This is going to be bad…

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

A lockdown isn’t coming. You going to be disappointed when your doomsday prediction doesn’t come true and DL for all doesn’t happen?

+1. Two things.

First, we aren’t Mississippi, which has what, a 37% vaxx rate and no one wearing a mask? We literally have twice the vaxx rate, even among ages 12-18. Plus mandatory masking. Plus an ever increasing number of indoor places you cannot access without a vaccine. Comparing us to KS on COVId mitigation is apples to oranges.

Two, you are misrepresenting the article. It says that if you are vaxxed AND GET COVID you can be fined or jailed if you don’t quarantine. Vaxxed people with COVID have always been supposed to quarantine. They just weren’t in MS, and now the law has some teeth. It does not say there is a lockdown.

You know what we are though? Virginia. I await with eagerness you picking this apart and then the rising cases next week and the schools announcing immediately closures in September.

The 'OMG how could this happen?!' when we've literally been living this exact scenario for 18 months is just incredible.

It takes a special brand of a@@hole to root for kids to get COVID and against kids getting in person school— in many cases for the first time in 1.5 years. So congrats on the having no soul thing.

Also ROVA =/= NOVA. No one knows what will happen until we try. But, we’ve waited 1.5 years. At some point, we have to try.

Oh good grief. If you've gone to the point of vilifying someone with a different opinion to the point of accusing that person of rooting for kids to get covid, I suggest you take a deep breath and try regain some measures of perspective. People can't see the future so they are trying their best to try make some sense of what will happen in the future. The truth will likely be somewhere in the middle. No, not every child will get covid and trigger the beginning of apocalypse. And no, things will probably not go back to normal in the immediate future and covid will continue to dog us, whether we like it or not.

Reasonable people can disagree and the best situation may be different for each family and their situation.

Reality shades toward staying open and working through quarantines. Or temporarily closing and reopening. There is not a single jurisdiction in the US that has embraced DL for all for a year. And this is in the storm of DL, which will blow through in a matter of weeks.

Literally no one said that DL for a year is in place. No one. We're saying that right now, in this climate of rising cases, rising hospitalizations, and schools immediately boomeranging into quarantine because a good portion of the under 18 population is not vaccinated - we will see considerable closings. Do we know for how long or how often? No.

But for this semester - that is what is happening.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

A lockdown isn’t coming. You going to be disappointed when your doomsday prediction doesn’t come true and DL for all doesn’t happen?

+1. Two things.

First, we aren’t Mississippi, which has what, a 37% vaxx rate and no one wearing a mask? We literally have twice the vaxx rate, even among ages 12-18. Plus mandatory masking. Plus an ever increasing number of indoor places you cannot access without a vaccine. Comparing us to KS on COVId mitigation is apples to oranges.

Two, you are misrepresenting the article. It says that if you are vaxxed AND GET COVID you can be fined or jailed if you don’t quarantine. Vaxxed people with COVID have always been supposed to quarantine. They just weren’t in MS, and now the law has some teeth. It does not say there is a lockdown.

You know what we are though? Virginia. I await with eagerness you picking this apart and then the rising cases next week and the schools announcing immediately closures in September.

The 'OMG how could this happen?!' when we've literally been living this exact scenario for 18 months is just incredible.

It takes a special brand of a@@hole to root for kids to get COVID and against kids getting in person school— in many cases for the first time in 1.5 years. So congrats on the having no soul thing.

Also ROVA =/= NOVA. No one knows what will happen until we try. But, we’ve waited 1.5 years. At some point, we have to try.

Oh good grief. If you've gone to the point of vilifying someone with a different opinion to the point of accusing that person of rooting for kids to get covid, I suggest you take a deep breath and try regain some measures of perspective. People can't see the future so they are trying their best to try make some sense of what will happen in the future. The truth will likely be somewhere in the middle. No, not every child will get covid and trigger the beginning of apocalypse. And no, things will probably not go back to normal in the immediate future and covid will continue to dog us, whether we like it or not.

Reasonable people can disagree and the best situation may be different for each family and their situation.

Reality shades toward staying open and working through quarantines. Or temporarily closing and reopening. There is not a single jurisdiction in the US that has embraced DL for all for a year. And this is in the storm of DL, which will blow through in a matter of weeks.

Literally no one said that DL for a year is in place. No one. We're saying that right now, in this climate of rising cases, rising hospitalizations, and schools immediately boomeranging into quarantine because a good portion of the under 18 population is not vaccinated - we will see considerable closings. Do we know for how long or how often? No.

But for this semester - that is what is happening.

Yes, exactly. I might want a future reality to be more stable and certain, but reading the posts on this forum already tell me it won’t be. I am not saying I expect a large number of kids in this county are actually going to become deathly sick. I am saying that it looks like we will exercise an “abundance of caution” when some do get sick. Go back and read the first post by the OP, please!

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

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Is FCPS the first school system to go back in the area?

