I still don't understand what classroom monitors are for

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are lots of reasons why a teacher might be unavailable.

First, there will be situations where teachers are exposed when students aren't. I teach in person. We had a situation where a teacher and her husband spent time with someone, who was diagnosed the day after she saw him. Since the time period between the teacher seeing the person, and seeing students, was so short, the Health Department found there was no risk. So, the teacher was ordered to quarantine but not the class. Then during the teacher's two week quarantine her husband got the virus so the two weeks started again. Then their kid got it, so the two weeks started again. The teacher never got it but she was teaching from home 5 weeks I think?

There are also situations where teachers aren't interchangeable. At my school, there's on teacher who can teach the AP and post AP calc classes. They can't just switch her with one of the Algebra 1 teachers. There's one teacher who can teach a couple of the languages. Or there will be situations where things are uneven. So, there's 3 third grade teachers and they all have ADA protection, and none of the 2nd grade teachers do.

Or the teacher is not local and they are placing a monitor while she teaches from a distance.

True story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers who have an ADA accommodation to teach from home but have students in person.

ADA is for reasonable accommodations. How is it reasonable to make some kids sit in front of a computer all day in school compared to having an in person teacher. If my child is with a teacher who is at home and has a classroom monitor I am going to rethink sending them
At all.

I agree but think it will be mostly used for secondary. So a kid would likely only have this for a subject or two.

Look at boas Docs. The number of monitors needed is evenly split between K-6 and 7-12. Over 400 K-6 classes will have a virtual teacher and monitor.

[Anonymous]

Our classroom monitors are mostly being used for lunch coverage. We don’t have any that are with students all day while the teacher is at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who have an ADA accommodation to teach from home but have students in person.

ADA is for reasonable accommodations. How is it reasonable to make some kids sit in front of a computer all day in school compared to having an in person teacher. If my child is with a teacher who is at home and has a classroom monitor I am going to rethink sending them
At all.

I agree but think it will be mostly used for secondary. So a kid would likely only have this for a subject or two.

Look at boas Docs. The number of monitors needed is evenly split between K-6 and 7-12. Over 400 K-6 classes will have a virtual teacher and monitor.

*Board Docs. I’m glad I’m not a K-6 parent. I agree. My HS kid can sit in a classroom and continue to learn Latin virtually I pdf needs be. 4 of her teachers are already teaching out of the building. Orchestra teacher got in the first minute possible. Heard to be in a small house with your own kids DL— while teaching cello.

But K-3 is all or nothing. All day 1st grade remote. Remote Latin may be reasonable for my junior. Remote 1st grade. The kids who draw the short straw are screwed. It is not a reasonable accommodation for littles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are lots of reasons why a teacher might be unavailable.

First, there will be situations where teachers are exposed when students aren't. I teach in person. We had a situation where a teacher and her husband spent time with someone, who was diagnosed the day after she saw him. Since the time period between the teacher seeing the person, and seeing students, was so short, the Health Department found there was no risk. So, the teacher was ordered to quarantine but not the class. Then during the teacher's two week quarantine her husband got the virus so the two weeks started again. Then their kid got it, so the two weeks started again. The teacher never got it but she was teaching from home 5 weeks I think?

There are also situations where teachers aren't interchangeable. At my school, there's on teacher who can teach the AP and post AP calc classes. They can't just switch her with one of the Algebra 1 teachers. There's one teacher who can teach a couple of the languages. Or there will be situations where things are uneven. So, there's 3 third grade teachers and they all have ADA protection, and none of the 2nd grade teachers do.

Or the teacher is not local and they are placing a monitor while she teaches from a distance.

True story.

Just out of curiosity, why does it matter?

My SIL a teacher with an accommodation. She moved in with us, so that her kids would have safe childcare so she could teach uninterrupted. If she had stayed home, she would have had the kids interrupting her teaching etc . . . It literally makes no difference to her students, so she wouldn't be in the classroom either way, so why wouldn't parents want her to make the choice she did?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who have an ADA accommodation to teach from home but have students in person.

ADA is for reasonable accommodations. How is it reasonable to make some kids sit in front of a computer all day in school compared to having an in person teacher. If my child is with a teacher who is at home and has a classroom monitor I am going to rethink sending them
At all.

I agree but think it will be mostly used for secondary. So a kid would likely only have this for a subject or two.

Look at boas Docs. The number of monitors needed is evenly split between K-6 and 7-12. Over 400 K-6 classes will have a virtual teacher and monitor.

