What will school look like after the pandemic??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would guess that school will be hybrid in the fall. Luckily my child will be a seventh grader by then, so the situation is not so bad for us.

why hybrid? all the teachers and staff will have been vaccinated by then.

Teacher here. There is no chance it’s hybrid in fall. Everyone who actually has anything to do with schools is planning for a full 5 day fall. People just like to stay riled up in this board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

In parts of the country where schools are open, there is no division or rancor between teachers and parents.

We really screwed up in this area. In many ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot see schools mandating masks once teachers are all vaccinated. It will be optional.

Wrong. Until kids can get vaccinated they will need masks.

Exactly. Kids do get Covid and long term effects are unknown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

In parts of the country where schools are open, there is no division or rancor between teachers and parents.

We really screwed up in this area. In many ways.

Yes there is. All of you make up scenarios about what you THINK is happening in other places to victimize yourselves. In fact, the entire country is conflicted over this because in those areas parents get mad if their kids are forced to quarantine or mask. Teachers are resentful of constantly being exposed. Montgomery just closed schools again because 4 teachers died in a week and parents are furious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

I’m curious what doctors or scientists (people much smarter than me on this stuff) would say about masking kids all winter. Kids’ immune systems are really good and are learning. It’s important for them to be exposed to bacteria and even viruses so they can develop immunity. Masking kids all winter so they’re never exposed to anything seems like it would backfire in adulthood.

They would say mask. Look at this graph of youth death from flu. Almost NONE this year : https://twitter.com/dakhterakhter/status/1355400664419950600?s=21

I understand that flu deaths have plummeted this year. But kids can and should get the flu shot every year, which would cut down on deaths. What about all of the other illnesses that strengthen the immune system?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would guess that school will be hybrid in the fall. Luckily my child will be a seventh grader by then, so the situation is not so bad for us.

why hybrid? all the teachers and staff will have been vaccinated by then.

Teacher here. There is no chance it’s hybrid in fall. Everyone who actually has anything to do with schools is planning for a full 5 day fall. People just like to stay riled up in this board.

Hybrid is a logistical and learning disaster. It'll be 5-days masked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope they offer DL for the kids that prefer it. I mean forever not just next year.

As a teacher, I am all for offering DL that is county based, not school based. It isn’t fair to any group to offer concurrent. In early summer they should ask parents to commit so they can figure how many teachers they need. Let’s say there are 400 5th graders in the county choosing to stay virtual. You would need about 16 teachers. Kids would be lumped together. No school based DL. High School should use virtual Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

I’m curious what doctors or scientists (people much smarter than me on this stuff) would say about masking kids all winter. Kids’ immune systems are really good and are learning. It’s important for them to be exposed to bacteria and even viruses so they can develop immunity. Masking kids all winter so they’re never exposed to anything seems like it would backfire in adulthood.

They would say mask. Look at this graph of youth death from flu. Almost NONE this year : https://twitter.com/dakhterakhter/status/1355400664419950600?s=21

I understand that flu deaths have plummeted this year. But kids can and should get the flu shot every year, which would cut down on deaths. What about all of the other illnesses that strengthen the immune system?

Lady, who cares. Go start your own thread. Play internet epidemiologist and expose your kid to every illness you want, it’s your business but it’s not the topic of this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

I’m curious what doctors or scientists (people much smarter than me on this stuff) would say about masking kids all winter. Kids’ immune systems are really good and are learning. It’s important for them to be exposed to bacteria and even viruses so they can develop immunity. Masking kids all winter so they’re never exposed to anything seems like it would backfire in adulthood.

Not to mention the affect on our planet to produce and dispose of millions of masks each year? This is not sustainable in the long term.

[Anonymous]

I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

You sound exactly like anti vaxxer Facebook moms . Exact same arguments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

You sound exactly like anti vaxxer Facebook moms . Exact same arguments.

I don't know what antivaxxer facebook moms say, but that person was actually making sense. Just saying. Don't discredit someone's argument by labeling it as antivaxxer argument. If it makes sense, good, if not then say why it does not make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

You sound exactly like anti vaxxer Facebook moms . Exact same arguments.

+1, yep. If the parents don't like it they can unenroll their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

You sound exactly like anti vaxxer Facebook moms . Exact same arguments.

I don't know what antivaxxer facebook moms say, but that person was actually making sense. Just saying. Don't discredit someone's argument by labeling it as antivaxxer argument. If it makes sense, good, if not then say why it does not make sense.

Because masks are not torture devices, kids do fine with them, and sometimes you do things to protect the greater good instead of always worrying about yourself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

This is why I think masks will be optional. For those that are very concerned, they can mask. For those that aren't, that their choice.