LCPS, how is hybrid learning going?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point they are likely to make it to winter break. It will probably take a week+ for the metrics to break 10 and stay there for 5 school days. There are only 12 school days left.

I don’t think anyone will go back right after New Years. It will probably take a while for positivity rates to come back down after the holidays. It also depends if the Governor ads any more restrictions- I hope he does. 1-21 for secondary seems unlikely. I’m guessing more like end of Feb.

I’m a HS teacher and the vibe is 1/21 for students and 1/4 for staff is definitely happening. Obviously rates can change but there’s no expectation or any talk it’s getting pulled back. We’ve all just kind of accepted it even though nearly all of us think returning in January is about the worst possible time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point they are likely to make it to winter break. It will probably take a week+ for the metrics to break 10 and stay there for 5 school days. There are only 12 school days left.

I don’t think anyone will go back right after New Years. It will probably take a while for positivity rates to come back down after the holidays. It also depends if the Governor ads any more restrictions- I hope he does. 1-21 for secondary seems unlikely. I’m guessing more like end of Feb.

What restrictions do you think the Governor is going to add that will make a difference? The unmasked social gatherings are what's driving this. It's not "nail salons", it's not "tattoo parlors", it's not restaurants, it's not schools, it's not retail, etc. It's people gathering unmasked in each other's homes. So if he can mandate that away, I'm all for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point they are likely to make it to winter break. It will probably take a week+ for the metrics to break 10 and stay there for 5 school days. There are only 12 school days left.

I don’t think anyone will go back right after New Years. It will probably take a while for positivity rates to come back down after the holidays. It also depends if the Governor ads any more restrictions- I hope he does. 1-21 for secondary seems unlikely. I’m guessing more like end of Feb.

What restrictions do you think the Governor is going to add that will make a difference? The unmasked social gatherings are what's driving this. It's not "nail salons", it's not "tattoo parlors", it's not restaurants, it's not schools, it's not retail, etc. It's people gathering unmasked in each other's homes. So if he can mandate that away, I'm all for it.

He can say no gathering indoors anywhere with anyone outside your household, a la California and Vermont.

[Anonymous]

He won’t. No additional restrictions are coming. Our rates depend on what we do . We are sailing ourselves and our kids and whatever impact our choices have on school are ours to bear. The numbers do not lie. Many northern Virginians traveled or gathered for thanksgiving. This week those numbers began showing up, next week they’ll be worse, 1-2 week after that are the hospitalizations. So whatever we say about school being necessary we in this area ARE NOT prioritizing it. They set the metrics high. Northam is hands off. If it can’t happen we have only ourselves to blame.

[Anonymous]

Restaurants and bars are a source of spread along with those who must report to work indoors. That’s what contact tracing is showing on NVa. So he should close restaurants and bars to anything but takeout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Restaurants and bars are a source of spread along with those who must report to work indoors. That’s what contact tracing is showing on NVa. So he should close restaurants and bars to anything but takeout.

I agree but doesn’t seem likely he will. Too many republicans in our state would start screaming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point they are likely to make it to winter break. It will probably take a week+ for the metrics to break 10 and stay there for 5 school days. There are only 12 school days left.

I don’t think anyone will go back right after New Years. It will probably take a while for positivity rates to come back down after the holidays. It also depends if the Governor ads any more restrictions- I hope he does. 1-21 for secondary seems unlikely. I’m guessing more like end of Feb.

What restrictions do you think the Governor is going to add that will make a difference? The unmasked social gatherings are what's driving this. It's not "nail salons", it's not "tattoo parlors", it's not restaurants, it's not schools, it's not retail, etc. It's people gathering unmasked in each other's homes. So if he can mandate that away, I'm all for it.

He can say no gathering indoors anywhere with anyone outside your household, a la California and Vermont.

Which were completely ignored in CA and VT.

[Anonymous]

LCPS isn’t looking so great. 6 positive kids and 3 positive teachers just in the past 24 hours.

https://www.lcps.org/Page/234565#CaseData

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LCPS isn’t looking so great. 6 positive kids and 3 positive teachers just in the past 24 hours.

https://www.lcps.org/Page/234565#CaseData

Y’all were warned about this. Foam-in-mouth raging Parents still claimed their preciousness needed to be inside to avoid suicide or other faux bs reasons. They also said kids don’t infect or get it... time proving them wrong once again.

Worse part of all? They’d still do it again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Today Va is at 10% positivity and Loudoun is at 10.4% and well over 200 cases per 100,000. Does this mean this is day one of potential 5 days in a row to meet the metrics for back to virtual?

No. The 14 day average has to get over 10% for 5 consecutive days.

Do you have a link for where the 5 consecutive days comes from? It doesn't say that in the letter from the school board.

"If the CDC core indicators relating to the Loudoun County case incidence rate* and the Loudoun County percent positivity rate** are each at the highest risk levels, then LCPS would return to 100% distance learning for all students and would not expand implementation of the hybrid model. "

Watching the 9.1% with dread blah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today Va is at 10% positivity and Loudoun is at 10.4% and well over 200 cases per 100,000. Does this mean this is day one of potential 5 days in a row to meet the metrics for back to virtual?

