I’m getting nervous about school because of delta

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It means less people breathing in the same physical space. So the “ambient air” should be safer. It’s also easier for contact tracing.

I know it won’t happen, so we’re staying home.

I wish nothing but the best for the teachers and students that are heading back.

Logistically, that just means you want concurrent/hybrid, which isn't going to happen for a myriad of other reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m highly debating just pulling my ES child out and planning to homeschool the first quarter.

Unless I see a better plan to keep kids safe that are months(possibly weeks) away from being vaccinated, I’m not sending him.

Was your ES in school in spring?

Are you able to keep your ES kid in an environment with < 2% spread?

I hope that ES maintains the low transmission rate from the spring when there was distancing. Looking at what is happening in school districts in the south that mandate masks, I’m not confident. And FCPS’ plan is masks and vaccines. So for the ES kids, that’s just masks. And not social distancing while eating or snack.

The FDA is supposed to announce a plan for boosters next week.

They don’t really learn much the first quarter anyways. Hopefully I’m wrong and my kid will be able to rejoin school in October.

At this point, it’s not worth it for one

Fun fact: there was not actually much distancing in ES. Many teachers on here have confirmed this was true at multiple schools. It just wasn't possible.
-classroom monitor

I believe you.

However, schools were not full, many only had 30% of their normal population in person on any given day.

Where I was we were 60% full. Lunch was a cafeteria of 100 kids.

It's been a normal year that would be 300+ kids in that cafeteria.

That can't be right. That would mean our school only had 2 lunch periods. Maybe in HS?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m highly debating just pulling my ES child out and planning to homeschool the first quarter.

Unless I see a better plan to keep kids safe that are months(possibly weeks) away from being vaccinated, I’m not sending him.

Was your ES in school in spring?

Are you able to keep your ES kid in an environment with < 2% spread?

I hope that ES maintains the low transmission rate from the spring when there was distancing. Looking at what is happening in school districts in the south that mandate masks, I’m not confident. And FCPS’ plan is masks and vaccines. So for the ES kids, that’s just masks. And not social distancing while eating or snack.

The FDA is supposed to announce a plan for boosters next week.

They don’t really learn much the first quarter anyways. Hopefully I’m wrong and my kid will be able to rejoin school in October.

At this point, it’s not worth it for one

Fun fact: there was not actually much distancing in ES. Many teachers on here have confirmed this was true at multiple schools. It just wasn't possible.
-classroom monitor

I believe you.

However, schools were not full, many only had 30% of their normal population in person on any given day.

Where I was we were 60% full. Lunch was a cafeteria of 100 kids.

It's been a normal year that would be 300+ kids in that cafeteria.

That can't be right. That would mean our school only had 2 lunch periods. Maybe in HS?

100 is not 60% of 300+.

[Anonymous]

^^ our HS has about 2900 kids. So, over 800
Per lunch period even if they have 4 lunch periods.

[Anonymous]

OP, you are correct to be nervous.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html

The number of deaths in the US from Covid spiked 33% last week. The number of hospitalizations is up 46%. This is nation-wide and obviously our area is not experiencing this level. However, Fairfax is in the middle of a surge and it’s TBD what will happen in the coming weeks.

Amazon just announced that they are delaying requiring their executives to return to work until the start of next year.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m highly debating just pulling my ES child out and planning to homeschool the first quarter.

Unless I see a better plan to keep kids safe that are months(possibly weeks) away from being vaccinated, I’m not sending him.

Was your ES in school in spring?

Are you able to keep your ES kid in an environment with < 2% spread?

I hope that ES maintains the low transmission rate from the spring when there was distancing. Looking at what is happening in school districts in the south that mandate masks, I’m not confident. And FCPS’ plan is masks and vaccines. So for the ES kids, that’s just masks. And not social distancing while eating or snack.

The FDA is supposed to announce a plan for boosters next week.

They don’t really learn much the first quarter anyways. Hopefully I’m wrong and my kid will be able to rejoin school in October.

At this point, it’s not worth it for one

Fun fact: there was not actually much distancing in ES. Many teachers on here have confirmed this was true at multiple schools. It just wasn't possible.
-classroom monitor

I believe you.

However, schools were not full, many only had 30% of their normal population in person on any given day.

Where I was we were 60% full. Lunch was a cafeteria of 100 kids.

It's been a normal year that would be 300+ kids in that cafeteria.

That can't be right. That would mean our school only had 2 lunch periods. Maybe in HS?

I'm talking about elementary school that has a rolling lunch start times, So at any time if you walk into the cafeteria (pre-Covid), that's many people would be in the room.

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It means less people breathing in the same physical space. So the “ambient air” should be safer. It’s also easier for contact tracing.

I know it won’t happen, so we’re staying home.

I wish nothing but the best for the teachers and students that are heading back.

Logistically, that just means you want concurrent/hybrid, which isn't going to happen for a myriad of other reasons.

But she knows that's not going to happen, that's why she's keeping her kid at home.

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This generation is lucky to have avoided public school. It will be better educated by staying home and away from the confused and psychologically impaired school systems.

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We can’t loose another year. My kids didn’t learn anything last year as shown in their Iready scores.

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Anonymous wrote:This generation is lucky to have avoided public school. It will be better educated by staying home and away from the confused and psychologically impaired school systems.

Sure. Anything's possible. Kids could benefit from not being educated for 18 months+. Why not?

[Anonymous]

Utterly excellent article on why and how schools should be open this fall: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/opinion/schools-delta-reopening.html

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Anonymous wrote:This generation is lucky to have avoided public school. It will be better educated by staying home and away from the confused and psychologically impaired school systems.

Sure. Anything's possible. Kids could benefit from not being educated for 18 months+. Why not?

They can learn more and be safer from Sesame Street, discovery, nat geo, Fox business and YouTube math tutorials. It’s a great opportunity to rid our nation of the sloppy, chaotic and dangerous publics.

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Anonymous wrote:This generation is lucky to have avoided public school. It will be better educated by staying home and away from the confused and psychologically impaired school systems.

Sure. Anything's possible. Kids could benefit from not being educated for 18 months+. Why not?

They can learn more and be safer from Sesame Street, discovery, nat geo, Fox business and YouTube math tutorials. It’s a great opportunity to rid our nation of the sloppy, chaotic and dangerous publics.

But the kids aren't doing that...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This generation is lucky to have avoided public school. It will be better educated by staying home and away from the confused and psychologically impaired school systems.

Sure. Anything's possible. Kids could benefit from not being educated for 18 months+. Why not?

They can learn more and be safer from Sesame Street, discovery, nat geo, Fox business and YouTube math tutorials. It’s a great opportunity to rid our nation of the sloppy, chaotic and dangerous publics.

But the kids aren't doing that...

That’s the parents fault.

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Anonymous wrote:This generation is lucky to have avoided public school. It will be better educated by staying home and away from the confused and psychologically impaired school systems.

Sure. Anything's possible. Kids could benefit from not being educated for 18 months+. Why not?

They can learn more and be safer from Sesame Street, discovery, nat geo, Fox business and YouTube math tutorials. It’s a great opportunity to rid our nation of the sloppy, chaotic and dangerous publics.

But the kids aren't doing that...

That’s the parents fault.

What does that mean? The parents aren't school. School is school, that's where kids go to be at school.