Chances APS goes virtual after break?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Did teachers learn nothing last year?

The reason teachers in APS are struggling right now is they refused to come to school last year vaccinated. Had they just returned after vaccinations, wow! what suffering they could have saved themselves.

I am betting schools that went virtual in our area did so for staffing shortage but omnicrom have them a good cover.



I’m sure the teachers will be just thrilled that the teacher haters are back and ready to sh-t on them. That will definitely encourage teachers not to quit.



Hopefully they have common sense and know that anonymous commenters on the internet are not representative of real life.



I know disgusting parent like this IRL.

Fortunately, not many. But they exist and they are loud and obnoxious. One screamed and cursed at my kid’s teacher DURING class over Teams last year. It was insane.

This happened at my school, too.....

[Anonymous]

Fine, then. When your kid is baby-sat by a teacher or sub that is not their own, in a mixed-grade class, not pursuing instruction since the adult can't teach several grades at once, and you clamor for some type of learning, even a virtual one, we'll just point you to your previous posts that "schools should never close".

You think it's not happening? It's happened this week in a few DCPS schools.

Note that Omicron is 4-5 times as transmissible as Delta (and perhaps not that mild).

So now, just go ahead and keep being stubborn about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did teachers learn nothing last year?

The reason teachers in APS are struggling right now is they refused to come to school last year vaccinated. Had they just returned after vaccinations, wow! what suffering they could have saved themselves.

I am betting schools that went virtual in our area did so for staffing shortage but omnicrom have them a good cover.

The staffing shortages that are occurring right now ARE BECAUSE OF COVID. The teachers have Covid, or are close contacts. This is because the year started with barely enough teachers and not enough subs. So now when a teacher is out, there is no one to teach the class.

Now, a thinking person might ask themselves WHY so few teachers wanted to go back to public schools. Perhaps because so many families verbally and sometimes physically assaulted them. But you are not a thinking person, so let's just focus on the fact that Omicron is very transmissible and that is why you are seeing staffing shortages everywhere, not just in schools.

[Anonymous]

I think virtual for a week or two after winter break could slow the spread and help us stay open. Cases from travel and holiday visiting would pop so kids would know to stay home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can tell you it’s definitely been discussed. PG county did not take this lightly when they made their decision. Watch Fairfax go first then we will follow.

Discussed by who? DCUM?

Under state law we won’t see entire districts like these close.

Doing virtual for the two weeks after break is not closing.

If we go virtual for a week, people will absolutely travel. I know we would go to my parents house so they could help with childcare/virtual learning. For us it would be a drive to see two vaccinated/boosted people and likely not much high risk stuff indoors. But we have friends who would absolutely use an extra week off to go be tourists somewhere. Test everyone the first day, but extending the break doesn’t help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think virtual for a week or two after winter break could slow the spread and help us stay open. Cases from travel and holiday visiting would pop so kids would know to stay home.

Under state law this isn’t an option, is that correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can tell you it’s definitely been discussed. PG county did not take this lightly when they made their decision. Watch Fairfax go first then we will follow.

Discussed by who? DCUM?

Under state law we won’t see entire districts like these close.

Doing virtual for the two weeks after break is not closing.

If we go virtual for a week, people will absolutely travel. I know we would go to my parents house so they could help with childcare/virtual learning. For us it would be a drive to see two vaccinated/boosted people and likely not much high risk stuff indoors. But we have friends who would absolutely use an extra week off to go be tourists somewhere. Test everyone the first day, but extending the break doesn’t help.

Yeah especially with no penalty to change the flights we'd extend our European trip to see family. It costs us nothing to stay with them longer. And everyone would love the extra time. No need to rush back if school is gonna be virtual.

[Anonymous]

Looks like the APE trolls are out again. Clamoring for less mitigation but also SCHOOLS CAN NEVER CLOSE. Don't seem to see the flawed logic there.

And so much anger and revisionist history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can tell you it’s definitely been discussed. PG county did not take this lightly when they made their decision. Watch Fairfax go first then we will follow.

Discussed by who? DCUM?

Under state law we won’t see entire districts like these close.

Doing virtual for the two weeks after break is not closing.

If we go virtual for a week, people will absolutely travel. I know we would go to my parents house so they could help with childcare/virtual learning. For us it would be a drive to see two vaccinated/boosted people and likely not much high risk stuff indoors. But we have friends who would absolutely use an extra week off to go be tourists somewhere. Test everyone the first day, but extending the break doesn’t help.

Yeah especially with no penalty to change the flights we'd extend our European trip to see family. It costs us nothing to stay with them longer. And everyone would love the extra time. No need to rush back if school is gonna be virtual.

Not everyone has that privilege. The vulnerable certainly do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think virtual for a week or two after winter break could slow the spread and help us stay open. Cases from travel and holiday visiting would pop so kids would know to stay home.

Under state law this isn’t an option, is that correct?

Correct. They can only close classrooms or buildings if the transmission within the class or building is at a high level. They cannot close the whole district preemptively.

[Anonymous]

However, if you feel that teachers are frontline workers, you really need to support paying them as such.

You clearly have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a frontline worker is, or how much the vast majority of them are paid.

[Anonymous]

I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hope other parents will join me in asking the school board to implement widespread testing to return to school on 1/3. Schools must stay open — but there is a way to do this safely.

[Anonymous]

As you can see, delaying reopening the buildings doesn’t mean families will stay home and stay safe during that extra week to clear any COVID exposures. It will just delay things even more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think virtual for a week or two after winter break could slow the spread and help us stay open. Cases from travel and holiday visiting would pop so kids would know to stay home.

Haha - closed school advocates, back to advocating closed schools. You people are completely nuts.

There is fortunately a law that keeps this from happening, SB1303.

"Slow the spread" - so people can have playdates at their friends house? The majority of Arlington families are going to restaurants, eating indoors, having indoor playdates, etc. There's only a few fanatic holdouts, and they seem to be on this chat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hope other parents will join me in asking the school board to implement widespread testing to return to school on 1/3. Schools must stay open — but there is a way to do this safely.

Everyone is going to get COVID. Everyone (if they haven't already had it; estimates are 50% of people already have)! You are wanting Zero COVID, including in schools - neither of them will ever happen.

COVID for vaccinated people or unvaccinated kids is a cold. We don't shut down schools over colds or test everyone for other viruses.

Hopefully Youngkin ends quarantines for close contacts.

Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
'The idea that we’re going to live our lives without ever getting it is a fantasy — and a dangerous one,' says one epidemiologist
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/03/vaccinated-or-not-everyone-is-likely-to-get-covid-19-at-some-point-many-experts-say/