My kids are going back 5 days a week in person next week. AMA!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so jealous. We are contemplating moving to a more sensible place where opening has to do with health metrics and not teacher's unions.

Where are you now?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid starts today in the Midwest! We are thrilled.

So are we!! Yay! Better yours than mine!!

Enjoy iPad learning!

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Anonymous wrote:Any parents back in person dealing with mask guilt? Its a requirement here and I hate it.

The government requires it, probably will for 2-3 years. So happy the kids start in person school on Tuesday here in Virginia.

With the information coming out about “mask mouth” I’m not so sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh. Come back in 2 weeks when they've been forced to go online again.

op here. Week two - done. Still in person. Sorry, I know that probably disappoints you!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh. Come back in 2 weeks when they've been forced to go online again.

op here. Week two - done. Still in person. Sorry, I know that probably disappoints you!

Yep! Congrats.... we are starting week 4 on Monday.

[Anonymous]

Meh, we started a month ago. It’s been fine. Nothing to talk about.

[Anonymous]

Update not from OP but another poster whose district started this week in Wisconsin (same state as OP).

Our elementary has had two kids test positive today. They said both classes are switching to virtual temporarily. A parent I know received a letter stating that their child, Larla, had “close contact” with the positive child so they probably sit nearby or something. The kicker is they said Larla had to quarantine due to the close contact but told the parent that they should send their other child, Larlo, to school! The parent is a teacher’s aide in another building in the district and they told her she has to keep going to work! That is messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Update not from OP but another poster whose district started this week in Wisconsin (same state as OP).

Our elementary has had two kids test positive today. They said both classes are switching to virtual temporarily. A parent I know received a letter stating that their child, Larla, had “close contact” with the positive child so they probably sit nearby or something. The kicker is they said Larla had to quarantine due to the close contact but told the parent that they should send their other child, Larlo, to school! The parent is a teacher’s aide in another building in the district and they told her she has to keep going to work! That is messed up.

Our school is open. This hasn't happened to us yet, but we expect it down the road.

Still it's totally worth being able to have kids back in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Update not from OP but another poster whose district started this week in Wisconsin (same state as OP).

Our elementary has had two kids test positive today. They said both classes are switching to virtual temporarily. A parent I know received a letter stating that their child, Larla, had “close contact” with the positive child so they probably sit nearby or something. The kicker is they said Larla had to quarantine due to the close contact but told the parent that they should send their other child, Larlo, to school! The parent is a teacher’s aide in another building in the district and they told her she has to keep going to work! That is messed up.

I think that’s actually the way the recommendations work - isolate the close contacts but not the contacts of the contacts.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Update not from OP but another poster whose district started this week in Wisconsin (same state as OP).

Our elementary has had two kids test positive today. They said both classes are switching to virtual temporarily. A parent I know received a letter stating that their child, Larla, had “close contact” with the positive child so they probably sit nearby or something. The kicker is they said Larla had to quarantine due to the close contact but told the parent that they should send their other child, Larlo, to school! The parent is a teacher’s aide in another building in the district and they told her she has to keep going to work! That is messed up.

I think that’s actually the way the recommendations work - isolate the close contacts but not the contacts of the contacts.

Yes, this is how it works in Canada too where all kids are back. If Larla starts showing any symptoms, then her close contacts isolate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Update not from OP but another poster whose district started this week in Wisconsin (same state as OP).

Our elementary has had two kids test positive today. They said both classes are switching to virtual temporarily. A parent I know received a letter stating that their child, Larla, had “close contact” with the positive child so they probably sit nearby or something. The kicker is they said Larla had to quarantine due to the close contact but told the parent that they should send their other child, Larlo, to school! The parent is a teacher’s aide in another building in the district and they told her she has to keep going to work! That is messed up.

Our school is open. This hasn't happened to us yet, but we expect it down the road.

Still it's totally worth being able to have kids back in person.

We have been open for 3 weeks and have had no cases (smaller private school). The large public school district in our town has had 21 total cases, they've remained opened but quarantined some individual classes. A bunch of those folks are awful anti-maskers and despite that, school reopening hasn't really affected community spread.

[Anonymous]

Keep the good news coming: schools have opened, and are doing ok

But it's much more useful to post once they have been open awhile.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad to hear things are going well for you and your families. Your kids are the canaries in the coal mine for the rest of us. Thank you for your sacrifice! Continue to #BeBlessed and #BeBest!

- DCPS Family

Seriously? Hope your kids are sitting in front of their screens while mine are enjoying outside classrooms on this beautiful dayl

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Starting week 3 at a small Midwest private school. Kids are being great sports about masks, even the three year olds in the preschool.

Quite a few of the public schools in our area are posting their COVID numbers publicly, both positives and quarantines, and they have been fairly low so far, even though some schools are in their fifth week already. State numbers don't appear to be worsening yet. Just taking it one day at a time here.

[Anonymous]

Starting week 3 at a private in Maryland. Our kids are young ES and loving it. They don't complain about masks at all. We were out at an empty playground this weekend, and later a few kids walked up and our kids instinctively put their masks on.