Will fall 2021 mean full IP classes?

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Anonymous wrote:coronavirus numbers are already plummeting. the positivity rate in dc right now is 2.8 percent. that's very low, by any standard.

by labor day, when much of the population will be vaccinated, the coronavirus numbers here are going to be tiny.

we'll be back in school full time, easily. it won't be a close call.

You haven't been watching the mayor and the chancellor and many principals cave over the past few months, have you? Or, you're at a school that actually reopened and you had your kids return this week. Some of us are at DCPS that are not so lucky. So forgive me if watching our teachers complain for months and say it's not safe and say they aren't returning and now demanding pediatric vaccines has me convinced my kid is not stepping foot in her elementary school full time in the fall.

There is not going to be a pediatric vaccine for YEARS. I work in the field. This will not be expedited like the adult version was.

If we're waiting for a vaccine, we won't have kids in school until possibly 2023-2024.
That's not going to happen.

Teachers may be blowing smoke about this now but it's not reality. We're not going to virtually educate kids in DC (and by default NOT educate most of the poor kids) for 4 straight years.

They already did it for a year contra the science. Teachers know they have everyone by the balls.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm hoping for hybrid in Fall, 2021, and then maybe full IP in Fall, 2022. If by some miracle there's a pediatric vaccine by Winter, 2021. Otherwise I'd imagine we will be in hybrid until 2023? Whenever there's a pediatric vaccine.

Note: I don't think that's scientifically the right thing. I think that's what the DMV teachers' unions will allow.

Then the DMV teachers unions need to be busted. At some point we need to start following the science and doing right by the kids, like the rest of the world.

+1. Really tired of this. And tired that somehow it’s ok to some schools and teachers are just fine but at our school, only one class is opening because teachers there don’t follow science. Either it’s safe or it’s not. It should be a district-wide decision. But I guess like the rest of DCPS, where you live matters to how you are educated. Complete shame. Fire them all.

Would busting the union reopen charter schools too?

Seriously. Sat today watching DCPS kids at recess and wondering if we did the right thing by choosing our charter. Stuff it union-blamers. We all know who was open today and who was not.

The charters are just hiding behind the union.

But the union schools are way more open than our charter. We don't even have an email update about the possibility of re-opening, FFS.

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter had a call last night and said that they are limited by the health department and cdc for # of kids per classroom. Getting back to full time in person will depend first on health department guidance, then on staffing.

This. Per our principal, they cannot expand the current IPL offerings until the health department relaxes their extremely restrictive requirements. Hopefully they will do so if the CDC relaxes their guidelines.

The WTU is a problem for sure, but full-time or even hybrid for all is currently primarily impeded by the unreasonable restrictions from DC Health.

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter had a call last night and said that they are limited by the health department and cdc for # of kids per classroom. Getting back to full time in person will depend first on health department guidance, then on staffing.

This. Per our principal, they cannot expand the current IPL offerings until the health department relaxes their extremely restrictive requirements. Hopefully they will do so if the CDC relaxes their guidelines.

The WTU is a problem for sure, but full-time or even hybrid for all is currently primarily impeded by the unreasonable restrictions from DC Health.

That is awesome that you received information from your school!! Inspired Teaching families have received literally no information at all.

[Anonymous]

Someone posted this statement with a youtube link on another thread:

Paul Kihn, deputy mayor for education, at the Feb. 3 SBOE working session:

“We also believe and, I know I personally think this, the virus is insidious and we have no idea what the world will look like in September. We do know that there will be no child vaccine, probably, by then and so we need to prepare for a September that is not necessarily going to be normal. So we should be preparing for a September that could have some version of hybrid or virtual ongoing. So we also think it's important that we continue to support our teachers who are at the center of this endeavor as they continue strengthening their virtual education skills.”


It’s looking more and more likely that we won’t be full time IP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted this statement with a youtube link on another thread:

Paul Kihn, deputy mayor for education, at the Feb. 3 SBOE working session:

“We also believe and, I know I personally think this, the virus is insidious and we have no idea what the world will look like in September. We do know that there will be no child vaccine, probably, by then and so we need to prepare for a September that is not necessarily going to be normal. So we should be preparing for a September that could have some version of hybrid or virtual ongoing. So we also think it's important that we continue to support our teachers who are at the center of this endeavor as they continue strengthening their virtual education skills.”


It’s looking more and more likely that we won’t be full time IP.

I was the one who posted this. I am hoping that saying that "it's looking more and more likely" is a bit premature. The idea that we need a pediatric vaccine is nuts and I hope as case numbers go down thanks to the adult vaccine, people like Kihn will come out of their Covid hysteria fog and realize that kids need to be back in school. Once there is no risk of widespread death anymore due to vaccination, Covid will need to be handled similarly to the flu, because it is not going to disappear completely.

