Parents - are you willing to do DL the rest of the year for 5 day in-person next fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes! Concurrent is terrible and I think that + schools not actually following mitigation such as enforcing masks for everyone, will cause a lot of really good people to leave the profession after this year. Before someone chimes in and says, "Well, there will be someone else eager to take their place!!", you may or may not be right. Even if you are, I'd take an experienced teacher who knows their stuff over a first year teacher or longterm sub any day, but especially in a post-pandemic year. I do expect we will be back five days next fall either way, but the staff makeup will look a lot different if they push people back in without vaccines.

I agree with this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and also I think there will be no in-person this year anyway so I'd rather they stopped wasting time. Same story as the summer, they spin their wheels instead of making DL better (it can be better) or just opening in person when they should have.

I agree. Call a spade a spade.

I am of this mindset. This forum has convinced me that the community is too at war with itself to come up with a good plan with forward momentum over the next couple of months. It is too bad because I would really like to see my seniors before they graduate. Right now, if they shove us back in the building, I fear it is going to be ugly. Maybe not. I don’t know. I just think Covid was the breaking point for a lot of teachers and maybe why there was so much resistance to in person learning. Personally, I feel like I am tasked with making work whatever leadership happens to promise the parents, but every year they make it harder and pile on more students and more bullshit tasks. It was like, now you are going to lie about whatever safety measures you say you have in place that we know you won’t have, while Dr. Gloria foregoes any and all testing so she can abet that lie... and i will end up alone in a hospital bed with medical bills I can’t afford.

But look, I am ready to forget, forgive, and focus on the kids. Let the teachers get the vaccinations, though, because COVID was the straw that did it. Let it go.

Focusing on the kids means not raging at bad parents or lazy teachers. It means letting go of bitterness and working with the people who are also helping raise your child.

[Anonymous]

Loudoun is likely heading back on 3/3 (we'll know tonight) and Fairfax should follow.

[Anonymous]

Agree 5 days in person for fall needs to be the priority.
But I think going this year even for a small bit is really important to do some thing year in order to have practice and get there by the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But, what makes you think that they'll successfully bring them back in the fall?

They've proven totally incapable of handling the past 10 months, so I have NO faith that they'd get them back in in September. There will always be another excuse.

Which is why we have to go back this spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree 5 days in person for fall needs to be the priority.
But I think going this year even for a small bit is really important to do some thing year in order to have practice and get there by the fall.

I can see that - honestly, I would happy if I can get a month with my students. I am not greedy. I guess I won’t get to see them all because some are staying home. Anyway, I think I need to go do something else. I’m getting maudlin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and also I think there will be no in-person this year anyway so I'd rather they stopped wasting time. Same story as the summer, they spin their wheels instead of making DL better (it can be better) or just opening in person when they should have.

I agree. Call a spade a spade.

I am of this mindset. This forum has convinced me that the community is too at war with itself to come up with a good plan with forward momentum over the next couple of months. It is too bad because I would really like to see my seniors before they graduate. Right now, if they shove us back in the building, I fear it is going to be ugly. Maybe not. I don’t know. I just think Covid was the breaking point for a lot of teachers and maybe why there was so much resistance to in person learning. Personally, I feel like I am tasked with making work whatever leadership happens to promise the parents, but every year they make it harder and pile on more students and more bullshit tasks. It was like, now you are going to lie about whatever safety measures you say you have in place that we know you won’t have, while Dr. Gloria foregoes any and all testing so she can abet that lie... and i will end up alone in a hospital bed with medical bills I can’t afford.

But look, I am ready to forget, forgive, and focus on the kids. Let the teachers get the vaccinations, though, because COVID was the straw that did it. Let it go.

Focusing on the kids means not raging at bad parents or lazy teachers. It means letting go of bitterness and working with the people who are also helping raise your child.

Well said.

