Covid among APS students

[Anonymous]

2 families hardly seems like an outbreak?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 families hardly seems like an outbreak?

Right? I know two different families in my neighborhood, but their circles don't intersect and they caught it from different sources. That's not an outbreak.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:2 families hardly seems like an outbreak?

Right? I know two different families in my neighborhood, but their circles don't intersect and they caught it from different sources. That's not an outbreak.

The different sources gives me pause. Where?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 families hardly seems like an outbreak?

Right? I know two different families in my neighborhood, but their circles don't intersect and they caught it from different sources. That's not an outbreak.

The different sources gives me pause. Where?

I'm PP. One was a parent who is an essential worker in their industry and unfortunately brought it home. In the other, a family emergency caused an adult to travel. At some point in the course of the trip they contracted covid. Children do not attend the same schools, and in one of the homes the kids didn't even get sick.

[Anonymous]

Well, according to the dashboard, 55 ppl a day test positive which means we have more than that.

https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/coronavirus/covid-19-in-virginia-locality/

I was unable to search zips. I was going to do my zip and the zip that's next to mine.

[Anonymous]

Found the zip info.

https://data-dashboard.arlingtonva.us/covid

My zip and the next zip have different numbers but the same rate so I imagine there's a population diff between the 2...so rate is the better number.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s spreading.

Yeah; I think all of the kids in my immediate neighborhood have it right now so we've stopped going to playgrounds but do visit another family in another neighborhood for backyard play dates with masks. Maybe I've said this before but the older people around here now wear masks to walk to their cars and take walks around the neighborhood. In fairness one of the impacted families told the older people about the infections so that was nice.

What neighborhood? I still have yet to hear of one person with it. And I have 2 HS and one elem kid-they talk.

Do you mean in this chain? Or that you don't know anyone who has had it anywhere? If so, you are very fortunate. I don't know anyone in this area who had had it. However, I had two relatives in NY die in the early stages. Through work, I know multiple people from across the country who have had it.

[Anonymous]

I boy in my son's class was going to get tested today. He didn't sound good on the zoom call.

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Anonymous wrote:Most parents want DL anyway

Don't you have papers to grade?? No, most parents most certainly do not want DL.

Plenty on parents want hybrid bc their kids completely blow off DL. Any chance he gets, my nephew switches over to TV or his gaming console. My sister can’t watch him all the time and the teacher is not able to monitor because the camera goes off anytime they go into their math application or Google docs.

I do NOT understand this. Is this child 3 years old? If ES or older and he does this, *one* warning. The next time, the gaming console is mine, locked up or out of the house. Parental controls on the TV or, if needed, remove it. Parenting is hard. Parenting in a pandemic is harder, but for God's sake, people "want hybrid" because their kids play video games or watch TV?

PARENT THEM. CONSEQUENCES. SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

[Anonymous]

Could it be Rivendell families?

They do not require masks on the playground at recess. Kids are all over each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I boy in my son's class was going to get tested today. He didn't sound good on the zoom call.

Wonder if our child is in the same class? A classmate has been sick for two days and was getting tested Thursday afternoon.

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Anonymous wrote:Most parents want DL anyway

Don't you have papers to grade?? No, most parents most certainly do not want DL.

Plenty on parents want hybrid bc their kids completely blow off DL. Any chance he gets, my nephew switches over to TV or his gaming console. My sister can’t watch him all the time and the teacher is not able to monitor because the camera goes off anytime they go into their math application or Google docs.

I do NOT understand this. Is this child 3 years old? If ES or older and he does this, *one* warning. The next time, the gaming console is mine, locked up or out of the house. Parental controls on the TV or, if needed, remove it. Parenting is hard. Parenting in a pandemic is harder, but for God's sake, people "want hybrid" because their kids play video games or watch TV?

PARENT THEM. CONSEQUENCES. SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

I’m a teacher (on a break right now). I can absolutely monitor my students. If they go into their google doc I can see when they were on it and if they are working on it when I tell them to. If they aren’t I call them into a meeting and question them. If I tell them to work on dreambox or lexia and I see later they didn’t do it then I call them and question them and email their parents that the expectation is XYZ and their child is not doing it when they should and ask for their help to get student to complete work and be responsible. This has greatly helped cooperation. So while o can’t 100% see if a kid is doing everything during independent time, I can see pretty quickly if they don’t turn in work, log into programs, or show up. And I do contact parents quickly to say what’s going on, your kid hasn’t come back from lunch break etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most parents want DL anyway

Don't you have papers to grade?? No, most parents most certainly do not want DL.

Plenty on parents want hybrid bc their kids completely blow off DL. Any chance he gets, my nephew switches over to TV or his gaming console. My sister can’t watch him all the time and the teacher is not able to monitor because the camera goes off anytime they go into their math application or Google docs.

I do NOT understand this. Is this child 3 years old? If ES or older and he does this, *one* warning. The next time, the gaming console is mine, locked up or out of the house. Parental controls on the TV or, if needed, remove it. Parenting is hard. Parenting in a pandemic is harder, but for God's sake, people "want hybrid" because their kids play video games or watch TV?

PARENT THEM. CONSEQUENCES. SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

I’m a teacher (on a break right now). I can absolutely monitor my students. If they go into their google doc I can see when they were on it and if they are working on it when I tell them to. If they aren’t I call them into a meeting and question them. If I tell them to work on dreambox or lexia and I see later they didn’t do it then I call them and question them and email their parents that the expectation is XYZ and their child is not doing it when they should and ask for their help to get student to complete work and be responsible. This has greatly helped cooperation. So while o can’t 100% see if a kid is doing everything during independent time, I can see pretty quickly if they don’t turn in work, log into programs, or show up. And I do contact parents quickly to say what’s going on, your kid hasn’t come back from lunch break etc.

I'm sorry, but, this sounds so tone deaf for parents who work full time, or are essential employees working outside of the home. The pressure on parents to basically be teaching assistants or co-teachers is sky high and just not so easy for everyone to readily take on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (on a break right now). I can absolutely monitor my students. If they go into their google doc I can see when they were on it and if they are working on it when I tell them to. If they aren’t I call them into a meeting and question them. If I tell them to work on dreambox or lexia and I see later they didn’t do it then I call them and question them and email their parents that the expectation is XYZ and their child is not doing it when they should and ask for their help to get student to complete work and be responsible. This has greatly helped cooperation. So while o can’t 100% see if a kid is doing everything during independent time, I can see pretty quickly if they don’t turn in work, log into programs, or show up. And I do contact parents quickly to say what’s going on, your kid hasn’t come back from lunch break etc.

I'm sorry, but, this sounds so tone deaf for parents who work full time, or are essential employees working outside of the home. The pressure on parents to basically be teaching assistants or co-teachers is sky high and just not so easy for everyone to readily take on.

I'm the OP of the thread about how much time teachers should spend tracking down students during the school day. At what point does the PP just throw up her hands and move on then? This sucks for everyone, no question. Clearly this poster is doing her best, but the kids are at home so there's only so much she can do.

In my case this is a reason that my kids do not do school from their rooms. I'm getting my work done but can loosely keep an eye on them in the next room in a way that I couldn't if they were upstairs in their own rooms.

[Anonymous]

I have 23 kids. I try to track then down, but they know once they see my circle pop in their doc, I might not get back to them. If I spend all my time searching for work, I lose time to work 1 on 1. It’s frustrating bc I wouldn’t have these issues in person. I need multiple adult online to accomplish what I could do in person. The only reason I can respond right now is bc I am off at an appt right now.