APS Teachers In School for only one week of prep

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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.

Virtual staff requesting CARES leave due to COVID would report.

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CARES is over.

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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.

Virtual staff requesting CARES leave due to COVID would report.

+1. One of my kids’ teachers is currently on sick leave because she has covid. She admitted to the parents in her email detailing the sub plan that she caught it visiting a family member over the holidays.

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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.

Those kids don’t matter because most of them are poor and non-white.

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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.

Those kids don’t matter because most of them are poor and non-white.

They do matter. They won’t have had suffered the effects of being out sick with CoVID, or passing it on to an adult they depend. When you’re dead, you’re dead a long time. You really care about those kids, huh? I’m sure you do. Next.

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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.

Those kids don’t matter because most of them are poor and non-white.

They do matter. They won’t have had suffered the effects of being out sick with CoVID, or passing it on to an adult they depend. When you’re dead, you’re dead a long time. You really care about those kids, huh? I’m sure you do. Next.

An adult they depend on, I mean. Listen, you people need to relax. Schools will open.

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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.

Those kids don’t matter because most of them are poor and non-white.

They do matter. They won’t have had suffered the effects of being out sick with CoVID, or passing it on to an adult they depend. When you’re dead, you’re dead a long time. You really care about those kids, huh? I’m sure you do. Next.

I actually do care about them, and I’m aware of the statistics on what happens to kids who drop out of high school. Do you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CARES is over.

APS now has a separate leave that covers COVID since the expiration.

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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.

Those kids don’t matter because most of them are poor and non-white.

They do matter. They won’t have had suffered the effects of being out sick with CoVID, or passing it on to an adult they depend. When you’re dead, you’re dead a long time. You really care about those kids, huh? I’m sure you do. Next.

I actually do care about them, and I’m aware of the statistics on what happens to kids who drop out of high school. Do you?

Yup. Want their families to be healthy and safe. Want them to have good lung functioning and not miss a ton of school. I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Those kids don’t matter because most of them are poor and non-white.

They do matter. They won’t have had suffered the effects of being out sick with CoVID, or passing it on to an adult they depend. When you’re dead, you’re dead a long time. You really care about those kids, huh? I’m sure you do. Next.

You think they're not going to catch Covid just because they're not in school? You think they'll be engaged in less-risky activities when they have no oversight or accountability? They're still going to catch Covid, but afterward they'll end up unemployed, and have a good chance of ending up in jail at some point too, statistically-speaking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Those kids don’t matter because most of them are poor and non-white.

They do matter. They won’t have had suffered the effects of being out sick with CoVID, or passing it on to an adult they depend. When you’re dead, you’re dead a long time. You really care about those kids, huh? I’m sure you do. Next.

I actually do care about them, and I’m aware of the statistics on what happens to kids who drop out of high school. Do you?

Yup. Want their families to be healthy and safe. Want them to have good lung functioning and not miss a ton of school. I do.

Do you understand what "dropping out" means? Kids who drop out are not going to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Those kids don’t matter because most of them are poor and non-white.

They do matter. They won’t have had suffered the effects of being out sick with CoVID, or passing it on to an adult they depend. When you’re dead, you’re dead a long time. You really care about those kids, huh? I’m sure you do. Next.

I actually do care about them, and I’m aware of the statistics on what happens to kids who drop out of high school. Do you?

Yup. Want their families to be healthy and safe. Want them to have good lung functioning and not miss a ton of school. I do.

I’m sorry. I though you were talking about SOLs that haven’t happened yet. The pandemic is happening now. Virginia just reported the most cases ever. So... what the hell are you going on about?

Do you understand what "dropping out" means? Kids who drop out are not going to school.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like elementary mommy doesn’t understand the role of SOLs in high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Of course those numbers include all staff, not just those working in-person. A 24% infection rate would be reported on the VDH website and would probably be one of the biggest super spreader events in the country. The appropriate denominator is 7,000.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Virtual staff requesting CARES leave due to COVID would report.

+1. One of my kids’ teachers is currently on sick leave because she has covid. She admitted to the parents in her email detailing the sub plan that she caught it visiting a family member over the holidays.

I think our kid has the same teacher If not, it's the same scenario.