APS Level 2 Return to school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP above and adding on a different topic: I have friends all around the country with kids attending in-person school. A lot of them live in communities with way higher transmission of COVID than we have here in Arlington. If you look at the metrics, we are doing better than huge parts of the nation.

The reality is, Trump politized re-opening schools. APS was going to do it until Trump said we should, then we pulled back. I get it. It happened all over the nation. It made me second guess what the right thing to do is.

Trump is and was a total a-hole. And he didn't give any good guidance on how to open schools safely. But the reality is, we know more now, we know it can be done safely. It's not zero risk, but if you think my kids spending their high school years alone in their bedrooms is zero-risk, then let's have a talk about that.

We need to open for those who are ready. Enough

Please write to your SB and superintendent. It's not fair to put our students in this situation because of a political agenda. I'm fearful our kids will not be back 5 days/week until 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP above and adding on a different topic: I have friends all around the country with kids attending in-person school. A lot of them live in communities with way higher transmission of COVID than we have here in Arlington. If you look at the metrics, we are doing better than huge parts of the nation.

The reality is, Trump politized re-opening schools. APS was going to do it until Trump said we should, then we pulled back. I get it. It happened all over the nation. It made me second guess what the right thing to do is.

Trump is and was a total a-hole. And he didn't give any good guidance on how to open schools safely. But the reality is, we know more now, we know it can be done safely. It's not zero risk, but if you think my kids spending their high school years alone in their bedrooms is zero-risk, then let's have a talk about that.

We need to open for those who are ready. Enough

No, he politicized addressing the pandemic altogether.

His mismanagement of the pandemic (and disregard for human life) led to people not taking it seriously and letting the numbers spiral out of control early on. We could have opened much earlier if schools had blueprints and resources for openly safely.

Now it’s taken the vaccine to make it safer (we still don’t have PPE or testing FFS). So that’s where we’re at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No 62 percent includes NJ, NYC, Ny state, Connecticut, Rhode lsland, Dallas and Charlotte. Today it includes DC public schools and Chicago and Nashville. You can’t lie your way out of this. There’s no excuse to not open schools in APS with the amount of risk mitigation and resources in place. Again, 3000 kids in Catholic school have been back in Arlington. Can you tell me how many teachers and kids have died... thought so.

NYC is elementary only. And very small percentages opted in. DC is INVITATION ONLY for high risk students. Which is what APS could have done if the entitled in N Arl didn’t insist it is their right to attend in person in the middle of a pandemic. Many of the system you cite above are open under much narrower circumstances. Jamestown’s demand for 80% hybrid is a bit harder to accommodate.

That is a soundbite that doesn't take into account the actual population of schools and seats requested. Even though by percentage, North Arlington schools were higher, the actual seats requested from all schools is not all that dissimilar with a few outliers.

School Hybrid Seats
Carlin Springs 87
Randolph 154
Campbell 185
Drew 188
Montessori 212
Long Branch 215
Barcroft 241
Hoffman Boston 253
Glebe 257
Nottingham 306
Oakridge 318
Barrett 329
ATS 329
Tuckahoe 332
ASF 333
Ashlawn 334
Fleet 338
Taylor 370
Claremont 371
Abingdon 380
Jamestown 386
McKinley 394
Discovery 403
Key 409

[Anonymous]

Yes. Community rates are so high now that ensuring teacher vaccinations before return is the only responsible option. So just hang on for a few more weeks and APS will start opening next month! You’ve come this far. Let your teachers get fully immunized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No 62 percent includes NJ, NYC, Ny state, Connecticut, Rhode lsland, Dallas and Charlotte. Today it includes DC public schools and Chicago and Nashville. You can’t lie your way out of this. There’s no excuse to not open schools in APS with the amount of risk mitigation and resources in place. Again, 3000 kids in Catholic school have been back in Arlington. Can you tell me how many teachers and kids have died... thought so.

NYC is elementary only. And very small percentages opted in. DC is INVITATION ONLY for high risk students. Which is what APS could have done if the entitled in N Arl didn’t insist it is their right to attend in person in the middle of a pandemic. Many of the system you cite above are open under much narrower circumstances. Jamestown’s demand for 80% hybrid is a bit harder to accommodate.

That is a soundbite that doesn't take into account the actual population of schools and seats requested. Even though by percentage, North Arlington schools were higher, the actual seats requested from all schools is not all that dissimilar with a few outliers.

School Hybrid Seats
Carlin Springs 87
Randolph 154
Campbell 185
Drew 188
Montessori 212
Long Branch 215
Barcroft 241
Hoffman Boston 253
Glebe 257
Nottingham 306
Oakridge 318
Barrett 329
ATS 329
Tuckahoe 332
ASF 333
Ashlawn 334
Fleet 338
Taylor 370
Claremont 371
Abingdon 380
Jamestown 386
McKinley 394
Discovery 403
Key 409[/qu

Data not very helpful without PERCENTAGES. that’s what dictates hybrid safety.

[Anonymous]

Because it’s how many seats requested out of total seats available at the school that impacts mitigation. A basic point list on PP.

[Anonymous]

For reference

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No 62 percent includes NJ, NYC, Ny state, Connecticut, Rhode lsland, Dallas and Charlotte. Today it includes DC public schools and Chicago and Nashville. You can’t lie your way out of this. There’s no excuse to not open schools in APS with the amount of risk mitigation and resources in place. Again, 3000 kids in Catholic school have been back in Arlington. Can you tell me how many teachers and kids have died... thought so.

