I’m getting nervous about school because of delta

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

Well, I’m pissed FCPS thinks this is okay for teachers, but not HS kids who have had access to the vaccine since spring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

Well, I’m pissed FCPS thinks this is okay for teachers, but not HS kids who have had access to the vaccine since spring.

As someone else pointed out, this was administrators and front office staff. It's possible they don't think it's OK for teachers.

Rules for thee and not for me, regardless of whether you think the rules are too strict or just right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

l poss

This happened literally the day after Fairfax county was told all people should mask indoors and after the mandate from FCPS that all teachers and students must mask inside schools.

By posting this she somehow was able to piss off both sides of the argument.

- To those people who are afraid of COVID this looks like a super spreader event, that FCPS staff are being unsafe.
- To those who don't want their kids masked in schools it looks like hypocrisy from a SB member and staff

Why did FCPS issue guidance that masks are mandatory and then allow this meeting to happen in a school unmasked?

If everyone was wearing a mask in this pic wouldn't be a issue. All this does is create more tension around schools reopening and create unnecessary drama from both sides.

She is the rare politician who is somehow able to piss everyone off on every side of the argument and then act like a victim when she is called out on it.

We can't recall her fast enough.

As far as I can tell, the bolded represents the entire school board. See: the calendar D debacle that some of my friends who couldn't care less about reopening are STILL furious about.

+1. Heck, I’m still pissed about that. My kid is taking 5 APss next year. It would be nice if the teachers had the freedom to pace the class without being restricted at Threvassa. A lot of those holidays are in the spring as APs wind up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

Those are all administrators, I believe.

On Tuesday staff received an email that read:

As of Monday, August 2, all FCPS staff – both in offices and schools – are strongly encouraged to wear a mask at all times indoors:

FCPS is encouraging all staff who work in our offices to show solidarity with schools and wear your mask at all times when you are indoors – even if you are fully vaccinated.
We serve as role models for our students. This practice will help encourage them to follow the universal masking guidance at all times.
According to the CDC, there are instances of breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals. Although vaccinated individuals are not becoming severely ill, they are able to transmit the infection to others.
We are aware that the Delta variant is seeing transmission rates rise in our area, and we are encouraging all staff to do their part.

These meetings were held at West Springfield and I believe Woodson and all students were banned from the buildings during the meetings so that the administrators and SB could go maskless. No football, field hockey, band practices or any other student activity were cancelled. Way to put students first, just so you didn't have to wear a mask.

It does say “strongly encouraged” and not “must”. When teachers go into the school before students start, I hope they don’t catch any flack from their administrators if they decide to not mask during staff meetings.

Teacher

Nothing says “strongly encouraged” like pictures of Administrators crowded together without masks. Shouldn’t the “leaders” be setting the example?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the regions had these this week.

Did all regions have them mask-less?

Did all regions have idiot school board members tweet out pics of the mask-less meetings?

It's not about having the meetings, it's not even about having the meetings mask-less. It's about people setting policy and then turning around and blatantly ignoring the same policy themselves, with no thought given as to why those actions would upset the people they are supposed to be representing.

Either you believe these polices prevent the spread of COVID and you follow them, or you don't. And if you don't then why the F are you setting these mandates?

"Let them eat cake"

"Let them wear masks" - LJC / Region 4 FCPS admins

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

Those are all administrators, I believe.

On Tuesday staff received an email that read:

As of Monday, August 2, all FCPS staff – both in offices and schools – are strongly encouraged to wear a mask at all times indoors:

FCPS is encouraging all staff who work in our offices to show solidarity with schools and wear your mask at all times when you are indoors – even if you are fully vaccinated.
We serve as role models for our students. This practice will help encourage them to follow the universal masking guidance at all times.
According to the CDC, there are instances of breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals. Although vaccinated individuals are not becoming severely ill, they are able to transmit the infection to others.
We are aware that the Delta variant is seeing transmission rates rise in our area, and we are encouraging all staff to do their part.

These meetings were held at West Springfield and I believe Woodson and all students were banned from the buildings during the meetings so that the administrators and SB could go maskless. No football, field hockey, band practices or any other student activity were cancelled. Way to put students first, just so you didn't have to wear a mask.

