LCPS Board Meeting TODAY -- vote to return ES to hybrid

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and my school already has “concerns and questions” meetings scheduled tomorrow so I fully expect them to vote to send us back.

The staff is recommending Option B, which would keep everyone at 100% distance learning until one of the two CDC metrics go down below the "highest" category. There is no reason to think that the school board will go against that recommendation, although a few of them would like to do so.

I mean the reason I have is that my admin has preemptively scheduled meetings about THIS meeting. Happy to be wrong but I’m not pulling my reasoning out of thin air.

Gotcha. Yeah, I don't doubt anything about what you posted. I didn't mean for my comments to sound so argumentative. There's definitely a chance that the board does not go with the recommendation.

[Anonymous]

They are presenting right now for anyone who wants to watch.

https://www.lcps.org/Page/140009

[Anonymous]

An overwhelming majority of those board members who have commented thus far are opposed to going back to hybrid anytime soon.

[Anonymous]

Mrs. king is going to ask Sunjay Gupta her vaccine questions?

[Anonymous]

Option B passed, but they'll keep revisiting the issue.

[Anonymous]

OMG. They literally can’t reopen school and vaccinate staff concurrently because they are planning to use school nurses to vaccinate staff!!! Just send them to Inova like Fairfax is doing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG. They literally can’t reopen school and vaccinate staff concurrently because they are planning to use school nurses to vaccinate staff!!! Just send them to Inova like Fairfax is doing!

Do they have their own supply?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An overwhelming majority of those board members who have commented thus far are opposed to going back to hybrid anytime soon.

If this is true then praise the Lord 🙏🏿

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Option B passed, but they'll keep revisiting the issue.

What option is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Option B passed, but they'll keep revisiting the issue.

What option is that?

All three metrics? I don’t really see the point because the first two metrics are more strict, so adding a third looser one does nothing. They didn’t need to bother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. They literally can’t reopen school and vaccinate staff concurrently because they are planning to use school nurses to vaccinate staff!!! Just send them to Inova like Fairfax is doing!

Do they have their own supply?

Sort of. The have a dedicated "pod" with appointments just for teachers, it sounds like. If they send their teachers to INOVA like Fairfax Co. is doing, then those teachers have to compete for appointments along with firefighters, police officers, and other categories of essential workers included in 1a and 1b.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. They literally can’t reopen school and vaccinate staff concurrently because they are planning to use school nurses to vaccinate staff!!! Just send them to Inova like Fairfax is doing!

Do they have their own supply?

Sort of. The have a dedicated "pod" with appointments just for teachers, it sounds like. If they send their teachers to INOVA like Fairfax Co. is doing, then those teachers have to compete for appointments along with firefighters, police officers, and other categories of essential workers included in 1a and 1b.

I bet it will STILL be easier to get an appointment at INOVA than with LCPS, which according to the latest email, it sounds like we are allowed to do. It said we could get it "within the community" also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Option B passed, but they'll keep revisiting the issue.

What option is that?

All three metrics? I don’t really see the point because the first two metrics are more strict, so adding a third looser one does nothing. They didn’t need to bother.

They did because once in person can begin it means they no longer use community metrics and they go school by school. If a school has an outbreak or staff issues they go DL again for awhile but it won’t affect other schools

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Option B passed, but they'll keep revisiting the issue.[/quote]

What option is that?[/quote]

All three metrics? I don’t really see the point because the first two metrics are more strict, so adding a third looser one does nothing. They didn’t need to bother.[/quote]

They did because once in person can begin it means they no longer use community metrics and they go school by school. If a school has an outbreak or staff issues they go DL again for awhile but it won’t affect other schools [/quote]

No. It means once open they can use school OR community metrics. They can closed based upon a variety of reasons. This isn’t helping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. They literally can’t reopen school and vaccinate staff concurrently because they are planning to use school nurses to vaccinate staff!!! Just send them to Inova like Fairfax is doing!

Do they have their own supply?

Sort of. The have a dedicated "pod" with appointments just for teachers, it sounds like. If they send their teachers to INOVA like Fairfax Co. is doing, then those teachers have to compete for appointments along with firefighters, police officers, and other categories of essential workers included in 1a and 1b.

I bet it will STILL be easier to get an appointment at INOVA than with LCPS, which according to the latest email, it sounds like we are allowed to do. It said we could get it "within the community" also.

Agreed. Doing your own pods sounds horribly inefficient and doesn't scale. INOVA is built for this and will crank through that population. All things being equal, you'd have to think LCPS will lag far behind the other districts in getting their teacher population vaccinated.