When do you think school will be back to normal?

[Anonymous]

My good friend works in DCPS central office. This is 100 percent not their decision but being driven by DC Health and the Mayor. They are just trying to make the best of dealing with those very strict requirements. It will be interesting to see if charters all chose to adopt whatever schedule DCPS uses or some opt for different approaches. But I'm not feeling at all optimistic for anything other than a hybrid cluster of a 20-21year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My good friend works in DCPS central office. This is 100 percent not their decision but being driven by DC Health and the Mayor. They are just trying to make the best of dealing with those very strict requirements. It will be interesting to see if charters all chose to adopt whatever schedule DCPS uses or some opt for different approaches. But I'm not feeling at all optimistic for anything other than a hybrid cluster of a 20-21year.

I definitely understand this, but I still hope that DCPS can soon release the plan for different phases. So for example, if we are in phase 2 when school starts, what is DCPS planning to do? What if we are in phase 3? etc. I just want to be able to plan childcare.

[Anonymous]

Our charter told us that they are being encouraged to adopt whatever Dcps decides. That way if it is hybrid the bargaining power for works schedules is greater the more parents are together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our charter told us that they are being encouraged to adopt whatever Dcps decides. That way if it is hybrid the bargaining power for works schedules is greater the more parents are together.

But what employer is actually going to let you only work two days a week? I don't understand how that is going to help.

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter told us that they are being encouraged to adopt whatever Dcps decides. That way if it is hybrid the bargaining power for works schedules is greater the more parents are together.

But what employer is actually going to let you only work two days a week? I don't understand how that is going to help.

The same employer that is letting you work from home now? If the kids are in school 2 days a week you would work from home 3 days.

[Anonymous]

Regarding schools there is no difference between phase 2 and phase 3. All the requirements are the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regarding schools there is no difference between phase 2 and phase 3. All the requirements are the same.

I don't think that is necessarily true. In the reopen DC document it says that in stage 3 schools should be able to accommodate more students. I'm not sure what it means, but it might mean something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regarding schools there is no difference between phase 2 and phase 3. All the requirements are the same.

I don't think that is necessarily true. In the reopen DC document it says that in stage 3 schools should be able to accommodate more students. I'm not sure what it means, but it might mean something.

Actually no. Classes sizes of 10 or less in a room are recommend until their is a vaccine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If schools open, then everything needs to open. Parents need to be back on metro & offices ect.
Also- great question was asked in our PD yesterday. Is central office going to send us (teachers) back before they go back? The response was ‘lots of things are fluid’.

I’m in favor of opening it all up. Everything.
However- we’ve gotta dump things like school based before & aftercare. Having extra kids loosely supervised in classrooms/buildings is just going to prevent us from having a clean/safe environment. I’m also biased because having these kinds of things @ school has really blurred the lines between what school is and is not.

Open it ALL up. Provide PPE. Give teachers the right to refuse to teach kids who won’t wear it. Train & support teachers who don’t want to assume the new risks at 1 year salary to find a new job.

This makes literally no sense. Why do you care if some parents are at home teleworking v in the office? How does it affect you at all? Oh, it doesn't? You're just bitter you might have to work in person and not everyone else will? Obviously lots and lots of people will and many are currently (while you've been at home). In fact, in terms of risk, you'd much rather parents be at home and *not* taking the metro unless they have to... right? You'd rather metro ridership was *way* down so as to make it safer for kids/adults to have to ride, right?

Additionally, if you're going to dump before and after care, then parents (or someone) will still have to be at home in the morning and afternoon, so if that's what you want... don't be so quick to bite off your nose to spite your face.

Also, so if teachers can kick out kids that don't wear masks. You might as well cancel all Prk classes, likely K and bunches of middle and high school. Just waiting for someone to say masks are against their religion.lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My good friend works in DCPS central office. This is 100 percent not their decision but being driven by DC Health and the Mayor. They are just trying to make the best of dealing with those very strict requirements. It will be interesting to see if charters all chose to adopt whatever schedule DCPS uses or some opt for different approaches. But I'm not feeling at all optimistic for anything other than a hybrid cluster of a 20-21year.

Glad DC Health and the Mayor care about keeping our kids, teachers and staff safe.
I wish DCPS would be more on board and take responsibility for the health of their students and employees

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Anonymous wrote:WHO now says asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is "very rare."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain

They will be open inperson on September 1. Full normality second half of the year. This news is huge.

And yet cases are raising all over the country. Maybe by people that identified as having little or no symptoms. Now idk if they didn't recognize their own mild symptoms or not. But it is back on the raise and WHO said it would likely die down for summer. So, not putting a lot of weight in this new idea. They also gave no context for "rare" 1 in 5, 1 in 10, 1 in 100 all very different .

And just a few short days later we know 'very rear' is not correct.

[Anonymous]

That quote was a terrible misstep but the WHO in communications, which was then trumpeted by media who did not follow-up and question it before widely reporting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regarding schools there is no difference between phase 2 and phase 3. All the requirements are the same.

I don't think that is necessarily true. In the reopen DC document it says that in stage 3 schools should be able to accommodate more students. I'm not sure what it means, but it might mean something.

Actually no. Classes sizes of 10 or less in a room are recommend until their is a vaccine.

Well, that is nuts, and I hope they will revise it if needed. Because it may well mean kids aren't really going back to school for years. Or never.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regarding schools there is no difference between phase 2 and phase 3. All the requirements are the same.

yes. Some sports activities open up, but 10 students in a classroom till there is a vaccine. No real difference between phase 2 and 3 for school. It's just a committee's rec though. If the rest of the country sends kids to school full-time, we will follow eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regarding schools there is no difference between phase 2 and phase 3. All the requirements are the same.

yes. Some sports activities open up, but 10 students in a classroom till there is a vaccine. No real difference between phase 2 and 3 for school. It's just a committee's rec though. If the rest of the country sends kids to school full-time, we will follow eventually.

So far almost every state with a few exceptions have released hybrid models for school in the fall.