What will school look like after the pandemic??

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Anonymous wrote:We see first hand that the one size fits all is a failure demand vouchers

F vouchers. They will only cripple public schools even more.

You want private school? Pay for it.

Otherwise work to improve public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:In this whole discussion about what should or should not happen in fall, there is a significant piece missing. The protection provided by the vaccine only lasts 3-6 months, it’s not annual... Teachers who get their vaccine now will have no protection by the fall unless they get new shots in August.

Lasts only 3-6 months? Source please, else it's fake.

There’s no source because it’s complete crap.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

I’m curious what doctors or scientists (people much smarter than me on this stuff) would say about masking kids all winter. Kids’ immune systems are really good and are learning. It’s important for them to be exposed to bacteria and even viruses so they can develop immunity. Masking kids all winter so they’re never exposed to anything seems like it would backfire in adulthood.

+1 Also masking while teaching definitely can impact learning. Think about how much facial expressions, tone of voice play into reading comprehension. Observing the shape of the mouth is important for phonics instruction. There are children with hearing loss who are very impacted by masking. For social skills, children learn to interpret facial expressions. This should all be taken into consideration before we just ask children to permanently mask in schools.

If only there were something we could do about that.

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I was liking this post until so many trolls took over.

Back to the question at hand the OP posted. I’d love for the kids to be back full time, but won’t we be at the mercy of the social distancing guidelines from the CDC? I guess we are assuming or hoping those will be scaled back to allow the amount of kids in one classroom, etc.

Has anyone read anything about this that suggests the social distancing will be decreased?

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Anonymous wrote:I was liking this post until so many trolls took over.

Back to the question at hand the OP posted. I’d love for the kids to be back full time, but won’t we be at the mercy of the social distancing guidelines from the CDC? I guess we are assuming or hoping those will be scaled back to allow the amount of kids in one classroom, etc.

Has anyone read anything about this that suggests the social distancing will be decreased?

I haven't heard anything definite, but I do suspect there's going to be a lot more information coming out regarding it over the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:I sure hope they offer DL for the kids that prefer it. I mean forever not just next year.

As a teacher, I am all for offering DL that is county based, not school based. It isn’t fair to any group to offer concurrent. In early summer they should ask parents to commit so they can figure how many teachers they need. Let’s say there are 400 5th graders in the county choosing to stay virtual. You would need about 16 teachers. Kids would be lumped together. No school based DL. High School should use virtual Virginia.

It needs to be County-based/district-wide and not out of every individual school for a virtual option to work. Problem there is that parents will complain, “where’s my German immersion? Where’s my AP basket weaving? Where’s X specialty class that’s only offered at a few schools?” They won’t accept a largely general-education curriculum at a county-wide virtual school.

Agree with you that this is going to be a huge problem this fall for entitled people who want DL. FCPS has existing programs for kids who NEED to stay home because they are medically fragile. They can improve those programs if those are no longer "good enough".

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Anonymous wrote:I was liking this post until so many trolls took over.

Back to the question at hand the OP posted. I’d love for the kids to be back full time, but won’t we be at the mercy of the social distancing guidelines from the CDC? I guess we are assuming or hoping those will be scaled back to allow the amount of kids in one classroom, etc.

Has anyone read anything about this that suggests the social distancing will be decreased?

I read an article yesterday that mentions reducing social distancing to 3 feet instead of 6

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope they offer DL for the kids that prefer it. I mean forever not just next year.

As a teacher, I am all for offering DL that is county based, not school based. It isn’t fair to any group to offer concurrent. In early summer they should ask parents to commit so they can figure how many teachers they need. Let’s say there are 400 5th graders in the county choosing to stay virtual. You would need about 16 teachers. Kids would be lumped together. No school based DL. High School should use virtual Virginia.

It needs to be County-based/district-wide and not out of every individual school for a virtual option to work. Problem there is that parents will complain, “where’s my German immersion? Where’s my AP basket weaving? Where’s X specialty class that’s only offered at a few schools?” They won’t accept a largely general-education curriculum at a county-wide virtual school.

I think it can be doable with planning. It all ends up being a numbers game. If they only have 5 kids doingGerman immersion who want DL at a grade level, then they shouldn’t offer it. I think if they are clear that offerings will be offered based off numbers, then parents will know what to expect. I fear if they do not offer a separate DL program, then concurrent teaching is here to stay and EvERYONE loses.

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Anonymous wrote:I was liking this post until so many trolls took over.

Back to the question at hand the OP posted. I’d love for the kids to be back full time, but won’t we be at the mercy of the social distancing guidelines from the CDC? I guess we are assuming or hoping those will be scaled back to allow the amount of kids in one classroom, etc.

Has anyone read anything about this that suggests the social distancing will be decreased?

I read an article yesterday that mentions reducing social distancing to 3 feet instead of 6

With how crowded a lot of schools are, would that even be enough? I guess it depends how many people continue to choose DL next school year, but it also happens that many of the crowded schools are also of the demographics (not minority, higher income) that aren’t choosing DL.