DCPS 21/22 - Hybrid, All virtual or In-person? What you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

Everyone here understands DL is necessary during the worst months of the pandemic, but we're talking about in-person in 21-22. By then vaccination will be more widespread and the benefits of opening will far outweigh the risks. DL might have worked fine for you, but it hasn't for many people, especially for parents who can't WFH. No one is saying taking precautions and minimizing risks won't be necessary, but you can't seriously think that DL will have to go on during fall 21. We'll have to adapt to the new normal and get kids back in school so they can learn, socialize and make up for the time lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

https://www.q13fox.com/news/ohio-state-study-30-of-student-athletes-have-heart-damage-linked-to-covid-19

Here is a good article that gives some perspective on such reports:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/covid-19-heart-pandemic-coronavirus-myocarditis/616420/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

Thank you. This exactly.

If my asymptotic brings it home and I get it then who takes him to school while I can’t breathe. What if I get long covid. Who is working to support our two person family?

And I’ve seen 3 families in our school go on vacations to hotspots. Because covid can’t get them in their delusional minds. They are also the ones who whine about managing their kids during DL (also pre pandemic so there is that). I don’t want their kid near mine period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

Patents will be vaccinated too, if they want to be. We are talking about next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

Thank you. This exactly.

If my asymptotic brings it home and I get it then who takes him to school while I can’t breathe. What if I get long covid. Who is working to support our two person family?

And I’ve seen 3 families in our school go on vacations to hotspots. Because covid can’t get them in their delusional minds. They are also the ones who whine about managing their kids during DL (also pre pandemic so there is that). I don’t want their kid near mine period.

No one forces you to send your kid back into a school building - ever. Homeschooling is an option to anyone in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

Thank you. This exactly.

If my asymptotic brings it home and I get it then who takes him to school while I can’t breathe. What if I get long covid. Who is working to support our two person family?

And I’ve seen 3 families in our school go on vacations to hotspots. Because covid can’t get them in their delusional minds. They are also the ones who whine about managing their kids during DL (also pre pandemic so there is that). I don’t want their kid near mine period.

No one forces you to send your kid back into a school building - ever. Homeschooling is an option to anyone in the US.

Yep, you can keep homeschooling and let the rest of kids go back to school.
Here's two people who did homeschooling: Dana Loesch and Jenny McCarthy
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/02/03/what-issue-do-dana-loesch-and-a-host-of-the-view-actually-agree-on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

Thank you. This exactly.

If my asymptotic brings it home and I get it then who takes him to school while I can’t breathe. What if I get long covid. Who is working to support our two person family?

And I’ve seen 3 families in our school go on vacations to hotspots. Because covid can’t get them in their delusional minds. They are also the ones who whine about managing their kids during DL (also pre pandemic so there is that). I don’t want their kid near mine period.

Then by fall 21 your kid could stay home and be homeschooled. But lest the rest of the delusional whining parents and kids go back to school where (most of them) belong.

[Anonymous]

Homeschooling is not the same as distance learning. With distance learning dcps teachers are providing the education. Ours are actually doing a great job of it, despite what seems to be the popular sentiment on this board!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

https://www.q13fox.com/news/ohio-state-study-30-of-student-athletes-have-heart-damage-linked-to-covid-19

Here is a good article that gives some perspective on such reports:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/covid-19-heart-pandemic-coronavirus-myocarditis/616420/

ANOTHER ATLANTIC ARTICLE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Homeschooling is not the same as distance learning. With distance learning dcps teachers are providing the education. Ours are actually doing a great job of it, despite what seems to be the popular sentiment on this board!

Homeschooling in my eyes is only for the privileged few who can afford to either drop one income and hire tutors. This is not a realistic option for many of those who don't want to send their child to school in fall 2021 if/when schools reopen. I'm optimistic and think schools will definitely open up to in-person learning, so long as the teachers and staff at schools get the vaccine and the numbers support it. We've another 8 months before that to deal with.

[Anonymous]

Totally mystified why people think we can't have a normal 21/22 school year in DC.

[Anonymous]

My friends in Catholic School in VA have been back as normal since late August without incident. Everyone puts on masks and gets on with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Homeschooling is not the same as distance learning. With distance learning dcps teachers are providing the education. Ours are actually doing a great job of it, despite what seems to be the popular sentiment on this board!

That’s great that you are having a good experience, but this wasn’t meant to be a permanent instructional model. There are virtual charters or homeschool if you choose to continue. DCPS isn’t going to invest resources in DL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friends in Catholic School in VA have been back as normal since late August without incident. Everyone puts on masks and gets on with it.

My kid attends school five days a week at her DCPS EotP, with her regular classroom teacher in the room teaching, without incident. Exactly right, everybody puts on masks and gets on with it. Everybody also gets tested every week. So far, nobody's tested positive and even if somebody did, one class would be shut down for a couple weeks, not the whole school. There are ways and ways to get at least some of the kids back into school safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friends in Catholic School in VA have been back as normal since late August without incident. Everyone puts on masks and gets on with it.

My kid attends school five days a week at her DCPS EotP, with her regular classroom teacher in the room teaching, without incident. Exactly right, everybody puts on masks and gets on with it. Everybody also gets tested every week. So far, nobody's tested positive and even if somebody did, one class would be shut down for a couple weeks, not the whole school. There are ways and ways to get at least some of the kids back into school safely.

+1

I have friends and family in many parts of the country who have their kids in daycare and full time school since August. Even when there have been exposures/cases, one classroom closes for two weeks and the others continue. There have been no larger outbreaks, hospitalizations, etc.