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.


+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.


This is exactly why so many parents are incredibly disappointed with APS teachers that do not want to return to the classroom. There are more safety measures in school than visiting family. Was this teacher wearing a mask/face shield when visiting family? Probably not. Was she staying 6 feet apart from everyone? Did they eat lunch/dinner with their family?? It seems OK to risk visiting family with no safety measures, but returning to class with masks and face shields, and half the amount of students present, is considered super high risk somehow. This is so hypocritical and NOT OK.


You don't know what you are talking about. Said teacher and one relative were tested before they saw each other. They tested negative, but later found they both were sick. They did not travel.
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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.


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


This is exactly why so many parents are incredibly disappointed with APS teachers that do not want to return to the classroom. There are more safety measures in school than visiting family. Was this teacher wearing a mask/face shield when visiting family? Probably not. Was she staying 6 feet apart from everyone? Did they eat lunch/dinner with their family?? It seems OK to risk visiting family with no safety measures, but returning to class with masks and face shields, and half the amount of students present, is considered super high risk somehow. This is so hypocritical and NOT OK.


Nope. Your argument boils down to: Because some teachers sometimes engage in risky behavior in their private life, all teachers should be required to subject themselves to these risk at their place of employment everyday for 6 hours at a time, including maskless lunchtime. Just take a deep breath and wait til all teachers are vaccinated. Then you can send your kid in for their maskless indoor lunches without endangering teachers.


I personally know of at least 2 teachers who traveled to see familiies over the holidays but are big advocates for not returning to school until everyone is vaccinated.. SMH.
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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.


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


This is exactly why so many parents are incredibly disappointed with APS teachers that do not want to return to the classroom. There are more safety measures in school than visiting family. Was this teacher wearing a mask/face shield when visiting family? Probably not. Was she staying 6 feet apart from everyone? Did they eat lunch/dinner with their family?? It seems OK to risk visiting family with no safety measures, but returning to class with masks and face shields, and half the amount of students present, is considered super high risk somehow. This is so hypocritical and NOT OK.


You don't know what you are talking about. Said teacher and one relative were tested before they saw each other. They tested negative, but later found they both were sick. They did not travel.


I am the poster who first shared the communication from the sick teacher. We must be talking about different teachers, because ours did not say anything about having gotten tested, and did say they traveled.
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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.


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


This is exactly why so many parents are incredibly disappointed with APS teachers that do not want to return to the classroom. There are more safety measures in school than visiting family. Was this teacher wearing a mask/face shield when visiting family? Probably not. Was she staying 6 feet apart from everyone? Did they eat lunch/dinner with their family?? It seems OK to risk visiting family with no safety measures, but returning to class with masks and face shields, and half the amount of students present, is considered super high risk somehow. This is so hypocritical and NOT OK.


You don't know what you are talking about. Said teacher and one relative were tested before they saw each other. They tested negative, but later found they both were sick. They did not travel.


also since you raise meals - aps is going to put kids together to eat inside every day without masks. so stupid.
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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.


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


This is exactly why so many parents are incredibly disappointed with APS teachers that do not want to return to the classroom. There are more safety measures in school than visiting family. Was this teacher wearing a mask/face shield when visiting family? Probably not. Was she staying 6 feet apart from everyone? Did they eat lunch/dinner with their family?? It seems OK to risk visiting family with no safety measures, but returning to class with masks and face shields, and half the amount of students present, is considered super high risk somehow. This is so hypocritical and NOT OK.


Nope. Your argument boils down to: Because some teachers sometimes engage in risky behavior in their private life, all teachers should be required to subject themselves to these risk at their place of employment everyday for 6 hours at a time, including maskless lunchtime. Just take a deep breath and wait til all teachers are vaccinated. Then you can send your kid in for their maskless indoor lunches without endangering teachers.


I personally know of at least 2 teachers who traveled to see familiies over the holidays but are big advocates for not returning to school until everyone is vaccinated.. SMH.


Shame!
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That’s interesting. I’m an APS teacher and parent who stayed home but I saw at least 10 families from the schools my own kids attend who traveled for the holidays themselves and posted photos on Facebook of their family gatherings, ski and beach vacations. And they are all calling for schools to open NOW.
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Anonymous wrote:That’s interesting. I’m an APS teacher and parent who stayed home but I saw at least 10 families from the schools my own kids attend who traveled for the holidays themselves and posted photos on Facebook of their family gatherings, ski and beach vacations. And they are all calling for schools to open NOW.

