How are PK3-4 parents feeling about distance learning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused as as to what people are talking about in the previous three to four posts. Why is today's announcement "devastating"? To my understanding, pre-K in person will take place two days a week either Monday and Tuesday for group a and Thursday and Friday for group b. Is this not correct? I'd rather have some in person Pre-K then nothing at all.

Yes, that’s the case if school goes back in person at all. However, it seems there is greater than a 95% chance that school will not go back in person and will instead go 100% DL, at least to start. In that case, there is no PK, other than packets being sent home for you to work on with your child. No in-person and no online lessons.

Sigh.

[Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/amanduhgomez/status/1284136463945302018?s=21

[Anonymous]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-16/childhood-covid-19-infections-mount-with-schools-eyeing-openings?utm_source=url_link

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/amanduhgomez/status/1284136463945302018?s=21

I'm confused as to why you keep posting this link and the one to the Bloomberg article on on the DC school forums. Is your point that cases are going up in DC so everyone should stop talking about or worrying about schools? I don't get it. A lot of us track these numbers very closely as well, and support decisions to close schools to curb spread. But as of right now, we don't know if the case rate ticking up is going to lead to another big spike in cases or not. People are doing less social distancing but are wearing masks much more -- no one is sure what impact that's going to have on the case load.

In any case, the concerning increase in cases doesn't mean we should all give up on school. We aren't even scheduled to start school for another five weeks -- that's plenty of time to get things under control and create a flexible plan for schools.

Just not sure what the point is of posting these links with no context, as though that's the end of the conversation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/amanduhgomez/status/1284136463945302018?s=21

I'm confused as to why you keep posting this link and the one to the Bloomberg article on on the DC school forums. Is your point that cases are going up in DC so everyone should stop talking about or worrying about schools? I don't get it. A lot of us track these numbers very closely as well, and support decisions to close schools to curb spread. But as of right now, we don't know if the case rate ticking up is going to lead to another big spike in cases or not. People are doing less social distancing but are wearing masks much more -- no one is sure what impact that's going to have on the case load.

In any case, the concerning increase in cases doesn't mean we should all give up on school. We aren't even scheduled to start school for another five weeks -- that's plenty of time to get things under control and create a flexible plan for schools.

Just not sure what the point is of posting these links with no context, as though that's the end of the conversation.

I actually don’t think many people pay attention to the numbers. I think you are in the minority. Maybe people are so consumed with getting their kids into a school building no matter what that they are no longer looking at anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/amanduhgomez/status/1284136463945302018?s=21

I'm confused as to why you keep posting this link and the one to the Bloomberg article on on the DC school forums. Is your point that cases are going up in DC so everyone should stop talking about or worrying about schools? I don't get it. A lot of us track these numbers very closely as well, and support decisions to close schools to curb spread. But as of right now, we don't know if the case rate ticking up is going to lead to another big spike in cases or not. People are doing less social distancing but are wearing masks much more -- no one is sure what impact that's going to have on the case load.

In any case, the concerning increase in cases doesn't mean we should all give up on school. We aren't even scheduled to start school for another five weeks -- that's plenty of time to get things under control and create a flexible plan for schools.

Just not sure what the point is of posting these links with no context, as though that's the end of the conversation.

I actually don’t think many people pay attention to the numbers. I think you are in the minority. Maybe people are so consumed with getting their kids into a school building no matter what that they are no longer looking at anything.

There are those "in-person or bust" parents. The trend is going up and I don't think people are changing their behaviors now. They will continue to do whatever it is they've been doing, which means, since right now the spread is above 1 (meaning 1 person will spread it to more than 1 person) the trend will continue to rise. 5 weeks from now children will not be going to school in-person. For those parents who have no other options, I'm sorry. I really am.