Is LCPS doing that concurrent foolishness?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh I see. Yeah maybe for Q4. Who cares by then honestly.

It's important because it helps set the stage for the 2021 school year.

Do you think schools literally forgot how to run 5 days a week? We don’t need a dress rehearsal. Opening schools in Q3 this year has nothing to do with what happens august 2021. Assuming the vaccines are distributed and effective as trials suggest, school will be normal again THEN. Nobody is found to need to do in 2x a week in friggin January to ensure schools can operate like normal next august.

Except mass vaccination by/before Summer is nothing but hopeful thinking. My guess comes from snooping in DW’s virtual meetings. She works for a big pharma company that has secured distributing and allocating vaccinations for the mid-Atlantic region.

Q1 of next year will likely be DL. Q2 and forward will be in-person but still4 says though.

I really doubt that. Idiots here look at a 259/100,000 average and 8+ Percent positive testing and think it’s good to go. Pressure will be so high to go back in august that it will happen. But that doesn’t mean right now it should be happening.

What will districts do when the amount of teachers sick exceeds their capacity to find subs?

DL with a qualified and experienced teacher is light years better than a “warm” body lacking experience, qualifications and/or interest in being there.

Which by the way, have you all noticed the shortages in LCPS and FCPS trying to secure a substantial amount of subs this year? Not enough $ in the budget. Are folks ready for a tax increase? I am!

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I can tell you what they’ll do: they’ll mix classes. In high school, half of Mrs Johnson’s 6th block will go sit with Mrs Smith’s class and half will go to Mr Williams’ class. Mrs smith and mr Williams are now teaching kids at home, teaching kids in class and babysitting Mrs Johnson’s kids. They will also send teachers in to babysit classes during our planning block because “you can still plan you just have to watch them!”

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Anonymous wrote:I can tell you what they’ll do: they’ll mix classes. In high school, half of Mrs Johnson’s 6th block will go sit with Mrs Smith’s class and half will go to Mr Williams’ class. Mrs smith and mr Williams are now teaching kids at home, teaching kids in class and babysitting Mrs Johnson’s kids. They will also send teachers in to babysit classes during our planning block because “you can still plan you just have to watch them!”

But, but teaching isn’t childcare!

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Tuesday is a go and PPR is going down! Even if we only get a few weeks it will help so much! So happy for the 3-5th graders.

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Anonymous wrote:Tuesday is a go and PPR is going down! Even if we only get a few weeks it will help so much! So happy for the 3-5th graders.

The PPR going down slightly doesn’t even matter. That just means more people are testing. And setting it at 10% was insanity to begin with but they waited until it was at 8.7 to even bother to set metrics so they were cornered into setting them way too high. What is really worrisome is the local case average is over 300/100,000 now. That’s insane. And it was only 200 about 10 days ago. I had to pick hybrid for my kids back in the summer so they’re scheduled to phase in next week. I’m not sending them. It is the height of stupidity that Loudoun is phasing in 7k kids and teachers RIGHT as everyone is predicting a massive surge from holiday gatherings and travel.

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Anonymous wrote:Tuesday is a go and PPR is going down! Even if we only get a few weeks it will help so much! So happy for the 3-5th graders.

The PPR going down slightly doesn’t even matter. That just means more people are testing. And setting it at 10% was insanity to begin with but they waited until it was at 8.7 to even bother to set metrics so they were cornered into setting them way too high. What is really worrisome is the local case average is over 300/100,000 now. That’s insane. And it was only 200 about 10 days ago. I had to pick hybrid for my kids back in the summer so they’re scheduled to phase in next week. I’m not sending them. It is the height of stupidity that Loudoun is phasing in 7k kids and teachers RIGHT as everyone is predicting a massive surge from holiday gatherings and travel.

Masks and spacing work. It’s time for people to acknowledge that. You don’t have to send your kids. The kids who want to go should go. I’m praying the PPR stays just low enough to allow school to continue.

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Anonymous wrote:Tuesday is a go and PPR is going down! Even if we only get a few weeks it will help so much! So happy for the 3-5th graders.

