APS: back to normal in the fall?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe all of you willing to give up on the year as a "wash." That's insane. If we only ran 5-day a week school the last week in June that would STILL be worth it to me. Keep pushing. If school can be open safely, we owe it to our kids to open.

Totally agree. K-2 is not concurrent and should be much easier to bring back 5 days a week now, yes NOW! CDC is moving to 3 feet distance guideline tomorrow. Stop his bus nonsense, get kids off the hybrid waitlists and get these kids back school as much as we can.

It's not easier to do K-2 because of the model they use. Classes are split between 2 rooms. I know my son's upper elementary class shares a room with K. There isn't space.

But that's the thing - if the CDC/VDH get rid of the 6-foot rule, we're able to fit all the k-2 kids per class into one classroom each. Then 5 days a week doesn't seem quite so crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe all of you willing to give up on the year as a "wash." That's insane. If we only ran 5-day a week school the last week in June that would STILL be worth it to me. Keep pushing. If school can be open safely, we owe it to our kids to open.

Totally agree. K-2 is not concurrent and should be much easier to bring back 5 days a week now, yes NOW! CDC is moving to 3 feet distance guideline tomorrow. Stop his bus nonsense, get kids off the hybrid waitlists and get these kids back school as much as we can.

It's not easier to do K-2 because of the model they use. Classes are split between 2 rooms. I know my son's upper elementary class shares a room with K. There isn't space.

But that's the thing - if the CDC/VDH get rid of the 6-foot rule, we're able to fit all the k-2 kids per class into one classroom each. Then 5 days a week doesn't seem quite so crazy.

Depends on the school/room.

[Anonymous]

If schools open 5 days/week in the Fall, is it likely extended day programs will as well?

[Anonymous]

Until kids in elementary school can get a vaccine I truly don’t see how the fall will be normal with all kids back 4or 5 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Until kids in elementary school can get a vaccine I truly don’t see how the fall will be normal with all kids back 4or 5 days.

Then keep your kid home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Until kids in elementary school can get a vaccine I truly don’t see how the fall will be normal with all kids back 4or 5 days.

The message below came from APS tonight in the email addressing the 3 foot CDC recommendation... I agree it may not be normal (masks) but we are going back 5 days.

This is an encouraging step, as APS plans for five-day, in-person schedules this fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Until kids in elementary school can get a vaccine I truly don’t see how the fall will be normal with all kids back 4or 5 days.

The message below came from APS tonight in the email addressing the 3 foot CDC recommendation... I agree it may not be normal (masks) but we are going back 5 days.

This is an encouraging step, as APS plans for five-day, in-person schedules this fall.

Plus if community spread is way down - and we can confirm it with surveillance testing in schools - then we should absolutely have 5 days per week for any families who want it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Until kids in elementary school can get a vaccine I truly don’t see how the fall will be normal with all kids back 4or 5 days.

The message below came from APS tonight in the email addressing the 3 foot CDC recommendation... I agree it may not be normal (masks) but we are going back 5 days.

This is an encouraging step, as APS plans for five-day, in-person schedules this fall.

Plus if community spread is way down - and we can confirm it with surveillance testing in schools - then we should absolutely have 5 days per week for any families who want it.

One easy way to limit the numbers of families who want to send their kids back is NOT take reasonable precautions. That way everyone who thinks the virus is a joke and school should never have closed in March can have their kids in school 5 days a week, and the rest of us are left with virtual. But that's not what this discussion is about, right? This discussion is about reasonable and robust precautions in the fall so that hopefully most (if not all) kids can return. And there is the sticking point since everyone has different health risks (or lack thereof).

[Anonymous]

Back to normal in the Fall. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If schools open 5 days/week in the Fall, is it likely extended day programs will as well?

I am dying to know the answer to that one, too. In normal years, we’d be signing up for it right about now.

[Anonymous]

What does “normal” mean to you?

Five days of in-person babysitting? Yes, probably.

Five days of quality instruction for all? No chance. APS will have to spend 2+ years catching up those that learned nothing for a year and a half.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does “normal” mean to you?

Five days of in-person babysitting? Yes, probably.

Five days of quality instruction for all? No chance. APS will have to spend 2+ years catching up those that learned nothing for a year and a half.

Or more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does “normal” mean to you?

Five days of in-person babysitting? Yes, probably.

Five days of quality instruction for all? No chance. APS will have to spend 2+ years catching up those that learned nothing for a year and a half.

Yep. Normal will take years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does “normal” mean to you?

Five days of in-person babysitting? Yes, probably.

Five days of quality instruction for all? No chance. APS will have to spend 2+ years catching up those that learned nothing for a year and a half.

Or more.

AGree. We need a commitment that in-person school = in-person teacher teaching live from the front of the classroom. None of this DL nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does “normal” mean to you?

Five days of in-person babysitting? Yes, probably.

Five days of quality instruction for all? No chance. APS will have to spend 2+ years catching up those that learned nothing for a year and a half.

Or more.

AGree. We need a commitment that in-person school = in-person teacher teaching live from the front of the classroom. None of this DL nonsense.

Even if teachers are in the classroom, they’re going to spend most of the year catering to those who learned nothing this past year. For students that were able to keep up, things will be horrible. Just sitting in a class learning nothing.

We need them to do learning assessments, and to hold students back that aren’t ready to advance a grade.