*Board Docs. I’m glad I’m not a K-6 parent. I agree. My HS kid can sit in a classroom and continue to learn Latin virtually I pdf needs be. 4 of her teachers are already teaching out of the building. Orchestra teacher got in the first minute possible. Heard to be in a small house with your own kids DL— while teaching cello.

But K-3 is all or nothing. All day 1st grade remote. Remote Latin may be reasonable for my junior. Remote 1st grade. The kids who draw the short straw are screwed. It is not a reasonable accommodation for littles.

Little ones who are in person aren't the ones getting accommodations under ADA.

[Anonymous]

We are at an AAP center and in the upper grades there are usually 2 gen ed classes and 2-3 AAP classes per grade. In my son’s grade, there are two AAP classes and more than 75% of the kids chose hybrid. So neither teacher can be 100% virtual. One will be A-B concurrent and one will be A-B-C or possibly A-C concurrent. Also, say our school had 3 ADA accommodations for the entire school and ALL 3 taught the same grade. Whole teachers sometimes move around grades, this year seems to be a particularly tough year to move around.

[Anonymous]

They are low-wage workers who are desperate enough for work they will stand in harms way so vaccinated teachers can stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are low-wage workers who are desperate enough for work they will stand in harms way so vaccinated teachers can stay home.

Are monitors not eligible for vaccinations as FCPS employees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who have an ADA accommodation to teach from home but have students in person.

ADA is for reasonable accommodations. How is it reasonable to make some kids sit in front of a computer all day in school compared to having an in person teacher. If my child is with a teacher who is at home and has a classroom monitor I am going to rethink sending them
At all.

I agree but think it will be mostly used for secondary. So a kid would likely only have this for a subject or two.

Look at boas Docs. The number of monitors needed is evenly split between K-6 and 7-12. Over 400 K-6 classes will have a virtual teacher and monitor.

*Board Docs. I’m glad I’m not a K-6 parent. I agree. My HS kid can sit in a classroom and continue to learn Latin virtually I pdf needs be. 4 of her teachers are already teaching out of the building. Orchestra teacher got in the first minute possible. Heard to be in a small house with your own kids DL— while teaching cello.

But K-3 is all or nothing. All day 1st grade remote. Remote Latin may be reasonable for my junior. Remote 1st grade. The kids who draw the short straw are screwed. It is not a reasonable accommodation for littles.

Little ones who are in person aren't the ones getting accommodations under ADA.

She is saying it is not a reasonable accommodation for a teacher who teaches littles. Accommodations can be denied where it is unduly burdensome on the employee and I have to say I agree with PP that it is unduly burdensome to accommodate a K-2 teacher by allowing them to stay virtual if there are not sufficient students choosing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are low-wage workers who are desperate enough for work they will stand in harms way so vaccinated teachers can stay home.

Are monitors not eligible for vaccinations as FCPS employees?

Yes. PP was just another troll with Teacher Derangement Syndrome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who have an ADA accommodation to teach from home but have students in person.

ADA is for reasonable accommodations. How is it reasonable to make some kids sit in front of a computer all day in school compared to having an in person teacher. If my child is with a teacher who is at home and has a classroom monitor I am going to rethink sending them
At all.

I agree but think it will be mostly used for secondary. So a kid would likely only have this for a subject or two.

Look at boas Docs. The number of monitors needed is evenly split between K-6 and 7-12. Over 400 K-6 classes will have a virtual teacher and monitor.

*Board Docs. I’m glad I’m not a K-6 parent. I agree. My HS kid can sit in a classroom and continue to learn Latin virtually I pdf needs be. 4 of her teachers are already teaching out of the building. Orchestra teacher got in the first minute possible. Heard to be in a small house with your own kids DL— while teaching cello.

But K-3 is all or nothing. All day 1st grade remote. Remote Latin may be reasonable for my junior. Remote 1st grade. The kids who draw the short straw are screwed. It is not a reasonable accommodation for littles.

Little ones who are in person aren't the ones getting accommodations under ADA.

You know what I mean. Virtual teaching isn’t a reasonable accommodation for teachers of littles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are low-wage workers who are desperate enough for work they will stand in harms way so vaccinated teachers can stay home.

Are monitors not eligible for vaccinations as FCPS employees?

Yes. PP was just another troll with Teacher Derangement Syndrome.

If it’s perfectly safe, why isn’t the teacher there.

No, I don’t think it’s reasonable for a teacher on screen to teach K with an untrained monitor in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are low-wage workers who are desperate enough for work they will stand in harms way so vaccinated teachers can stay home.

Are monitors not eligible for vaccinations as FCPS employees?

Yes. PP was just another troll with Teacher Derangement Syndrome.

Sounded like a reasonable statement to me.