How do you think the fall will be in fcps?

[Anonymous]

Why does someone ask this same question every few days???

[Anonymous]

The next battle will be around the online option. Staffing and what courses to offer. There absolutely will be an online option as long as there isn’t a pediatric vaccine, and if the pediatric vaccine takes a very long time, there could be an online option indefinitely if people get used to it and like it. Virtual Virginia won’t be the online option because FCPS doesn’t get funding for those students and they don’t want to give up $$. If FCPS decides to do the DL classes at each school like they are now, get ready for another school year of concurrent, even hybrid concurrent. Because they don’t have the staffing to run two school systems. If they can create a county-wide online campus, that could work and we could be free of the “going to school to watch teacher on a computer” nonsense, BUT they may be reluctant to do that because the online kids liked wouldn’t get the same course offerings as the in person kids.

The fact that they won’t relax the 6 feet rule is also a problem that could lead to hybrid next school year as well. Seems like they want no Covid at all before they relax the distancing requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does someone ask this same question every few days???[/quote

Because people are scared after seeing their kids suffer this year.
Because people are afraid their kids who no longer love school might not get that love back.
Because people recognize that teaching is a professional occupation and that most parents are not skilled enough to do it, and yes virtual requires significant parental teaching for younger children.
Because acceptance decisions about private and parochial schools need to be made very soon and FCPS families who never considered going outside public have some hard decisions to make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The next battle will be around the online option. Staffing and what courses to offer. There absolutely will be an online option as long as there isn’t a pediatric vaccine, and if the pediatric vaccine takes a very long time, there could be an online option indefinitely if people get used to it and like it. Virtual Virginia won’t be the online option because FCPS doesn’t get funding for those students and they don’t want to give up $$. If FCPS decides to do the DL classes at each school like they are now, get ready for another school year of concurrent, even hybrid concurrent. Because they don’t have the staffing to run two school systems. If they can create a county-wide online campus, that could work and we could be free of the “going to school to watch teacher on a computer” nonsense, BUT they may be reluctant to do that because the online kids liked wouldn’t get the same course offerings as the in person kids.

The fact that they won’t relax the 6 feet rule is also a problem that could lead to hybrid next school year as well. Seems like they want no Covid at all before they relax the distancing requirements.

These are the biggest issues I can see.

The other would be if they fall back to using CDC's "community spread" guidelines over VDOE's "spread in school matrixed with community spread" guidelines. If they do that, then who knows when hybrid would end? The community spread guidelines from CDC to be full-time in-person are absurdly low.

In Brabrand's most recent family town hall he mentioned using an "equity" lens around online campuses, which in my read means another year of concurrent learning because they won't get creative to figure out how to do anything else (and they'll already have the concurrent technology plus have a lot more funding coming in from Biden's new stimulus).

[Anonymous]

Oh good, ANOTHER thread asking this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Five days a week or we riot in the streets .

Will you just STFU? Damn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be hybrid.

Zero chance. Maybe less than zero. It’s going to be 5 days/week.

[Anonymous]

I have a hard time believing that it won't be hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Vaccines are rolling out, numbers going down. But also new variants popping up every day and people are really giving up on “being safe”. I don’t think anyone can actually predict what things will be like 7 months from now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m debating if I should go parochial school or not. I know it hasn’t been a bad experience for all kids but virtual has been a big problem for mine. I legitimately panic at the thought there could be any days of virtual next year.

Next year I will have a kindergartener, a first grader who at best will have had 26 days in the classroom since spring of kindergarten, and a fourth grader. I panic too.

That should say second grader, not first grader.

+1. Same boat except just the kindergartener and second grader. If I go parochial, I have to commit by June, that's when first months tuition is due.

[Anonymous]

It will be hybrid until the fall of 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be hybrid until the fall of 2022.

Nope. There will be irreparable educational damage if you continue this for another year. You will also destroy teachers if you force concurrent on them for an entire year. Teachers will be vaccinated, household adults vaccinated, metrics will be fine...time to go back to normal in fall (with masks).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The next battle will be around the online option. Staffing and what courses to offer. There absolutely will be an online option as long as there isn’t a pediatric vaccine, and if the pediatric vaccine takes a very long time, there could be an online option indefinitely if people get used to it and like it. Virtual Virginia won’t be the online option because FCPS doesn’t get funding for those students and they don’t want to give up $$. If FCPS decides to do the DL classes at each school like they are now, get ready for another school year of concurrent, even hybrid concurrent. Because they don’t have the staffing to run two school systems. If they can create a county-wide online campus, that could work and we could be free of the “going to school to watch teacher on a computer” nonsense, BUT they may be reluctant to do that because the online kids liked wouldn’t get the same course offerings as the in person kids.

The fact that they won’t relax the 6 feet rule is also a problem that could lead to hybrid next school year as well. Seems like they want no Covid at all before they relax the distancing requirements.

These are the biggest issues I can see.

The other would be if they fall back to using CDC's "community spread" guidelines over VDOE's "spread in school matrixed with community spread" guidelines. If they do that, then who knows when hybrid would end? The community spread guidelines from CDC to be full-time in-person are absurdly low.

In Brabrand's most recent family town hall he mentioned using an "equity" lens around online campuses, which in my read means another year of concurrent learning because they won't get creative to figure out how to do anything else (and they'll already have the concurrent technology plus have a lot more funding coming in from Biden's new stimulus).

Hybrid ends when no child left behind testing is no longer being waived. FCPS does not want to have to deal with a plethora of failing schools and principals don't want to waste their time developing improvement plans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does someone ask this same question every few days???

Uh...because it’s the biggest issue impacting most parents’ lives right now?!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Five days a week or we riot in the streets .

Will you just STFU? Damn.

Can we be civil?