Lack of a Plan Says It All

[Anonymous]

They probably think they are punishing parents who choose to travel. And maybe they are. But that is at the cost of punishing children as well. It’s not like they’re the ones choosing to travel. The punitiveness of this policy is uncalled for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
That same email/website post says no virtual education during quarantine. But it does say quarantine during travel, so maybe quarantine at other times will be different.

It says "As a note, there is no virtual instruction available for students who are quarantining due to travel."

That is not the same for positive cases. You guys either have poor reading comprehension, or are being purposely obtuse in order to troll.

Are you suggesting that there will be an infrastructure for kids quarantining for exposure that kids quarantining after travel will be excluded from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
That same email/website post says no virtual education during quarantine. But it does say quarantine during travel, so maybe quarantine at other times will be different.

It says "As a note, there is no virtual instruction available for students who are quarantining due to travel."

That is not the same for positive cases. You guys either have poor reading comprehension, or are being purposely obtuse in order to troll.

Are you suggesting that there will be an infrastructure for kids quarantining for exposure that kids quarantining after travel will be excluded from?

DP but yes

[Anonymous]

Man, ya'll can't figure out what you want.

I want my kid in school, in person, full time. She has to wear a mask? Ok. She will take off the mask to eat and nap? Ok. We have to quarantine after an exposure? Ok. We have to quarantine after travel? Ok - no travel for us then (and our extended family all lives outside the DMV).

If that's what it takes to get in person school, which my kid and our family !00% need, then we will do that. If I was super freaked out about massless meals and naps, I'd pull my kid out of school, but those are risks I'm willing to take in order to make sure my kid can go got school (and there isn't an easy way around them, either -- daycares have been dealing with the same issues for over a year, get with the program folks).

Like I really don't understand all these threads asking about details around in-person school like "OMG they haven't figured out how to make school 100% airtight no Covid yet, what the heck." I mean... read the news. No one has figured that out. There are risks. Evaluate your risks, make your choice. Stop waiting for a perfect solution because it doesn't exist.

I want in person school. This is what that looks like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
That same email/website post says no virtual education during quarantine. But it does say quarantine during travel, so maybe quarantine at other times will be different.

It says "As a note, there is no virtual instruction available for students who are quarantining due to travel."

That is not the same for positive cases. You guys either have poor reading comprehension, or are being purposely obtuse in order to troll.

Are you suggesting that there will be an infrastructure for kids quarantining for exposure that kids quarantining after travel will be excluded from?

DP but yes

What would be the motivation for doing that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
That same email/website post says no virtual education during quarantine. But it does say quarantine during travel, so maybe quarantine at other times will be different.

It says "As a note, there is no virtual instruction available for students who are quarantining due to travel."

That is not the same for positive cases. You guys either have poor reading comprehension, or are being purposely obtuse in order to troll.

Are you suggesting that there will be an infrastructure for kids quarantining for exposure that kids quarantining after travel will be excluded from?

DP but yes

What would be the motivation for doing that?

Seriously if a kid has been exposed outside of school but it ISN’T linked to travel, then they get some sort of virtual?

I think there’s also confusion between “in school exposure” and “out of school exposure.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They probably think they are punishing parents who choose to travel. And maybe they are. But that is at the cost of punishing children as well. It’s not like they’re the ones choosing to travel. The punitiveness of this policy is uncalled for.

They really can’t legally do that. To force a two week suspension without virtual options (which is what not giving any instruction would be) will open them to lots of lawsuits. And a two week suspension is really hard to get these days so to hand them out and not offer virtual is a big problem.

[Anonymous]

Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

Exactly -- the hysteria on this board is insane. Get a grip, people. Do you really think DCPS has no plan for this? I know a lot of us (me included) were not happy with so much virtual instruction last year, but I never thought the schools had no plan. This year it's pretty clear that it is going to be in person, and then they will pivot to virtual if a class has to quarantine. They're not going to punish an entire class with no instruction for 10 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

In other words, Kid A is exposed outside of school. He does the right thing and misses school for 2 weeks. Or he does the selfish thing, doesn't tell anyone about possible exposure and goes to school. If he ends up testing positive, the whole class quarantines and he doesn't miss 2 weeks of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

Exactly -- the hysteria on this board is insane. Get a grip, people. Do you really think DCPS has no plan for this? I know a lot of us (me included) were not happy with so much virtual instruction last year, but I never thought the schools had no plan. This year it's pretty clear that it is going to be in person, and then they will pivot to virtual if a class has to quarantine. They're not going to punish an entire class with no instruction for 10 days.

It may be a plan, but it's not one which will result in anything close to full-time, in-person instruction, particularly at the middle and high school level, which is what they said they were planning for. If they pursue this, this will be another year in which kids all across the country are in school and kids in DC are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

In other words, Kid A is exposed outside of school. He does the right thing and misses school for 2 weeks. Or he does the selfish thing, doesn't tell anyone about possible exposure and goes to school. If he ends up testing positive, the whole class quarantines and he doesn't miss 2 weeks of school.

Ding ding ding

Out of school exposure = 10 day suspension
In school positive = all is good

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

In other words, Kid A is exposed outside of school. He does the right thing and misses school for 2 weeks. Or he does the selfish thing, doesn't tell anyone about possible exposure and goes to school. If he ends up testing positive, the whole class quarantines and he doesn't miss 2 weeks of school.

Ding ding ding

Out of school exposure = 10 day suspension
In school positive = all is good

Wow that is…really obvious. I’m actually shocked that DCPS doesn’t understand this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

Thank you for being reasonable! People are so fixated on their specific situation (and the people pissed about the travel quarantine rules especially, because they are fixated on their specific travel plans) that they are ignoring basic pragmatic concerns.

[Anonymous]

I agree with this. But here is what pisses me off about the travel quarantine. If dcps offered me a virtual option I would take it. We c Xc operated with virtual all last year when there was little risk to children but we agreed that we wanted to keep our teachers and our community safe when vaccines were t yet available to anyone. Now vaccines still aren’t available to my children and delta has shown to be a danger to children and dcps is saying you don’t have a choice but to send your children to school and expose them to covid because we adults, who your children protected all last year, are not willing to make any sacrifices (such as setting up virtual classrooms) to protect them. And to make matters worse, we will not allow them to travel out of state. Never mind that they are about 100 times more likely to catch covid in school than they will be when we travel to our cabin in the PA woods for some hiking or x-country skiing. Oh and when they do catch covid in school, they will still claim it came in from “the outside” bc there will be no testing to show it came from the inside.

And before anyone says “covid is not transmitted in school” we all know that was a lie to begin with, and even to the extent that transmission rates were low with earlier variants, AlL public health experts are now saying we can expect delta rates to increase when schools starts. Especially when school systems, including dcps, have reduced their mitigation measures. And no data on transmissibility or 3 feet vs 6 feet seems still all relevant to delta.

And ps I would gladly take a virtual option were it available. But friendship is full and we are not medically fragile.