Anyone else think schools will be virtual after Winter Break?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PG County just announced they are going all virtual until the middle of January.

Watch the dominoes start to fall.

Pathetic.

Why would private schools follow a low performing public school district in continuing a form of education that has been proven to be ineffective and harmful to the well being of children?

In addition to a vaccine mandate, our school is conducting surveillance testing of all students before school starts, as it did in the fall and will continue surveillance testing throughout the remainder of the year.

While virtual is certainly a possibility, it is the last resort and not the first.

Well masking isn't exactly the best thing for children, but we're still doubling down on that particular bit of Kabuki theater.

I don't disagree with you about your assessment of PG County Schools, but it's certainly true that part of the metro area is heavy with COVID. Some clusters in MoCo too (Bladensburg cluster has TONS of kids in quarantine right now).

You may be right, and perhaps they won't follow suit, but once the Omicron wave hits the USA in January, I suspect we'll be back in Lockdown City for a while.

My feeling is that people have been successfully primed to act like Chicken Little.

Time will tell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe. My kid's class in a HRCS had a breakthrough case in a fully vaccinated student today.

There is a lot of that. The vaccines aren’t stopping people from getting sick

Vaccinated people are getting a cold, tops, unless there is a major other issue. Infected is more accurate than sick. Let's calm down. Many physicians are saying don't freak out about omicron.

The news moves quickly on Omicron, and you need to keep up. We thought it was mild, but now there's a study of patients in UK hospitals that shows it might actually be as virulent as Delta. It's just a preliminary study, but the point is... don't think this is all a big deal for nothing.

The study was based on 24 people. 24 PEOPLE IN THE HOSPTIAL! Why? Because they don't have enough hospital admissions in the UK to do a larger study. Interesting...

I watched the BBC news yesterday and the doctors were saying that they will not be able to tell how serious Omicron is until the week between Christmas and New Year at the earliest with the best indication the first week of January. Omicron is so new there and it takes 7-10 days before patients are typically sick enough to be hospitalized. Nobody really knows yet.

And the US news media picks it's up and runs with it like it's gospel (and the end of the world).

The study is complete and total garbage. Shouldn't even be in the news.

[Anonymous]

We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

We’ve been in the office since 09/2020 so I think it’s generous if people are still home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

We’ve been in the office since 09/2020 so I think it’s generous if people are still home.

I think it depends on the industry. The bigger technogy companies are all still WFH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

Dream on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

We’ve been in the office since 09/2020 so I think it’s generous if people are still home.

You know people are still working even though they aren’t necessarily in the same physical building? We’ve figure out how to do that 20 months into this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll be virtual one way or another. Schools will either make the tough call or kids and their classes will be on a rotating cycle of quarantines.

Meanwhile companies are all still out their touting their January returns to the office. What a ride 2022 is setting up to be.

We’ve been in the office since 09/2020 so I think it’s generous if people are still home.

Are you in a field that requires on-site equipment or interacting with people (like a doctor? that you could not do from home? If not, sorry your workplace values the performative in-office butts in seats over public health.

[Anonymous]

Yep, close the schools and keep restaurants and bars open. This will probably happen again—even after virtually everyone agreed it was a horrible move the first time. If our private goes virtual (I.e. the “no learning” model), we will be looking elsewhere next year, potentially geographically.

[Anonymous]

if our DC's big three goes back to virtual we are going to be protesting in front of the school and in the media, along with a lot of other parents. virtual way worse for the kids than in person with omicron. the problem will likely be at our school, as it was last year, that the teachers who actually run the school will refuse to come in person again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, close the schools and keep restaurants and bars open. This will probably happen again—even after virtually everyone agreed it was a horrible move the first time. If our private goes virtual (I.e. the “no learning” model), we will be looking elsewhere next year, potentially geographically.

We moved last year to a red state although we’re in a purple area. There is no chance we go back to virtual. We’re in a private school but even the public schools have had absolutely no talk of virtual. We’ve been hovering around 3,000 cases a day for months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if our DC's big three goes back to virtual we are going to be protesting in front of the school and in the media, along with a lot of other parents. virtual way worse for the kids than in person with omicron. the problem will likely be at our school, as it was last year, that the teachers who actually run the school will refuse to come in person again.

yikes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if our DC's big three goes back to virtual we are going to be protesting in front of the school and in the media, along with a lot of other parents. virtual way worse for the kids than in person with omicron. the problem will likely be at our school, as it was last year, that the teachers who actually run the school will refuse to come in person again.

Yes this is what I'm hearing from parents. The kids need to be put first now. We had a year of them taking the backseat. They need to be the priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if our DC's big three goes back to virtual we are going to be protesting in front of the school and in the media, along with a lot of other parents. virtual way worse for the kids than in person with omicron. the problem will likely be at our school, as it was last year, that the teachers who actually run the school will refuse to come in person again.

Yes this is what I'm hearing from parents. The kids need to be put first now. We had a year of them taking the backseat. They need to be the priority.

[Anonymous]

Let’s just ignore the fact we are in a pandemic ….