I still don't understand what classroom monitors are for

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Anonymous wrote:In ES, are teachers still doing two classes at a time, hence the need for the monitor in the class while they are in the other? I wasn't sure if that changed due to concurrent.

My understanding is that one teacher will be in a classroom teaching half the class with the other half watching from home TUes/WEd. Then they swap and the ones in person are home TH/Fri. Teacher is in the classroom Tues-Friday. And then each grade level has 1 or 2 fully virtual classes where both the students and teachers are home, just like now.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

Most teachers haven't been able to get their first dose yet. You aren't protected until a few weeks after your second dose. Hopefully by the time we get there, which would be early April, we'll know how well the vaccine prevents transmission.

Do think it is still “most”? DH and I went this last week and it seems most of our colleagues have now had their first dose or have appointments for this weekend or early next week. Those second doses will all be scheduled for mid to late February. Mine will fall around February 18 and students are tentatively proposed to return March 16 our grade levels.

We are with FCPS and I’m curious to know how many they have vaccinated through today.

On my team, only one has gotten first dose.

On my team 2 out of the 7 teachers have gotten their first dose. The rest are waiting to be rescheduled.

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Are teachers required to report their vaccination status to the school system? Isn't it Protected Health Information unless the district makes it mandatory?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

Most teachers haven't been able to get their first dose yet. You aren't protected until a few weeks after your second dose. Hopefully by the time we get there, which would be early April, we'll know how well the vaccine prevents transmission.

Do think it is still “most”? DH and I went this last week and it seems most of our colleagues have now had their first dose or have appointments for this weekend or early next week. Those second doses will all be scheduled for mid to late February. Mine will fall around February 18 and students are tentatively proposed to return March 16 our grade levels.

We are with FCPS and I’m curious to know how many they have vaccinated through today.

On my team, only one has gotten first dose.

On my team 2 out of the 7 teachers have gotten their first dose. The rest are waiting to be rescheduled.

Makes me feel better that I am not alone! I am so irritated with how this rollout went.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

Most teachers haven't been able to get their first dose yet. You aren't protected until a few weeks after your second dose. Hopefully by the time we get there, which would be early April, we'll know how well the vaccine prevents transmission.

Do the teachers with ADA accommodations plan to come back after they have the full vaccination?

What does the vaccination have to do with it? The vaccine prevents severe disease and death; it does not guarantee you will get COVID. Some have severely immune compromised family members that they could still pass it on to.

That’s not what ADA is for. ADA protects you from working because you could die. If you are vaccinated you no longer need it. And all of this what if about passing it on it totally absurd. But don’t worry scientists are working on proving what they know to be true — vaccinated people are not dangerous to others. Then you’ll need to find a new goal post.

Yep those of us who are on ADA, and also have vulnerable family members know that. We're prepared to quit if we need to if our ADA no longer applies, if the evidence comes back that COVID isn't like Pertussis (a virus where the vaccine doesn't provide protection from transmission), then obviously that changes things. But we don't know yet.

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Anonymous wrote:In ES, are teachers still doing two classes at a time, hence the need for the monitor in the class while they are in the other? I wasn't sure if that changed due to concurrent.

My understanding is that one teacher will be in a classroom teaching half the class with the other half watching from home TUes/WEd. Then they swap and the ones in person are home TH/Fri. Teacher is in the classroom Tues-Friday. And then each grade level has 1 or 2 fully virtual classes where both the students and teachers are home, just like now.

Not all schools are doing it that way. We don’t have a teacher assigned to the fully virtual students. We’ll each keep our classes and do concurrent. For example on T,W I’ll have 8 in class and 15 watching from home. On Th/F I’ll have 9 in class and 14 watching from home. The 6 who will be full DL for all days will still be my students.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

Most teachers haven't been able to get their first dose yet. You aren't protected until a few weeks after your second dose. Hopefully by the time we get there, which would be early April, we'll know how well the vaccine prevents transmission.

Do think it is still “most”? DH and I went this last week and it seems most of our colleagues have now had their first dose or have appointments for this weekend or early next week. Those second doses will all be scheduled for mid to late February. Mine will fall around February 18 and students are tentatively proposed to return March 16 our grade levels.

We are with FCPS and I’m curious to know how many they have vaccinated through today.

On my team, only one has gotten first dose.

