If you chose hybrid for APS, are you comfortable with kids going back next month?

[Anonymous]

I think we're going back in February is more theater and I'm sick of it. Duran and SB will say Feb their intention, the teachers will melt down and say they can't come back until vaccinated, Duran and SB will back down and then it will not be their "fault".

TELL US A REAL DATE WHEN YOU HAVE ONE AND WE CAN MAKE A DECISION WITH CURRENT INFO!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school they said you can change hybrid to DL very easily. You should call. They can’t possibly hold parents to choices from last year when they are planning to return at the peak (and still increaseing) of pandemic.

What grade level are you talking about? I have heard that from our middle school but not for elementary. In fact quite the opposite from elementary principal.

APS needs to clarify this quickly. If too many kids move to DL they will need to pull another teacher back into DL to balance numbers. One or two kids, fine the DL class gets larger. 5 or more? You need two online classes. The principals and teachers better be ready to pivot on this.

Or say no, as they told us our decisions were binding. What if rates swing the other way and people want to go back to hybrid?

[Anonymous]

I am comfortable with it, aside from lunch plans. I wish that they would move to a morning/afternoon grouping plan and offer bagged lunches to take home.

[Anonymous]

I have one elementary and one middle school student. We chose hybrid for both, and I am fine with sending them back now.

[Anonymous]

We have an elementary. They have been in group care since June. And we have one in daycare. We will send our elementary student back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My main consideration at this point is timing as much as health metrics.

If they don’t get these kids back until March, for example, it’s not worth the disruption in routine for my kids.

4 months isn’t worth it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My main consideration at this point is timing as much as health metrics.

If they don’t get these kids back until March, for example, it’s not worth the disruption in routine for my kids.

4 months isn’t worth it?

DP. By the time you figure they’ll lose the better part of two week to getting everyone used to the new routines, then it’s almost spring break (which is another disruption. After you get everyone settled back into routines after spring break, it’s 7 weeks before we start getting all of those chopped up weeks at the end of the school year. So I can see pp’s point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we're going back in February is more theater and I'm sick of it. Duran and SB will say Feb their intention, the teachers will melt down and say they can't come back until vaccinated, Duran and SB will back down and then it will not be their "fault".

TELL US A REAL DATE WHEN YOU HAVE ONE AND WE CAN MAKE A DECISION WITH CURRENT INFO!!!!!!

Based on what’s been shared here, they are going to give us a date. You just don’t like the schedule.

[Anonymous]

Let’s do it. DH and I already have the first vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Apparently the new date is 2/9! For all? Or just K-2?

[Anonymous]

Give what is going on in the FCPS school board thread, I'm not sure any dates provided will stick.

I chose hybrid and I'm not comfortable sending my kid back now.

If parents don't want to send their kids hybrid, then the schools will either have to formally allow it or they will just have kids not showing up to hybrid. They can't force you to send your kid into the building in the current environment (where DL is a possibility), and it's absurd to hold parents to a choice made in October where very different metrics were presented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My main consideration at this point is timing as much as health metrics.

If they don’t get these kids back until March, for example, it’s not worth the disruption in routine for my kids.

4 months isn’t worth it?

DP. By the time you figure they’ll lose the better part of two week to getting everyone used to the new routines, then it’s almost spring break (which is another disruption. After you get everyone settled back into routines after spring break, it’s 7 weeks before we start getting all of those chopped up weeks at the end of the school year. So I can see pp’s point.

4 months is worth it for me. I don't want them working out the kinks at the beginning of next school year. Even if they only go back for a month for this school year I will take it. I've been back to my office a couple times and it is a shock to the system (as an adult). I honestly think by the time these kids get back into the classroom it will likely be a year since they have last seen the inside of a school building. If you wait until September, it will be a year and a half...no bueno.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s do it. DH and I already have the first vaccine.

How lucky for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s do it. DH and I already have the first vaccine.

Must be a troll. How could someone in the healthcare industry be so uncaring and tone deaf?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school they said you can change hybrid to DL very easily. You should call. They can’t possibly hold parents to choices from last year when they are planning to return at the peak (and still increaseing) of pandemic.

What grade level are you talking about? I have heard that from our middle school but not for elementary. In fact quite the opposite from elementary principal.

APS needs to clarify this quickly. If too many kids move to DL they will need to pull another teacher back into DL to balance numbers. One or two kids, fine the DL class gets larger. 5 or more? You need two online classes. The principals and teachers better be ready to pivot on this.

Or say no, as they told us our decisions were binding. What if rates swing the other way and people want to go back to hybrid?

They said that kids could move from hybrid to DL, but the other way would only be based on space available. If too many kids move because parents don't believe it's safe, you can't have DL classes of 30+ kids in APS.