Parents - are you willing to do DL the rest of the year for 5 day in-person next fall?

[Anonymous]

Yes! Concurrent is terrible and I think that + schools not actually following mitigation such as enforcing masks for everyone, will cause a lot of really good people to leave the profession after this year. Before someone chimes in and says, "Well, there will be someone else eager to take their place!!", you may or may not be right. Even if you are, I'd take an experienced teacher who knows their stuff over a first year teacher or longterm sub any day, but especially in a post-pandemic year. I do expect we will be back five days next fall either way, but the staff makeup will look a lot different if they push people back in without vaccines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, as a teacher who is totally fine going back in person, concurrent is going to be awful and I desperately want to have 5 day a week school in the fall.
I don’t think it will happen though and not because of the FEA people.
There are many families who are still very afraid of covid and will not want to send their kids in the fall.
We will be stuck in concurrent due to that.
I have students who haven’t left their houses since last March

They haven't LEFT THEIR HOUSE?!

I’m totally serious.
I drop off supplies to their door and ring the bell and then head back to my car.
They can’t come pick up stuff from the school.
Parents work from home, all groceries delivered. They think I’m nuts that I am sending my own son to in person private.

This is the main reason I don’t think 5 days will happen.

It’s not “lazy teachers”
I spend WAY more time planning lessons this year than ever before.
In person teaching is a cake walk and I would greatly prefer it. Concurrent will not be

[Anonymous]

I should say cake walk compared to virtual learning.
I have a headache by the end of the day and I know the kids probably do too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, as a teacher who is totally fine going back in person, concurrent is going to be awful and I desperately want to have 5 day a week school in the fall.
I don’t think it will happen though and not because of the FEA people.
There are many families who are still very afraid of covid and will not want to send their kids in the fall.
We will be stuck in concurrent due to that.
I have students who haven’t left their houses since last March

They haven't LEFT THEIR HOUSE?!

I’m totally serious.
I drop off supplies to their door and ring the bell and then head back to my car.
They can’t come pick up stuff from the school.
Parents work from home, all groceries delivered. They think I’m nuts that I am sending my own son to in person private.

This is the main reason I don’t think 5 days will happen.

It’s not “lazy teachers”
I spend WAY more time planning lessons this year than ever before.
In person teaching is a cake walk and I would greatly prefer it. Concurrent will not be

That's insane. People like that need to just homeschool or do virtual virginia. the virus is here to stay.

[Anonymous]

Wow, you drop stuff off at their house? That's amazing.

We haven't had any "stuff" to pick up besides a laptop. What kind of stuff?

[Anonymous]

I am for virtual learning now and until we reach herd immunity. We will reach it. It might at the end of 2021.

[Anonymous]

They should do both. Huge swaths of the country have normal school. This is just an idiot-fest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, you drop stuff off at their house? That's amazing.

We haven't had any "stuff" to pick up besides a laptop. What kind of stuff?

NP we're elementary and we pick up packets every 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But 5 days should not take a lot of work. It is a lot of work to develop a system that has never been done. We know how to do 5 days. Just add masks. Bam. Done. They don’t need 9 months to prepare for that.

+1

It doesn't take any extra work at all.

Not true. There will still need to be considerations of the number of bodies that can be in a space at any given time.

I’m not a middle school PE teacher so please don’t bother telling me I’m lazy or want to stay in pjs. I’m just using MS PE as an example because of my pen kids’ experiences.

PE teachers don’t have classrooms. 3 or more classes assemble in the gym and fill the bleachers. Attendance is taken with lots of yelling. IF the weather allows and the unit of study is appropriate, class moves outside. If not, the entire pack of kids runs around the gym to do laps and then they start playing basketball or doing whatever sport it is.

This is not safe. A different system has to be developed. But there aren’t any empty classrooms because schools are already overcrowded. Is PE outdoors even when it’s 15 deg and raining?

Fine. Cancel PE, subdivide the gym into extra classroom space, find some other job for the PE teachers to do (they didn't do anything this year either and still got paid so whatev).

This. PE is a worthless class most college bound kids I know take over the summer. Give them a semester or year of health and drivers Ed. And them let do any sort of physical fitness on their own. As during the summer. School sport, running with a monitor, option fitness class at school. Let the kid pick. Locker rooms and force basketball suck so much in HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, you drop stuff off at their house? That's amazing.

We haven't had any "stuff" to pick up besides a laptop. What kind of stuff?

NP we're elementary and we pick up packets every 2 weeks.

Wow. Real paper. I'm easily impressed this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and also I think there will be no in-person this year anyway so I'd rather they stopped wasting time. Same story as the summer, they spin their wheels instead of making DL better (it can be better) or just opening in person when they should have.

I agree. Call a spade a spade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way will we get real school next fall if we don't get kids in the building this year.

I tend to agree with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally wish the school board would stop wasting mental energy on hybrid logistics and just focus on 5 day in person in the fall. If you are students doing DL right now, do you agree?

YES. I've said this all along. Just get everything in order to open for in-person learning with an in-person teacher in fall 2021.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way will we get real school next fall if we don't get kids in the building this year.

I tend to agree with this.

This. We've got to rip off the bandaid/get back on the horse/pick your own analogy.

[Anonymous]

But, what makes you think that they'll successfully bring them back in the fall?

They've proven totally incapable of handling the past 10 months, so I have NO faith that they'd get them back in in September. There will always be another excuse.