Will fall 2021 mean full IP classes?

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Anonymous wrote:coronavirus numbers are already plummeting. the positivity rate in dc right now is 2.8 percent. that's very low, by any standard.

by labor day, when much of the population will be vaccinated, the coronavirus numbers here are going to be tiny.

we'll be back in school full time, easily. it won't be a close call.

This. Everyone adult who wants a vaccine will be able to get one by spring or early summer. Once that happens, everyone who wants to be protected will be. Kids don't need to be vaccinated given their low risk of illness. Schools will open full time everywhere.

I work in outpatient healthcare (that's been functioning via telemedicine) and this is their policy. Everyone who wants to be vaccinated will have been able to complete the two shots by mid March. If you choose not to, that's on you and you can wear an N95 mask (provided by and and fit tested by the company). But you are required to report in-person. Telework is over.

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Anonymous wrote:The ONLY way to reopen for full IPL is having the restrictions lifted off of the number of students allowed per in person class. It is currently at 11 for most grade levels (a little less for PreK/K). If the CDC revises this guidance (which I imagine they will with Biden's good pickup of vaccination rollout, including teachers). That would reduce community transmission.

Face masks will still be required, but I think some level of herd immunity could occur by after Labor Day 2021.

But why is herd immunity the bar to cross, when masked kids do not transmit between each other easily, and we'll have most vulnerable adults and teachers vaccinated soon?

We don't know what the real risks are with the new covid mutations.

Keep your kids at home for the next 2-5 years. I wish you luck in maintaining a career if you have one.

Ah, so that's one of the reasons why UC and UMC who can technically telework and can technically deal with distance learning are so desperate to take this much risk. Careers!

I, for one, will not be able to telework indefinitely. Time is running out for that. I can see being forced to go into the office before there is full in-person school.

I’m a teacher and I can’t telework at all. So I guess you should line up child care....that’s what I’ve been told

What do you call "remote teaching" if not teleworking?

I’m not remote teaching. I’m in person 4.5 days a week.

Where? I can understand that if you started to work here in DC *this week*. But why wouldn’t your kid/s be in school for in-person learning? I thought teachers’ kids were prioritized for in-person seats, but I could be wrong.

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But also: yeah if I have to go back in the office and my kid isn’t in school full time in person, then I will get child care.

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Anonymous wrote:coronavirus numbers are already plummeting. the positivity rate in dc right now is 2.8 percent. that's very low, by any standard.

by labor day, when much of the population will be vaccinated, the coronavirus numbers here are going to be tiny.

we'll be back in school full time, easily. it won't be a close call.

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Anonymous wrote:coronavirus numbers are already plummeting. the positivity rate in dc right now is 2.8 percent. that's very low, by any standard.

by labor day, when much of the population will be vaccinated, the coronavirus numbers here are going to be tiny.

we'll be back in school full time, easily. it won't be a close call.

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Agree.
We'll be back full time.

Mark my post and come back to it in August.

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Anonymous wrote:coronavirus numbers are already plummeting. the positivity rate in dc right now is 2.8 percent. that's very low, by any standard.

by labor day, when much of the population will be vaccinated, the coronavirus numbers here are going to be tiny.

we'll be back in school full time, easily. it won't be a close call.

You haven't been watching the mayor and the chancellor and many principals cave over the past few months, have you? Or, you're at a school that actually reopened and you had your kids return this week. Some of us are at DCPS that are not so lucky. So forgive me if watching our teachers complain for months and say it's not safe and say they aren't returning and now demanding pediatric vaccines has me convinced my kid is not stepping foot in her elementary school full time in the fall.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:coronavirus numbers are already plummeting. the positivity rate in dc right now is 2.8 percent. that's very low, by any standard.

by labor day, when much of the population will be vaccinated, the coronavirus numbers here are going to be tiny.

we'll be back in school full time, easily. it won't be a close call.

You haven't been watching the mayor and the chancellor and many principals cave over the past few months, have you? Or, you're at a school that actually reopened and you had your kids return this week. Some of us are at DCPS that are not so lucky. So forgive me if watching our teachers complain for months and say it's not safe and say they aren't returning and now demanding pediatric vaccines has me convinced my kid is not stepping foot in her elementary school full time in the fall.

There is not going to be a pediatric vaccine for YEARS. I work in the field. This will not be expedited like the adult version was.

If we're waiting for a vaccine, we won't have kids in school until possibly 2023-2024.
That's not going to happen.

Teachers may be blowing smoke about this now but it's not reality. We're not going to virtually educate kids in DC (and by default NOT educate most of the poor kids) for 4 straight years.

