Best Post I’ve Seen in a Month on DL/Hybrid Choice

[Anonymous]

This is a time when the family with most mental strength and fortitude will survive. Feeble people will want to socialize. Go for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The math in this post alone invalidates it. We are not going to let every student and teacher get COVID, as is assumed here. That's complete nonsense and just made up to get an emotional eaction.

We should doing everything we can to keep infection rates low in the community (#schoolsbeforebars) and aggressively react to any outbreak. We should also take all proposed measure (masks/cohortings/distancing/handwashing/cleaning) to keep any infections as contained as possible.

Students who can effectively learn from home should strongly consider taking that option. For kids who can't, regardless of the reason, we should do all we can to make school as safe as we can.

If we have such power, why are we "letting" other people get it under conditions that aren't half as bad as what attending school will entail?

It's fair to assume that most, if not all, will get it.

You think most of all students and teachers will get COVID with the hybrid option? Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The math in this post alone invalidates it. We are not going to let every student and teacher get COVID, as is assumed here. That's complete nonsense and just made up to get an emotional eaction.

We should doing everything we can to keep infection rates low in the community (#schoolsbeforebars) and aggressively react to any outbreak. We should also take all proposed measure (masks/cohortings/distancing/handwashing/cleaning) to keep any infections as contained as possible.

Students who can effectively learn from home should strongly consider taking that option. For kids who can't, regardless of the reason, we should do all we can to make school as safe as we can.

If we have such power, why are we "letting" other people get it under conditions that aren't half as bad as what attending school will entail?

It's fair to assume that most, if not all, will get it.

You think most of all students and teachers will get COVID with the hybrid option? Wow.

*most OR all

[Anonymous]

I don’t see the OP’s post as trying to change minds.. I think someone is just showing their thought processes as they make up their mind. I appreciate it because I am thinking through the same decision and it helps to hear other peoples ideas, not anger, ideas.

Anger generated from this post just shows how scary the decision process can be.

[Anonymous]

NP here, and to the immediate PP, I sincerely hope you’ve advocated and continue to advocate for the lives of grocery store clerks, nursing home residents and staff, prisoners, retail and warehouse workers....the list goes on and on. I work in a clinic and no one seems to care anymore about the risks my colleagues and I have taken, nor about what’s happening to our kids.

For the people saying “well if you have to send your kid then just send them” after saying “PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE!!!”—think about what you’re saying here! Because the PP’s kid has a disability, or because a kid has parents working in restaurants or hospitals, our kids get to be the guinea pigs for this plan? How incredibly cruel.

And yes, there is actual science to refute the OP’s cited numbers. Yes, he is incredibly privileged to have a choice, not that he acknowledges this at any time in his post. And yes, my kids and the kids of all the ICU and ER nurses and doctors I know are going back into the classroom this fall, because we don’t have an alternative and no one has cared to offer us one.

[Anonymous]

Op really should have changed the assumption from “all kids and teachers will get covid.” This is a big error and people are having a hard time focusing on anything else because the results from their assumption are never going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for this OP

Ok the math is wrong, but it doesn’t negate the rest of the thoughts in the post.

People keep picking one detail and then change the tenor of the conversation... wonder where they got that strategy from?

I'm the first poster who talked about the first two quotes. There was no "strategy" to my choice to address only those. I just didn't feel like going point by point rebutting what he said. Too much time when I'm not trying to convince other people what to do. I'm just pointing out that, for me, those first two assumptions he made weren't accurate. I also chose to point out that he calls other people's opinions faux expertise when he definitely is giving similar opinions. His opinion isn't any more valid than anyone else's and I disagree that it's the best post. It's a post by someone who thinks they know more than others, when all anyone can do is make a decision for their own families based on all the facts they have like their child's mental health and learning style, child/family medical risks and whether they trust FCPS to properly enforce mask rule, physical distancing and cleaning protocols.

[Anonymous]

Yeah this post is gross and it’s not the best thing ever. Hiding at home will not make this thing go away or help essential personnel, Amazon delivery drivers, store clerks, etc. I’m a privileged person that can work at home and I am choosing hybrid. I am not selfish, I’m making a choice that is offered, as are all of our neighbors and friends except one. I think people are going to be surprised by the numbers. It’s easy to get lost in the online postings but they don’t represent everyone.

