3 or 6 feet in your district?

[Anonymous]

Zero. But we’re in private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zero. But we’re in private.

Why post on the public school forum, then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS:
3’ classroom with 6’ for lunch
Was previously 6’ classroom before CDC changed guidelines

Same in FCPS.

Where are they eating lunch?

I'd like to know this too. Hearing Fairfax is getting kids back 4 days a week at 3 feet in classroom. How are they fitting them in for 6 feet at lunch?

Do they actually do outdoor lunch?

FCPS parent here. My sons class is split in half for lunch, half eat in the classroom and the other half in the cafeteria. Half eat their snack, while the others wait and then the second half eats their snack. There are classes at his school where they can all eat in the class.

What time does he eat? 10am?

Our lunch is already short and spread over a few hours. Not sure how they'd double the number of time slots.

Wow - they have 6' distance for all kids in a classroom? Were those schools with low hybrid %s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS:
3’ classroom with 6’ for lunch
Was previously 6’ classroom before CDC changed guidelines

Same in FCPS.

Where are they eating lunch?

I'd like to know this too. Hearing Fairfax is getting kids back 4 days a week at 3 feet in classroom. How are they fitting them in for 6 feet at lunch?

Do they actually do outdoor lunch?

FCPS parent here. My sons class is split in half for lunch, half eat in the classroom and the other half in the cafeteria. Half eat their snack, while the others wait and then the second half eats their snack. There are classes at his school where they can all eat in the class.

What time does he eat? 10am?

Our lunch is already short and spread over a few hours. Not sure how they'd double the number of time slots.

Wow - they have 6' distance for all kids in a classroom? Were those schools with low hybrid %s?

No idea what time he eats. I know that when it was 2 day in person, they ate in the classroom. No one ate in the cafeteria so that space was available for over flow kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS:
3’ classroom with 6’ for lunch
Was previously 6’ classroom before CDC changed guidelines

Same in FCPS.

Where are they eating lunch?

I'd like to know this too. Hearing Fairfax is getting kids back 4 days a week at 3 feet in classroom. How are they fitting them in for 6 feet at lunch?

Do they actually do outdoor lunch?

FCPS parent here. My sons class is split in half for lunch, half eat in the classroom and the other half in the cafeteria. Half eat their snack, while the others wait and then the second half eats their snack. There are classes at his school where they can all eat in the class.

What time does he eat? 10am?

Our lunch is already short and spread over a few hours. Not sure how they'd double the number of time slots.

Wow - they have 6' distance for all kids in a classroom? Were those schools with low hybrid %s?

No idea what time he eats. I know that when it was 2 day in person, they ate in the classroom. No one ate in the cafeteria so that space was available for over flow kids.

Who watches him in the classroom during lunch? Does the teacher get a break?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS:
3’ classroom with 6’ for lunch
Was previously 6’ classroom before CDC changed guidelines

Same in FCPS.

Where are they eating lunch?

I'd like to know this too. Hearing Fairfax is getting kids back 4 days a week at 3 feet in classroom. How are they fitting them in for 6 feet at lunch?

Do they actually do outdoor lunch?

FCPS parent here. My sons class is split in half for lunch, half eat in the classroom and the other half in the cafeteria. Half eat their snack, while the others wait and then the second half eats their snack. There are classes at his school where they can all eat in the class.

What time does he eat? 10am?

Our lunch is already short and spread over a few hours. Not sure how they'd double the number of time slots.

Wow - they have 6' distance for all kids in a classroom? Were those schools with low hybrid %s?

No idea what time he eats. I know that when it was 2 day in person, they ate in the classroom. No one ate in the cafeteria so that space was available for over flow kids.

Who watches him in the classroom during lunch? Does the teacher get a break?

I have not asked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zero. But we’re in private.

Why post on the public school forum, then?

Because I still have a kid stuck in APS.

[Anonymous]

I have kids in FCPS. Teachers have duty-free lunch. Classroom and lunch monitors and specialists shuffle around to make it happen. For all in-person kids at our school to come 4 days they had to hire more monitors. Kids are eating in the classroom if there is space for 6 feet spacing, or cafeteria, or a large specials room. We only have 4 lunch periods right now, which is less than usual, to keep in-school and virtual kids synced.

I actually don’t know how they are handling snacks. Should ask my kids. Only a few kids chose to eat breakfast and those kids space out various ways.

Apparently we are getting a lunch tent soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have kids in FCPS. Teachers have duty-free lunch. Classroom and lunch monitors and specialists shuffle around to make it happen. For all in-person kids at our school to come 4 days they had to hire more monitors. Kids are eating in the classroom if there is space for 6 feet spacing, or cafeteria, or a large specials room. We only have 4 lunch periods right now, which is less than usual, to keep in-school and virtual kids synced.

I actually don’t know how they are handling snacks. Should ask my kids. Only a few kids chose to eat breakfast and those kids space out various ways.

Apparently we are getting a lunch tent soon.

