FCPS Fall 2021 - Possible to Partner with Virtual Virginia?

[Anonymous]

Mitigation works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mitigation works.

What mitigation do you expect to work in a slowly moving crowd? Do you really expect a thin layer of material with holes many times the size of the virus to stop anything? Is it a new magic incantation, so repeating it will magically make it safe? Have you been to any of our high schools pre-covid and walked the halls during class changes? Did the hallways magically expand to allow 6-foot distancing or even 3-foot distancing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mitigation works.

What mitigation do you expect to work in a slowly moving crowd? Do you really expect a thin layer of material with holes many times the size of the virus to stop anything? Is it a new magic incantation, so repeating it will magically make it safe? Have you been to any of our high schools pre-covid and walked the halls during class changes? Did the hallways magically expand to allow 6-foot distancing or even 3-foot distancing?

Not sure what you’re asking for. Vaccines will be approved for 12-15 soon. If that’s not good enough and masks don’t make you comfortable, there’s Virtual Virginia. I doubt there’s any plans being made for a fully fleshed out a la carte online high school curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mitigation works.

What mitigation do you expect to work in a slowly moving crowd? Do you really expect a thin layer of material with holes many times the size of the virus to stop anything? Is it a new magic incantation, so repeating it will magically make it safe? Have you been to any of our high schools pre-covid and walked the halls during class changes? Did the hallways magically expand to allow 6-foot distancing or even 3-foot distancing?

Not sure what you’re asking for. Vaccines will be approved for 12-15 soon. If that’s not good enough and masks don’t make you comfortable, there’s Virtual Virginia. I doubt there’s any plans being made for a fully fleshed out a la carte online high school curriculum.

That’s the point. There is no guarantee that the vaccine will be approved in time for the 9th and 10th graders to have time to get them before the academic year starts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Virtual Virginia is free for FCPS students. Dirty little secret. No vouchers needed for a better education.

So basically it’s not about “in-person is the only thing that works” rather “I have a vendetta against my local school system.” Thanks for clarifying what we already suspected

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[Anonymous]

We'll have to see what happens at the next RTS meeting on May 3 @ 1:00 PM.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2CF7V3DC91B

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We'll have to see what happens at the next RTS meeting on May 3 @ 1:00 PM.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2CF7V3DC91B

Is this a change? I thought the next RTS meeting wasn't until June?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll have to see what happens at the next RTS meeting on May 3 @ 1:00 PM.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2CF7V3DC91B

Is this a change? I thought the next RTS meeting wasn't until June?

Yes, they wanted to meet earlier because they need to finalize the details for the virtual option. This way parents would know what they are signing up for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll have to see what happens at the next RTS meeting on May 3 @ 1:00 PM.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2CF7V3DC91B

Is this a change? I thought the next RTS meeting wasn't until June?

Yes, they wanted to meet earlier because they need to finalize the details for the virtual option. This way parents would know what they are signing up for.

That's too reasonable for this school system. I'm pleasantly surprised.

Of course they still have time to find a way to make the virtual option as bad for both virtual and in-person students and teachers as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mitigation works.

What mitigation do you expect to work in a slowly moving crowd? Do you really expect a thin layer of material with holes many times the size of the virus to stop anything? Is it a new magic incantation, so repeating it will magically make it safe? Have you been to any of our high schools pre-covid and walked the halls during class changes? Did the hallways magically expand to allow 6-foot distancing or even 3-foot distancing?

Not sure what you’re asking for. Vaccines will be approved for 12-15 soon. If that’s not good enough and masks don’t make you comfortable, there’s Virtual Virginia. I doubt there’s any plans being made for a fully fleshed out a la carte online high school curriculum.

That’s the point. There is no guarantee that the vaccine will be approved in time for the 9th and 10th graders to have time to get them before the academic year starts.

One of the vaccines has already put in for approval for the 12-15 year olds. I am not sure if they put it in for the fast emergency approval like the adult version. I would be shocked if it is not available in the next month or so. And there are news reports that we are starting to have areas where there is more vaccine then demand, mainly places where people are refusing the vaccine but still, there is enough vaccine that they can start to vaccinate the 12-15 crowd when the vaccine is available.

DS uses a mask that allows us to add a filter to it so that the gaps are far smaller than the ones in the mask on its own. There are masks available that are more protective then the cloth mask and paper masks that people are using. You have options. And there is Virtual Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll have to see what happens at the next RTS meeting on May 3 @ 1:00 PM.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2CF7V3DC91B

Is this a change? I thought the next RTS meeting wasn't until June?

Yes, they wanted to meet earlier because they need to finalize the details for the virtual option. This way parents would know what they are signing up for.

FCPS moved RTS to the Board Work Session on Tuesday, May 4, right after Budget.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2JF953DFA06

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll have to see what happens at the next RTS meeting on May 3 @ 1:00 PM.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2CF7V3DC91B

Is this a change? I thought the next RTS meeting wasn't until June?

Yes, they wanted to meet earlier because they need to finalize the details for the virtual option. This way parents would know what they are signing up for.

That's too reasonable for this school system. I'm pleasantly surprised.

Of course they still have time to find a way to make the virtual option as bad for both virtual and in-person students and teachers as possible.

They did figure it out. The virtual option that will be presented at the board meeting next week has the full backing of principals and the teacher associations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll have to see what happens at the next RTS meeting on May 3 @ 1:00 PM.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2CF7V3DC91B

Is this a change? I thought the next RTS meeting wasn't until June?

Yes, they wanted to meet earlier because they need to finalize the details for the virtual option. This way parents would know what they are signing up for.

That's too reasonable for this school system. I'm pleasantly surprised.

Of course they still have time to find a way to make the virtual option as bad for both virtual and in-person students and teachers as possible.

They did figure it out. The virtual option that will be presented at the board meeting next week has the full backing of principals and the teacher associations.

Any more info? All I want to know is that it's not disruptive to RTS.

[Anonymous]

FCPS is going to need to change quarantine requirements for exposed students too young to receive a vaccine before the fall if they truly want to eliminate concurrent. Currently, the FCHD is requiring 14 days from the date of exposure for masked classroom exposure. CDC guidance offers options for reducing that FCHD will not allow for purposes of attending school. Eliminate quarantines, implement rapid testing, do things many areas across the country have successfully done this year. Elementary students shouldn't be kept out of classrooms because of where they happened to sit when another student gets COVID.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We'll have to see what happens at the next RTS meeting on May 3 @ 1:00 PM.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2CF7V3DC91B

Is this a change? I thought the next RTS meeting wasn't until June?

Yes, they wanted to meet earlier because they need to finalize the details for the virtual option. This way parents would know what they are signing up for.

That's too reasonable for this school system. I'm pleasantly surprised.

Of course they still have time to find a way to make the virtual option as bad for both virtual and in-person students and teachers as possible.

They did figure it out. The virtual option that will be presented at the board meeting next week has the full backing of principals and the teacher associations.

Any more info? All I want to know is that it's not disruptive to RTS.

Agree with the question on more info. That proposal sounds like FCPS online campus expanded, if it got backing from the associations. No board docs for May 4 yet; looking forward to seeing what they plan and hoping for no concurrent. My kids have been and will be in-person.