APS - Elementary school -who is opting for virtual in 2021/22

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have had virtual since DD is asthmatc, but are opting for in-person next year, since she is constantly facing frustration with poor virtual teaching. However, our concerns are:

1) With some teachers opting for the virtual academy, there will be fewer teachers in-person, so in-person class size will be bigger. That means more crowded, with 3ft distancing vs 6ft. If schools have a problem opening windows, isn't there a higher risk of outbreak with poor ventilation, should someone be infected in class?

2) Flu season in the fall/winter months - without 6-ft distancing, and again, closed windows - would that be a double-whammy?

3) This would be the first time that APS is allowing 5-day in-person learning when the pandemic is still raging on, and children's vaccines are far from being available. While masks may lower the risk of infection, how many kids really abide mask-wearing throughout the day? I assume APS is reverting to the pre-pandemic class schedule.

The pandemic is not still going to be "raging on" in September...get a grip

Let's not nitpick over semantics - you know what PP means. As long as the vaccine is not given to kids, there's still a risk. I bet you won 't be saying this if your child got infected and hospitalized.

There is ALWAYS a risk...that is what people are not acknowledging. Most people are willing to take that risk to put kids back in school buildings, myself included. So allow us to do that, not this ridiculous hybrid concurrent model.

[Anonymous]

We stayed virtual because the logistics of hybrid were too complicated. If school is 5 days with extended day, we’ll be there with bells on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have had virtual since DD is asthmatc, but are opting for in-person next year, since she is constantly facing frustration with poor virtual teaching. However, our concerns are:

1) With some teachers opting for the virtual academy, there will be fewer teachers in-person, so in-person class size will be bigger. That means more crowded, with 3ft distancing vs 6ft. If schools have a problem opening windows, isn't there a higher risk of outbreak with poor ventilation, should someone be infected in class?

2) Flu season in the fall/winter months - without 6-ft distancing, and again, closed windows - would that be a double-whammy?

3) This would be the first time that APS is allowing 5-day in-person learning when the pandemic is still raging on, and children's vaccines are far from being available. While masks may lower the risk of infection, how many kids really abide mask-wearing throughout the day? I assume APS is reverting to the pre-pandemic class schedule.

The pandemic is not still going to be "raging on" in September...get a grip

We have never had even 3 feet of distance for cold and flu season before in decades of public school. Masks and surface cleaning will reduce cold/flu transmission. I think surface cleaning for Covid is hygiene theater, but I am a for it if I don’t have to deal with norovirus as often.

Ignoring the pandemic - did all the parents of asthmatic kids keep their kids home in the winter pre-pandemic?

Let's not nitpick over semantics - you know what PP means. As long as the vaccine is not given to kids, there's still a risk. I bet you won 't be saying this if your child got infected and hospitalized.

There is ALWAYS a risk...that is what people are not acknowledging. Most people are willing to take that risk to put kids back in school buildings, myself included. So allow us to do that, not this ridiculous hybrid concurrent model.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher who quit this year due to the shit show that was virtual, my kids eould.havr to have full blown AIDS for me to willingly send them virtual. And even that, in Virginia I'd do vava12 which is established and not continue in this failed experiment brick and mortor schools embarked upon. Virtual school is educational abuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher who quit this year due to the shit show that was virtual, my kids eould.havr to have full blown AIDS for me to willingly send them virtual. And even that, in Virginia I'd do vava12 which is established and not continue in this failed experiment brick and mortor schools embarked upon. Virtual school is educational abuse.

Troll. You are SO not a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher who quit this year due to the shit show that was virtual, my kids eould.havr to have full blown AIDS for me to willingly send them virtual. And even that, in Virginia I'd do vava12 which is established and not continue in this failed experiment brick and mortor schools embarked upon. Virtual school is educational abuse.

I’m guessing you are not an English or science teacher.

[Anonymous]

So, now APS says that distancing among students will not be possible. Even for parents of healthy kids, are you OK with that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, now APS says that distancing among students will not be possible. Even for parents of healthy kids, are you OK with that?

100% yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, now APS says that distancing among students will not be possible. Even for parents of healthy kids, are you OK with that?

100% yes

Yep x2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, now APS says that distancing among students will not be possible. Even for parents of healthy kids, are you OK with that?

100% yes

Yep x2.

I'd be okay with it now. OPEN APS!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, now APS says that distancing among students will not be possible. Even for parents of healthy kids, are you OK with that?

100% yes

Yep x2.

I'd be okay with it now. OPEN APS!!

I’m also fine with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, now APS says that distancing among students will not be possible. Even for parents of healthy kids, are you OK with that?

100% yes

Yep x2.

I am an elementary teacher and parent. I feel comfortable with masks and air purifiers. We will continue to vaccinate and see transmission go down. I am so excited that we will be back 5 days a week.

[Anonymous]

the fact is, 6 foot distancing, 3 foot distancing- none of those are really based on anything. The 6 foot distancing was based on some turn of the century study of how far droplets from a cough or a sneeze could carry. Less meaningful with an airborne virus and masks.
The 3 foot distancing- that was based on the idea that schools that opened with 3 feet (and masks) didn't appear to have any more spread than schools that opened with 6 feet (and masks).
Is the distance significant or the mask? There is a lot more evidentiary support for the masks then the distance.
The costs of not being in school 5 days a week are huge- I'm all for normal operation in the fall. (with masks assuming that is still a CDC recommendation).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, now APS says that distancing among students will not be possible. Even for parents of healthy kids, are you OK with that?

Bring it. Adults and older kids will be vaccinated, younger kids will presumably be masked until their vaccine is available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, now APS says that distancing among students will not be possible. Even for parents of healthy kids, are you OK with that?

No but I feel like there’s no real choice but to go back.