The PPR going down slightly doesn’t even matter. That just means more people are testing. And setting it at 10% was insanity to begin with but they waited until it was at 8.7 to even bother to set metrics so they were cornered into setting them way too high. What is really worrisome is the local case average is over 300/100,000 now. That’s insane. And it was only 200 about 10 days ago. I had to pick hybrid for my kids back in the summer so they’re scheduled to phase in next week. I’m not sending them. It is the height of stupidity that Loudoun is phasing in 7k kids and teachers RIGHT as everyone is predicting a massive surge from holiday gatherings and travel.

Masks and spacing work. It’s time for people to acknowledge that. You don’t have to send your kids. The kids who want to go should go. I’m praying the PPR stays just low enough to allow school to continue.

It doesn’t need to stay low. It can be high as hell and school will be in. Go look at the board docs for 12/1. There will be no return to DL unless Loudoun is at BOTH >200 AND 10% positive and even if they do hit both of those, the transition to DL won’t happen for 5 more school days. Now, despite the fact both would have to below the threshold for 5 days to return to hybrid again, new phasing is a-ok to move forward next week even though case average is WELL beyond the 200 at this point and not dropping. So students can GO in with one of those above threshold but they couldn’t go BACK in if one was above the threshold. Which doesn’t make a ton of sense.

I’m not worried about the only 31% of families in the whole county who chose this. Whatever. They’re fine with the risk apparently. But it is really terrible for the teachers who will be forced to go to school with numbers sky high and metrics set at a level nearly impossible to trigger a return to DL with their own health at risk, especially if they can’t afford to leave.

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Anonymous wrote:Tuesday is a go and PPR is going down! Even if we only get a few weeks it will help so much! So happy for the 3-5th graders.

The PPR going down slightly doesn’t even matter. That just means more people are testing. And setting it at 10% was insanity to begin with but they waited until it was at 8.7 to even bother to set metrics so they were cornered into setting them way too high. What is really worrisome is the local case average is over 300/100,000 now. That’s insane. And it was only 200 about 10 days ago. I had to pick hybrid for my kids back in the summer so they’re scheduled to phase in next week. I’m not sending them. It is the height of stupidity that Loudoun is phasing in 7k kids and teachers RIGHT as everyone is predicting a massive surge from holiday gatherings and travel.

Masks and spacing work. It’s time for people to acknowledge that. You don’t have to send your kids. The kids who want to go should go. I’m praying the PPR stays just low enough to allow school to continue.

It doesn’t need to stay low. It can be high as hell and school will be in. Go look at the board docs for 12/1. There will be no return to DL unless Loudoun is at BOTH >200 AND 10% positive and even if they do hit both of those, the transition to DL won’t happen for 5 more school days. Now, despite the fact both would have to below the threshold for 5 days to return to hybrid again, new phasing is a-ok to move forward next week even though case average is WELL beyond the 200 at this point and not dropping. So students can GO in with one of those above threshold but they couldn’t go BACK in if one was above the threshold. Which doesn’t make a ton of sense.

I’m not worried about the only 31% of families in the whole county who chose this. Whatever. They’re fine with the risk apparently. But it is really terrible for the teachers who will be forced to go to school with numbers sky high and metrics set at a level nearly impossible to trigger a return to DL with their own health at risk, especially if they can’t afford to leave.

If teachers are sick with covid there’s a new entry in the system called covid sickness. for when they aren’t able to report to work. I think it doesn’t take off their personal leave for obvious reasons. So when a lot of staff are sick DL will be inevitable. Whatever the foam-spewing mediocre parents want is unimportant. They’ll have to take the DL or nothing. It’s really that simple.

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Anonymous wrote:Tuesday is a go and PPR is going down! Even if we only get a few weeks it will help so much! So happy for the 3-5th graders.

The PPR going down slightly doesn’t even matter. That just means more people are testing. And setting it at 10% was insanity to begin with but they waited until it was at 8.7 to even bother to set metrics so they were cornered into setting them way too high. What is really worrisome is the local case average is over 300/100,000 now. That’s insane. And it was only 200 about 10 days ago. I had to pick hybrid for my kids back in the summer so they’re scheduled to phase in next week. I’m not sending them. It is the height of stupidity that Loudoun is phasing in 7k kids and teachers RIGHT as everyone is predicting a massive surge from holiday gatherings and travel.

