I’m getting nervous about school because of delta

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Anonymous wrote:No way in hell do I want more delays. Our kids have paid a heavy price during this pandemic. If you're that concerned about your child, pull them out. You can homeschool or sign up for Virtual Virginia.

Sounds like Florida might be a better fit for you.

You realize you might actually be in the minority here? Distance learning was an unmitigated disaster last year for young kids, especially poor and underprivileged. Closing again is not an option. But sure tell people to go to Florida while you sit in your super privileged life

+1. My special needs kiddo STRUGGLED with virtual learning. No way do I want him to go through that again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is happening in LA

https://twitter.com/davidbegnaud/status/1424562691021053953?s=21

That is terrible. Those poor kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No way in hell do I want more delays. Our kids have paid a heavy price during this pandemic. If you're that concerned about your child, pull them out. You can homeschool or sign up for Virtual Virginia.

Sounds like Florida might be a better fit for you.

You realize you might actually be in the minority here? Distance learning was an unmitigated disaster last year for young kids, especially poor and underprivileged. Closing again is not an option. But sure tell people to go to Florida while you sit in your super privileged life

I don’t see anything about closing in that post, but some of y’all clearly agree with the FL Gov that mask mandates should equal defunding. So talk to us some more about privilege, please.

? The PP said nothing about masks.

The Florida dig was a big swing and a miss. PP, just accept the 'L'.

It was apt. Precisely the mentality that got us here. Intubating people who are wearing "Don't Fauci my Florida" t-shirts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is happening in LA

https://twitter.com/davidbegnaud/status/1424562691021053953?s=21

That is terrible. Those poor kids.

Kids in the south are at immense risk. I’m scared for them. Few of their extended families are vaccinated, few of them mask, and they have no protection. It is horrific.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No way in hell do I want more delays. Our kids have paid a heavy price during this pandemic. If you're that concerned about your child, pull them out. You can homeschool or sign up for Virtual Virginia.

Sounds like Florida might be a better fit for you.

You realize you might actually be in the minority here? Distance learning was an unmitigated disaster last year for young kids, especially poor and underprivileged. Closing again is not an option. But sure tell people to go to Florida while you sit in your super privileged life

I don’t see anything about closing in that post, but some of y’all clearly agree with the FL Gov that mask mandates should equal defunding. So talk to us some more about privilege, please.

Oh please. The tired trope that anyone who doesn't want to stay locked in their basement (relying on delivery people to take risks for them) is a nutty Trump supporter is just so ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1

+2 for ES delay.
MS and HS with vaccinated kids should open on time.

Are you kidding? If the pattern looks like last year, now is the time that this area has relatively lower cases and we need to take advantage of it. What if we delay now only to find much higher case numbers in late fall and winter?

[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.

Then why do we even have school?

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1

+2 for ES delay.
MS and HS with vaccinated kids should open on time.

Are you kidding? If the pattern looks like last year, now is the time that this area has relatively lower cases and we need to take advantage of it. What if we delay now only to find much higher case numbers in late fall and winter?

There is not going to be a delay. There is literally a state mandate to open 5 days a week.

-teacher

[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.

Then why do we even have school?

Ma’am. Schools don’t teach kids everything and if they teach something your kid doesn’t get you the parent are supposed to help with that. Did the hospital not tell you that before you left with your kids?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No way in hell do I want more delays. Our kids have paid a heavy price during this pandemic. If you're that concerned about your child, pull them out. You can homeschool or sign up for Virtual Virginia.

Sounds like Florida might be a better fit for you.

You realize you might actually be in the minority here? Distance learning was an unmitigated disaster last year for young kids, especially poor and underprivileged. Closing again is not an option. But sure tell people to go to Florida while you sit in your super privileged life

I don’t see anything about closing in that post, but some of y’all clearly agree with the FL Gov that mask mandates should equal defunding. So talk to us some more about privilege, please.

? The PP said nothing about masks.

The Florida dig was a big swing and a miss. PP, just accept the 'L'.

It was apt. Precisely the mentality that got us here. Intubating people who are wearing "Don't Fauci my Florida" t-shirts.

You're doubling down on a failed post.

[Anonymous]

Last year, the hybrid reopening families were to to suck it up. This year, they are catering to open. So seriously— suck it up, don’t send your kid, homeschool. State law says we opening. We’re opening.

[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.

+100

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

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

[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.

+100

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

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year, the hybrid reopening families were to to suck it up. This year, they are catering to open. So seriously— suck it up, don’t send your kid, homeschool. State law says we opening. We’re opening.

There's no way to do full mitigation strategies (especially distancing in the cafeteria) and 5 days a week. It is literally one or the other.

[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.

+100

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

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

Nope.

Yeah that’s not how this works. School districts have to have a legitimate plan that isn’t “well if teachers don’t let us violate their contracts we will saddle everyone with ineffective learning.”