With teachers vaccinated, why are we still talking about hybrid, and not a full return to school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vaccinating teachers only ensures safety for teachers. The problem is that many parents and grandparents have not been vaccinated yet so if a kid gets COVID at school and brings it home, they may be infecting a multi-generational household (some that may be high risk).

Then those kids can stay virtual. I don't have those concerns for my children.

This is what all of the UMC families I know are saying. They've been with their kids for almost an entire year. They are done!

What does UMC stand for?

It stands for rich.

Lower class and middle class families are the ones who have born the brunt of this pandemic. We're the ones scared for our loved ones, because we live together, and because many of us have already experienced loss. We're also the ones aware that our kids will be potential spreaders because we're exposed at work.

But by all means, let's come up with a plan that prioritizes rich kids, who have private school options and large houses with yards to play in. Because they're done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The same people who kept arguing that the CDC says opening schools is safe with mitigation are now demanding that schools be open without regard to CDC mitigation. They are not interested in safety. They just want their kids in school. I am done listening the the open schools advocates around here. They aren’t rational. And, I support opening with recommended mitigation.

They assumed it was unvaccinated teachers who were keeping them closed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccinating teachers only ensures safety for teachers. The problem is that many parents and grandparents have not been vaccinated yet so if a kid gets COVID at school and brings it home, they may be infecting a multi-generational household (some that may be high risk).

Then those kids can stay virtual. I don't have those concerns for my children.

This is what all of the UMC families I know are saying. They've been with their kids for almost an entire year. They are done!

What does UMC stand for?

It stands for rich.

Lower class and middle class families are the ones who have born the brunt of this pandemic. We're the ones scared for our loved ones, because we live together, and because many of us have already experienced loss. We're also the ones aware that our kids will be potential spreaders because we're exposed at work.

But by all means, let's come up with a plan that prioritizes rich kids, who have private school options and large houses with yards to play in. Because they're done.

If you have chosen virtual, it really doesn't affect you whether or not the in person kids go more than 2 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccinating teachers only ensures safety for teachers. The problem is that many parents and grandparents have not been vaccinated yet so if a kid gets COVID at school and brings it home, they may be infecting a multi-generational household (some that may be high risk).

Then those kids can stay virtual. I don't have those concerns for my children.

This is what all of the UMC families I know are saying. They've been with their kids for almost an entire year. They are done!

What does UMC stand for?

It stands for rich.

Lower class and middle class families are the ones who have born the brunt of this pandemic. We're the ones scared for our loved ones, because we live together, and because many of us have already experienced loss. We're also the ones aware that our kids will be potential spreaders because we're exposed at work.

But by all means, let's come up with a plan that prioritizes rich kids, who have private school options and large houses with yards to play in. Because they're done.

If you have chosen virtual, it really doesn't affect you whether or not the in person kids go more than 2 days.

I think what she may be worried about is different treatment of in person kids and f2f kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccinating teachers only ensures safety for teachers. The problem is that many parents and grandparents have not been vaccinated yet so if a kid gets COVID at school and brings it home, they may be infecting a multi-generational household (some that may be high risk).

Then those kids can stay virtual. I don't have those concerns for my children.

This is what all of the UMC families I know are saying. They've been with their kids for almost an entire year. They are done!

What does UMC stand for?

It stands for rich.

Lower class and middle class families are the ones who have born the brunt of this pandemic. We're the ones scared for our loved ones, because we live together, and because many of us have already experienced loss. We're also the ones aware that our kids will be potential spreaders because we're exposed at work.

But by all means, let's come up with a plan that prioritizes rich kids, who have private school options and large houses with yards to play in. Because they're done.

DP. So then, you think ALL kids should remain virtual because you want YOUR kids to? Um, no. Feel free to keep your kids DL. The rest of us do not have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised it was a hybrid/ concurrent model and not just a concurrent one. Couldn’t we have just bought some extra trailers or rented space with the CARES money? Who knows? Unfortunately, leadership just charges ahead with a plan without soliciting feedback from stakeholders, first.

And how to you multiply teachers to put in those extra trailers/ rented spaces?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccinating teachers only ensures safety for teachers. The problem is that many parents and grandparents have not been vaccinated yet so if a kid gets COVID at school and brings it home, they may be infecting a multi-generational household (some that may be high risk).

Then those kids can stay virtual. I don't have those concerns for my children.

This is what all of the UMC families I know are saying. They've been with their kids for almost an entire year. They are done!

What does UMC stand for?

It stands for rich.

