APS: are there enough teachers willing to staff a hybrid model later this year?

[Anonymous]

Are there enough teachers willing to staff a hybrid model later this year? Is DL all year the only option? Why do the town hall meetings still reference preparations for the hybrid model later this fall?

[Anonymous]

Not right now, but maybe it will change if this gets under control.

[Anonymous]

From Dr Duran:

2,523 teachers completed the survey, which asked: “Given APS implementation of the health and safety measures outlined by VDOE and VDH, what is your preference for returning and working with students?”
55% (1,396) of respondents prefer to support full-time distance instruction
33% (836) of respondents prefer to support in-person instruction
11% (276) of respondents do not have a preference
.56% (15) of respondents do not plan to return to work and either intend to request a leave of absence or to retire or resign

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not right now, but maybe it will change if this gets under control.

This. Several of my colleagues want to return, we just didn't feel like we had enough information about safety protocols at the time of the survey.

[Anonymous]

We have to wait and see. Parents may change their preferences which will have an impact.

[Anonymous]

Teacher here and none of my colleagues feel that we have enough information to make an informed decision one way or another. I'm not okay with just going back on a wish and prayer, but if there were strict sick child policies, guarantees of contact tracing and isolation of close contacts of positive cases, an enforceable mask policy, and the provision of cleaning supplies then I would want to go back. Because they can't tell us how or if they will implement these common sense measures, my answers is no.

[Anonymous]

Once they see how much work DL is and how up in their business parents are, more than 44% will be open to in person! Parents expect a lot this year, so I pity the teacher who thinks this will be like the spring.

[Anonymous]

Parents in this very forum have admitted that they chose hybrid even though they plan to stick with virtual, in the hopes of getting an APS teacher at their home school. The apparent disparity between teacher and family preference is really going to muck things up. I don’t know when they are planning to close that second choice “window,” but I hope it’s sooner rather than later.