On my team 2 out of the 7 teachers have gotten their first dose. The rest are waiting to be rescheduled.

Interesting. Which group? I’m in group 7 (ES) and out of 6 gen ed, 3 got the first dose and the other three are scheduled Sunday and I think Monday.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

ADA accommodations for the rest of the school year have already been granted. Vaccine availability or lack thereof will not change that.

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It matters because the teacher has no reason to stay out other than not coming back to VA. How many others would jump at the opportunity to work from elsewhere and have a monitor cover the class? FCPS shouldn’t be paying for that. The monitor should be used to cover for someone with an ADA accommodation.


How would you know whether your teacher has a reason to stay or not. ADA information is protected. My students certainly don't know why I won't be returning to the classroom.

An ADA accommodation to allow you to work from home as a teacher is beyond reasonable. If the system were able to pair the teachers with those students doing virtual school only, that would maybe be okay, but to let a teacher "teach" from home while the kids sit with a monitor is kind of nuts. I say that as someone who taught for years. It's ridiculous. Teacher needs to go on disability if cannot work in school.

You are not the arbiter of what is "reasonable," fortunately.

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Anonymous wrote:I think two doses of the vaccine + 2 weeks more should render the ADA moot/no longer “reasonable.” It was reasonable up until that point.

Cool cool cool. It doesn't matter what you think. ADAs already granted for the spring will not be revoked.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

Most teachers haven't been able to get their first dose yet. You aren't protected until a few weeks after your second dose. Hopefully by the time we get there, which would be early April, we'll know how well the vaccine prevents transmission.

Do think it is still “most”? DH and I went this last week and it seems most of our colleagues have now had their first dose or have appointments for this weekend or early next week. Those second doses will all be scheduled for mid to late February. Mine will fall around February 18 and students are tentatively proposed to return March 16 our grade levels.

We are with FCPS and I’m curious to know how many they have vaccinated through today.

On my team, only one has gotten first dose.

On my team 2 out of the 7 teachers have gotten their first dose. The rest are waiting to be rescheduled.

Interesting. Which group? I’m in group 7 (ES) and out of 6 gen ed, 3 got the first dose and the other three are scheduled Sunday and I think Monday.

We are also in group 7.

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The ADA forms had to be filled out before anyone knew what was going to happen with the school year. I have 2 friends who have kids who are cancer survivors. They will quit if they have to come in. know quite a few teachers who decided not to risk transmission to their somewhat elderly spouse and retired even though they loved teaching enough to stay past retirement age. So, monitors are necessary to fill in gaps too.

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Anonymous wrote:Are teachers required to report their vaccination status to the school system? Isn't it Protected Health Information unless the district makes it mandatory?

We are not. Nobody is required to get the vaccine.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

ADA accommodations for the rest of the school year have already been granted. Vaccine availability or lack thereof will not change that.

Not least of which because the vaccine may still be contraindicated based on people’s health condition. I cannot express enough how morally reprehensible and short sighted it is to rail against ADA accommodations YOU yourself may one day need to protect yourself from retaliation by an employer for your health. Or do all of you really think you’re immune to developing health conditions, becoming disabled, receiving horrible diagnoses? You are not my friends.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, classroom monitors will monitor a room full of students who have a virtual teacher

Why on earth would a teacher need to teach virtually? There is a vaccine out there.

Most teachers haven't been able to get their first dose yet. You aren't protected until a few weeks after your second dose. Hopefully by the time we get there, which would be early April, we'll know how well the vaccine prevents transmission.

Do think it is still “most”? DH and I went this last week and it seems most of our colleagues have now had their first dose or have appointments for this weekend or early next week. Those second doses will all be scheduled for mid to late February. Mine will fall around February 18 and students are tentatively proposed to return March 16 our grade levels.

We are with FCPS and I’m curious to know how many they have vaccinated through today.

On my team, only one has gotten first dose.

On my team 2 out of the 7 teachers have gotten their first dose. The rest are waiting to be rescheduled.

Interesting. Which group? I’m in group 7 (ES) and out of 6 gen ed, 3 got the first dose and the other three are scheduled Sunday and I think Monday.

We are also in group 7.

Thanks. Just wondering about the process here. What dates (approximately) were the original appointments? I did find out the special ed teacher for our team has not heard yet about rescheduling. I imagine it will be soon though.