No. The 14 day average has to get over 10% for 5 consecutive days.

Do you have a link for where the 5 consecutive days comes from? It doesn't say that in the letter from the school board.

"If the CDC core indicators relating to the Loudoun County case incidence rate* and the Loudoun County percent positivity rate** are each at the highest risk levels, then LCPS would return to 100% distance learning for all students and would not expand implementation of the hybrid model. "

Watching the 9.1% with dread blah.

There seems to be a lot of opinions and ambiguities about that non-scientific metric established by the spineless LCPS school board to appease the 30% of parents demanding in-person instruction.

Fact is: we will be doing DL during Q3 at a minimum. We’re waaaaay about 200/100,000 cases and the positivity is about or already above 10%.

Are the fuming parents planning for the inevitable or do they plan on applying to teach inside close quarters next to virus-bearing people for 7+ hours straight? Asking for a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today Va is at 10% positivity and Loudoun is at 10.4% and well over 200 cases per 100,000. Does this mean this is day one of potential 5 days in a row to meet the metrics for back to virtual?

No. The 14 day average has to get over 10% for 5 consecutive days.

Do you have a link for where the 5 consecutive days comes from? It doesn't say that in the letter from the school board.

"If the CDC core indicators relating to the Loudoun County case incidence rate* and the Loudoun County percent positivity rate** are each at the highest risk levels, then LCPS would return to 100% distance learning for all students and would not expand implementation of the hybrid model. "

Watching the 9.1% with dread blah.

There seems to be a lot of opinions and ambiguities about that non-scientific metric established by the spineless LCPS school board to appease the 30% of parents demanding in-person instruction.

Fact is: we will be doing DL during Q3 at a minimum. We’re waaaaay about 200/100,000 cases and the positivity is about or already above 10%.

Are the fuming parents planning for the inevitable or do they plan on applying to teach inside close quarters next to virus-bearing people for 7+ hours straight? Asking for a teacher.

Yikes I'm not mad I just want to know if this 5 day thing is real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today Va is at 10% positivity and Loudoun is at 10.4% and well over 200 cases per 100,000. Does this mean this is day one of potential 5 days in a row to meet the metrics for back to virtual?

No. The 14 day average has to get over 10% for 5 consecutive days.

Do you have a link for where the 5 consecutive days comes from? It doesn't say that in the letter from the school board.

"If the CDC core indicators relating to the Loudoun County case incidence rate* and the Loudoun County percent positivity rate** are each at the highest risk levels, then LCPS would return to 100% distance learning for all students and would not expand implementation of the hybrid model. "

Watching the 9.1% with dread blah.

Yes it’s in the transition plan presented to the board on 12/1. Once it hits 10 it will transition back to DL is it stays there five straight school days (not including weekends for some reason). That’s almost certain to happen. The issue then is hybrid CANT resume for any grades until BOTH metrics drop below the 200/100,000 and 10% PCR for 5 straight school days. The reality is if they have to revert to DL the numbers will stay above 200 for quite awhile. It could legitimately be another 2-3 months until they drop below that again. And stay there for 5 straight school days. Sadly, Loudoun had not done their part to ensure kids can go to school and stay in. It’s sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LCPS isn’t looking so great. 6 positive kids and 3 positive teachers just in the past 24 hours.

https://www.lcps.org/Page/234565#CaseData

Uh, duh. We said this would happen. Especially given the week after thanksgiving with people in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today Va is at 10% positivity and Loudoun is at 10.4% and well over 200 cases per 100,000. Does this mean this is day one of potential 5 days in a row to meet the metrics for back to virtual?

No. The 14 day average has to get over 10% for 5 consecutive days.

Do you have a link for where the 5 consecutive days comes from? It doesn't say that in the letter from the school board.

"If the CDC core indicators relating to the Loudoun County case incidence rate* and the Loudoun County percent positivity rate** are each at the highest risk levels, then LCPS would return to 100% distance learning for all students and would not expand implementation of the hybrid model. "

Watching the 9.1% with dread blah.

Yes it’s in the transition plan presented to the board on 12/1. Once it hits 10 it will transition back to DL is it stays there five straight school days (not including weekends for some reason). That’s almost certain to happen. The issue then is hybrid CANT resume for any grades until BOTH metrics drop below the 200/100,000 and 10% PCR for 5 straight school days. The reality is if they have to revert to DL the numbers will stay above 200 for quite awhile. It could legitimately be another 2-3 months until they drop below that again. And stay there for 5 straight school days. Sadly, Loudoun had not done their part to ensure kids can go to school and stay in. It’s sad.

By Loudoun I obviously mean the citizens not the board. The board set those metrics wild high and STILL we will hit them and trigger all DL again. They need to take 6-12 completely out of the equation and focus ONLY on sped and k-2, 3-5 in spring and stipends for in person elementary staff. It’s ludicrous the little ones can’t be in if the big ones can’t when they big ones are the most likely to spread and create outbreaks.

6-12 should have never been on the table. Had they not been, k-5 could have been in person from august on and they could have focused on making DL better for 6-12. So much wasted energy and time spent planning for all grades to return. It was a fools errand.