Your kid might not return to a classroom this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students will go back this school year, if just for the final few weeks so the school board can say they did it. The 2021-2022 school year, we're probably looking at a hybrid situation for most of the year, maybe 5 days by Spring of 2022 but should be 5 days by Fall of 2022.....hopefully

Wow.

Sorry, hon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students will go back this school year, if just for the final few weeks so the school board can say they did it. The 2021-2022 school year, we're probably looking at a hybrid situation for most of the year, maybe 5 days by Spring of 2022 but should be 5 days by Fall of 2022.....hopefully

Nope. There will be pitchforks outside of gatehouse if its anything less than 5 days a week this fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Students will go back this school year, if just for the final few weeks so the school board can say they did it. The 2021-2022 school year, we're probably looking at a hybrid situation for most of the year, maybe 5 days by Spring of 2022 but should be 5 days by Fall of 2022.....hopefully

Nope. There will be pitchforks outside of gatehouse if its anything less than 5 days a week this fall.

Maybe we should try the pitchforks now, because they have to start planning or it's not happening.

[Anonymous]

People are DONE with this school situation. Everyone was patient, tolerant all spring, summer, fall....literally every friend I have with kids out of school had had their breaking point this week or last. Not sure if its post-holiday doldrums, cold weather, lack of vitamin D but literally everyone has HAD IT. Patience is gone. No goodwill or "grace" left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are DONE with this school situation. Everyone was patient, tolerant all spring, summer, fall....literally every friend I have with kids out of school had had their breaking point this week or last. Not sure if its post-holiday doldrums, cold weather, lack of vitamin D but literally everyone has HAD IT. Patience is gone. No goodwill or "grace" left.

SB1303 to force in-person school comes up for committee vote again tomorrow. Call the state senators on the health & education committee and tell them to vote yes on referring it to the senate.

[Anonymous]

I am confused about why the decision whether or not to open the schools isn't simply based on the metrics they finally put out, particularly the percent positivity rate and number of cases per 100k. It seems to me the biggest mistake was not coming up with those metrics in time for the fall. Kids could have gone to school until the numbers went back up. Now they're way up and it seems dumb to push to open schools right at the peak of the pandemic just because people are tired. The virus does not care. Making this purely a numbers-based decision would stop all the arguing and finger pointing. Why come up with metrics only to imply that you might toss them out? That just gives parents and kids false hope. Just tell everyone the decision is based on the metrics and that school will open when the metrics are met. It will probably happen later in the spring and almost certainly in the fall. This is all being made so much more complicated because no one wants to make any firm decisions. Just leave it up to the numbers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am confused about why the decision whether or not to open the schools isn't simply based on the metrics they finally put out, particularly the percent positivity rate and number of cases per 100k. It seems to me the biggest mistake was not coming up with those metrics in time for the fall. Kids could have gone to school until the numbers went back up. Now they're way up and it seems dumb to push to open schools right at the peak of the pandemic just because people are tired. The virus does not care. Making this purely a numbers-based decision would stop all the arguing and finger pointing. Why come up with metrics only to imply that you might toss them out? That just gives parents and kids false hope. Just tell everyone the decision is based on the metrics and that school will open when the metrics are met. It will probably happen later in the spring and almost certainly in the fall. This is all being made so much more complicated because no one wants to make any firm decisions. Just leave it up to the numbers!

Study after study has come out in the past couple of months showing that community spread numbers don't mean much if schools have mitigation measures implemented properly. THAT'S why the districts aren't just leaving it up to the numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused about why the decision whether or not to open the schools isn't simply based on the metrics they finally put out, particularly the percent positivity rate and number of cases per 100k. It seems to me the biggest mistake was not coming up with those metrics in time for the fall. Kids could have gone to school until the numbers went back up. Now they're way up and it seems dumb to push to open schools right at the peak of the pandemic just because people are tired. The virus does not care. Making this purely a numbers-based decision would stop all the arguing and finger pointing. Why come up with metrics only to imply that you might toss them out? That just gives parents and kids false hope. Just tell everyone the decision is based on the metrics and that school will open when the metrics are met. It will probably happen later in the spring and almost certainly in the fall. This is all being made so much more complicated because no one wants to make any firm decisions. Just leave it up to the numbers!

Study after study has come out in the past couple of months showing that community spread numbers don't mean much if schools have mitigation measures implemented properly. THAT'S why the districts aren't just leaving it up to the numbers.

But that's the problem. That is a huge IF and large school systems and their teachers/staff don't seem confident that they can do that. So then go back to using numbers. If community spread is on the lower side, then the odds of a school or classroom having someone with an active COVID infection is lower on any given day. It doesn't seem that hard.

[Anonymous]

Schools should be OPEN unless the virus spread is so bad that literally every other part of society is closed. We got this ass backwards.

So if the metrics are good to have literally everything else--including privates!--open, then schools should be open, too.

End of story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools should be OPEN unless the virus spread is so bad that literally every other part of society is closed. We got this ass backwards.

So if the metrics are good to have literally everything else--including privates!--open, then schools should be open, too.

End of story.

Yeah but we know the other stuff really shouldn't be open if we are prioritizing health over profits. It doesn't make much sense to say "everything is open when it shouldn't be; might as well add more risk and open schools too". Believe me I find the situation infuriating as well. But other stuff involving prolonged indoor contact really shouldn't be open right now. If kids being in school made money for people, they'd be open. Hence why many private schools are open.

[Anonymous]

No one is prioritizing health over profits, but we couldn't literally shut down the entire country in perpetuity, either. Everything except public school is open with safety precautions. That's balancing risk with benefit.

[Anonymous]

You really need to find another hobby and stop littering the VA school threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are DONE with this school situation. Everyone was patient, tolerant all spring, summer, fall....literally every friend I have with kids out of school had had their breaking point this week or last. Not sure if its post-holiday doldrums, cold weather, lack of vitamin D but literally everyone has HAD IT. Patience is gone. No goodwill or "grace" left.

SB1303 to force in-person school comes up for committee vote again tomorrow. Call the state senators on the health & education committee and tell them to vote yes on referring it to the senate.

Why doesn't this bill clearly say 5 day a week school? Even if they pass the law, FCPS will do the minimum of 2 day hybrid and then say that they meet it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is prioritizing health over profits, but we couldn't literally shut down the entire country in perpetuity, either. Everything except public school is open with safety precautions. That's balancing risk with benefit.

What benefit?

[Anonymous]

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Correct, your kid may not return.
Because Trump massively mishandled the pandemic. And lied about his incompetence.

And Senate Republicans pardoned him, keeping him in office. For judges and tax cuts. At the expense of your kids.

this. I will never, ever forgive those douchebags. They have so very much blood on their hands between Covid deaths and the insurrection.

LMFAO poor thing. Thinking either wing of the same birds gives a flying phuck about you.

please, the republicans knew trump was dangerous, but left him in power anyway. ANYONE ELSE might have at least TRIED to care.

You were all warned this man couldn't handle a crisis, and boy, did he ever prove it.

National Republicans are to blame - 100%.

It really is plain as day.

I’m a dem and you’re a nut.