My ES is letting advanced kids push in and I am upset about it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it Covid you are concerned about or your kid mixing in with non AAP kids?

Based on OP ignoring logic I’m sure this is it.

Yep. As has been explained to her numerous times on this thread, the AAP kids sitting near her kid are riding the school bus, participating in sports, have siblings in other grades and are bringing the germs from their siblings' classes into the AAP classroom, have parents who are essential workers, and so on. The push-in kid sitting on the other side of the classroom won't make a difference at all. If OP does not think that masks + social distancing is sufficient, OP should keep her kid at home.

OP is fixated on the push in kids because she doesn't like LIII kids pushing into the AAP class.

[Anonymous]

OP here. My concern has to do with social distancing. Our class will have about 10 kids per section (at most but will probably be less) but if you add 3 push in kids, that's 13!!!!!! Isn't that too much? I am worried about health.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My concern has to do with social distancing. Our class will have about 10 kids per section (at most but will probably be less) but if you add 3 push in kids, that's 13!!!!!! Isn't that too much? I am worried about health.

Then keep your kids home. The school knows what the safe distance is and will honor that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My concern has to do with social distancing. Our class will have about 10 kids per section (at most but will probably be less) but if you add 3 push in kids, that's 13!!!!!! Isn't that too much? I am worried about health.

I bet if you had 13 AAP kids in your kid's classroom, that would be perfectly fine with you. I also bet if you had only 7 AAP kids returning and 3 push in kids, you'd still have a problem with the push in kids. Many AAP classes have 28-30 kids. They could easily have 13 or more kids per day for in-classroom learning. Most classrooms could probably hold 18 kids with full social distancing.

I have to question your reasoning skills from this thread. The push in kids are such a small drop in the bucket of total risk compared to the risk of sending your kid to school at all, yet you're fixated on the push-in kids and not on the general riskiness of sending your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - are you okay with your child going to the gym, music room, or art room for specials? What about the cafeteria for lunch?

Or are you okay with the PE/music/art teacher coming into your child's room for specials? They've been near every child in the school at some point in the week. Isn't that worse than 5 kids coming in for advanced math? Your kid, in school, is going to be around a ton of germs, no matter what. If you're so concerned, keep him home.

Interesting how OP didn't answer this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - are you okay with your child going to the gym, music room, or art room for specials? What about the cafeteria for lunch?

Or are you okay with the PE/music/art teacher coming into your child's room for specials? They've been near every child in the school at some point in the week. Isn't that worse than 5 kids coming in for advanced math? Your kid, in school, is going to be around a ton of germs, no matter what. If you're so concerned, keep him home.

Interesting how OP didn't answer this.

Op-I’m fine with this because the teacher won’t be close to my kid.1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - are you okay with your child going to the gym, music room, or art room for specials? What about the cafeteria for lunch?

Or are you okay with the PE/music/art teacher coming into your child's room for specials? They've been near every child in the school at some point in the week. Isn't that worse than 5 kids coming in for advanced math? Your kid, in school, is going to be around a ton of germs, no matter what. If you're so concerned, keep him home.

Interesting how OP didn't answer this.

Op-I’m fine with this because the teacher won’t be close to my kid.1

That doesn't make any sense at all - the teacher will have been exposed to more people, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My concern has to do with social distancing. Our class will have about 10 kids per section (at most but will probably be less) but if you add 3 push in kids, that's 13!!!!!! Isn't that too much? I am worried about health.

You’re just a queen b darling. That’s why you are concerned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My concern has to do with social distancing. Our class will have about 10 kids per section (at most but will probably be less) but if you add 3 push in kids, that's 13!!!!!! Isn't that too much? I am worried about health.

If you are selfish enough to send your kid back, then stop complaining. 10 vs. 13 kids is not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

This OP is completely insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does "push in" mean?

It is misusing a Special Education term. In Special Education, "push in" means the specialist, teacher or aide is in the gen ed or AAP classroom with the student(s). Pull out is when the student leaves their gen-ed or AAP classroom to get services.

Pre-covid, at our ES, the students changed classrooms for each core class. The students in AAP math went to that classroom, the students in Gen-ed went to a different classroom and the pull out special education students went the another classroom. - they only stayed with their homeroom for specials, lunch......

It sounds like the OP's school did the switching classrooms too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does "push in" mean?

It is misusing a Special Education term. In Special Education, "push in" means the specialist, teacher or aide is in the gen ed or AAP classroom with the student(s). Pull out is when the student leaves their gen-ed or AAP classroom to get services.

Pre-covid, at our ES, the students changed classrooms for each core class. The students in AAP math went to that classroom, the students in Gen-ed went to a different classroom and the pull out special education students went the another classroom. - they only stayed with their homeroom for specials, lunch......

It sounds like the OP's school did the switching classrooms too.

I will add that my DC was in special education for Language arts (LD), AAP for Science and Math and Gen Ed for Social Science. It is a way to support each student's strengths as well as their challenges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does "push in" mean?

It is misusing a Special Education term. In Special Education, "push in" means the specialist, teacher or aide is in the gen ed or AAP classroom with the student(s). Pull out is when the student leaves their gen-ed or AAP classroom to get services.

Pre-covid, at our ES, the students changed classrooms for each core class. The students in AAP math went to that classroom, the students in Gen-ed went to a different classroom and the pull out special education students went the another classroom. - they only stayed with their homeroom for specials, lunch......

It sounds like the OP's school did the switching classrooms too.

I don't think OP's school is generally switching classrooms. It sounds like there are maybe 5 gen ed kids who are taking advanced math, and the school's solution to providing those kids with advanced math is to have them join the AAP classroom for math. OP is trying to boot the advanced math kids out of the AAP classroom under the pretext that it would increase risk for her child but actually because she doesn't want her child mixing with the lessers from gen ed.

She didn't ever answer as to whether she'd be fine with 13!!!!!! AAP kids staying in her classroom or whether she'd be fine with 7 AAP kids + 2 gen ed advanced math kids. She has made it clear that she doesn't want LIII advanced math kids in her kid's classroom at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does "push in" mean?

It is misusing a Special Education term. In Special Education, "push in" means the specialist, teacher or aide is in the gen ed or AAP classroom with the student(s). Pull out is when the student leaves their gen-ed or AAP classroom to get services.

Pre-covid, at our ES, the students changed classrooms for each core class. The students in AAP math went to that classroom, the students in Gen-ed went to a different classroom and the pull out special education students went the another classroom. - they only stayed with their homeroom for specials, lunch......

It sounds like the OP's school did the switching classrooms too.

I don't think OP's school is generally switching classrooms. It sounds like there are maybe 5 gen ed kids who are taking advanced math, and the school's solution to providing those kids with advanced math is to have them join the AAP classroom for math. OP is trying to boot the advanced math kids out of the AAP classroom under the pretext that it would increase risk for her child but actually because she doesn't want her child mixing with the lessers from gen ed.

She didn't ever answer as to whether she'd be fine with 13!!!!!! AAP kids staying in her classroom or whether she'd be fine with 7 AAP kids + 2 gen ed advanced math kids. She has made it clear that she doesn't want LIII advanced math kids in her kid's classroom at all.

maybe she things one (or, god forbid, all) of those gen ed kids are outshining her snowflake. You know someone who cares as much about who is in the class as OP is listening to school everyday

[Anonymous]

OP here. I am worried the 6ft distancing rule can’t get followed if more kids join the classroom. I’m concerned about that.