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Anonymous wrote:If ya'll wanna NOT send your kids to school, fine. I don't care. But PUBLIC school needs to reopen. I know I am not the only parent who would commit to fundraising as much as possible for the teachers at my school to have as much PPE and face shields as they like despite the fact that it's the governments responsibility. When people look back upon the school closures during this pandemic, it will be judged harshly and will be viewed as an epic failure.
The teachers are about to get vaccinated. Any of them who refuse the vaccine will no longer have ground to stand on. I started out supporting the WTU earlier, and I don't think central office or Ferebee is transparent or great or frankly that capable to begin with. But now, I am done. Get vaccinated and get the ^&( back to work or find a new job.

Acting ghetto won’t get you want you want.

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You can mark my post, Unless adults in DC and surrounding areas are vaccinated we will not have class at full capacity, which means some DL.
If anyone can be vaccinated by July I think there’s a high chance of full time school.

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Anonymous wrote:coronavirus numbers are already plummeting. the positivity rate in dc right now is 2.8 percent. that's very low, by any standard.

by labor day, when much of the population will be vaccinated, the coronavirus numbers here are going to be tiny.

we'll be back in school full time, easily. it won't be a close call.

You haven't been watching the mayor and the chancellor and many principals cave over the past few months, have you? Or, you're at a school that actually reopened and you had your kids return this week. Some of us are at DCPS that are not so lucky. So forgive me if watching our teachers complain for months and say it's not safe and say they aren't returning and now demanding pediatric vaccines has me convinced my kid is not stepping foot in her elementary school full time in the fall.

There is not going to be a pediatric vaccine for YEARS. I work in the field. This will not be expedited like the adult version was.

If we're waiting for a vaccine, we won't have kids in school until possibly 2023-2024.
That's not going to happen.

Teachers may be blowing smoke about this now but it's not reality. We're not going to virtually educate kids in DC (and by default NOT educate most of the poor kids) for 4 straight years.

I mean, I hope you’re right, but having seen the hysteria over this I’m uncertain. I can easily see WTU making sure we are at best hybrid for 4 years. And I can easily see certain mothers I know totally bask in the exuberance of their suffering bc they have to do DL for 4 years (all the while saying there’s no learning loss and hey people have lived through wars and still received educations!).

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Our charter had a call last night and said that they are limited by the health department and cdc for # of kids per classroom. Getting back to full time in person will depend first on health department guidance, then on staffing.

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Anonymous wrote:What needs to happen for kids to be able to go back to regular capacity classrooms? Is it just teachers being vaccinated? Herd immunity? I’m just wondering if we’ll have to deal with some form of hybrid in the fall at DCPS. I’ve given up on my kids returning IP for this academic year.

What needs to happen is the union needs to be disbanded. How anyone cannot see that the union is the obstacle to in person is beyond me.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids under 12 likely won't be vaccinated until 2023. We can't use this as the metric for returning.

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The people who think we can or should are truly off their rockers.

Those people are called "the teachers' union."

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Anonymous wrote:What needs to happen for kids to be able to go back to regular capacity classrooms? Is it just teachers being vaccinated? Herd immunity? I’m just wondering if we’ll have to deal with some form of hybrid in the fall at DCPS. I’ve given up on my kids returning IP for this academic year.

What needs to happen is the union needs to be disbanded. How anyone cannot see that the union is the obstacle to in person is beyond me.

Funny, I spent the morning watching kids walk to our IB for in person school, and haven't received so much as an email update from our HRCS.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm hoping for hybrid in Fall, 2021, and then maybe full IP in Fall, 2022. If by some miracle there's a pediatric vaccine by Winter, 2021. Otherwise I'd imagine we will be in hybrid until 2023? Whenever there's a pediatric vaccine.

Note: I don't think that's scientifically the right thing. I think that's what the DMV teachers' unions will allow.

Then the DMV teachers unions need to be busted. At some point we need to start following the science and doing right by the kids, like the rest of the world.

+1. Really tired of this. And tired that somehow it’s ok to some schools and teachers are just fine but at our school, only one class is opening because teachers there don’t follow science. Either it’s safe or it’s not. It should be a district-wide decision. But I guess like the rest of DCPS, where you live matters to how you are educated. Complete shame. Fire them all.

Would busting the union reopen charter schools too?

Seriously. Sat today watching DCPS kids at recess and wondering if we did the right thing by choosing our charter. Stuff it union-blamers. We all know who was open today and who was not.

The charters are just hiding behind the union.