I wonder if lunch monitors would help APS with the 6’ lunch issue...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have kids in FCPS. Teachers have duty-free lunch. Classroom and lunch monitors and specialists shuffle around to make it happen. For all in-person kids at our school to come 4 days they had to hire more monitors. Kids are eating in the classroom if there is space for 6 feet spacing, or cafeteria, or a large specials room. We only have 4 lunch periods right now, which is less than usual, to keep in-school and virtual kids synced.

I actually don’t know how they are handling snacks. Should ask my kids. Only a few kids chose to eat breakfast and those kids space out various ways.

Apparently we are getting a lunch tent soon.

lunch tent - yay!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have kids in FCPS. Teachers have duty-free lunch. Classroom and lunch monitors and specialists shuffle around to make it happen. For all in-person kids at our school to come 4 days they had to hire more monitors. Kids are eating in the classroom if there is space for 6 feet spacing, or cafeteria, or a large specials room. We only have 4 lunch periods right now, which is less than usual, to keep in-school and virtual kids synced.

I actually don’t know how they are handling snacks. Should ask my kids. Only a few kids chose to eat breakfast and those kids space out various ways.

Apparently we are getting a lunch tent soon.

lunch tent - yay!

Which school is this, or can you at least share which district? We're trying to get one too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have kids in FCPS. Teachers have duty-free lunch. Classroom and lunch monitors and specialists shuffle around to make it happen. For all in-person kids at our school to come 4 days they had to hire more monitors. Kids are eating in the classroom if there is space for 6 feet spacing, or cafeteria, or a large specials room. We only have 4 lunch periods right now, which is less than usual, to keep in-school and virtual kids synced.

I actually don’t know how they are handling snacks. Should ask my kids. Only a few kids chose to eat breakfast and those kids space out various ways.

Apparently we are getting a lunch tent soon.

lunch tent - yay!

Which school is this, or can you at least share which district? We're trying to get one too.

FCPS. Our superintendent said they ordered a bunch at his last presentation on the issue, so someone there knows how to order.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:huh? The question was which districts in VA are using 3 or 6, not about the science. CDC has spoken there.

The cdc distance rule is not based on good science. That’s the whole point of the peer-reviewed study out of MIT, just published in the NAS journal. So you can ask now 3 v 6 for your school but it’s pr a ly going in the trash by fall —- OBE. You should be asking what your school is doing about ventilation and masking, contact tracing. Etc.

If someone asked you what the federal government reported the unemployment rate was in a given quarter, would you wax poetic about studies that (whether correct or not) highlight the inadequacies of the metric, or just provide the data point. You’re high jacking a thread that isn’t about the science, it’s a question about what is happening in different districts. Non sequitur extraordinaire...

Look beyond your nose. The metric will likely change. So you’re probably getting all lathered up over nothing. But you do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:huh? The question was which districts in VA are using 3 or 6, not about the science. CDC has spoken there.

The cdc distance rule is not based on good science. That’s the whole point of the peer-reviewed study out of MIT, just published in the NAS journal. So you can ask now 3 v 6 for your school but it’s pr a ly going in the trash by fall —- OBE. You should be asking what your school is doing about ventilation and masking, contact tracing. Etc.

If someone asked you what the federal government reported the unemployment rate was in a given quarter, would you wax poetic about studies that (whether correct or not) highlight the inadequacies of the metric, or just provide the data point. You’re high jacking a thread that isn’t about the science, it’s a question about what is happening in different districts. Non sequitur extraordinaire...

Look beyond your nose. The metric will likely change. So you’re probably getting all lathered up over nothing. But you do you.

The thing is, Mayo Clinic already had something showing that with good masking and ventilation the difference in COVID risk between 6 feet, 3 feet, and even 1 foot was negligible. It was published in November. Nothing changed then. I think by fall things will change, but only because the pressure to get schools open will be so great, not because SCIENCE says so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:huh? The question was which districts in VA are using 3 or 6, not about the science. CDC has spoken there.

The cdc distance rule is not based on good science. That’s the whole point of the peer-reviewed study out of MIT, just published in the NAS journal. So you can ask now 3 v 6 for your school but it’s pr a ly going in the trash by fall —- OBE. You should be asking what your school is doing about ventilation and masking, contact tracing. Etc.

If someone asked you what the federal government reported the unemployment rate was in a given quarter, would you wax poetic about studies that (whether correct or not) highlight the inadequacies of the metric, or just provide the data point. You’re high jacking a thread that isn’t about the science, it’s a question about what is happening in different districts. Non sequitur extraordinaire...

Look beyond your nose. The metric will likely change. So you’re probably getting all lathered up over nothing. But you do you.

The thing is, Mayo Clinic already had something showing that with good masking and ventilation the difference in COVID risk between 6 feet, 3 feet, and even 1 foot was negligible. It was published in November. Nothing changed then. I think by fall things will change, but only because the pressure to get schools open will be so great, not because SCIENCE says so.

MIT did too. The difference now is that it’s been peer-reviewed and published the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I would think that would get some consideration. Masks, ventilation and open windows (CO monitor to confirm quality), maybe improved filtration but that costs and provides a lower ROI. We will see. High community vaxx rate would be good too.