Sure you did.
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That’s interesting. I’m an APS teacher and parent who stayed home but I saw at least 10 families from the schools my own kids attend who traveled for the holidays themselves and posted photos on Facebook of their family gatherings, ski and beach vacations. And they are all calling for schools to open NOW.


Sure you did.


DP. I didn't see this on Facebook, but I've heard students talking about their family trips. These are students from families who signed up for hybrid.

Over the years, I've also had many students come to school quite sick, and when I tried to send them home, they told me they had to come because their parents needed to work. This literally happens all the time, and will be no different during COVID.
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Anonymous wrote:That’s interesting. I’m an APS teacher and parent who stayed home but I saw at least 10 families from the schools my own kids attend who traveled for the holidays themselves and posted photos on Facebook of their family gatherings, ski and beach vacations. And they are all calling for schools to open NOW.

Sure you did.


So you think all the families selecting hybrid sat home for winter break? You are the naive one.
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Anonymous wrote:That’s interesting. I’m an APS teacher and parent who stayed home but I saw at least 10 families from the schools my own kids attend who traveled for the holidays themselves and posted photos on Facebook of their family gatherings, ski and beach vacations. And they are all calling for schools to open NOW.

Sure you did.


So you think all the families selecting hybrid sat home for winter break? You are the naive one.


My family wants hybrid and we stayed home for winter break. We are super cautious about covid. I know many many families who did the same. While I'm sure that there are some families selecting hybrid who are not covid cautious there are just as many who are covid cautious- but see the huge value in in person learning.

Interestingly enough, the only people I know personally who dine in restaurants indoors selected virtual.....
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Anonymous wrote:That’s interesting. I’m an APS teacher and parent who stayed home but I saw at least 10 families from the schools my own kids attend who traveled for the holidays themselves and posted photos on Facebook of their family gatherings, ski and beach vacations. And they are all calling for schools to open NOW.

Sure you did.


So you think all the families selecting hybrid sat home for winter break? You are the naive one.


My family wants hybrid and we stayed home for winter break. We are super cautious about covid. I know many many families who did the same. While I'm sure that there are some families selecting hybrid who are not covid cautious there are just as many who are covid cautious- but see the huge value in in person learning.

Interestingly enough, the only people I know personally who dine in restaurants indoors selected virtual.....


I teach high school. Trust me, there are extremes, but most certainly, kids that are all over our community, and others. Before the holidays, you had kids saying they were doing Zoom with their families, and then some going to skiing, to Florida, everywhere.

We are getting vaccinated so I am not worried about the risk to my family, but I do think hybrid families (including my own) need to think about that. Especially when most of the parents aren’t vaccinated yet. I do think some kids just need to come back- they can’t do it. But I am really thinking about it with my own.
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That’s interesting. I’m an APS teacher and parent who stayed home but I saw at least 10 families from the schools my own kids attend who traveled for the holidays themselves and posted photos on Facebook of their family gatherings, ski and beach vacations. And they are all calling for schools to open NOW.


Sure you did.


DP. I didn't see this on Facebook, but I've heard students talking about their family trips. These are students from families who signed up for hybrid.

Over the years, I've also had many students come to school quite sick, and when I tried to send them home, they told me they had to come because their parents needed to work. This literally happens all the time, and will be no different during COVID.


THAT is the truth. “No one can pick me up.” I’ve certainly heard that!!!
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The maskless indoor lunch plan is really stupid. We don’t live in a very cold climate. Get them outside to eat and vaccinate the teachers and let’s open in spring —- which is just around the corner.
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Anonymous wrote:The maskless indoor lunch plan is really stupid. We don’t live in a very cold climate. Get them outside to eat and vaccinate the teachers and let’s open in spring —- which is just around the corner.


I think we will, and agree about lunch.
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Anonymous wrote:The maskless indoor lunch plan is really stupid. We don’t live in a very cold climate. Get them outside to eat and vaccinate the teachers and let’s open in spring —- which is just around the corner.


I think we will, and agree about lunch.


I think the majority of us agree with outdoor lunch. Our elementary school principal poo pood this because lunches and recess are typically happening at the same time. So having kids eat outside will take up recess area. At this point I’m like a block off parts of the park parking lot or sidewalk or whatever. Just get them outside. Our PTA has a plethora of money that can be used for tents. I’m also guessing if you did a go fund me to help pay for tends to help get kids outdoor lunch to help open schools it would be funded real quick. Especially if you look at the demographic of parents I want their kids back in school.
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