LCPS | in-person returning at all in Q3 or hopes just for Q4?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: I have a fantasy where the vaccine roll out actually helps and numbers drop so much that everyone goes back to school Q4.

sigh

As a teacher I think this is what should happen. Rushing in Q3 seems pointless and chaotic in the current context. Q4 would be a way better plan because numbers will drop into spring and vaccines will have been administered to teachers and staff.

You understand that many of the ES’s had zero or 1 cases? Making them wait for Q4 is absurd.

Well the board seems unwilling to unchain ES from MS and HS also going so.

Sooooo..... (?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I have a fantasy where the vaccine roll out actually helps and numbers drop so much that everyone goes back to school Q4.

sigh

As a teacher I think this is what should happen. Rushing in Q3 seems pointless and chaotic in the current context. Q4 would be a way better plan because numbers will drop into spring and vaccines will have been administered to teachers and staff.

You understand that many of the ES’s had zero or 1 cases? Making them wait for Q4 is absurd.

Well the board seems unwilling to unchain ES from MS and HS also going so.

So if the plan is all or none it doesn’t matter if elementary has almost no cases. They won’t get set in unless board also determines it’s safe for MS and HS to go in too. So far they have not shown any willingness to say elementary can do it safely so they will and secondary will not

Sooooo..... (?)

[Anonymous]

They said over the summer they would use school-based metrics to determine individual closures. Why did they depart from that in the first place? Ineptitude? Fear? Mob mentality?

[Anonymous]

Heading back before the end of the holiday surge seems like a recipe for disaster and a massive variable injected into a startup that needs to begin well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They said over the summer they would use school-based metrics to determine individual closures. Why did they depart from that in the first place? Ineptitude? Fear? Mob mentality?

Considering Beth Barts is getting death threats from open school people maybe you should consider who you’re applying “mob mentality” to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They said over the summer they would use school-based metrics to determine individual closures. Why did they depart from that in the first place? Ineptitude? Fear? Mob mentality?

I would guess there would be some equity concerns with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They said over the summer they would use school-based metrics to determine individual closures. Why did they depart from that in the first place? Ineptitude? Fear? Mob mentality?

I would guess there would be some equity concerns with this.

Well a 2 pm board doc addition now says it may be on the table

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They said over the summer they would use school-based metrics to determine individual closures. Why did they depart from that in the first place? Ineptitude? Fear? Mob mentality?

I would guess there would be some equity concerns with this.

How so? Even with the MS and HS DL this whole time, poor kids have been allowed at school everyday to do their DL and have lunch. I don’t expect that to change. And in ES the EL kids were in the very first group that was sent back and I imagine will be again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They said over the summer they would use school-based metrics to determine individual closures. Why did they depart from that in the first place? Ineptitude? Fear? Mob mentality?

I would guess there would be some equity concerns with this.

Well a 2 pm board doc addition now says it may be on the table

Yeah. Not cool, LCPS. Why wasn't that made available to the public last week?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Barts and Corbo won’t go “stricter” per se they will just say stay with the already set community metrics

Barts has been pretty clear she does not think 6-12 should go back at all, at any point this school year.

Easy for her to say as her kids have been going to in-person school, camps, etc. all along. She sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barts and Corbo won’t go “stricter” per se they will just say stay with the already set community metrics

Barts has been pretty clear she does not think 6-12 should go back at all, at any point this school year.

Easy for her to say as her kids have been going to in-person school, camps, etc. all along. She sucks.

She said her kids are DL for the year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They said over the summer they would use school-based metrics to determine individual closures. Why did they depart from that in the first place? Ineptitude? Fear? Mob mentality?

I would guess there would be some equity concerns with this.

How so? Even with the MS and HS DL this whole time, poor kids have been allowed at school everyday to do their DL and have lunch. I don’t expect that to change. And in ES the EL kids were in the very first group that was sent back and I imagine will be again.

Because poorer zone schools (ie the sterling pyramid) are in areas of higher transmission rates and will shut down way more often. The Title I cluster in Loudoun also has 3-4x the cases as wealthier zip codes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barts and Corbo won’t go “stricter” per se they will just say stay with the already set community metrics

Barts has been pretty clear she does not think 6-12 should go back at all, at any point this school year.

Easy for her to say as her kids have been going to in-person school, camps, etc. all along. She sucks.

She said her kids are DL for the year

She has one 6th grade daughter (and a college student.) The daughter does sports and other extracurriculars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barts and Corbo won’t go “stricter” per se they will just say stay with the already set community metrics

Barts has been pretty clear she does not think 6-12 should go back at all, at any point this school year.

Easy for her to say as her kids have been going to in-person school, camps, etc. all along. She sucks.

She said her kids are DL for the year

She has one 6th grade daughter (and a college student.) The daughter does sports and other extracurriculars.

Really weird you know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I have a fantasy where the vaccine roll out actually helps and numbers drop so much that everyone goes back to school Q4.

sigh

As a teacher I think this is what should happen. Rushing in Q3 seems pointless and chaotic in the current context. Q4 would be a way better plan because numbers will drop into spring and vaccines will have been administered to teachers and staff.

You understand that many of the ES’s had zero or 1 cases? Making them wait for Q4 is absurd.

Of course--we can read the table on the LCPS website. But there's hardly been anyone in the schools since March.