kids
Section 6: 1 kid
Section 7: 0 kids
Section 8: 2 kids
Section 9: 1 kid
Section 10: 6 kids

Fridays I see the most kids total (10 all day). On Thursdays I see one kid in person the whole day. My biggest in person group is 6, most 2-3, but I am concerned about the 3 classes with just one kid. I wouldn’t like it for my kid as a parent and as a teacher I don’t like it. I hope that somehow gets fixed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well I am so glad that the preferences of 40% of families is not being disregarded. Especially since the other 60% get their preference either way, and have been getting their preference all along. 40% of 80K students is still a lot of students, and they matter too. I'm glad the school board does not agree with you that its not enough to bother with.

I'm glad that the decision not to put people in prolonged indoor contact during a pandemic isn't about people "getting their preference."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do wonder what the class makeups will look like in the MS and HS that leaned heavily DL, like 70%+. I wonder how many in-person kids will be distributed in the core classes or if any will end up all DL.

I am in one of those and teach a core class. I mentioned it above but I have 10 sections (5 classes split into 2 cohorts that I see one time a week each):

Section 1: 3 kids
Section 2: 2 kids
Section 3: 2 kids
Section 4: 1 kid
Section 5: 3 kids
Section 6: 1 kid
Section 7: 0 kids
Section 8: 2 kids
Section 9: 1 kid
Section 10: 6 kids

Fridays I see the most kids total (10 all day). On Thursdays I see one kid in person the whole day. My biggest in person group is 6, most 2-3, but I am concerned about the 3 classes with just one kid. I wouldn’t like it for my kid as a parent and as a teacher I don’t like it. I hope that somehow gets fixed.

Sounds incredibly safe for everyone in person because they aren’t being exposed to a ton of people. Nothing but good news to me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do wonder what the class makeups will look like in the MS and HS that leaned heavily DL, like 70%+. I wonder how many in-person kids will be distributed in the core classes or if any will end up all DL.

I am in one of those and teach a core class. I mentioned it above but I have 10 sections (5 classes split into 2 cohorts that I see one time a week each):

Section 1: 3 kids
Section 2: 2 kids
Section 3: 2 kids
Section 4: 1 kid
Section 5: 3 kids
Section 6: 1 kid
Section 7: 0 kids
Section 8: 2 kids
Section 9: 1 kid
Section 10: 6 kids

Fridays I see the most kids total (10 all day). On Thursdays I see one kid in person the whole day. My biggest in person group is 6, most 2-3, but I am concerned about the 3 classes with just one kid. I wouldn’t like it for my kid as a parent and as a teacher I don’t like it. I hope that somehow gets fixed.

Sounds incredibly safe for everyone in person because they aren’t being exposed to a ton of people. Nothing but good news to me.

Ok. You’ll notice this was presented completely without opinion. Why do so many people insist on trying to pick fights? Pp wondered about numbers and I shared.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for answering my questions about numbers! I do hope they finagle your classes so you can have a couple of in-person kids together.

[Anonymous]

The great news about choosing hybrid (in secondary, ES is different) is that if it my child doesn’t like it or there are no students, we can revert to DL whenever we like. Hybrid gives options, choosing DL does not. It was a no-brainer for us.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The great news about choosing hybrid (in secondary, ES is different) is that if it my child doesn’t like it or there are no students, we can revert to DL whenever we like. Hybrid gives options, choosing DL does not. It was a no-brainer for us.

Huh. Which school? We were told over and over again by admin it is BINDING. No switches back.