At the end of the day I don't care that these people were meeting indoors without masks. I assume most are vaccinated and people should be able to make their own decisions about how they chose to protect themselves.

But I mean JFC. LJC is supposed to be a politician and politicians are supposed to have a semi basic sense of messaging.

- Fairfax County advises all adults should wears masks indoors regardless of vaccine status, sure whatever

- FCPS requires masks for all despite vaccine status

- FCPS has a giant indoor meeting where none of the attendees are wearing masks, and then posts freaking pictures of it on social media

I mean come the F on. Just don't post the picture and no one would ever know or care.

Her lack of common sense alone is more then enough to trigger a recall. I honestly don't even know how she is able to dress herself in the morning let alone have oversite of one of the largest public school systems in the country.

So much this. Some of the SB members have about average intelligence, but not a lot of common sense. She and Fritsch are just dim bulbs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I, too, want to be back in person. Last year was exhausting. I am on the teacher FB group and I haven’t seen any posts about teachers wanting to start virtual nor have I heard anyone from my school say this.

There is a discussion about how nervous everyone is.

Curious if these were teachers who were in person in spring? I was nervous (despite believing being in-person was the right thing and intellectually knowing the risks were low) until I set foot in school and then it was easy to be there. I have been assuming this year would be similar. You just have to do it.

THIS. People who haven’t been out much in 18 months are far more nervous than people who have. It’s not some big bogey man.

This is absolutely true. It’s a real thing, called anxious avoidance. And the longer you avoid doing something he worse you build it up in your head. Any clinical psychologist will tell you that avoiding something you are nervous about is pretty much the worst thing you can do in terms of contributing to your anxiety level about it.

I’m not suggesting people throw caution to the wind. But I think some people on the most extreme end are going to need something akin to exposure therapy in order to avoid having a panic attack when they venture out in public. Past pandemics in other countries have provided us data on this.

It'll be interesting to see how that hits kids. Of course, we've always been told they're "resilient" when it comes to DL so who knows. It's just mindblowing to think that many kids haven't stepped inside a school building for almost 1.5 years.

My DD is in HS and has anxiety issues. She did not want to go back last spring. We made her. And then made her go up to 4 days when offered. It was hard for her the first week of 2 days and the first week of 4. And the HS was empty. Some classes only had 2-3 kids. By later April, she was doing much better than I had seen her in a year. If we had allowed her to stay home last spring, we never would have gotten her back this fall, straight into full capacity. The transition back with less crowding was helpful.

As a teacher, you did the right thing. Very few people want to face reality that kids only just returning this august after 1.5 years out of a school are going to have a really hard time readjusting. School is very mentally draining and over stimulating, the go go go after getting to do DL from your house will be a shock. Just getting back into a routine with a building full of kids will be very tough on some of them. And then there’s the annoying teachers who did DL last year and act like returning is something horrific daunting feat despite the fact most of us did it last year and almost none got Covid. Some of them are so dramatic

Thanks. I have anxiety issues too. So, I knew. But, I had to stare DH down to make it happen. And he is a really collaborative partner and empathetic parent, not an overbearing jerk. And we rarely butt heads on parenting. And his mindset was: she’s had a terrible year. Why add this stress on top of it for just a couple month. But, I knew we couldn’t just drop this particular kid in front of a school building in August and expect it to go well.

She did a summer enrichment program in an FCPS school. So now, she’s fine with school starting because she’s used to it again.

I do agree that school is emotionally draining for her. She was coming home just wiped out at first. I was glad they had asynchronous Monday’s, because she wasn’t in a great place to do homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

Those are all administrators, I believe.

On Tuesday staff received an email that read:

As of Monday, August 2, all FCPS staff – both in offices and schools – are strongly encouraged to wear a mask at all times indoors:

FCPS is encouraging all staff who work in our offices to show solidarity with schools and wear your mask at all times when you are indoors – even if you are fully vaccinated.
We serve as role models for our students. This practice will help encourage them to follow the universal masking guidance at all times.
According to the CDC, there are instances of breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals. Although vaccinated individuals are not becoming severely ill, they are able to transmit the infection to others.
We are aware that the Delta variant is seeing transmission rates rise in our area, and we are encouraging all staff to do their part.

