Lack of a Plan Says It All

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

Exactly -- the hysteria on this board is insane. Get a grip, people. Do you really think DCPS has no plan for this? I know a lot of us (me included) were not happy with so much virtual instruction last year, but I never thought the schools had no plan. This year it's pretty clear that it is going to be in person, and then they will pivot to virtual if a class has to quarantine. They're not going to punish an entire class with no instruction for 10 days.

In Fairfax, they aren't quarantining a whole class for one case as long as everyone was wearing masks. Just saying. No one vaccinated has to quarantine.

[Anonymous]

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That same email/website post says no virtual education during quarantine. But it does say quarantine during travel, so maybe quarantine at other times will be different.

It says "As a note, there is no virtual instruction available for students who are quarantining due to travel."

That is not the same for positive cases. You guys either have poor reading comprehension, or are being purposely obtuse in order to troll.

How do they know whether a person is quarantining because of travel or exposure. Jeez it's almost as if all of yall travel police dont think things through.

Because kids have big mouths and tell people when they’re traveling.

You know there's going to be a riot if this happens right? What do you think the response to a two week suspension plus a visit from CPS will be? This is way outside of the principal's.powers and is extremely punitive and controlling. There's no difference between a travel quarantine and an exposure quarantine. The whole theory behind a travel quarantine is that it's an automatic exposure quarantine.

Disprate treatment, punitive respone that results in additional consequences, blah blah blah. Open and shut case. Stupid stupid power trip move.

So if one kid travels and has to quarantine - you expect the teacher to provide virtual learning for them when their whole class is in school as normal? Ummm no.. That's a different situation than if the whole class has to quarantine at home and the teacher does virtual then, which they most likely will I would say.

[Anonymous]

Pediatric ICUs are full in the areas ahead of us in this wave.
Pediatric ICUs will fill us in this area when the wave grows here.
Half of pediatric hospitalizations have not comorbidities.

But go on bickering about travel quarantine, and ridding of quarantine altogether, and "being reasonable here, to make it work." Make it work, what, three weeks tops, until your kid gives covid to my kid's entire class, and five of them are sick as f**k and one needs one of those ICU beds that they can't effing have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pediatric ICUs are full in the areas ahead of us in this wave.
Pediatric ICUs will fill us in this area when the wave grows here.
Half of pediatric hospitalizations have not comorbidities.

But go on bickering about travel quarantine, and ridding of quarantine altogether, and "being reasonable here, to make it work." Make it work, what, three weeks tops, until your kid gives covid to my kid's entire class, and five of them are sick as f**k and one needs one of those ICU beds that they can't effing have?

Please please home school your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pediatric ICUs are full in the areas ahead of us in this wave.
Pediatric ICUs will fill us in this area when the wave grows here.
Half of pediatric hospitalizations have not comorbidities.

But go on bickering about travel quarantine, and ridding of quarantine altogether, and "being reasonable here, to make it work." Make it work, what, three weeks tops, until your kid gives covid to my kid's entire class, and five of them are sick as f**k and one needs one of those ICU beds that they can't effing have?

Please please home school your kids.

Betsy DeVos loves homeschooling. It helps her and her cronies destroy public schools.

We’re in this together. Mask. Quarantine. Learn at school from professional teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pediatric ICUs are full in the areas ahead of us in this wave.
Pediatric ICUs will fill us in this area when the wave grows here.
Half of pediatric hospitalizations have not comorbidities.

But go on bickering about travel quarantine, and ridding of quarantine altogether, and "being reasonable here, to make it work." Make it work, what, three weeks tops, until your kid gives covid to my kid's entire class, and five of them are sick as f**k and one needs one of those ICU beds that they can't effing have?

Please please home school your kids.

We are all going to be home schooling our kids. You heard it here first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pediatric ICUs are full in the areas ahead of us in this wave.
Pediatric ICUs will fill us in this area when the wave grows here.
Half of pediatric hospitalizations have not comorbidities.

But go on bickering about travel quarantine, and ridding of quarantine altogether, and "being reasonable here, to make it work." Make it work, what, three weeks tops, until your kid gives covid to my kid's entire class, and five of them are sick as f**k and one needs one of those ICU beds that they can't effing have?

