APS Teachers In School for only one week of prep

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher with kids in APS at all levels. I will get my first shot tomorrow and second shot mid February. 2 weeks after that I will have full effects. I would like to see APS commit to getting everyone vaccinated (they are not even close, 2000/7000 this weekend will have shot 1). I would be ready to go back March 1 but I don’t know if enough staff will be ready at that point vaccine wise. They really need to get more vaccine out so we can go back. Additionally for student safety I would like more mitigation i the buildings primarily with ventilation and outdoor lunches. I haven’t eaten in a restaurant since early March and I will not start now since it’s been identified as a high-risk activity. If APS can improve mitigation and finish vaccinating staff, let’s go!

I don’t feel these requests are too much to ask for safe working conditions. I also think the more affluent parents demanding in-person with the equity argument are really full of crap. The most needy students at my school are the ones who more frequently selected virtual. They will struggle more in the new 3-5 concurrent model.

People often forget that teachers have children in APS, too! I am sure you also want what’s best for your own kids!

[Anonymous]

I was also going to add- I think my kids have learned a lot that you can’t measure, but very valuable. They appreciate going to school more! Although, I think they’re going to miss DL when it’s all over. I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher with kids in APS at all levels. I will get my first shot tomorrow and second shot mid February. 2 weeks after that I will have full effects. I would like to see APS commit to getting everyone vaccinated (they are not even close, 2000/7000 this weekend will have shot 1). I would be ready to go back March 1 but I don’t know if enough staff will be ready at that point vaccine wise. They really need to get more vaccine out so we can go back. Additionally for student safety I would like more mitigation i the buildings primarily with ventilation and outdoor lunches. I haven’t eaten in a restaurant since early March and I will not start now since it’s been identified as a high-risk activity. If APS can improve mitigation and finish vaccinating staff, let’s go!

I don’t feel these requests are too much to ask for safe working conditions. I also think the more affluent parents demanding in-person with the equity argument are really full of crap. The most needy students at my school are the ones who more frequently selected virtual. They will struggle more in the new 3-5 concurrent model.

APS parent with the exact same views. All teachers must be fully vaccinated. And I have no intention of sending my own kids (both over 10) til they figure out how to handle lunch. My friends whose kids are in various private schools in DC all eat outdoors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was also going to add- I think my kids have learned a lot that you can’t measure, but very valuable. They appreciate going to school more! Although, I think they’re going to miss DL when it’s all over. I do.

It’ll be around for another year, so enjoy!

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Anonymous wrote:I was also going to add- I think my kids have learned a lot that you can’t measure, but very valuable. They appreciate going to school more! Although, I think they’re going to miss DL when it’s all over. I do.

It’ll be around for another year, so enjoy!

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:I was also going to add- I think my kids have learned a lot that you can’t measure, but very valuable. They appreciate going to school more! Although, I think they’re going to miss DL when it’s all over. I do.

It’ll be around for another year, so enjoy!

LOL

Sorry, not joking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was also going to add- I think my kids have learned a lot that you can’t measure, but very valuable. They appreciate going to school more! Although, I think they’re going to miss DL when it’s all over. I do.

It’ll be around for another year, so enjoy!

LOL

It’s not the DL as much as sleeping later and access to my fridge!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was also going to add- I think my kids have learned a lot that you can’t measure, but very valuable. They appreciate going to school more! Although, I think they’re going to miss DL when it’s all over. I do.

It’ll be around for another year, so enjoy!

LOL

Sorry, not joking.

Hybrid could happen. If it happens, it will not be because APS didn’t want kids to attend in-person school. It would be for no other reason because it’s what they had to do to keep the kids and families safe. I trust that, and I’m okay with it.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with the anonymous tweet about 25% of these phase one teachers/staff contracting Covid? Are there any legs around that?

No, there isn't. If it were anywhere close to true, APS would be required to report it and it would turn up in the Covid outbreak dashboard for Arlington (there have been zero in K-12 schools in Arlington County for the entire pandemic). You only need two confirmed cases in a facility to have it be listed as an outbreak.

Hi APE. Nice try.

I was in the staff meeting. You were not.

So then which schools had two or more cases at the same time?

They would not tell us that in the meeting. I have heard things though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher with kids in APS at all levels. I will get my first shot tomorrow and second shot mid February. 2 weeks after that I will have full effects. I would like to see APS commit to getting everyone vaccinated (they are not even close, 2000/7000 this weekend will have shot 1). I would be ready to go back March 1 but I don’t know if enough staff will be ready at that point vaccine wise. They really need to get more vaccine out so we can go back. Additionally for student safety I would like more mitigation i the buildings primarily with ventilation and outdoor lunches. I haven’t eaten in a restaurant since early March and I will not start now since it’s been identified as a high-risk activity. If APS can improve mitigation and finish vaccinating staff, let’s go!

I don’t feel these requests are too much to ask for safe working conditions. I also think the more affluent parents demanding in-person with the equity argument are really full of crap. The most needy students at my school are the ones who more frequently selected virtual. They will struggle more in the new 3-5 concurrent model.

APS parent with the exact same views. All teachers must be fully vaccinated. And I have no intention of sending my own kids (both over 10) til they figure out how to handle lunch. My friends whose kids are in various private schools in DC all eat outdoors.

+1000. I have older kids too.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with the anonymous tweet about 25% of these phase one teachers/staff contracting Covid? Are there any legs around that?

