Fccps will have all students in the buildings by the end of January. Woot woot

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Anonymous wrote:Try reading up on what is happening in Britain. It is a total sh$t show that is headed our way. This seems like an incredibly irresponsible move.

The new variant is in CO now.

“the infected patient was a man in his 20s with no recent travel history who is currently in isolation in Elbert County, a semi-rural area on the outskirts of the greater Denver metropolitan area.“

We are screwed big time.

If he had been in a public school this never would have happened!

‘Rona dares not enter our hallowed public school buildings.

Even if it was so bold, public schools are impervious to its wiles. It physically cannot spread there. Maybe the whole country should move into a public school long enough to wipe out covid and flatten the curve permanently? Mitigation

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Anonymous wrote:Try reading up on what is happening in Britain. It is a total sh$t show that is headed our way. This seems like an incredibly irresponsible move.

The new variant is in CO now.

“the infected patient was a man in his 20s with no recent travel history who is currently in isolation in Elbert County, a semi-rural area on the outskirts of the greater Denver metropolitan area.“

We are screwed big time.

If he had been in a public school this never would have happened!

Exactly! The 41 year old congressman who just died from Covid should’ve chosen teaching over politics, too. He could’ve gotten a mask exemption and been just fine in a school.

Fools. Personally, as a public school teacher, I feel so fortunate that my district cares about me and my health so much it is insisting I take one of these few coveted spots available in a fully protected and impenetrable fortresses against covid along with all the kids whose presence further repels covid. Lucky and blessed!

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Anonymous wrote:Try reading up on what is happening in Britain. It is a total sh$t show that is headed our way. This seems like an incredibly irresponsible move.

The new variant is in CO now.

“the infected patient was a man in his 20s with no recent travel history who is currently in isolation in Elbert County, a semi-rural area on the outskirts of the greater Denver metropolitan area.“

We are screwed big time.

If he had been in a public school this never would have happened!

Exactly! The 41 year old congressman who just died from Covid should’ve chosen teaching over politics, too. He could’ve gotten a mask exemption and been just fine in a school.

Fools. Personally, as a public school teacher, I feel so fortunate that my district cares about me and my health so much it is insisting I take one of these few coveted spots available in a fully protected and impenetrable fortresses against covid along with all the kids whose presence further repels covid. Lucky and blessed!

This is what it is about. It is a general feeling of the staff that Peter Noonan doesn’t care about their safety or the safety of the students. He cares about his media presence and opening his buildings at all costs. He is driven by emotion and has been determined from the start to have staff in the building, working in person at all costs.

I believe a lot of these posters are not Falls Church parents. Generally the parents have been very supportive and reasonable. Parents and teachers have a good working relationship in FCCPS. I can’t say the same about our superintendent.

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This fell apart pretty fast, and I agree with PP that I don't think this is all FCC parents. Noonan's email came out at 3 PM yesterday - don't you people take time to process before spewing anonymously online?! My frustration is with my friends and neighbors. Lots of chatter yesterday evening about getting an extra week of break and buying last minute tickets for Disney, Universal, etc. NOT THE POINT of this delay!

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Anonymous wrote:Try reading up on what is happening in Britain. It is a total sh$t show that is headed our way. This seems like an incredibly irresponsible move.

Nah. Can’t happen here. American kids don’t catch and spread it. Well, only if they’re at home or in the community. Never while in schools.

(In reality Britain does surveillance testing so they have proof it spreads in school and how. America doesn’t do that at all and uses the lack of data as proof there’s no school spread. We are a stupid stupid country and most of our pain is self inflicted.)

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:Staff have been notified that they must all report and work from the building’s beginning January 4th. FCCPS should be encouraging everyone to stay home and keep numbers down. Teachers must now teach from school, even while students remain virtual. This is one of the most irresponsible decisions they have made. Why force teachers to come in when students are not there?

To appease the angry, torch waving, entitled parent crowd.

I think it’s smart in the sense that it’s a dry run before the kids come back. Also it’s a clear signal that teachers better have a plan in place for their own kids. (And spare me the tears all parents that work outside the home are dealing with these issues now as well.)

Here’s a member of said torch waving angry parent crowd

Exactly. Exhibit A.