These meetings were held at West Springfield and I believe Woodson and all students were banned from the buildings during the meetings so that the administrators and SB could go maskless. No football, field hockey, band practices or any other student activity were cancelled. Way to put students first, just so you didn't have to wear a mask.

At the end of the day I don't care that these people were meeting indoors without masks. I assume most are vaccinated and people should be able to make their own decisions about how they chose to protect themselves.

But I mean JFC. LJC is supposed to be a politician and politicians are supposed to have a semi basic sense of messaging.

- Fairfax County advises all adults should wears masks indoors regardless of vaccine status, sure whatever

- FCPS requires masks for all despite vaccine status

- FCPS has a giant indoor meeting where none of the attendees are wearing masks, and then posts freaking pictures of it on social media

I mean come the F on. Just don't post the picture and no one would ever know or care.

Her lack of common sense alone is more then enough to trigger a recall. I honestly don't even know how she is able to dress herself in the morning let alone have oversite of one of the largest public school systems in the country.

So much this. Some of the SB members have about average intelligence, but not a lot of common sense. She and Fritsch are just dim bulbs.

Now she’s trying to side with the open side and gain confidence back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Name the neighborhood covered in Youngkin signs.

Drive around and find it. It’s in the South County area.

[Anonymous]

"a child not being vaccinated must not be seen as an argument for withholding either school attendance or after school activities for the child"
-WHO Europe
(https://ajlamesa.medium.com/yes-unvaccinated-children-should-return-to-their-classrooms-this-fall-8343daf2cf61)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I, too, want to be back in person. Last year was exhausting. I am on the teacher FB group and I haven’t seen any posts about teachers wanting to start virtual nor have I heard anyone from my school say this.

There is a discussion about how nervous everyone is.

I’m not a teacher but most teachers I know seem pretty positive about this year. Generally wanting to go back and recognizing that in person school is the best for everyone, though there is some nervousness. It’s the parents who are trying to torpedo the openings at this point. A nervous parent just started a change.org petition to petition FCPS to bring back the “virtual option” for everyone who wants it until kids can be vaccinated. Aka “staff two school systems in the middle of a labor shortage in a state that is very friendly to homeschoolers.”

The bolded made me laugh so hard because it's so true.

One of the fake name people who hangs out on every FB post about school reopenings was like “I can’t homeschool my kid! What am I supposed to do??” Umm lady. You clearly spend all day on the Interwebs trolling about kids and schools and Covid. You should know by now that everything comes in waves with Covid and this wave will recede, just as all the other ones have. You had all summer to research homeschooling!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

Those are all administrators, I believe.

On Tuesday staff received an email that read:

As of Monday, August 2, all FCPS staff – both in offices and schools – are strongly encouraged to wear a mask at all times indoors:

FCPS is encouraging all staff who work in our offices to show solidarity with schools and wear your mask at all times when you are indoors – even if you are fully vaccinated.
We serve as role models for our students. This practice will help encourage them to follow the universal masking guidance at all times.
According to the CDC, there are instances of breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals. Although vaccinated individuals are not becoming severely ill, they are able to transmit the infection to others.
We are aware that the Delta variant is seeing transmission rates rise in our area, and we are encouraging all staff to do their part.

These meetings were held at West Springfield and I believe Woodson and all students were banned from the buildings during the meetings so that the administrators and SB could go maskless. No football, field hockey, band practices or any other student activity were cancelled. Way to put students first, just so you didn't have to wear a mask.

It does say “strongly encouraged” and not “must”. When teachers go into the school before students start, I hope they don’t catch any flack from their administrators if they decide to not mask during staff meetings.

Teacher

Nothing says “strongly encouraged” like pictures of Administrators crowded together without masks. Shouldn’t the “leaders” be setting the example?

I am not a fan of administrators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

Those are all administrators, I believe.