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My concern is they are going into this with the mindset that it will by hybrid. It’s much easier to scale back than it is to go from hybrid to full IP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone posted this statement with a youtube link on another thread:

Paul Kihn, deputy mayor for education, at the Feb. 3 SBOE working session:

“We also believe and, I know I personally think this, the virus is insidious and we have no idea what the world will look like in September. We do know that there will be no child vaccine, probably, by then and so we need to prepare for a September that is not necessarily going to be normal. So we should be preparing for a September that could have some version of hybrid or virtual ongoing. So we also think it's important that we continue to support our teachers who are at the center of this endeavor as they continue strengthening their virtual education skills.”


It’s looking more and more likely that we won’t be full time IP.

I was the one who posted this. I am hoping that saying that "it's looking more and more likely" is a bit premature. The idea that we need a pediatric vaccine is nuts and I hope as case numbers go down thanks to the adult vaccine, people like Kihn will come out of their Covid hysteria fog and realize that kids need to be back in school. Once there is no risk of widespread death anymore due to vaccination, Covid will need to be handled similarly to the flu, because it is not going to disappear completely.

This. The vaccines give you immunity or if variant, you get a mild case and avoid hospitalizations. It will be like the flu. Covid is not going away and this is going to be the new normal. Schools should be open in the fall fully.

Also by this summer, Moderna might even have a 2nd booster against the variant. I’m sure Pfizer is looking into this too if Moderna is.

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The coronavirus numbers in DC are already very low right now, and hardly anyone has been vaccinated. By the summer, a large percentage of people will be vaccinated, and the number of coronavirus cases in the city will be extremely low.

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Anonymous wrote:The coronavirus numbers in DC are already very low right now, and hardly anyone has been vaccinated. By the summer, a large percentage of people will be vaccinated, and the number of coronavirus cases in the city will be extremely low.

Fantasy

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Some of you guys are truly fatalist. I do think there are scenarios in which schools do not return to full time IP learning in the fall, such as if a new variant resistant to the vaccine starts ripping through the US. But case numbers are way down now and it looks like most adults could be vaccinated by end of summer. If current trends continue, offices will be open by the fall, and schools will have to open. The economy cannot handle parents continuing to drop out/stay out of the workforce to facilitate virtual learning for their kids. DC cannot afford the safety net it would have to offer to keep schools closed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The coronavirus numbers in DC are already very low right now, and hardly anyone has been vaccinated. By the summer, a large percentage of people will be vaccinated, and the number of coronavirus cases in the city will be extremely low.

Fantasy

You can just look at the numbers. The infection rate is now below 1.0, which means the outbreak is shrinking.

The positivity rate is 3.4 percent, which is very low (it's supposed to be under 5 percent if you want to reopen schools).

And barely three percent of DC residents have been vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you guys are truly fatalist. I do think there are scenarios in which schools do not return to full time IP learning in the fall, such as if a new variant resistant to the vaccine starts ripping through the US. But case numbers are way down now and it looks like most adults could be vaccinated by end of summer. If current trends continue, offices will be open by the fall, and schools will have to open. The economy cannot handle parents continuing to drop out/stay out of the workforce to facilitate virtual learning for their kids. DC cannot afford the safety net it would have to offer to keep schools closed.

coronavirus is going to be with us forever, and it will constantly mutate. that's why people will get booster shots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The coronavirus numbers in DC are already very low right now, and hardly anyone has been vaccinated. By the summer, a large percentage of people will be vaccinated, and the number of coronavirus cases in the city will be extremely low.

Fantasy

You can just look at the numbers. The infection rate is now below 1.0, which means the outbreak is shrinking.

The positivity rate is 3.4 percent, which is very low (it's supposed to be under 5 percent if you want to reopen schools).

And barely three percent of DC residents have been vaccinated.

If we'd stayed virtual through June, maybe. With si many kids sharing air aince last week, community transmission is bound to rise again and jeopardize what OP is hoping for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The coronavirus numbers in DC are already very low right now, and hardly anyone has been vaccinated. By the summer, a large percentage of people will be vaccinated, and the number of coronavirus cases in the city will be extremely low.

Fantasy

You can just look at the numbers. The infection rate is now below 1.0, which means the outbreak is shrinking.

The positivity rate is 3.4 percent, which is very low (it's supposed to be under 5 percent if you want to reopen schools).

And barely three percent of DC residents have been vaccinated.

If we'd stayed virtual through June, maybe. With si many kids sharing air aince last week, community transmission is bound to rise again and jeopardize what OP is hoping for.

Stop the disinformation. You have no evidence to show that schools are significant drivers of community spread.