Best Post I’ve Seen in a Month on DL/Hybrid Choice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate this post. My child has fairly severe disabilities. I cannot educate him or meet his needs at home. I feel that posts like this pretend that he and my family do not exist.

It made me feel like crap too, as I can't educate my son or meet his needs at home either. I feel like our kids are going to be left behind even more than they are now. And it makes me cry.

I"m another with a sN kid who I can't teach and fear for his futre.

[Anonymous]

Did you read how Fcps will “handle”it when there is a case?

1. If your kid gets the sniffles or fever, they get sent to the isolation room where kid will be possibly separated from other kids with covid symptoms by one of two plastic barriers sent to the school (or by nothing if they decided to put both plastic barriers in the school office). Doesn’t matter if it is allergies or whatever. This is isolation from healthy kids at school, not a room for one child. There might be 20 kids with sick symptoms on there. The county policy said the sick room can be monitored by any staff at school. Sounds like this includes the custodian.

2. They will begin to notify once they have a confirmed positive case beginning with people who spent more than 15minutes inside of 6ft. If you are thinking so and so got tested, the whole class goes into quarantine until you get results, think again. The kid sitting next to your kid 6ft away might have covid symptoms and miss school and you will never know because your kid was 6 ft away and 2, it somestimes takes 10 days to get covid results even now in July and it will be the 11th day later after Fcps finds out about it.

That’s the way policy is being laid out now. So glad we made up our mind to do DL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you read how Fcps will “handle”it when there is a case?

1. If your kid gets the sniffles or fever, they get sent to the isolation room where kid will be possibly separated from other kids with covid symptoms by one of two plastic barriers sent to the school (or by nothing if they decided to put both plastic barriers in the school office). Doesn’t matter if it is allergies or whatever. This is isolation from healthy kids at school, not a room for one child. There might be 20 kids with sick symptoms on there. The county policy said the sick room can be monitored by any staff at school. Sounds like this includes the custodian.

2. They will begin to notify once they have a confirmed positive case beginning with people who spent more than 15minutes inside of 6ft. If you are thinking so and so got tested, the whole class goes into quarantine until you get results, think again. The kid sitting next to your kid 6ft away might have covid symptoms and miss school and you will never know because your kid was 6 ft away and 2, it somestimes takes 10 days to get covid results even now in July and it will be the 11th day later after Fcps finds out about it.

That’s the way policy is being laid out now. So glad we made up our mind to do DL.

We were really on the fence. When they made it clear they may not notify the school community about a case due to privacy, we decided on DL. No idea how we will make it work, but I can’t believe how minimal the response protocols are.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know where this guy's .0016 number comes from? I googled and did not find that number anywhere. I'd like to find a source for that number.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

If you’re in this camp, and I acknowledge that many, many people are, I’m asking you to consider that number from a slightly different angle.

FCPS has 189,000 children. .0016 of that is 302. 302 dead children are the Calvary Hill you’re erecting your argument on. So, let’s agree to do this: stop presenting this as a data point. If this is your argument, I challenge you to have courage equal to your conviction. Go ahead, plant a flag on the internet and say, “Only 302 children will die.” No one will. That’s the kind action on social media that gets you fired from your job. And I trust our social media enclave isn’t so careless and irresponsible with life that it would even, for even a millisecond, enter any of your minds to make such an argument.

Considered another way: You’re presented with a bag with 189,000 $1 bills. You’re told that in the bag are 302 random bills, they look and feel just like all the others, but each one of those bills will kill you. Do you take the money out of the bag?

This doesn’t make sense to me. The death rate of 0.0016 is for those children who contract the virus, not of the total population. The author is saying that if all 189K students in FCPS contract COVID, 302 of them will die.

That’s not going to happen.

There have been 1,237 cases of COVID in children ages 0-17 in Fairfax County in the last 4 months. Zero of them have died.

.0016*1237 is just under 2. If you understand statistics, that's entirely consistent with his/her post, and the numbers we have are under confinement.

So if we have school, all of the 189,000 kids in FCPS will catch COVID-19 and die at a 0.0016 rate that he pulls out of the air. Yeah this is an honest argument. I definitely hope he picks the DL option for his kids because this is exactly the type of person who will blow things up in the fall. Unfortunately many of these people will still pick hybrid due to FOMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools will be closed a few weeks after they open. This is all so academic and I think deep down we all know it

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What does this mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate this post. My child has fairly severe disabilities. I cannot educate him or meet his needs at home. I feel that posts like this pretend that he and my family do not exist.

With all due respect, if you aren’t the parent of a child like yours you just don’t know. I’m
Not sure why you are taking offense. Clearly this post isn’t meant for students like yours

I think if more families opt for DL, that will create more space for children like yours, PP. I think OP’s points will lead more families (of neurotypical children) to choose DL.

No they won't. Most of the stuff he said makes no sense or is melodramatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS's decision flow chart makes clear that we should base our decisions on our family's health risks. So in-person should be the default.

On an unrelated note, can anyone point me to articles about high schoolers and their risk of contracting/spreading the virus? Everything talks about how low risk kids are but I doubt your average 16yo's body reacts like a kid's. Thank you in advance.

I'd like this info also, I'd think they would be more similar to young adults than say a five year old.

[Anonymous]

Painful read. All the "(deep breath) (eye roll)" melodrama...ugh. Fine, keep your kids home. They'll have been out of the classroom for 1.5 years before it's all said and done. That's just crazy to me unless the kids/family has underlying health conditions. I feel sorry for the kids who are the subject of this post.

[Anonymous]

Still waiting to find out where his .0016 number came from. Also, he's deleting negative comments and questions like mine about his stats from his Facebook page.

[Anonymous]

SURPRISE, SURPRISE JOE MORICE WORKS FOR THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-morice-5bb8472/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to find out where his .0016 number came from. Also, he's deleting negative comments and questions like mine about his stats from his Facebook page.

He put it out there so he should own it. Guy has zero credibility. It's not the "best post..." It's farce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DL option was meant to be for kids and families with medical need.
Teachers made a stink and DL was opened up to all.

Schools want families to prioritize making their choice based on health concerns. That’s why when they are asked how parents and kids should make the choice without knowing which classes are offered in which format, they say the decisions we make are based on what’s medically important for the family. The courses are not. They will make sure basics first graduation are there but that’s all.

If DL was the priority of FCPS they would have made sure all courses were available in that format, it’s not the priority. The priority is to get kids back in school because that’s the most effective teaching and educating system they have.

So all these multiple posts upon posts (by teachers) pushing for parents to choose DL goes completely against the actual goals of FCPS.

If FCPS wanted people to choose hybrid, they would be providing instruction on the “off” days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SURPRISE, SURPRISE JOE MORICE WORKS FOR THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-morice-5bb8472/

*pretends to be shocked*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DL option was meant to be for kids and families with medical need.
Teachers made a stink and DL was opened up to all.

Schools want families to prioritize making their choice based on health concerns. That’s why when they are asked how parents and kids should make the choice without knowing which classes are offered in which format, they say the decisions we make are based on what’s medically important for the family. The courses are not. They will make sure basics first graduation are there but that’s all.

If DL was the priority of FCPS they would have made sure all courses were available in that format, it’s not the priority. The priority is to get kids back in school because that’s the most effective teaching and educating system they have.

So all these multiple posts upon posts (by teachers) pushing for parents to choose DL goes completely against the actual goals of FCPS.

If FCPS wanted people to choose hybrid, they would be providing instruction on the “off” days.

??? There are so many things wrong with this statement.