The Glebe principal is considering concurrent for 2nd grade. But no final decision yet as of the PTA meeting last week. |
We'd have 20% more in person capacity if teachers went back to teaching 5 days a week. |
For those of us that don’t have the luxury of choosing hybrid bc of family member medical conditions, I’m sure We would be thrilled if hybrid/open schools now parents would be willing to take that risk. That being said, I 💯 percent understand if they wouldn’t want to. With the new variant, cases surging and lunch is inside classroom, no way. |
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For classes that can't be spaced at 6' distance, you can safely increase the class size by increasing ventilation and using HEPA filters. |
Yes this. I'd like to see the rooms packed with air filters. Granted they are loud so you may need to mic up the teachers, which could actually benefit the DL kids too. |
Lolllol! This, exactly! |
In the concurrent model, families that chose hybrid that really didn’t intend on sending their kids (if cases were this high) are able to keep them home Since their teacher will be available online to them every day. The same parents have ability to then to send their kids and whenever they feel it is safer since they already taken a “spot” in hybrid. MS parents had already wised up to this. |
I guess that is a plus, but the question is what are we sending them back to? It sounds worse than the status quo (which is not good). |
It gets the teachers back in, but the hybrid/virtual option still exists for kids and they've decided not to re-divide them into hybrid and virtual homerooms but to put all kids together. It's a non-starter to just have an aide "monitor for questions". That's exactly the way to marginalize kids not in the room rather than having a single integrated class of kids. |
LOL at your suggestions to pay assistants more to get more hired or give teachers microphones etc. THERES NO MONEY for any of this. Not enough HEPA filtration either. |
I feel like this model may allow for more teacher exceptions to work virtually as there could be assistants and extended day staff in the classrooms to monitor the hybrid learners. There is no reason to now force the teachers back into the classrooms. |
So we care about teachers but don’t give two 💩about the assistants or extend a day staff? Oh my. |
OMG .. seriously? This is obviously a teacher who wants to remain remote. |
There are many many fewer people authorized virtual. I am an APS teacher and many educators are discussing this on our private discussion group. Not a single person so far has said they were authorized this time around. No one who is pregnant, breastfeeding, has an at risk family member in their home. |