On Tuesday staff received an email that read:

As of Monday, August 2, all FCPS staff – both in offices and schools – are strongly encouraged to wear a mask at all times indoors:

FCPS is encouraging all staff who work in our offices to show solidarity with schools and wear your mask at all times when you are indoors – even if you are fully vaccinated.
We serve as role models for our students. This practice will help encourage them to follow the universal masking guidance at all times.
According to the CDC, there are instances of breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals. Although vaccinated individuals are not becoming severely ill, they are able to transmit the infection to others.
We are aware that the Delta variant is seeing transmission rates rise in our area, and we are encouraging all staff to do their part.

These meetings were held at West Springfield and I believe Woodson and all students were banned from the buildings during the meetings so that the administrators and SB could go maskless. No football, field hockey, band practices or any other student activity were cancelled. Way to put students first, just so you didn't have to wear a mask.

At the end of the day I don't care that these people were meeting indoors without masks. I assume most are vaccinated and people should be able to make their own decisions about how they chose to protect themselves.

But I mean JFC. LJC is supposed to be a politician and politicians are supposed to have a semi basic sense of messaging.

- Fairfax County advises all adults should wears masks indoors regardless of vaccine status, sure whatever

- FCPS requires masks for all despite vaccine status

- FCPS has a giant indoor meeting where none of the attendees are wearing masks, and then posts freaking pictures of it on social media

I mean come the F on. Just don't post the picture and no one would ever know or care.

Her lack of common sense alone is more then enough to trigger a recall. I honestly don't even know how she is able to dress herself in the morning let alone have oversite of one of the largest public school systems in the country.

So much this. Some of the SB members have about average intelligence, but not a lot of common sense. She and Fritsch are just dim bulbs.

I think they are pretty intelligent, but in an academic sense only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly the Region 4 leadership and Laura Jean Cohen are not nervous to be in a packed room in a school - unmasked even.

So looks like that's one bunch of people fully ready for a strong start on August 23.

Is she incapable of common sense?

I mean for crying out loud!!

looks like a bunch of teachers and school employees in person ready to start a school year in person. I'm not seeing the reason for outrage here

Those are all administrators, I believe.

On Tuesday staff received an email that read:

As of Monday, August 2, all FCPS staff – both in offices and schools – are strongly encouraged to wear a mask at all times indoors:

FCPS is encouraging all staff who work in our offices to show solidarity with schools and wear your mask at all times when you are indoors – even if you are fully vaccinated.
We serve as role models for our students. This practice will help encourage them to follow the universal masking guidance at all times.
According to the CDC, there are instances of breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals. Although vaccinated individuals are not becoming severely ill, they are able to transmit the infection to others.
We are aware that the Delta variant is seeing transmission rates rise in our area, and we are encouraging all staff to do their part.

These meetings were held at West Springfield and I believe Woodson and all students were banned from the buildings during the meetings so that the administrators and SB could go maskless. No football, field hockey, band practices or any other student activity were cancelled. Way to put students first, just so you didn't have to wear a mask.

At the end of the day I don't care that these people were meeting indoors without masks. I assume most are vaccinated and people should be able to make their own decisions about how they chose to protect themselves.

But I mean JFC. LJC is supposed to be a politician and politicians are supposed to have a semi basic sense of messaging.

- Fairfax County advises all adults should wears masks indoors regardless of vaccine status, sure whatever

- FCPS requires masks for all despite vaccine status

- FCPS has a giant indoor meeting where none of the attendees are wearing masks, and then posts freaking pictures of it on social media

I mean come the F on. Just don't post the picture and no one would ever know or care.

Her lack of common sense alone is more then enough to trigger a recall. I honestly don't even know how she is able to dress herself in the morning let alone have oversite of one of the largest public school systems in the country.

So much this. Some of the SB members have about average intelligence, but not a lot of common sense. She and Fritsch are just dim bulbs.

I think they are pretty intelligent, but in an academic sense only.

No. Intelligent in the academic sense only is like Melanie Maren. advanced degrees. Educational policy wonk. No common sense. Cohen and Fritsch just aren’t very smart.

[Anonymous]

Cases among children concerning since they aren't even back to school yet:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/08/04/covid-cases-among-children-jumped-84-last-week-here-are-the-states-where-hospitalizations-are-increasing/amp/