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04/28/2021 13:42

Subject: Re:APS - Elementary school -who is opting for virtual in 2021/22

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I'm not even sure what they're advocating for anymore. If there's so much demand that 3 feet isn't viable anymore in in person education, wtf is APS supposed to do? I don't want my child in an office building, sorry. Or outside all day long.

Interestingly, a lot of people trashed one of the SB candidates a few weeks ago for playing around with this very idea - what happens if we can't fit everyone back even at 3ft. They mocked her drawings, which I don't think were mean to be totally done to scale but to point out potential problems. There's a 40-something page DCUM thread entitled Shifts in the Fall? based on exactly that, her contemplating what options exist if it becomes impossible to get every single child in a classroom 5 days per week all at the same time. Duran's message shows that APS staff are similarly thinking about options.

There are plenty, notably the APE crowd and their candidate, who continue to say 5 days per week as in the old days starting immediately. They're already screaming objections that the idea even needs to be considered. Maybe it will end up being unnecessary, but that's what contingency planning is for. We know APS did a horrible job last spring, and just possibly they are trying to do a better job under Duran this spring in preparation for fall.

I saw that thread. It devolved into APE vs SR ridiculousness.

I’m confident that we can safely open five days a week in the fall, with whatever mitigation measures needed by then. Interestingly, it’s the high schoolers who we don’t have to worry about next year. Hopefully enough of them will be vaxxed by then. Hoping that ms and es kids will start getting shots sooner rather than later.

The hysteria on both sides will hopefully have a summer to simmer down.

Ironically, the fact that lower ed won't be vaccinated by the fall, but, will be in person only supports the notion that they might as well go forward with additional days now. There will not be a substantive material change in their status or risk exposure between now and then.

I don't agree with this at all. It completely ignores all the concerns from the latina community we have heard already. And transmission rates should be lower in the fall than they are right now AND more parents and the families that kids live with should be fully vaxed by then, making the possiblity that kids bringing it home to them won't actually kill their families.

Enough with the propping up one demographic to try and make a point.

1. No one is saying to take away virtual, but, add additional days now for lower ed of whom many desperately want/need it.
2. I know Latino families in APS who desperately want additional days and would instantly move to 5 days because it is hard for them to juggle all of the demands of work and childcare with hybrid and virtual has not worked well for their children.

So, chupa en eso.

1. Since you would be forcing some people who can't swing 4 days of dealing with childcare and pickup at 3pm to move from 2 day to virtual, forcing 4 days makes it worse for some.
2. Some can and some can not! The people who did speak at the meeting said leave things the way they are now.

You have lost this argument but won the fall. Pick up the pieces of your shattered life and move on.