I’m getting nervous about school because of delta

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

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In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

They can and they might, but in the spring teachers gave up their lunch break to monitor students. I was fine with it for a few months with a handful of kids, but I’m not okay with that being the plan for the whole year.

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[Anonymous]

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

Did you not bother to teach them anything yourself? It's not just the school's responsibility.

And... Quite a few students do not take iReady seriously.

Are we supposed to take the results seriously? The students take it and I don't do anything else with iReady or the scores other than go back to see who needs the DRA (based on percentile) or needs to take it again the next round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

They can and they might, but in the spring teachers gave up their lunch break to monitor students. I was fine with it for a few months with a handful of kids, but I’m not okay with that being the plan for the whole year.

Tough titty said the kitty when the milk ran dry.

You’re a parent? If so, I feel bad for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

They can and they might, but in the spring teachers gave up their lunch break to monitor students. I was fine with it for a few months with a handful of kids, but I’m not okay with that being the plan for the whole year.

Tough titty said the kitty when the milk ran dry.

Actually no. Our contracts do protect that.

[Anonymous]

a report by two Duke University scientists who reviewed data from March through June 2021 in 100 school districts and 14 charter schools in North Carolina found that wearing masks effectively prevented the transmission of the virus in schools and on buses even without physical distancing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

They can and they might, but in the spring teachers gave up their lunch break to monitor students. I was fine with it for a few months with a handful of kids, but I’m not okay with that being the plan for the whole year.

Tough titty said the kitty when the milk ran dry.

LOL - teachers are allowed to take a lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a report by two Duke University scientists who reviewed data from March through June 2021 in 100 school districts and 14 charter schools in North Carolina found that wearing masks effectively prevented the transmission of the virus in schools and on buses even without physical distancing.

Good, because there won't be social distancing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a report by two Duke University scientists who reviewed data from March through June 2021 in 100 school districts and 14 charter schools in North Carolina found that wearing masks effectively prevented the transmission of the virus in schools and on buses even without physical distancing.

That report was very reassuring but it was done before Delta. It doesn’t really apply anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:a report by two Duke University scientists who reviewed data from March through June 2021 in 100 school districts and 14 charter schools in North Carolina found that wearing masks effectively prevented the transmission of the virus in schools and on buses even without physical distancing.

That report was very reassuring but it was done before Delta. It doesn’t really apply anymore.

Why not? This report is just a few months old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a report by two Duke University scientists who reviewed data from March through June 2021 in 100 school districts and 14 charter schools in North Carolina found that wearing masks effectively prevented the transmission of the virus in schools and on buses even without physical distancing.

That report was very reassuring but it was done before Delta. It doesn’t really apply anymore.

Why not? This report is just a few months old.

NP - reread the bolded part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:a report by two Duke University scientists who reviewed data from March through June 2021 in 100 school districts and 14 charter schools in North Carolina found that wearing masks effectively prevented the transmission of the virus in schools and on buses even without physical distancing.

That report was very reassuring but it was done before Delta. It doesn’t really apply anymore.

Why not? This report is just a few months old.

NP. Have you been under a rock? DELTA! It has changed everything.
I was looking forward to sending my kid in -person. Now, I am hoping they will delay or give virtual option for ES unvaccinated kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Did you not bother to teach them anything yourself? It's not just the school's responsibility.

And... Quite a few students do not take iReady seriously.

Are we supposed to take the results seriously? The students take it and I don't do anything else with iReady or the scores other than go back to see who needs the DRA (based on percentile) or needs to take it again the next round.

It seems like a big waste of time and happens three times a year. One year the students scored better on the first round of Iready and scored worse at the end of the year. This shows it's not working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Did you not bother to teach them anything yourself? It's not just the school's responsibility.

And... Quite a few students do not take iReady seriously.

Are we supposed to take the results seriously? The students take it and I don't do anything else with iReady or the scores other than go back to see who needs the DRA (based on percentile) or needs to take it again the next round.

It seems like a big waste of time and happens three times a year. One year the students scored better on the first round of Iready and scored worse at the end of the year. This shows it's not working.

Or the students have given up which we see a lot of teachers during this diagnostic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was looking forward to sending my kid in -person. Now, I am hoping they will delay or give virtual option for ES unvaccinated kids.

Agree. Lunch in the cafeteria with 200+ unvaccinated little kids is NOT safe, and it's unbelievable that schools haven't come up with alternative plans: lunch outside? lunch in the classroom with a volunteer monitor? I didn't trust the school to keep the kids safe before (700 kids + a highly contagious virus), and now I *really* don't.

I would LOVE it if they would delay opening (August 23 is absurdly early anyway) until delta has subsided ("two more weeks"? ) or offer virtual temporarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was looking forward to sending my kid in -person. Now, I am hoping they will delay or give virtual option for ES unvaccinated kids.

Agree. Lunch in the cafeteria with 200+ unvaccinated little kids is NOT safe, and it's unbelievable that schools haven't come up with alternative plans: lunch outside? lunch in the classroom with a volunteer monitor? I didn't trust the school to keep the kids safe before (700 kids + a highly contagious virus), and now I *really* don't.

I would LOVE it if they would delay opening (August 23 is absurdly early anyway) until delta has subsided ("two more weeks"? ) or offer virtual temporarily.

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