Delta Variant and APS

[Anonymous]

Schools may or may not be open 5 days a week. But if our summer experiences with Arlington public health/contact tracing are any guide, your kids and my kids are going to spend half the year at home “quarantining” with no symptoms, because they were on the same playground with another symptomless kid who tested positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools may or may not be open 5 days a week. But if our summer experiences with Arlington public health/contact tracing are any guide, your kids and my kids are going to spend half the year at home “quarantining” with no symptoms, because they were on the same playground with another symptomless kid who tested positive.

Which school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools may or may not be open 5 days a week. But if our summer experiences with Arlington public health/contact tracing are any guide, your kids and my kids are going to spend half the year at home “quarantining” with no symptoms, because they were on the same playground with another symptomless kid who tested positive.

This is the scenario that strikes fear in my heart. If school is safe for little kids and COVID generally poses low risk to them, we have to stop the quarantine theater.
-parent of 2 kids under 12

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way APS isn't going 5x/week is if things are so bad that ALL school, including privates, are closing. Covid is endemic. Kids can, and will, get sick. But almost everyone has realized that more damage will be done if kids don't go to school. There is ZERO public appetite for keeping schools closed anymore.

Except the GOP fearmongering.

I highly doubt that the GOP is worrying about masking and delta variant. That seems more like a normie neoliberal concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way APS isn't going 5x/week is if things are so bad that ALL school, including privates, are closing. Covid is endemic. Kids can, and will, get sick. But almost everyone has realized that more damage will be done if kids don't go to school. There is ZERO public appetite for keeping schools closed anymore.

Except the GOP fearmongering.

Wait, what? “GOP fearmongering” … that COVID should be taken more seriously?

Have you been on earth recently? Do you know how to read?

[Anonymous]

People have every right to be concerned. This school system was a big disappointment.

[Anonymous]

sorry but I also pulled my kids from APS. I have zero faith in this school system. And no doubt that the minute cases start appearing, they will switch to DL because you have to close all schools not just one.. because.. equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:sorry but I also pulled my kids from APS. I have zero faith in this school system. And no doubt that the minute cases start appearing, they will switch to DL because you have to close all schools not just one.. because.. equity.

The political reality is that the school board would be recalled if they do anything less than 5 days/week in school. Most of my neighbors are ultra-liberal, still wearing masks outside, etc. and even they would support a school board recall if we went hybrid or fully distant in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sorry but I also pulled my kids from APS. I have zero faith in this school system. And no doubt that the minute cases start appearing, they will switch to DL because you have to close all schools not just one.. because.. equity.

The political reality is that the school board would be recalled if they do anything less than 5 days/week in school. Most of my neighbors are ultra-liberal, still wearing masks outside, etc. and even they would support a school board recall if we went hybrid or fully distant in the fall.

from what I understand, there are a lot of loopholes with SB1303. And will it be 5 days/week in school looking at a screen while the teacher remains remote? will specials be on a screen? will kids not be allowed to touch a ball at recess again? will they be allowed to talk to each other during lunch??

APS was so over-the-top with COVID caution that I have no faith we will have a normal school year the second a case appears or the delta variant.

[Anonymous]

Tell your redneck friends to get the damn shot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sorry but I also pulled my kids from APS. I have zero faith in this school system. And no doubt that the minute cases start appearing, they will switch to DL because you have to close all schools not just one.. because.. equity.

The political reality is that the school board would be recalled if they do anything less than 5 days/week in school. Most of my neighbors are ultra-liberal, still wearing masks outside, etc. and even they would support a school board recall if we went hybrid or fully distant in the fall.

from what I understand, there are a lot of loopholes with SB1303. And will it be 5 days/week in school looking at a screen while the teacher remains remote? will specials be on a screen? will kids not be allowed to touch a ball at recess again? will they be allowed to talk to each other during lunch??

APS was so over-the-top with COVID caution that I have no faith we will have a normal school year the second a case appears or the delta variant.

No it won’t be a normal school year because these are not normal times. Work on accepting that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sorry but I also pulled my kids from APS. I have zero faith in this school system. And no doubt that the minute cases start appearing, they will switch to DL because you have to close all schools not just one.. because.. equity.

The political reality is that the school board would be recalled if they do anything less than 5 days/week in school. Most of my neighbors are ultra-liberal, still wearing masks outside, etc. and even they would support a school board recall if we went hybrid or fully distant in the fall.

No they wouldn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sorry but I also pulled my kids from APS. I have zero faith in this school system. And no doubt that the minute cases start appearing, they will switch to DL because you have to close all schools not just one.. because.. equity.

The political reality is that the school board would be recalled if they do anything less than 5 days/week in school. Most of my neighbors are ultra-liberal, still wearing masks outside, etc. and even they would support a school board recall if we went hybrid or fully distant in the fall.

No they wouldn’t.

Let’s hide in our basements for another 18 months.

[Anonymous]

APS will do what it deems reasonable in the circumstances. The vast majority of parents will agree with whatever APS does because they have no alternatives, they have limited time to fight these battles, they are risk averse themselves, they put a lot of stock in what bureaucrats and elected Democrats say, and so on and so forth. As usual, a few folks will push back, but their voices are not powerful ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS will do what it deems reasonable in the circumstances. The vast majority of parents will agree with whatever APS does because they have no alternatives, they have limited time to fight these battles, they are risk averse themselves, they put a lot of stock in what bureaucrats and elected Democrats say, and so on and so forth. As usual, a few folks will push back, but their voices are not powerful ones.

So....you would "push back" against guidance about public health and keeping your own kids healthy because you don't believe the guidance and you don't care about keeping your kids safe? Really. Well you do you...