Predictions for full time in person in the Fall please

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:K-5 will be back in person five days per week, with DC setting up a citywide online academy for anyone not comfortable with this plan.

I also predict that DCPS communication will continue to be dismal, planning for the 2021-22 school year will begin months late, the WTU will continue to move any goalpost that's out there and that everything still will be unnecessarily suboptimal for the kids.

Don't forget that DCPS will have to start reviewing boundaries likely before we're fully out of the pandemic. That'll be something to behold.

Oh, and the mayor and seven DC Council members are up for reelection in 2022. It's gonna be an amazingly batshit year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:K-5 will be back in person five days per week, with DC setting up a citywide online academy for anyone not comfortable with this plan.

I also predict that DCPS communication will continue to be dismal, planning for the 2021-22 school year will begin months late, the WTU will continue to move any goalpost that's out there and that everything still will be unnecessarily suboptimal for the kids.

Don't forget that DCPS will have to start reviewing boundaries likely before we're fully out of the pandemic. That'll be something to behold.

How do you think the pandemic is going to affect the boundary review?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100% in person, but Wednesdays are off.

Noooooooooo

[Anonymous]

100%

[Anonymous]

50%. Look at the threads.

[Anonymous]

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/958230.page

[Anonymous]

From the above thread:

Here is a recent quote from the DME. Compared to other districts DCPS is much more non committal about the fall.

"We also believe and, I know I personally think this, the virus is insidious and we have no idea what the world will look like in September. We do know that there will be no child vaccine, probably, by then and so we need to prepare for a September that is not necessarily going to be normal. So we should be preparing for a September that could have some version of hybrid or virtual ongoing. So we also think it's important that we continue to support our teachers who are at the center of this endeavor as they continue strengthening their virtual education skills.”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRjt5FDgYuE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=DCSBOE at 8:00)

[Anonymous]

Stokes: Spring 2022 when the vaccine is released for kids.

[Anonymous]

Like, don't bet on rationality, people. It's DC government. We already aren't following science where school's concerns. Why start in the Fall or sooner?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the above thread:

Here is a recent quote from the DME. Compared to other districts DCPS is much more non committal about the fall.

"We also believe and, I know I personally think this, the virus is insidious and we have no idea what the world will look like in September. We do know that there will be no child vaccine, probably, by then and so we need to prepare for a September that is not necessarily going to be normal. So we should be preparing for a September that could have some version of hybrid or virtual ongoing. So we also think it's important that we continue to support our teachers who are at the center of this endeavor as they continue strengthening their virtual education skills.”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRjt5FDgYuE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=DCSBOE at 8:00)

I was the one who posted this. I still hope that we will come to his senses. I hope he just said this without thinking it through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stokes: Spring 2022 when the vaccine is released for kids.

Crazies are ruling Stokes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% chance of 50/50, except for 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.

Huh? Are you one of those who think KIDS need to be vaccinated before school can resume? If so, you are nuts. Then again, lots of people have gone nuts during this, so maybe you are right. I still hold out hope that sanity will prevail.

Their bodies react to covid like adults and they cause spread. So ya, HS kids need to be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% in person, but Wednesdays are off.

Noooooooooo

Whooohooooooooooo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the above thread:

Here is a recent quote from the DME. Compared to other districts DCPS is much more non committal about the fall.

"We also believe and, I know I personally think this, the virus is insidious and we have no idea what the world will look like in September. We do know that there will be no child vaccine, probably, by then and so we need to prepare for a September that is not necessarily going to be normal. So we should be preparing for a September that could have some version of hybrid or virtual ongoing. So we also think it's important that we continue to support our teachers who are at the center of this endeavor as they continue strengthening their virtual education skills.”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRjt5FDgYuE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=DCSBOE at 8:00)

I was the one who posted this. I still hope that we will come to his senses. I hope he just said this without thinking it through.

He is really careful about what he says. More recently at ward three education network meeting he said that getting back five days per week versus hybrid would depend on how many people got vaccinated and that there are too many unknowns. I am concerned that teachers will still petition to stay at home in numbers significant enough to mean a combo of hybrid for some, DL for some (with t the teachers that petitioned doing the DL) and full in person for iep etc. It will be decided school by school probably. In the absence of parent advocacy efforts making a difference I think that this is how it will play out. It makes sense that the pandemic will not be completely behind us because according to the experts herd immunity may not take place until 85 percent are vaccinated. Not only will children not be vaccinated but vaccine hesitancy is high among those most at risk in DC. The teachers will be able to point tt out that vaccines are not fully effective against the variants so the teachers with health problems of which there are many will stay home. This is i think what DME is seeing. With a big parent advocacy effort, however, I think that the changing of cdc guidelines and surrounding districts reopening will put pressure. It will come down to where the city feels the most pressure - from the WTU or parents. They may in any case use Wednesdays as a bargaining chip to try to get cooperation from t teachers by making them a planning day. Hope I'm wrong!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the above thread:

Here is a recent quote from the DME. Compared to other districts DCPS is much more non committal about the fall.

"We also believe and, I know I personally think this, the virus is insidious and we have no idea what the world will look like in September. We do know that there will be no child vaccine, probably, by then and so we need to prepare for a September that is not necessarily going to be normal. So we should be preparing for a September that could have some version of hybrid or virtual ongoing. So we also think it's important that we continue to support our teachers who are at the center of this endeavor as they continue strengthening their virtual education skills.”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRjt5FDgYuE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=DCSBOE at 8:00)

I was the one who posted this. I still hope that we will come to his senses. I hope he just said this without thinking it through.

Between things like that, and various reports that charters have heard from OSSE to prepare for hybrid in the fall, I don't have particularly high hopes for full-time in-person. Particularly face-to-face with teachers.

Also, someone posted on DCUM that Wilson's principal (I think?) said they were preparing for full time in the fall, so I hope that I'm wrong.