DCPS 21/22 - Hybrid, All virtual or In-person? What you think?

[Anonymous]

Many of the ADW schools have been back to school in person since early September. Precautions taken - no drama - school goes on. In person is happening all around the country - as it should.

It is way past time that children are put first.

[Anonymous]

+1000. The WTU has its own agenda, weaponizing Covid fear-mongering to hem, haw and drag feet.

The WTU could just as easily have supported innovating to reopen elementary schools as safely as possible. That's being done all around the country and the world.

[Anonymous]

Why are people talking about the 20-21 school year?

Focus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

Thank you. This exactly.

If my asymptotic brings it home and I get it then who takes him to school while I can’t breathe. What if I get long covid. Who is working to support our two person family?

And I’ve seen 3 families in our school go on vacations to hotspots. Because covid can’t get them in their delusional minds. They are also the ones who whine about managing their kids during DL (also pre pandemic so there is that). I don’t want their kid near mine period.

We are talking about fall. You will be able to breadth because you will have been vaccinated yay science! If you don’t want the vaccine you can keep your kid home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people talking about the 20-21 school year?

Focus!

Someone started this thread asking if "we thought schools would be in-person in 2021," which I found alarming because I hadn't even considered they would NOT open by then!

It's ridiculous, there's no question they should open. Teachers & schools should not be focusing on whether they "should be in-person or not," but how to make opening a priority and what necessary precautions will be needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people talking about the 20-21 school year?

Focus!

Someone started this thread asking if "we thought schools would be in-person in 2021," which I found alarming because I hadn't even considered they would NOT open by then!

It's ridiculous, there's no question they should open. Teachers & schools should not be focusing on whether they "should be in-person or not," but how to make opening a priority and what necessary precautions will be needed.

I posted the above comment and I’m a DCPS high school teacher. I fully expect schools to be full time/in person during the next school year. I don’t know what will happen Term 3 because only a handful of people in my building have seen the reopening plan and I’m not one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people talking about the 20-21 school year?

Focus!

Someone started this thread asking if "we thought schools would be in-person in 2021," which I found alarming because I hadn't even considered they would NOT open by then!

It's ridiculous, there's no question they should open. Teachers & schools should not be focusing on whether they "should be in-person or not," but how to make opening a priority and what necessary precautions will be needed.

I posted the above comment and I’m a DCPS high school teacher. I fully expect schools to be full time/in person during the next school year. I don’t know what will happen Term 3 because only a handful of people in my building have seen the reopening plan and I’m not one of them.

I’m a DCPS teacher as well and I’ve seen parts of my school’s reopening plan. It’s so convoluted and complicated I can’t imagine it happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people talking about the 20-21 school year?

Focus!

Someone started this thread asking if "we thought schools would be in-person in 2021," which I found alarming because I hadn't even considered they would NOT open by then!

It's ridiculous, there's no question they should open. Teachers & schools should not be focusing on whether they "should be in-person or not," but how to make opening a priority and what necessary precautions will be needed.

I posted the above comment and I’m a DCPS high school teacher. I fully expect schools to be full time/in person during the next school year. I don’t know what will happen Term 3 because only a handful of people in my building have seen the reopening plan and I’m not one of them.

I’m a DCPS teacher as well and I’ve seen parts of my school’s reopening plan. It’s so convoluted and complicated I can’t imagine it happening.

Likely no teacher input. We have no say, yet we shoulder 95% of the blame about what happens in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything but a normal, full-time school year would be a complete failure. There is no reason why school can’t open full-time in the fall.

Schools all over the US have been open and fully operational during the worst of this all. If DC can't open doors after 8 months of vaccine implementation I don't see the system recovering fully for years and years.

+1 The fact that this question is even being asked is insane. Yes. Schools should be open 5 days a week in the fall. They should probably start in august to make up for learning loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything but a normal, full-time school year would be a complete failure. There is no reason why school can’t open full-time in the fall.

Schools all over the US have been open and fully operational during the worst of this all. If DC can't open doors after 8 months of vaccine implementation I don't see the system recovering fully for years and years.

+1 The fact that this question is even being asked is insane. Yes. Schools should be open 5 days a week in the fall. They should probably start in august to make up for learning loss.

Sure if you pay that fake admin premium.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything but a normal, full-time school year would be a complete failure. There is no reason why school can’t open full-time in the fall.

Schools all over the US have been open and fully operational during the worst of this all. If DC can't open doors after 8 months of vaccine implementation I don't see the system recovering fully for years and years.

+1 The fact that this question is even being asked is insane. Yes. Schools should be open 5 days a week in the fall. They should probably start in august to make up for learning loss.

If you're vaccinated and the kids are too then yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

Thank you. This exactly.

If my asymptotic brings it home and I get it then who takes him to school while I can’t breathe. What if I get long covid. Who is working to support our two person family?

And I’ve seen 3 families in our school go on vacations to hotspots. Because covid can’t get them in their delusional minds. They are also the ones who whine about managing their kids during DL (also pre pandemic so there is that). I don’t want their kid near mine period.

Then by fall 21 your kid could stay home and be homeschooled. But lest the rest of the delusional whining parents and kids go back to school where (most of them) belong.

The parents demanding to jam kids, teachers and staff into prolonged indoor contact during a pandemic as the ones who are "delusional."

So thankful that the decisions are not up to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything but a normal, full-time school year would be a complete failure. There is no reason why school can’t open full-time in the fall.

Schools all over the US have been open and fully operational during the worst of this all. If DC can't open doors after 8 months of vaccine implementation I don't see the system recovering fully for years and years.

+1 The fact that this question is even being asked is insane. Yes. Schools should be open 5 days a week in the fall. They should probably start in august to make up for learning loss.

If you're vaccinated and the kids are too then yes.

You’re moving the bar to all kids vaccinated too?

[Anonymous]

Yes I have seen a lot of this on Reddit teachers forum as well. Now the kids should be vaccinated before opening. I’m so worried about my one child that I have in public school trying to figure out if I should pull him into private. My other already is. The one in public is doing awful and it’s disheartening to hear it may be next year too if kids need to vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything but a normal, full-time school year would be a complete failure. There is no reason why school can’t open full-time in the fall.

Schools all over the US have been open and fully operational during the worst of this all. If DC can't open doors after 8 months of vaccine implementation I don't see the system recovering fully for years and years.

+1 The fact that this question is even being asked is insane. Yes. Schools should be open 5 days a week in the fall. They should probably start in august to make up for learning loss.

If you're vaccinated and the kids are too then yes.

Are you part of the WTU union by any chance? Seriously, waiting until kids are vaccinated to open schools is utterly ridiculous. They are NOT part of the risk group, private schools & daycares have been open without major issues, vaccination among adults will be more widespread by fall 21 and the negatives of not having kids in schools far outweighs the risk of opening.