I think the plan should be:

1) Vaccinate teachers ASAP.
2) Schools set mitigation measures in place. Plexiglass, HVAC upgrades, cleaning schedules.
3) Set schedules for a couple days per week of in-person learning in the last quarter of 2020-2021. Basically hybrid or concurrent model with in-person teachers.
4) In-person teaching for 2021-2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and also I think there will be no in-person this year anyway so I'd rather they stopped wasting time. Same story as the summer, they spin their wheels instead of making DL better (it can be better) or just opening in person when they should have.

I agree. Call a spade a spade.

I am of this mindset. This forum has convinced me that the community is too at war with itself to come up with a good plan with forward momentum over the next couple of months. It is too bad because I would really like to see my seniors before they graduate. Right now, if they shove us back in the building, I fear it is going to be ugly. Maybe not. I don’t know. I just think Covid was the breaking point for a lot of teachers and maybe why there was so much resistance to in person learning. Personally, I feel like I am tasked with making work whatever leadership happens to promise the parents, but every year they make it harder and pile on more students and more bullshit tasks. It was like, now you are going to lie about whatever safety measures you say you have in place that we know you won’t have, while Dr. Gloria foregoes any and all testing so she can abet that lie... and i will end up alone in a hospital bed with medical bills I can’t afford.

But look, I am ready to forget, forgive, and focus on the kids. Let the teachers get the vaccinations, though, because COVID was the straw that did it. Let it go.

Focusing on the kids means not raging at bad parents or lazy teachers. It means letting go of bitterness and working with the people who are also helping raise your child.

Well said.

I think the plan should be:

1) Vaccinate teachers ASAP.
2) Schools set mitigation measures in place. Plexiglass, HVAC upgrades, cleaning schedules.
3) Set schedules for a couple days per week of in-person learning in the last quarter of 2020-2021. Basically hybrid or concurrent model with in-person teachers.
4) In-person teaching for 2021-2022.

I’m ready to sign you up for school board, PP. Reasonable plan!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and also I think there will be no in-person this year anyway so I'd rather they stopped wasting time. Same story as the summer, they spin their wheels instead of making DL better (it can be better) or just opening in person when they should have.

I agree. Call a spade a spade.

I am of this mindset. This forum has convinced me that the community is too at war with itself to come up with a good plan with forward momentum over the next couple of months. It is too bad because I would really like to see my seniors before they graduate. Right now, if they shove us back in the building, I fear it is going to be ugly. Maybe not. I don’t know. I just think Covid was the breaking point for a lot of teachers and maybe why there was so much resistance to in person learning. Personally, I feel like I am tasked with making work whatever leadership happens to promise the parents, but every year they make it harder and pile on more students and more bullshit tasks. It was like, now you are going to lie about whatever safety measures you say you have in place that we know you won’t have, while Dr. Gloria foregoes any and all testing so she can abet that lie... and i will end up alone in a hospital bed with medical bills I can’t afford.

But look, I am ready to forget, forgive, and focus on the kids. Let the teachers get the vaccinations, though, because COVID was the straw that did it. Let it go.

Focusing on the kids means not raging at bad parents or lazy teachers. It means letting go of bitterness and working with the people who are also helping raise your child.

Well said.

I think the plan should be:

1) Vaccinate teachers ASAP.
2) Schools set mitigation measures in place. Plexiglass, HVAC upgrades, cleaning schedules.
3) Set schedules for a couple days per week of in-person learning in the last quarter of 2020-2021. Basically hybrid or concurrent model with in-person teachers.
4) In-person teaching for 2021-2022.

#2 already happened. #1 is in the middle of happening now.

Why do you want to wait until Q4 for #3?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No way will we get real school next fall if we don't get kids in the building this year.

I tend to agree with this.

This. We've got to rip off the bandaid/get back on the horse/pick your own analogy.

My fear with this is that we will then be stuck in hybrid for forever. I could see the entire next year being hybrid and we will never move back to 5 days a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally wish the school board would stop wasting mental energy on hybrid logistics and just focus on 5 day in person in the fall. If you are students doing DL right now, do you agree?

10000% agree.