APS - how do you feel about no distancing in the fall?

[Anonymous]

I'm not real happy about no distancing in the fall and I am wondering what this is really going to look like.

Are kids really going to be eating right next to each other in cafeterias? 11 and under won't be vaccinated. One of my kids is in this group.

My other is old enough to hopefully get it this summer. But I'm seeing all these parents who don't seem that concerned about Covid. Will they get their kids vaccinated?

It looks like APS listened to the loud parents demanding full time school and is catering to them. Meanwhile I want in person school but I want safer distanced hybrid over unsafe full time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not real happy about no distancing in the fall and I am wondering what this is really going to look like.

Are kids really going to be eating right next to each other in cafeterias? 11 and under won't be vaccinated. One of my kids is in this group.

My other is old enough to hopefully get it this summer. But I'm seeing all these parents who don't seem that concerned about Covid. Will they get their kids vaccinated?

It looks like APS listened to the loud parents demanding full time school and is catering to them. Meanwhile I want in person school but I want safer distanced hybrid over unsafe full time.

No hybrid. No no no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not real happy about no distancing in the fall and I am wondering what this is really going to look like.

Are kids really going to be eating right next to each other in cafeterias? 11 and under won't be vaccinated. One of my kids is in this group.

My other is old enough to hopefully get it this summer. But I'm seeing all these parents who don't seem that concerned about Covid. Will they get their kids vaccinated?

It looks like APS listened to the loud parents demanding full time school and is catering to them. Meanwhile I want in person school but I want safer distanced hybrid over unsafe full time.

It's not just loud parent who want full time. I've said nothing this whole time and want full time.

Hybrid sucks. Doesn't serve anyone. These kids cannot afford another year of hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not real happy about no distancing in the fall and I am wondering what this is really going to look like.

Are kids really going to be eating right next to each other in cafeterias? 11 and under won't be vaccinated. One of my kids is in this group.

My other is old enough to hopefully get it this summer. But I'm seeing all these parents who don't seem that concerned about Covid. Will they get their kids vaccinated?

It looks like APS listened to the loud parents demanding full time school and is catering to them. Meanwhile I want in person school but I want safer distanced hybrid over unsafe full time.

I'm not unconcerned about covid. My husband and I are now vaccinated and we will vaccinate kids. At this point, the negative impacts on my kids of not going to normal school far outweigh whatever risks there are associated with them getting covid. Will I be happy if they get it? No. But for our family and my kids, the mental calculus is truly easy. They need to go to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not real happy about no distancing in the fall and I am wondering what this is really going to look like.

Are kids really going to be eating right next to each other in cafeterias? 11 and under won't be vaccinated. One of my kids is in this group.

My other is old enough to hopefully get it this summer. But I'm seeing all these parents who don't seem that concerned about Covid. Will they get their kids vaccinated?

It looks like APS listened to the loud parents demanding full time school and is catering to them. Meanwhile I want in person school but I want safer distanced hybrid over unsafe full time.

The era of DL-for-all, hybrid, etc. is over. They used up all that collateral this school year. That can't keep it going into next school year. Too much educational remediation to do, not to mention parents needing to return to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Ours have been eating outside.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Why? 3ft vs 6ft vs 60ft indoors make no difference. If kids are eating 6ft apart, it’s not like the air won’t go across the room.

By fall, rates will be much lower. I am not even a tiny bit worried.

Distancing doesn’t matter for the hours and hours in enclosed rooms with lame masks.

+1 I am very worried that this is a death sentence for many because of the duration and proximity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Why? 3ft vs 6ft vs 60ft indoors make no difference. If kids are eating 6ft apart, it’s not like the air won’t go across the room.

By fall, rates will be much lower. I am not even a tiny bit worried.

Distancing doesn’t matter for the hours and hours in enclosed rooms with lame masks.

+1 I am very worried that this is a death sentence for many because of the duration and proximity.

A death sentence for many? Uh, who are these “many” exactly? Do you realize kids have been in school all year with no vaccines and it’s been fine?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Why? 3ft vs 6ft vs 60ft indoors make no difference. If kids are eating 6ft apart, it’s not like the air won’t go across the room.

By fall, rates will be much lower. I am not even a tiny bit worried.

Distancing doesn’t matter for the hours and hours in enclosed rooms with lame masks.

+1 I am very worried that this is a death sentence for many because of the duration and proximity.

Go tell SmartRestart all about it. Maybe start a petition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not real happy about no distancing in the fall and I am wondering what this is really going to look like.

Are kids really going to be eating right next to each other in cafeterias? 11 and under won't be vaccinated. One of my kids is in this group.

My other is old enough to hopefully get it this summer. But I'm seeing all these parents who don't seem that concerned about Covid. Will they get their kids vaccinated?

It looks like APS listened to the loud parents demanding full time school and is catering to them. Meanwhile I want in person school but I want safer distanced hybrid over unsafe full time.

I'm not unconcerned about covid. My husband and I are now vaccinated and we will vaccinate kids. At this point, the negative impacts on my kids of not going to normal school far outweigh whatever risks there are associated with them getting covid. Will I be happy if they get it? No. But for our family and my kids, the mental calculus is truly easy. They need to go to school.

Ditto. I honestly don’t thing the risk will be that high. Community transmission should be low given adult and teen vaccinations so the risk of them being exposed is low. Even without strict distancing if the kids are in masks that’s another mitigation factor. I just don’t see the risk of them catching covid to be high. And if they do I’m a still not worried about it. But the harm of another year of this for kids and families is too high. The cost outweighs any benefit by fall. Preventing kids from getting covid at all costs is madness.

[Anonymous]

I was actually thrilled by this news -- not because I don't like distancing -- but because this is the first thing APS has said that has made me believe 5 days next year will actually happen.

Agree with PPs that most other places have opened with masks + whatever spacing they can manage, and I am fine with that. If APS can do more, great. I hope they work on ventilation. I hope Principals allow outdoor lunch. But I think kids really need to be in school.

If we had seen widespread disasters elsewhere where schools just opened, I would feel differently. But instead my friends with kids all over the country are not doing anything special I can see, and it's been fine, and those kids are getting a much better education + socio/emotional experience.

[Anonymous]

As my sister and I have talked during the pandemic and compared the experiences of our early ES kids, she's remarked multiple times that my child's APS teachers seem to be providing a much better education for him that her early ES child is receiving. My child has done DL the whole year. My sister's child has done in person and distance learning, and both were inferior to APS DL. My sister is a teacher (currently SAHM), and lives in a very rural part of VA. My point is that DL hasn't been the unmitigated disaster I would have thought if all I heard was DCUM posters. I know it isn't perfect and there are lots of kids who this has been really rough for. Just trying to offer some perspective.

[Anonymous]

I am so worried the SR or OneAPS crowd is laying the ground work to push back on this. Kadera has said she doesn’t support reducing distancing and I’m sure other school board members feel the same. Please god no shifts next year. I can’t handle it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so worried the SR or OneAPS crowd is laying the ground work to push back on this. Kadera has said she doesn’t support reducing distancing and I’m sure other school board members feel the same. Please god no shifts next year. I can’t handle it.

you sound paranoid

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am so worried the SR or OneAPS crowd is laying the ground work to push back on this. Kadera has said she doesn’t support reducing distancing and I’m sure other school board members feel the same. Please god no shifts next year. I can’t handle it.

you sound paranoid

Perhaps. Definitely ptsd from DL/hybrid.