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar. However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online. I am housing more course content in digital mode.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I really don’t think it’s going to be bad HERE. We have masks and many vaccinated adults. We just have to make it to when 5-11 can get the vaccine which shouldn’t be too long. It’s really going to be fine. Staff are confident at my school that some kids may quarantine here and there but outbreaks and true spread in school will be minimal. When kids quarantined in spring it was always because someone at home had tested + but rarely did the kids themselves test +.

I hope you are correct.

However you are wrong to compare with last year. Delta is 225% more transmissible.

Yeah I understand that but again, we have a full mask mandate and vaccinated adults so it’s less likely our kids will come in having been exposed at home. I do not think it’s going to be some doomsday scenario and I don’t think we will close schools again.

You realize vaccinated individuals can transmit Covid to unvacced? So yes — they could get it at home and even if they don’t over a million school-age kids all congregating together will definitely transmit it. Half of the school-age population is unvaccinated and rushing into the buildings is only going to make a fall lockdown inevitable rather than potential.

A lockdown isn’t coming. You going to be disappointed when your doomsday prediction doesn’t come true and DL for all doesn’t happen?

+1. Two things.

First, we aren’t Mississippi, which has what, a 37% vaxx rate and no one wearing a mask? We literally have twice the vaxx rate, even among ages 12-18. Plus mandatory masking. Plus an ever increasing number of indoor places you cannot access without a vaccine. Comparing us to KS on COVId mitigation is apples to oranges.

Two, you are misrepresenting the article. It says that if you are vaxxed AND GET COVID you can be fined or jailed if you don’t quarantine. Vaxxed people with COVID have always been supposed to quarantine. They just weren’t in MS, and now the law has some teeth. It does not say there is a lockdown.

You know what we are though? Virginia. I await with eagerness you picking this apart and then the rising cases next week and the schools announcing immediately closures in September.

The 'OMG how could this happen?!' when we've literally been living this exact scenario for 18 months is just incredible.

It takes a special brand of a@@hole to root for kids to get COVID and against kids getting in person school— in many cases for the first time in 1.5 years. So congrats on the having no soul thing.

Also ROVA =/= NOVA. No one knows what will happen until we try. But, we’ve waited 1.5 years. At some point, we have to try.

Oh good grief. If you've gone to the point of vilifying someone with a different opinion to the point of accusing that person of rooting for kids to get covid, I suggest you take a deep breath and try regain some measures of perspective. People can't see the future so they are trying their best to try make some sense of what will happen in the future. The truth will likely be somewhere in the middle. No, not every child will get covid and trigger the beginning of apocalypse. And no, things will probably not go back to normal in the immediate future and covid will continue to dog us, whether we like it or not.

Reasonable people can disagree and the best situation may be different for each family and their situation.

PP literally said said she “awaited with eagerness” the rising case levels and “immediate school closing in September”.

Yes, that’s a “different opinion” than my own. It’s also an a@@hole rooting for sick kids and closed schools.

A different opinion from a non-a@@hole would be: I hope I’m wrong, but I’m concerned that delta is going to get away from us in ES classrooms.

See the difference?

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar. However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online. I am housing more course content in digital mode.

You have this in Schoology now? I don't think anyone on my team has anything in Schoology yet. I haven't had time to give it much attention yet and I'm not sure what I'd put in there anyhow at this point.

ES Teacher

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar. However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online. I am housing more course content in digital mode.

You have this in Schoology now? I don't think anyone on my team has anything in Schoology yet. I haven't had time to give it much attention yet and I'm not sure what I'd put in there anyhow at this point.

ES Teacher

Because you are spending all the time on DCUM, "ES Teacher"

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar. However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online. I am housing more course content in digital mode.

You have this in Schoology now? I don't think anyone on my team has anything in Schoology yet. I haven't had time to give it much attention yet and I'm not sure what I'd put in there anyhow at this point.

ES Teacher

My Dad's ES teacher has a ton of stuff in Schoology already.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar. However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online. I am housing more course content in digital mode.

You have this in Schoology now? I don't think anyone on my team has anything in Schoology yet. I haven't had time to give it much attention yet and I'm not sure what I'd put in there anyhow at this point.

ES Teacher

My Dad's ES teacher has a ton of stuff in Schoology already.

^ DD's

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar. However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online. I am housing more course content in digital mode.

Ok well secondary has been doing that for years

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar. However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online. I am housing more course content in digital mode.

You have this in Schoology now? I don't think anyone on my team has anything in Schoology yet. I haven't had time to give it much attention yet and I'm not sure what I'd put in there anyhow at this point.

ES Teacher

Because you are spending all the time on DCUM, "ES Teacher"

Well, it is Sunday.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans.

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot!

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all.

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.

Well, that makes me feel marginally better. Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that.

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar. However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online. I am housing more course content in digital mode.

You have this in Schoology now? I don't think anyone on my team has anything in Schoology yet. I haven't had time to give it much attention yet and I'm not sure what I'd put in there anyhow at this point.

ES Teacher

My Dad's ES teacher has a ton of stuff in Schoology already.

For example…?