Lower class and middle class families are the ones who have born the brunt of this pandemic. We're the ones scared for our loved ones, because we live together, and because many of us have already experienced loss. We're also the ones aware that our kids will be potential spreaders because we're exposed at work.

But by all means, let's come up with a plan that prioritizes rich kids, who have private school options and large houses with yards to play in. Because they're done.

I’m clapping. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised it was a hybrid/ concurrent model and not just a concurrent one. Couldn’t we have just bought some extra trailers or rented space with the CARES money? Who knows? Unfortunately, leadership just charges ahead with a plan without soliciting feedback from stakeholders, first.

And how to you multiply teachers to put in those extra trailers/ rented spaces?

DP, but what about using the hired classroom monitors? Ask those teachers who put in ADA requests to accept the vaccine as their reasonable accommodation (I understand that not all teachers can take this, but I imagine many can). Yes, you'll still be projecting the teacher to the kids in the trailers half time or something, but you'd at least have them in the building. Or you space the bigger classes way out in the gym, use microphones and the monitors make sure the kids in the back aren't goofing off. Basically this model, which was working even BEFORE vaccines in a public school district:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/school-openings-covid-19.html

[Anonymous]

It is gong to be a while before all the teachers are able to be fully vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is gong to be a while before all the teachers are able to be fully vaccinated.

In FCPS, at least, isn't this supposed to be the last week of first doses? So 5 weeks from Friday (3 weeks between doses plus 2 days for everything to take effect, which is considered the maximum possibly needed) FCPS teachers should largely be good to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised it was a hybrid/ concurrent model and not just a concurrent one. Couldn’t we have just bought some extra trailers or rented space with the CARES money? Who knows? Unfortunately, leadership just charges ahead with a plan without soliciting feedback from stakeholders, first.

And how to you multiply teachers to put in those extra trailers/ rented spaces?

DP, but what about using the hired classroom monitors? Ask those teachers who put in ADA requests to accept the vaccine as their reasonable accommodation (I understand that not all teachers can take this, but I imagine many can). Yes, you'll still be projecting the teacher to the kids in the trailers half time or something, but you'd at least have them in the building. Or you space the bigger classes way out in the gym, use microphones and the monitors make sure the kids in the back aren't goofing off. Basically this model, which was working even BEFORE vaccines in a public school district:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/school-openings-covid-19.html

The ones FCPS cannot hire enough of under the current plan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised it was a hybrid/ concurrent model and not just a concurrent one. Couldn’t we have just bought some extra trailers or rented space with the CARES money? Who knows? Unfortunately, leadership just charges ahead with a plan without soliciting feedback from stakeholders, first.

And how to you multiply teachers to put in those extra trailers/ rented spaces?

DP, but what about using the hired classroom monitors? Ask those teachers who put in ADA requests to accept the vaccine as their reasonable accommodation (I understand that not all teachers can take this, but I imagine many can). Yes, you'll still be projecting the teacher to the kids in the trailers half time or something, but you'd at least have them in the building. Or you space the bigger classes way out in the gym, use microphones and the monitors make sure the kids in the back aren't goofing off. Basically this model, which was working even BEFORE vaccines in a public school district:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/school-openings-covid-19.html

The ones FCPS cannot hire enough of under the current plan?

They might not need as many just to spread classes out, given that across the county only 60% of kids want to come back (based on the summer survey numbers). It'd be highly school dependent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccinating teachers only ensures safety for teachers. The problem is that many parents and grandparents have not been vaccinated yet so if a kid gets COVID at school and brings it home, they may be infecting a multi-generational household (some that may be high risk).

Then those kids can stay virtual. I don't have those concerns for my children.

That’s good for you, but you’d be excluding the most vulnerable children from school.

[Anonymous]

Agree that this year is a lost cause and we'll take whatever small amount of education is made available starting in March.

Cases should be low enough for a solid summer school program and five days a week this fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccinating teachers only ensures safety for teachers. The problem is that many parents and grandparents have not been vaccinated yet so if a kid gets COVID at school and brings it home, they may be infecting a multi-generational household (some that may be high risk).

Then those kids can stay virtual. I don't have those concerns for my children.

This is what all of the UMC families I know are saying. They've been with their kids for almost an entire year. They are done!

EVERYONE has been home with their kids for almost a year. Everyone is ready for this stupid virus to go away so that kids can safely be in school, and so that their loved ones will stop dying.

I’m not UMC, but my family has been very very fortunate the past year. I’m not ready for my actions or my selfishness to contribute to any more spread in communities that have been harder hit.