Masks and spacing work. It’s time for people to acknowledge that. You don’t have to send your kids. The kids who want to go should go. I’m praying the PPR stays just low enough to allow school to continue.

It doesn’t need to stay low. It can be high as hell and school will be in. Go look at the board docs for 12/1. There will be no return to DL unless Loudoun is at BOTH >200 AND 10% positive and even if they do hit both of those, the transition to DL won’t happen for 5 more school days. Now, despite the fact both would have to below the threshold for 5 days to return to hybrid again, new phasing is a-ok to move forward next week even though case average is WELL beyond the 200 at this point and not dropping. So students can GO in with one of those above threshold but they couldn’t go BACK in if one was above the threshold. Which doesn’t make a ton of sense.

I’m not worried about the only 31% of families in the whole county who chose this. Whatever. They’re fine with the risk apparently. But it is really terrible for the teachers who will be forced to go to school with numbers sky high and metrics set at a level nearly impossible to trigger a return to DL with their own health at risk, especially if they can’t afford to leave.

It’s 40%. And it would have been higher if the teachers didn’t launch a disinformation campaign with the older kids to purposefully make hybrid sound awful so kids wouldn’t choose it. Yes, teachers actually did this. A lot of them.

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Ummm you seriously think the teenagers couldn’t look at the plans and decide for themselves they didn’t want to go? Teachers have to go in no matter what; they teach 2 sets of kids no matter what. There was no incentive to discourage kids from picking hybrid. Their parents didn’t want the risk or they didn’t want to do DL at school while masked and not even getting to see their friends so they picked DL. It’s not some magical teacher brainwashing.

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Anonymous wrote:Ummm you seriously think the teenagers couldn’t look at the plans and decide for themselves they didn’t want to go? Teachers have to go in no matter what; they teach 2 sets of kids no matter what. There was no incentive to discourage kids from picking hybrid. Their parents didn’t want the risk or they didn’t want to do DL at school while masked and not even getting to see their friends so they picked DL. It’s not some magical teacher brainwashing.

But it is. Our principal was very positive on hybrid, very encouraging to students wanting to come in, affirmatively stating it would NOT be “DL at school” and guess what? We got a much higher % of students choosing hybrid than schools where the message was “DL at school.” There are definitely schools telling people this, and schools saying it will NOT be like this. So glad we are at the latter.

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Anonymous wrote:Ummm you seriously think the teenagers couldn’t look at the plans and decide for themselves they didn’t want to go? Teachers have to go in no matter what; they teach 2 sets of kids no matter what. There was no incentive to discourage kids from picking hybrid. Their parents didn’t want the risk or they didn’t want to do DL at school while masked and not even getting to see their friends so they picked DL. It’s not some magical teacher brainwashing.

But it is. Our principal was very positive on hybrid, very encouraging to students wanting to come in, affirmatively stating it would NOT be “DL at school” and guess what? We got a much higher % of students choosing hybrid than schools where the message was “DL at school.” There are definitely schools telling people this, and schools saying it will NOT be like this. So glad we are at the latter.

What they told you it would be like and what it will be like are two different things. Glad you’re happy with your choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Ummm you seriously think the teenagers couldn’t look at the plans and decide for themselves they didn’t want to go? Teachers have to go in no matter what; they teach 2 sets of kids no matter what. There was no incentive to discourage kids from picking hybrid. Their parents didn’t want the risk or they didn’t want to do DL at school while masked and not even getting to see their friends so they picked DL. It’s not some magical teacher brainwashing.

But it is. Our principal was very positive on hybrid, very encouraging to students wanting to come in, affirmatively stating it would NOT be “DL at school” and guess what? We got a much higher % of students choosing hybrid than schools where the message was “DL at school.” There are definitely schools telling people this, and schools saying it will NOT be like this. So glad we are at the latter.

What they told you it would be like and what it will be like are two different things. Glad you’re happy with your choice.

Nope. Our principal rocks. They’ve already done pilots and he’s made good on everything else he’s told us, both during Covid and pre Covid. Sorry your principal sucks.

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Again, glad you’re happy with your choice. Why are you fighting with someone who isn’t fighting with you?

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Anonymous wrote:Again, glad you’re happy with your choice. Why are you fighting with someone who isn’t fighting with you?

And what are you doing exactly?