APS: Open Now group (APE) fundraising for new signs for 5 day a week school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Did you miss the announcement that school is essential and should be opened?

The data is not really on the CDC's side on this one. (source). If they'd released science-backed school re-opening guidelines, that sure would've helped.

School buildings have been closed, not schools. There's a difference.

The only reason they did this was to continue paying teachers and all staff, nothing to do with education because its garbage. They took a greedy money grab and didn't even provide childcare support for the parents... Until there are repercussions like test scores and budget adjustments teachers will never come in because there is no accountability.

Wait, wait, I'm so confused. You hysterical parents have been screaming for months "UGH IT'S NOT ABOUT CHILDCAAAARE!!!" and now you're on here whining that schools aren't providing "childcare support" (which they are not required to do during a pandemic and can provide education, which us their job, not childcare, remotely). Make up your damn minds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My middle school in person numbers are dropping like flies. Everyone is pulling kids out for virtual.

Which one?

Great! makes 5 day a week even more likely!

Wow. You're an idiot. But hey, anything that makes your kids someone else's problem multiple days a week!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Wow, thanks for creating this PR for us! https://arlingtonparentsforeducation.org is the website. Reach out if you're interested in donating.

And of COURSE they come crawling on here begging for money. LOL!

WAIT for months you were all saying they are funding by the Koch Brothers, but now they're begging for money!? MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MINDS!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah. We are nowhere near the CDC caseload parameters for full time. Not. Even. Close. Dream on.

actually, that's really not true at all. the CDC recommends full time school k-12 in yellow 'moderate transmission'. The yellow zone is defined as test positivity rate of 5%-7.9% and case loads summed over 7 days per 100,000 persons of 10-49.
The Arlington test positivity rate has been below 7.9 percent since the end of January. For much of that time its been below 5%- putting it in the 'blue zone.'
In terms of caseloads- they are steadily dropping.

Where are we now? I haven't checked recently. Anywhere close to 49?

How do you get to that 7 day/100000 summed number? Looks like Virginia Department of health only posts the 14 day summed total per 100000.

multiply the 7 day average number x 7. Today Arlington is 118.3. It was around 61 the beginning of October. It was around 42 end of June. Arlington hit its '2nd peak' of 364 Jan 12th. So today's number of 118.3 is a massive drop in the last 45 days. (Arlington's recorded high of 434 was the beginning of May 2020- and that is probably an undercount b/c testing was still limited, albeit improving.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

It's so funny. It's like these parents believe they are important stakeholders in this discussion. They aren't.

Seriously. Get childcare. Screw working women. And screw your depressed teen that has multiple suicide attempts. And screw your 4th grade dyslexic kid that was FINALLY on reading level and has dropped back to K. WE ARE NOT BABYSITTERS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. We are nowhere near the CDC caseload parameters for full time. Not. Even. Close. Dream on.

actually, that's really not true at all. the CDC recommends full time school k-12 in yellow 'moderate transmission'. The yellow zone is defined as test positivity rate of 5%-7.9% and case loads summed over 7 days per 100,000 persons of 10-49.
The Arlington test positivity rate has been below 7.9 percent since the end of January. For much of that time its been below 5%- putting it in the 'blue zone.'
In terms of caseloads- they are steadily dropping.

Where are we now? I haven't checked recently. Anywhere close to 49?

Yesterday the daily average was 17.6/ day in Arlington. So 7 day might is somewhere over 100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. We are nowhere near the CDC caseload parameters for full time. Not. Even. Close. Dream on.

actually, that's really not true at all. the CDC recommends full time school k-12 in yellow 'moderate transmission'. The yellow zone is defined as test positivity rate of 5%-7.9% and case loads summed over 7 days per 100,000 persons of 10-49.
The Arlington test positivity rate has been below 7.9 percent since the end of January. For much of that time its been below 5%- putting it in the 'blue zone.'
In terms of caseloads- they are steadily dropping.

Where are we now? I haven't checked recently. Anywhere close to 49?

How do you get to that 7 day/100000 summed number? Looks like Virginia Department of health only posts the 14 day summed total per 100000.

multiply the 7 day average number x 7. Today Arlington is 118.3. It was around 61 the beginning of October. It was around 42 end of June. Arlington hit its '2nd peak' of 364 Jan 12th. So today's number of 118.3 is a massive drop in the last 45 days. (Arlington's recorded high of 434 was the beginning of May 2020- and that is probably an undercount b/c testing was still limited, albeit improving.)

It WAS a massive drop. But it ain’t under 50 and it’s plateaued.

[Anonymous]

There is no reason not to have schools open 5 days a week. When the CDC director was advising her own school district she said 3 feet of distance was fine. https://happiekids.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/newton-city-council-final-9-23-20-with-emails-referenced-in-letter-2.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no reason not to have schools open 5 days a week. When the CDC director was advising her own school district she said 3 feet of distance was fine. https://happiekids.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/newton-city-council-final-9-23-20-with-emails-referenced-in-letter-2.pdf

Could APS fully re-open even with only 3 feet of social distancing? With so much overcrowding, I thought it would not be possible to bring everyone back unless there were no distancing recommendations in place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is no reason not to have schools open 5 days a week. When the CDC director was advising her own school district she said 3 feet of distance was fine. https://happiekids.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/newton-city-council-final-9-23-20-with-emails-referenced-in-letter-2.pdf

Could APS fully re-open even with only 3 feet of social distancing? With so much overcrowding, I thought it would not be possible to bring everyone back unless there were no distancing recommendations in place.

Lunch would not work in most schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is no reason not to have schools open 5 days a week. When the CDC director was advising her own school district she said 3 feet of distance was fine. https://happiekids.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/newton-city-council-final-9-23-20-with-emails-referenced-in-letter-2.pdf

Could APS fully re-open even with only 3 feet of social distancing? With so much overcrowding, I thought it would not be possible to bring everyone back unless there were no distancing recommendations in place.

Lunch would not work in most schools.

Well that seems like an impediment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no reason not to have schools open 5 days a week. When the CDC director was advising her own school district she said 3 feet of distance was fine. https://happiekids.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/newton-city-council-final-9-23-20-with-emails-referenced-in-letter-2.pdf

Could APS fully re-open even with only 3 feet of social distancing? With so much overcrowding, I thought it would not be possible to bring everyone back unless there were no distancing recommendations in place.

Lunch would not work in most schools.

our school will be doing lunch outside most days and in teh classroom when it is raining. My kids old school did lunch in the classroom everyday, so that seems like an option for elementary school at least.

[Anonymous]

Who care what they are funding for? I don’t support them on this, but seriously, who finds it fun to obsess over community groups they disagree with? If you have that much free time, surely there something more valuable you can do with it.

[Anonymous]

I don't know if APS could fully reopen 5 days a week, but it seems like it would be pretty simple at our elementary school for K-2. None of the K-2 classes are sharing rooms or teachers. The kids aren't using any public spaces except for outdoor lunch, where there is tons of room. Most of our kids are walkers, so no bus issue. All specials are already virtual. I think the K and 1st rooms even have a dedicated bathroom.

I don't see a risk difference between my kid being in a class with 12 kids for two days a week or five. It's the same 12 kids regardless. Let's do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who care what they are funding for? I don’t support them on this, but seriously, who finds it fun to obsess over community groups they disagree with? If you have that much free time, surely there something more valuable you can do with it.

Not OP but when did a post become an obsession? Commenters are criticizing OP for posting this on DCUM but those commenters are also on DCUM. If I'm going to ask OP whether they have something better to do than to post here, then I'm also going to ask those commenters whether they have something better to do than to comment here.