I’m speculating at least 50% teachers and students choose hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever wrote this should have reread it before posting. A lot of it is just totally wrong. And he comes off as self-righteous.

Can people who want DL just choose DL and stop feeling the need to force other people into it just so their kids aren’t left out of something? These over the top-long winded posts are getting out of hand.

+1 I'm picking DL and agree with you.

[Anonymous]

School administrator here. Choosing virtual for our kids. Main concern is poor ventilation in buildings and classrooms with no windows. Also, not a chance HS kids will keep masks on. We can’t even get them to pull up their pants. School buildings are notorious for having constant AC issues. HS kids are notorious for going against what adults recommend, especially when the adults aren’t looking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here, and to the immediate PP, I sincerely hope you’ve advocated and continue to advocate for the lives of grocery store clerks, nursing home residents and staff, prisoners, retail and warehouse workers....the list goes on and on. I work in a clinic and no one seems to care anymore about the risks my colleagues and I have taken, nor about what’s happening to our kids.

For the people saying “well if you have to send your kid then just send them” after saying “PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE!!!”—think about what you’re saying here! Because the PP’s kid has a disability, or because a kid has parents working in restaurants or hospitals, our kids get to be the guinea pigs for this plan? How incredibly cruel.

And yes, there is actual science to refute the OP’s cited numbers. Yes, he is incredibly privileged to have a choice, not that he acknowledges this at any time in his post. And yes, my kids and the kids of all the ICU and ER nurses and doctors I know are going back into the classroom this fall, because we don’t have an alternative and no one has cared to offer us one.

NP. Both DH and I can and will telework but my brother is a doctor in another state and has been working with covid patients for months. He is exposed but hasn't had covid.

I feel safe enough sending our grade school children to school, in a class with 10 other classmates, all wearing masks and washing their hands. I admit that I might worry more about this if my children were in high school.

We're not all going to get covid. Our doctors and nurses are not all going to get it, our children are not all going to get it.

[Anonymous]

He's in idiot that works for a useless assocation where he can hide at home, pretend to do work while really watching his kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here, and to the immediate PP, I sincerely hope you’ve advocated and continue to advocate for the lives of grocery store clerks, nursing home residents and staff, prisoners, retail and warehouse workers....the list goes on and on. I work in a clinic and no one seems to care anymore about the risks my colleagues and I have taken, nor about what’s happening to our kids.

For the people saying “well if you have to send your kid then just send them” after saying “PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE!!!”—think about what you’re saying here! Because the PP’s kid has a disability, or because a kid has parents working in restaurants or hospitals, our kids get to be the guinea pigs for this plan? How incredibly cruel.

And yes, there is actual science to refute the OP’s cited numbers. Yes, he is incredibly privileged to have a choice, not that he acknowledges this at any time in his post. And yes, my kids and the kids of all the ICU and ER nurses and doctors I know are going back into the classroom this fall, because we don’t have an alternative and no one has cared to offer us one.

You have the same options the rest of us working parents have. Arguably you should have better choices. I think all essential personnel should be receiving childcare funding or full time school until we are in the final stage of this thing. Oh well, you get hybrid I guess. Would you like something like full time virtual, that you could work into your childcare schedule? That’s an idea I’ve seen but that hasn’t really been discussed much here.

[Anonymous]

Meh. It didn't resonate with me. It doesn't sympathize with people who have to work and don't have a choice other than to be homeless. People need to respect each other's choices and not be so judgy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The math in this post alone invalidates it. We are not going to let every student and teacher get COVID, as is assumed here. That's complete nonsense and just made up to get an emotional eaction.

We should doing everything we can to keep infection rates low in the community (#schoolsbeforebars) and aggressively react to any outbreak. We should also take all proposed measure (masks/cohortings/distancing/handwashing/cleaning) to keep any infections as contained as possible.

Students who can effectively learn from home should strongly consider taking that option. For kids who can't, regardless of the reason, we should do all we can to make school as safe as we can.

If we have such power, why are we "letting" other people get it under conditions that aren't half as bad as what attending school will entail?

It's fair to assume that most, if not all, will get it.

So it's fair to assume that FCPS will ignore a rampant COVID outbreak in schools and stick with hybrid instead of switching hybrid kids to DL? Okay then.