Please please home school your kids.

PP needs to take their own advice. Just follow the rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pediatric ICUs are full in the areas ahead of us in this wave.
Pediatric ICUs will fill us in this area when the wave grows here.
Half of pediatric hospitalizations have not comorbidities.

But go on bickering about travel quarantine, and ridding of quarantine altogether, and "being reasonable here, to make it work." Make it work, what, three weeks tops, until your kid gives covid to my kid's entire class, and five of them are sick as f**k and one needs one of those ICU beds that they can't effing have?

what a spooky story u told urself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
That same email/website post says no virtual education during quarantine. But it does say quarantine during travel, so maybe quarantine at other times will be different.

It says "As a note, there is no virtual instruction available for students who are quarantining due to travel."

That is not the same for positive cases. You guys either have poor reading comprehension, or are being purposely obtuse in order to troll.

How do they know whether a person is quarantining because of travel or exposure. Jeez it's almost as if all of yall travel police dont think things through.

Because kids have big mouths and tell people when they’re traveling.

You know there's going to be a riot if this happens right? What do you think the response to a two week suspension plus a visit from CPS will be? This is way outside of the principal's.powers and is extremely punitive and controlling. There's no difference between a travel quarantine and an exposure quarantine. The whole theory behind a travel quarantine is that it's an automatic exposure quarantine.

Disprate treatment, punitive respone that results in additional consequences, blah blah blah. Open and shut case. Stupid stupid power trip move.

So if one kid travels and has to quarantine - you expect the teacher to provide virtual learning for them when their whole class is in school as normal? Ummm no.. That's a different situation than if the whole class has to quarantine at home and the teacher does virtual then, which they most likely will I would say.

Virtual learning is not the same as "no instruction" and out of school exposure can happen in many different ways but please, go on with your strawman rant. I know it's difficult to realize that one can't control other people. There's going to need to be flexibility from everyone again. I hope this time we all do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg can people really not make sense of the difference between the quarantine rules?! If there is a positive in a classroom - the entire classroom goes virtual. In other words, the teacher begins teaching virtually a la last year for the quarantine period. If a kid needs to quarantine due to travel or because of an outside school exposure, it’s only that kid quarantining. There is not going to be a set-up for teachers to teach both virtually and in person. The teacher will be in person with the rest of the class. There won’t be someone else to teach the kid.

Exactly -- the hysteria on this board is insane. Get a grip, people. Do you really think DCPS has no plan for this? I know a lot of us (me included) were not happy with so much virtual instruction last year, but I never thought the schools had no plan. This year it's pretty clear that it is going to be in person, and then they will pivot to virtual if a class has to quarantine. They're not going to punish an entire class with no instruction for 10 days.

In Fairfax, they aren't quarantining a whole class for one case as long as everyone was wearing masks. Just saying. No one vaccinated has to quarantine.

So how does that work at the elementary level where no kid is vaccinated? And what is the plan if the teacher tests positive?

[Anonymous]

Well, no one will be quarantining b/c the other ES kids will be wearing masks.

A teacher testing positive, I assume, will be staying home and there will be a sub.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, no one will be quarantining b/c the other ES kids will be wearing masks.

A teacher testing positive, I assume, will be staying home and there will be a sub.

subs will be in very short supply this year.

[Anonymous]

Thanking my lucky stars we decided to make the leap to private this year. Phew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, no one will be quarantining b/c the other ES kids will be wearing masks.

A teacher testing positive, I assume, will be staying home and there will be a sub.

DC doesn’t follow the rule Fairfax is. One positive in a class means the whole class quarantines. The teacher doesn’t have to quarantine if vaccinated but will shift to virtual instruction with the class for the duration of the quarantine. This is also necessary due to teachers not reporting vaccination status.

[Anonymous]

Last week the CDC offered new guidance on schools. This changed my thinking that it’s probably good that DC hasn’t released things (just to change it). I think all the details will be released on Monday the 16th or Friday the 19th (first day for teachers).