No. “Reasonable” FCPS parent here. And I hadn’t considered this. I don’t know how far before students teachers need to come back to their classroom, but they should come back before students. If you guys are using the God awful concurrent model we have, then you want to deal with issues like broadband access and new equipment and work out the kinks in the technology before kids come back in. And get some comfort teaching in your classroom to DL, before we all see what a mess the model that has teachers concurrent teaching is (I do hope you guys didn’t get stuck with that). If the FCPS DL a rollout last spring showed us anything, it’s that standing up an entirely new teaching model should be staged. Of course, FCCPS standing up a new model and FCPS standing up a new model are entirely different things.

I wouldn’t want teachers to have to have to put kids who aren’t a problem into childcare before it is absolutely necessary. I believe FCPS is letting parents bring ES aged kids in with them. Which is as it should be if the kids can work independently, in the name of risk mitigation. My mom was a teacher and back in the 1980s, I would go to work with her and sit in the back and read if I had a day off or was mildly ill. Yeah, I know it would never happen here and now. Different time.

But, that raises another issue. If FCCPS is like FCPS, there are a lot of threats to resign or retire rather than come back out there. The school system needs to force the issue somewhat because they can’t have 10% of their workforce quit the day before kids are scheduled to come back. If a teacher really isn’t coming back, they need time to plan for that.

You lose a lot of credibility if you don’t at least consider that other points of view have some validity and jump on everything other people say as crazy just because you don’t like it.

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I jumped on it because of the entire tone of the comment. “Spare me your tears” that’s just defensive posturing. Mad at teachers because she is essential and had to go to work. Also I am a teacher. We don’t need a dry run without the kids because that’s just DL from school. There is no dry run for concurrent. We can’t do concurrent until the kids come.

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Anonymous wrote:I jumped on it because of the entire tone of the comment. “Spare me your tears” that’s just defensive posturing. Mad at teachers because she is essential and had to go to work. Also I am a teacher. We don’t need a dry run without the kids because that’s just DL from school. There is no dry run for concurrent. We can’t do concurrent until the kids come.

Has FCCPS actually said that teachers have to teach from the building the week of Jan 4th? or for HS/MS until the kids come back? I saw the announcement right before break wherein Noonan said that all teachers should plan to report to the bldg Jan 4th b/c they were still working on return dates. But don't teachers now have to return with their cohorts?

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Anonymous wrote:I jumped on it because of the entire tone of the comment. “Spare me your tears” that’s just defensive posturing. Mad at teachers because she is essential and had to go to work. Also I am a teacher. We don’t need a dry run without the kids because that’s just DL from school. There is no dry run for concurrent. We can’t do concurrent until the kids come.

Has FCCPS actually said that teachers have to teach from the building the week of Jan 4th? or for HS/MS until the kids come back? I saw the announcement right before break wherein Noonan said that all teachers should plan to report to the bldg Jan 4th b/c they were still working on return dates. But don't teachers now have to return with their cohorts?

No. They will all return as planned and be there til their age group phases in. Same as FCPS and LCPS and probably APS.

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Anonymous wrote:I jumped on it because of the entire tone of the comment. “Spare me your tears” that’s just defensive posturing. Mad at teachers because she is essential and had to go to work. Also I am a teacher. We don’t need a dry run without the kids because that’s just DL from school. There is no dry run for concurrent. We can’t do concurrent until the kids come.

Has FCCPS actually said that teachers have to teach from the building the week of Jan 4th? or for HS/MS until the kids come back? I saw the announcement right before break wherein Noonan said that all teachers should plan to report to the bldg Jan 4th b/c they were still working on return dates. But don't teachers now have to return with their cohorts?

Staff received a separate email stating that they were no longer allowed to work from home and must report to work in the buildings every day beginning on January 4th. This also came out yesterday. Teachers must teach from classrooms even if students are virtual. Yes, this is for FCCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I jumped on it because of the entire tone of the comment. “Spare me your tears” that’s just defensive posturing. Mad at teachers because she is essential and had to go to work. Also I am a teacher. We don’t need a dry run without the kids because that’s just DL from school. There is no dry run for concurrent. We can’t do concurrent until the kids come.

Has FCCPS actually said that teachers have to teach from the building the week of Jan 4th? or for HS/MS until the kids come back? I saw the announcement right before break wherein Noonan said that all teachers should plan to report to the bldg Jan 4th b/c they were still working on return dates. But don't teachers now have to return with their cohorts?

No. They will all return as planned and be there til their age group phases in. Same as FCPS and LCPS and probably APS.

This is not true and you are not a Falls Church employee. We were told we must report daily beginning January 4th.

