What will school look like after the pandemic??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

You sounded reasonable until the "entitled white parents" jab.

Agreed. I was feeling this post...then out of nowhere, an unnecessary slap.

It’s not an unnecessary jab. It’s reality. You don’t have to like it.

Ironically, our wealthy white town is pushing for an override so we can meet our superintendent’s request to increase our budget 13%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

You sound exactly like anti vaxxer Facebook moms . Exact same arguments.

I don't know what antivaxxer facebook moms say, but that person was actually making sense. Just saying. Don't discredit someone's argument by labeling it as antivaxxer argument. If it makes sense, good, if not then say why it does not make sense.

Because masks are not torture devices, kids do fine with them, and sometimes you do things to protect the greater good instead of always worrying about yourself

When community rates are low with a virus that is less dangerous than the flu, and the people who are at risk are all vaccinated then yep, I agree. Kids won’t need to wear masks and it’s unfair to expect them to. Kids have suffered and sacrificed enough for adults this year, while adult
society was greedy and selfish. Once adults are vaccinated we are done with masks.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see a mass exodus of teachers from the profession. There aren’t many jobs that provide the benefits they are used to. Yes, the older ones may retire, but I don’t see that as a sweeping movement either. They are going to retire in 2021 because they have to wear a mask in a classroom?

[Anonymous]

Will teachers really want to teach all day in masks in perpetuity? That sounds horrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

100% I cannot understand the uptight, oblivious ninnies on this board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

I’m curious what doctors or scientists (people much smarter than me on this stuff) would say about masking kids all winter. Kids’ immune systems are really good and are learning. It’s important for them to be exposed to bacteria and even viruses so they can develop immunity. Masking kids all winter so they’re never exposed to anything seems like it would backfire in adulthood.

They would say mask. Look at this graph of youth death from flu. Almost NONE this year : https://twitter.com/dakhterakhter/status/1355400664419950600?s=21

I understand that flu deaths have plummeted this year. But kids can and should get the flu shot every year, which would cut down on deaths. What about all of the other illnesses that strengthen the immune system?

Lady, who cares. Go start your own thread. Play internet epidemiologist and expose your kid to every illness you want, it’s your business but it’s not the topic of this thread.

Oh look, it’s the thread police.

And uh, it kinda is the topic of this thread whether or not kids should mask in schools all winter...

[Anonymous]

"In Fairfax County as of Thursday afternoon, there have been slightly more than 59,000 coronavirus cases resulting in about 788 deaths. Of those deaths, none has been a child aged 0-17."

Fall will be 5-days, in person. Masks optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see a mass exodus of teachers from the profession. There aren’t many jobs that provide the benefits they are used to. Yes, the older ones may retire, but I don’t see that as a sweeping movement either. They are going to retire in 2021 because they have to wear a mask in a classroom?

I agree with this. I actually think there will be more families leaving than teachers. For both FCPS and APS, the mishandling and lack of organization have been crystal clear throughout this pandemic. Even knowing school will likely be 5 days, in-person in the fall, I'm looking at alternatives because I am appalled at the lack of leadership and a system that is not putting their students first.

[Anonymous]

It really makes someone sound stupid when they immediately try to discredit anyone’s well-reasoned opinion by labeling them a trumper, anti vaxxer and so on just to avoid discussing the merits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will teachers really want to teach all day in masks in perpetuity? That sounds horrible.

A lot of people in healthcare do it every day.

And I don’t think it will be in perpetuity.

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Anonymous wrote:I sure hope they offer DL for the kids that prefer it. I mean forever not just next year.

As a teacher, I am all for offering DL that is county based, not school based. It isn’t fair to any group to offer concurrent. In early summer they should ask parents to commit so they can figure how many teachers they need. Let’s say there are 400 5th graders in the county choosing to stay virtual. You would need about 16 teachers. Kids would be lumped together. No school based DL. High School should use virtual Virginia.

I agree with this. Maybe add having a social worker or someone check in on the kids periodically to assess for signs of child abuse etc. Some kids do seem to do better with DL but having it be school-based over the long term doesn't seem realistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

You mean, stay home all year while other people actually had to go in to their jobs? 🙄

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will teachers really want to teach all day in masks in perpetuity? That sounds horrible.

A lot of people in healthcare do it every day.

And I don’t think it will be in perpetuity.

It will be unnecessary this fall once adults are vaccinated. I agree they are a necessary evil this spring and probably for summer
school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

Okay, so kids with high medical needs should be forced into DL cause your child won’t wear a mask? We have SPED kids at our school that cannot mask. Think about others lady!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will fight tooth and nail against requiring masks for kids once community rates are lower. Covid is less dangerous to kids than other common viruses. It’s ridiculous to force kids to wear stifling and uncomfortable masks as some kind of pandemic virtue signaling once adults are vaccinated. Individuals can always choose to wear them if they want to.

Okay, so kids with high medical needs should be forced into DL cause your child won’t wear a mask? We have SPED kids at our school that cannot mask. Think about others lady!

Yes. If they can’t risk catching common childhood viruses then they should be on home instruction line every other ill
kid every other year.