When do you think school will be back to normal?

[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.

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.

And 10 assumes they can be 10’ apart.

[Anonymous]

Sorry - 6 feet.

[Anonymous]

Normal will be when we can test, TRACE and actually isolate people who test positive. We don’t have the last two in place.

That’s what is maddening. We put life on hold, at enormous cost, to buy time for the government to get its act together on the above and it didn’t happen. We have ramped up testing in some regions but the other 2 are not there yet.

[Anonymous]

it could be years before a vaccine is available for you to take. it's not just that it takes a long time to develop something that works. pharmaceutical companies are not equipped to make enough vaccines for the entire world. maybe once a vaccine is ready, companies will work together to produce it but it seems far more likely that they will not (especially if the winning vaccine maker is based in another country).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cutting PreK at this stage will actually have a horrendous economic effect on the city. School is childcare + school and people haven't made alternative arrangements. Not feasible at this stage.

You already need essentially fulltime childcare. And A/B schedule that anticipates 16 hours per week max of in person schooling means you need quite a lot of childcare to cover the remainder if both parents are working fulltime

I genuinely don’t think most people have planned for part time school and it’s part of the reason that I think it ultimately won’t happen.

Hence my panic attack after after a week of PD. They really didn’t take parent or teacher feedback into consideration. I wish we could actually have a seat at the table when they craft policy. We will all be scrambling last minute to find part time child care (go broke and widen our kids contact circle) with their hybrid model. Maybe we could consider a case by case hybrid system like other counties. Bring back students of essential workers first.

Also many of us DCPS and DCPCS teachers will be forced to quit because the demands will be too great (full time distance learning for 2/3 class while managing in person classes all day long in addition to coordinating our own kids education). Be prepared for a ton of sick staff, closures due to contact tracing (as happens I other counties) and people quitting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Yes- the PDs are about DL because they had to fill 3 weeks of PD. Are you actually listening? They keep saying ‘we don’t know’ ect. We might be DL & we might be back in the classroom- but the PD are no indication.
I really hope you are the only poster asking of folks are really teachers. You litmus tests for deterring someone’s true professions, via the internet, are way off.
But yes- I do believe that you are really a teacher. The lack of critical thinking you exhibit is what I see daily during the year

100% pd was thrown together to fill time. No real parent or teacher voice when crafting a plan.

My predictions are we will start with some overly complicated hybrid model where everyone scrambled to find child care. A month into it a surge comes. We all get sick (some really sick and will have to find arrangements for their kid who is now a spreader). We will go back to distance learning but never having a chance to really build it out.

Not sure what the answer is but the focus of the PDs, state guidelines, and lack of through out infrastructure is gonna make this much more difficult than it needs to be.

[Anonymous]

I saw a little ray of hope today. France just changed the distancing requirements from six feet to three feet in schools and everyone is required to go back full time as of mid June except high schoolers. If these types of changes work then this trend might catch on. Things could change quickly if cdc changes it's protocol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a little ray of hope today. France just changed the distancing requirements from six feet to three feet in schools and everyone is required to go back full time as of mid June except high schoolers. If these types of changes work then this trend might catch on. Things could change quickly if cdc changes it's protocol.

Germany (at least Berlin so far, but other regions will likely follow) is going back in August without social distancing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw a little ray of hope today. France just changed the distancing requirements from six feet to three feet in schools and everyone is required to go back full time as of mid June except high schoolers. If these types of changes work then this trend might catch on. Things could change quickly if cdc changes it's protocol.

Germany (at least Berlin so far, but other regions will likely follow) is going back in August without social distancing.

Germany has a test/trace program that dwarfs whatever clown show we're running here. If DC can replicate that, then it can replicate Germany's public school system.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-app/germany-says-coronavirus-tracing-app-ready-to-go-idUSKBN23L0P5

[Anonymous]

"Children and teenagers are only half as likely to get infected with the coronavirus as people 20 and older, and they usually don’t develop clinical symptoms of covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to a study published Tuesday." ...

“[W]e find that interventions aimed at children might have a relatively small impact on reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, particularly if the transmissibility of subclinical infections is low,” the researchers write.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/children-are-only-half-as-likely-to-get-infected-by-the-coronavirus-research-shows/2020/06/16/be86aff4-afb6-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html

[Anonymous]

ROME -- A survey conducted in Italy on the psychological impact of coronavirus lockdowns on children has quantified what many parents observed during weeks cooped up at home: kids were more irritable, had trouble sleeping and for some of the youngest, wept inconsolably and regressed developmentally.

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/italy-survey-finds-irritability-anxiety-locked-kids-71275609

[Anonymous]

Apparently not until we have a vaccine or cure. Stokes just announced it will be DL until then. Crazy.

[Anonymous]

Question - if it would get kids in school would you and your family be willing to wear a mask anytime you are outside your home whether you are more than 6 feet away or not.

Would you send your kid into school with a mask 100% of the time?

That is our best hope. Are people willing to do it?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I would. In fact, I already do. I also would tell my second grader to wear a mask, but I am not sure how that will work out (he hasn’t been going among people, so we haven’t tried).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I would. In fact, I already do. I also would tell my second grader to wear a mask, but I am not sure how that will work out (he hasn’t been going among people, so we haven’t tried).

I should correct myself, I see you want me to wear a mask even when I am more than six feet from other people. No, I don’t wear one then. When I walk or bike through my low density neighborhood, I don’t wear a mask. I make sure not to get close to anyone though, which is easy here. I always wear a mask when I go anywhere indoors.