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Anonymous wrote:This fell apart pretty fast, and I agree with PP that I don't think this is all FCC parents. Noonan's email came out at 3 PM yesterday - don't you people take time to process before spewing anonymously online?! My frustration is with my friends and neighbors. Lots of chatter yesterday evening about getting an extra week of break and buying last minute tickets for Disney, Universal, etc. NOT THE POINT of this delay!

I’m an FCC parent who commented that. I am still processing this for sure and I say that as someone who really does want my MD kid back but I am questioning the timing. I think most of these rabid FCPS posters are forgetting that our 2 elementary schools did go back in person for all of 2 weeks before we took a pause at Thanksgiving but the numbers are so much worse now. I just don’t see the numbers being there for a January 12 return but hopefully before spring.

I’m really disappointed to hear that about people taking trips. We have been hunkering down and following the guidance including very limited Halloween and staying just our family of 4 for both holidays and 2 birthdays. I’d really like to get kids back in school and this is the sacrifice we are willing to make. This is just so frustrating.

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Anonymous wrote:I jumped on it because of the entire tone of the comment. “Spare me your tears” that’s just defensive posturing. Mad at teachers because she is essential and had to go to work. Also I am a teacher. We don’t need a dry run without the kids because that’s just DL from school. There is no dry run for concurrent. We can’t do concurrent until the kids come.

Has FCCPS actually said that teachers have to teach from the building the week of Jan 4th? or for HS/MS until the kids come back? I saw the announcement right before break wherein Noonan said that all teachers should plan to report to the bldg Jan 4th b/c they were still working on return dates. But don't teachers now have to return with their cohorts?

Staff received a separate email stating that they were no longer allowed to work from home and must report to work in the buildings every day beginning on January 4th. This also came out yesterday. Teachers must teach from classrooms even if students are virtual. Yes, this is for FCCPS.

Teachers from every district have been saying this in their respective threads. It is true for all local districts. So many parents don’t seem to believe it. Like, they seem actually in disbelief that though they’ve been pushing for a reopen ASAP it’s actually going to happen. I have to ask: what... did they ... expect? We keep saying “yes teachers are going back” “are you sure?” “yes your kids are too. In January” “but metrics” yep they’re overriding them.

I feel like next week will be interesting around here as a lot of the open school crowd gets what they wanted and starts to panic about it

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Anonymous wrote:I jumped on it because of the entire tone of the comment. “Spare me your tears” that’s just defensive posturing. Mad at teachers because she is essential and had to go to work. Also I am a teacher. We don’t need a dry run without the kids because that’s just DL from school. There is no dry run for concurrent. We can’t do concurrent until the kids come.

Has FCCPS actually said that teachers have to teach from the building the week of Jan 4th? or for HS/MS until the kids come back? I saw the announcement right before break wherein Noonan said that all teachers should plan to report to the bldg Jan 4th b/c they were still working on return dates. But don't teachers now have to return with their cohorts?

No. They will all return as planned and be there til their age group phases in. Same as FCPS and LCPS and probably APS.

This is not true and you are not a Falls Church employee. We were told we must report daily beginning January 4th.

Yeah that’s what I was saying. She asked “don’t they return with their cohorts” and I said no, they’re all returning to buildings as planned (Jan 4) and working from school even if their age group isn’t in yet. And will until their group phases in as well

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I jumped on it because of the entire tone of the comment. “Spare me your tears” that’s just defensive posturing. Mad at teachers because she is essential and had to go to work. Also I am a teacher. We don’t need a dry run without the kids because that’s just DL from school. There is no dry run for concurrent. We can’t do concurrent until the kids come.

Has FCCPS actually said that teachers have to teach from the building the week of Jan 4th? or for HS/MS until the kids come back? I saw the announcement right before break wherein Noonan said that all teachers should plan to report to the bldg Jan 4th b/c they were still working on return dates. But don't teachers now have to return with their cohorts?

Staff received a separate email stating that they were no longer allowed to work from home and must report to work in the buildings every day beginning on January 4th. This also came out yesterday. Teachers must teach from classrooms even if students are virtual. Yes, this is for FCCPS.

Teachers from every district have been saying this in their respective threads. It is true for all local districts. So many parents don’t seem to believe it. Like, they seem actually in disbelief that though they’ve been pushing for a reopen ASAP it’s actually going to happen. I have to ask: what... did they ... expect? We keep saying “yes teachers are going back” “are you sure?” “yes your kids are too. In January” “but metrics” yep they’re overriding them.

I feel like next week will be interesting around here as a lot of the open school crowd gets what they wanted and starts to panic about it

I work for APS and have not been told to report to the building or heard of any plan to have us return before students. Did I miss something?