No, there isn't. If it were anywhere close to true, APS would be required to report it and it would turn up in the Covid outbreak dashboard for Arlington (there have been zero in K-12 schools in Arlington County for the entire pandemic). You only need two confirmed cases in a facility to have it be listed as an outbreak.

Also worth noting that the tweet appears to have been deleted.

If you look on the latest on AEM, an APS staff person who works with the superintendent posted that they did indeed announce 55 have been infected, however that includes staff not working in person in schools. The major issue is that there’s been no transparency on this unlike other local counties.

Yeah and why did this have to leak through staff and then AEM before he admitted that? Come on APS. Other schools are disclosing Covid cases. Be better.

Because a 0.8% infection across a large population that aren’t even in the same physical location simply isn’t news right now. It’s completely expected.

This. This right here. This is either APS or APE chiming in. APS said this in the staff meeting and the APE crowd said it on AEM.

They are trying to make the case rate look lower by using all 7000 APS staff as the denominator. But that's not honest. Most of the staff are working virtually. Only 237 are back in person. If you instead use the 237 as the denominator, you get a 24% case rate. Quite different.

Of course, we don't actually know how many of those 55 cases were from the in person staff because APS will not say. But because virtual staff are not required to report cases to APS, I would have to think that the vast majority are from in person.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with the anonymous tweet about 25% of these phase one teachers/staff contracting Covid? Are there any legs around that?

No, there isn't. If it were anywhere close to true, APS would be required to report it and it would turn up in the Covid outbreak dashboard for Arlington (there have been zero in K-12 schools in Arlington County for the entire pandemic). You only need two confirmed cases in a facility to have it be listed as an outbreak.

Also worth noting that the tweet appears to have been deleted.

If you look on the latest on AEM, an APS staff person who works with the superintendent posted that they did indeed announce 55 have been infected, however that includes staff not working in person in schools. The major issue is that there’s been no transparency on this unlike other local counties.

Yeah and why did this have to leak through staff and then AEM before he admitted that? Come on APS. Other schools are disclosing Covid cases. Be better.

Because a 0.8% infection across a large population that aren’t even in the same physical location simply isn’t news right now. It’s completely expected.

This. This right here. This is either APS or APE chiming in. APS said this in the staff meeting and the APE crowd said it on AEM.

They are trying to make the case rate look lower by using all 7000 APS staff as the denominator. But that's not honest. Most of the staff are working virtually. Only 237 are back in person. If you instead use the 237 as the denominator, you get a 24% case rate. Quite different.

Of course, we don't actually know how many of those 55 cases were from the in person staff because APS will not say. But because virtual staff are not required to report cases to APS, I would have to think that the vast majority are from in person.

I’m an APS teacher- do we really have 7,000 staff? That number seems really high to me. Maybe I’m wrong...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the reality is- SOL scores probably will drop. Who cares? If you’ve survived this without losing someone you love, feel grateful. The kids will be ok.

No, not all of them will. Failing grades among high schoolers are a huge risk factor for dropping out. With a bunch of kids feeling increasingly disengaged with school and facing the possibility of having to repeat classes in order to graduate, we will see an increased drop-out rate coming out of this.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with the anonymous tweet about 25% of these phase one teachers/staff contracting Covid? Are there any legs around that?

No, there isn't. If it were anywhere close to true, APS would be required to report it and it would turn up in the Covid outbreak dashboard for Arlington (there have been zero in K-12 schools in Arlington County for the entire pandemic). You only need two confirmed cases in a facility to have it be listed as an outbreak.

Also worth noting that the tweet appears to have been deleted.

If you look on the latest on AEM, an APS staff person who works with the superintendent posted that they did indeed announce 55 have been infected, however that includes staff not working in person in schools. The major issue is that there’s been no transparency on this unlike other local counties.

Yeah and why did this have to leak through staff and then AEM before he admitted that? Come on APS. Other schools are disclosing Covid cases. Be better.

Because a 0.8% infection across a large population that aren’t even in the same physical location simply isn’t news right now. It’s completely expected.

This. This right here. This is either APS or APE chiming in. APS said this in the staff meeting and the APE crowd said it on AEM.

They are trying to make the case rate look lower by using all 7000 APS staff as the denominator. But that's not honest. Most of the staff are working virtually. Only 237 are back in person. If you instead use the 237 as the denominator, you get a 24% case rate. Quite different.

Of course, we don't actually know how many of those 55 cases were from the in person staff because APS will not say. But because virtual staff are not required to report cases to APS, I would have to think that the vast majority are from in person.

24% is based on what you know to be a false denominator, so it’s meaningless. This is just propaganda for people who don’t want schools to reopen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with the anonymous tweet about 25% of these phase one teachers/staff contracting Covid? Are there any legs around that?

No, there isn't. If it were anywhere close to true, APS would be required to report it and it would turn up in the Covid outbreak dashboard for Arlington (there have been zero in K-12 schools in Arlington County for the entire pandemic). You only need two confirmed cases in a facility to have it be listed as an outbreak.

Hi APE. Nice try.

I was in the staff meeting. You were not.

So then which schools had two or more cases at the same time?

They would not tell us that in the meeting. I have heard things though.

We’ve all “heard things.” If they were credible, you would share them. Instead you insinuate because you know there’s no accountability here.