All schools should offer an all-virtual option

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

And people in hell want ice water. How is any school administrator supposed to plan for what you’re asking for?

This is a gift to school administrator. Reducing the in-classroom cohort size, from self-selecting families, reduces the risk of outbreaks. Having some virtual kids ensures the structure is in place and there is no scrambling at the quarantine transitions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I agree with you!!

I'd be cool with a half-day a week touch point, preferably outdoors.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

And people in hell want ice water. How is any school administrator supposed to plan for what you’re asking for?

This is a gift to school administrator. Reducing the in-classroom cohort size, from self-selecting families, reduces the risk of outbreaks. Having some virtual kids ensures the structure is in place and there is no scrambling at the quarantine transitions.

Same PP. It also gives a virtual option and a peer group to the individual kids who need to quarantine for whatever reason that doesn't trigger a whole class quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

And people in hell want ice water. How is any school administrator supposed to plan for what you’re asking for?

This is a gift to school administrator. Reducing the in-classroom cohort size, from self-selecting families, reduces the risk of outbreaks. Having some virtual kids ensures the structure is in place and there is no scrambling at the quarantine transitions.

NO IT IS NOT. You seem to think that teachers grow on trees and that staffing is fluid and flexible. You seem to think that no planning is involved. Do you have a job that requires any thinking or large scale planning?

Go back to the post above with the first grade classroom example. Answer that and then we’ll talk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

And people in hell want ice water. How is any school administrator supposed to plan for what you’re asking for?

This is a gift to school administrator. Reducing the in-classroom cohort size, from self-selecting families, reduces the risk of outbreaks. Having some virtual kids ensures the structure is in place and there is no scrambling at the quarantine transitions.

NO IT IS NOT. You seem to think that teachers grow on trees and that staffing is fluid and flexible. You seem to think that no planning is involved. Do you have a job that requires any thinking or large scale planning?

Go back to the post above with the first grade classroom example. Answer that and then we’ll talk.

Concurrent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

And people in hell want ice water. How is any school administrator supposed to plan for what you’re asking for?

This is a gift to school administrator. Reducing the in-classroom cohort size, from self-selecting families, reduces the risk of outbreaks. Having some virtual kids ensures the structure is in place and there is no scrambling at the quarantine transitions.

NO IT IS NOT. You seem to think that teachers grow on trees and that staffing is fluid and flexible. You seem to think that no planning is involved. Do you have a job that requires any thinking or large scale planning?

Go back to the post above with the first grade classroom example. Answer that and then we’ll talk.

Concurrent.

Simulcast is AWFUL. Teachers despise it as do kids. In my son's PK3, kids watching from home regularly cried about having to see their friends interacting in the classroom with their teacher. It was heartbreaking.

[Anonymous]

Not sure what concurrent means here. Possibly simulcasting? Having been forced to do it last year as a teacher I can confirm that, with current technology in dcps classrooms, it is awful. I understand the desire to “bridge the gap” until a vaccine is available for 12 and under. A previous poster is correct that it’s not possible for individual schools to offer this. Perhaps dcps will open the virtual academy to parents who want this until a vaccine. But masked children aren’t huge spreaders of disease as long as we take reasonable precautions, it seems. But you’re right that being able to switch to virtual if necessary for some kids would be useful. I’d say we should have a cadre of virtual subs ready to go but it’s not worth it as subs basically babysit the students. Online work posted by the centralized virtual academy may serve as the academic bridge in the case quarantine is necessary.

[Anonymous]

NOPE. Nice try though, troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:home school

THIS. If you want to home school, do it! I don't know why people who are afraid of in person school AND have the resources to do virtual school want to do it through DCPS anyway. Do you understand that if you are going to educate your child at home anyway, there are much better options available to you than whatever mediocre virtual school DCPS will offer you? Why would you ask a school system designed to offer in person school, on which thousands of families rely to provide both education and child care, to provide something they've never done well and only offered at all when forced. So dumb.

Many of us just need in person school. I wish I didn't. I wish my kid could just learn at home and I had the resources to support her. I don't. I have to work, and she needs to be in school. Nothing has proven that more than this last year. And the majority of families discovered the same thing. We tried.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With all the bad news about Delta, there are enough parents that would prefer to keep their kids all virtual for the few months until they get vaccinated. Schools should offer this. It would get kids out of the classroom, making it safer for the kids choosing in-person. Parents should not be forced to choose to leave their school in order to keep their kids safe.

It'd be a lot better and easier to just mandate the vaccine for public employees. We have to start getting back to normal. Kid to kid transmission is very unlikely.

I am very much in favor of common sense measure like masking, maximizing outdoor time, mandating vaccines for staff, etc. I am beyond done with catering to either the hypochondriacs or the anti-vaxxers though.

this. 100% adult vaccination, masks, and limited quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

No. Stop being selfish. You don’t get everything catered to you. You can homeschool or do an online charter.

[Anonymous]

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That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

I want a 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom single family home with a large yard, near rock creek park but on the east side. And, I want it for 650k or less.

If we are taking about things we want that are completely unrealistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

I want a 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom single family home with a large yard, near rock creek park but on the east side. And, I want it for 650k or less.

If we are taking about things we want that are completely unrealistic.

No, we are talking about strictly what was offered last year at plenty of schools around the country and in DC.
There are various names for it, depending on the state, simulcast in DC, concurrent elsewhere in the DMV.
Teachers and districts have a year+ of collective, global even, experience with it, and we have the delta variant staring us in the face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

And people in hell want ice water. How is any school administrator supposed to plan for what you’re asking for?

This is a gift to school administrator. Reducing the in-classroom cohort size, from self-selecting families, reduces the risk of outbreaks. Having some virtual kids ensures the structure is in place and there is no scrambling at the quarantine transitions.

NO IT IS NOT. You seem to think that teachers grow on trees and that staffing is fluid and flexible. You seem to think that no planning is involved. Do you have a job that requires any thinking or large scale planning?

Go back to the post above with the first grade classroom example. Answer that and then we’ll talk.

This same person has posted a couple times now and seems to think this grand idea makes perfect sense and would solve many problems while causing none. I believe this is the same person that thinks this is all temporary and as soon as her children can be vaccinated in some imaginary 3 months, all will be good and returning to her charter just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

No. Stop being selfish. You don’t get everything catered to you. You can homeschool or do an online charter.

And you can move to a red state for the year. Stop being selfish and risking so many lives just because you decided you need your kid in a school building.
It's kind of like that.