All Falls Church City Schools teachers to receive vaccine Monday

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like K-12 is paused in virtual until Feb 22 to ensure teacher vaccinations are completed.

I am devastated. My kids don't qualify for group 1, barely, we are under the IEP hours threshold, but they are really really struggling. This is such a kick in the teeth. He put out metrics, then tossed them literally the day that showed we had met them. He specifically said that waiting for a vaccine couldn't be the answer, then he decided to wait for a vaccination. What is going to happen when vaccine distribution gets delayed? What if Fairfax county doesn't have the 2nd dose to give out at day 28? another week?? another week??? come on, do better.

I am with you PP- my child doesn’t have an IEP but is in second grade and has learned nothing from virtual learning this year except to hate school. We are running on fumes and Fed up with Noonan proclaiming his commitment to getting kids back in the classroom and getting our hopes up with specific return dates only to backpedal at the last minute (despite the circumstances/metrics remaining unchanged). It would have been far better if he had just been honest about his reticence so we could plan accordingly and/or seek alternatives. At this point I feel like he is just setting arbitrary fake dates to placate us and try to prevent students from leaving and taking their tax dollars with them. This latest announcement sealed the deal for us to transfer to private for next year as we just no longer feel we can trust FCCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Do they offer weekly voluntary surveillance testing? I assume not, nearly a year in and we don't really have the capacity for that, but that would be nice. I bet a lot of people would participate, including students. I would sign my youngest up.

(You still couldn't prove where you got it, so I think it is more a cost/capability/priorities thing rather than them worrying about workers comp or whatever.)

My kid's university is doing that for all staff / students who are on campus, and just now ramped up their own testing to make it mandatory instead of voluntary. But they have their own health system and capabilities.

Yes, I think it would be safer for the whole community that way. About a month from now, the teachers who didn’t get COVID will be the lucky ones with 95 percent immunity, but the kids can still get it and transmit it very easily to their families. You KNOW there is that one sociopathic (or just hard up) parent in the classroom who will send her kid in with COVID, so I think surveillance testing would be great.

And maybe it would help with workers comp? Who knows? Thankfully, that is one thing I won’t have to worry about. I am in FCPS so I will get to achieve immunity before I go back into the building. I really don’t want this disease. One of my colleagues got it and was in the hospital for 2 months. It was awful. She was ALONE and scared.

None of the public schools in the area will be offering any type of weekly testing. I’m sorry about your colleague. That is scary and everyone’s fear.

Noonan plans to bring back K-5, 6th and 12th grades next week. Teachers won’t have immunity. Let’s hope this doesn’t spread through the community and staff.

That’s an appallingly stupid decision on his part. In two weeks time, they’ll be scrambling around trying to convince the homeless guys who hang out by the 66 exits to work as subs.

Sub shortage will be a problem that he doesn’t seem to be considering. FCCPS is unique in many ways, one of which is that he will make this decision on his own. I’ve been following other counties and realize there is a lot of problems with the big districts like FCPS. I read the updates here about their board meeting and although parents sound frustrated, it is good there are multiple people making decisions together. Noonan sent staff an email yesterday reminding us that he alone will make the decision on when we open. Some of the staff wrote letters to the School Board and that prompted this email.

Multiple irrational people (school board members) making decisions in FCPS is THE #1 reason for the sh*tshow going on in FCPS, where tentative RTS dates or any kind of RTS plans get reversed and delayed by SB members. My frustration has been mounting the past 10 months to the point I started looking at houses to buy or rent in City of Falls Church. The SB members in FCPS are so incompetent and out of touch with parents. Many don't even have kids in the system and it's all just theory to them.Try watching any of their multi hour long public sessions. Having more people making decisions does NOT equate better.

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Anonymous wrote:Do they offer weekly voluntary surveillance testing? I assume not, nearly a year in and we don't really have the capacity for that, but that would be nice. I bet a lot of people would participate, including students. I would sign my youngest up.

(You still couldn't prove where you got it, so I think it is more a cost/capability/priorities thing rather than them worrying about workers comp or whatever.)

My kid's university is doing that for all staff / students who are on campus, and just now ramped up their own testing to make it mandatory instead of voluntary. But they have their own health system and capabilities.

Yes, I think it would be safer for the whole community that way. About a month from now, the teachers who didn’t get COVID will be the lucky ones with 95 percent immunity, but the kids can still get it and transmit it very easily to their families. You KNOW there is that one sociopathic (or just hard up) parent in the classroom who will send her kid in with COVID, so I think surveillance testing would be great.

And maybe it would help with workers comp? Who knows? Thankfully, that is one thing I won’t have to worry about. I am in FCPS so I will get to achieve immunity before I go back into the building. I really don’t want this disease. One of my colleagues got it and was in the hospital for 2 months. It was awful. She was ALONE and scared.

None of the public schools in the area will be offering any type of weekly testing. I’m sorry about your colleague. That is scary and everyone’s fear.

Noonan plans to bring back K-5, 6th and 12th grades next week. Teachers won’t have immunity. Let’s hope this doesn’t spread through the community and staff.

That’s an appallingly stupid decision on his part. In two weeks time, they’ll be scrambling around trying to convince the homeless guys who hang out by the 66 exits to work as subs.

Sub shortage will be a problem that he doesn’t seem to be considering. FCCPS is unique in many ways, one of which is that he will make this decision on his own. I’ve been following other counties and realize there is a lot of problems with the big districts like FCPS. I read the updates here about their board meeting and although parents sound frustrated, it is good there are multiple people making decisions together. Noonan sent staff an email yesterday reminding us that he alone will make the decision on when we open. Some of the staff wrote letters to the School Board and that prompted this email.

Multiple irrational people (school board members) making decisions in FCPS is THE #1 reason for the sh*tshow going on in FCPS, where tentative RTS dates or any kind of RTS plans get reversed and delayed by SB members. My frustration has been mounting the past 10 months to the point I started looking at houses to buy or rent in City of Falls Church. The SB members in FCPS are so incompetent and out of touch with parents. Many don't even have kids in the system and it's all just theory to them.Try watching any of their multi hour long public sessions. Having more people making decisions does NOT equate better.

Pretty much every projected return to school date for Falls Church City has been reversed as well. They just do it at the last second to keep you guessing instead of actually giving time to plan accordingly. At this point it’s basically equally a sh*t show but people are trying to pretend otherwise to justify the premiums they’re paying on real estate. FCCPS had a chance to be take advantage of their small size and relative agility to be a leader in getting kids back to the classroom but instead they’ve decided to join the race to the bottom. Save your money and use it for private school instead.