NYC is elementary only. And very small percentages opted in. DC is INVITATION ONLY for high risk students. Which is what APS could have done if the entitled in N Arl didn’t insist it is their right to attend in person in the middle of a pandemic. Many of the system you cite above are open under much narrower circumstances. Jamestown’s demand for 80% hybrid is a bit harder to accommodate.

That is a soundbite that doesn't take into account the actual population of schools and seats requested. Even though by percentage, North Arlington schools were higher, the actual seats requested from all schools is not all that dissimilar with a few outliers.

School Hybrid Seats
Carlin Springs 87
Randolph 154
Campbell 185
Drew 188
Montessori 212
Long Branch 215
Barcroft 241
Hoffman Boston 253
Glebe 257
Nottingham 306
Oakridge 318
Barrett 329
ATS 329
Tuckahoe 332
ASF 333
Ashlawn 334
Fleet 338
Taylor 370
Claremont 371
Abingdon 380
Jamestown 386
McKinley 394
Discovery 403
Key 409

Data not very helpful without PERCENTAGES. that’s what dictates hybrid safety.

No - the point is, it's not because only North Arlington schools demanded schools be reopened. Hundreds of families at ALL schools did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To address the * list:

* Parent of kid who is not getting enough mental, emotional, or physical stimulation for long-term health
* Parent of kid who highly values in-person school
* Parent who highly values in-person school
* Parent of kid getting headaches from looking at a screen all day
* Parent of a kid who is frustrated that they turn in assignments online and teachers can't find them
* Parent of kid who has seen that there are schools here in Arlington and across the country making this work
* Parent of kid who thinks Arlington's extreme risk-averse position is damaging kids
* Parent who believes in science and works in health and thinks APS needs to get its act together

All of the above.. Besides emailing and calling the SB and pushing for SB1303, what else, as concerned parents, can we do? I'm concerned many families are not fully aware of the current situation and believe the kids will go back asap hybrid and ft in the full without a doubt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Community rates are so high now that ensuring teacher vaccinations before return is the only responsible option. So just hang on for a few more weeks and APS will start opening next month! You’ve come this far. Let your teachers get fully immunized.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teachers aren't vaccinated, the buildings aren't ventilated, it's 32 degrees outside and not very conducive to outside lunch or outside anything else, and nobody is even trying to put kids into cohorts. All or most of these problems could be mostly solved in a month or two but never mind that we want what we want NOW.

And the variants are just getting started. I’m grateful APS is protecting its teachers in light of what many think will be an increase in hyper contagious strains of the virus. I hope the other area that have been open get their teachers vaccinated ASAP.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No 62 percent includes NJ, NYC, Ny state, Connecticut, Rhode lsland, Dallas and Charlotte. Today it includes DC public schools and Chicago and Nashville. You can’t lie your way out of this. There’s no excuse to not open schools in APS with the amount of risk mitigation and resources in place. Again, 3000 kids in Catholic school have been back in Arlington. Can you tell me how many teachers and kids have died... thought so.

NYC is elementary only. And very small percentages opted in. DC is INVITATION ONLY for high risk students. Which is what APS could have done if the entitled in N Arl didn’t insist it is their right to attend in person in the middle of a pandemic. Many of the system you cite above are open under much narrower circumstances. Jamestown’s demand for 80% hybrid is a bit harder to accommodate.

That is a soundbite that doesn't take into account the actual population of schools and seats requested. Even though by percentage, North Arlington schools were higher, the actual seats requested from all schools is not all that dissimilar with a few outliers.

School Hybrid Seats
Carlin Springs 87
Randolph 154
Campbell 185
Drew 188
Montessori 212
Long Branch 215
Barcroft 241
Hoffman Boston 253
Glebe 257
Nottingham 306
Oakridge 318
Barrett 329
ATS 329
Tuckahoe 332
ASF 333
Ashlawn 334
Fleet 338
Taylor 370
Claremont 371
Abingdon 380
Jamestown 386
McKinley 394
Discovery 403
Key 409

So tired of this "entitled N Arlington white parents" argument. Parents and families all over the country of various socio-economic status want their kids in school. This is just another play to attack N Arlington and it's so old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No 62 percent includes NJ, NYC, Ny state, Connecticut, Rhode lsland, Dallas and Charlotte. Today it includes DC public schools and Chicago and Nashville. You can’t lie your way out of this. There’s no excuse to not open schools in APS with the amount of risk mitigation and resources in place. Again, 3000 kids in Catholic school have been back in Arlington. Can you tell me how many teachers and kids have died... thought so.

NYC is elementary only. And very small percentages opted in. DC is INVITATION ONLY for high risk students. Which is what APS could have done if the entitled in N Arl didn’t insist it is their right to attend in person in the middle of a pandemic. Many of the system you cite above are open under much narrower circumstances. Jamestown’s demand for 80% hybrid is a bit harder to accommodate.

That is a soundbite that doesn't take into account the actual population of schools and seats requested. Even though by percentage, North Arlington schools were higher, the actual seats requested from all schools is not all that dissimilar with a few outliers.

School Hybrid Seats
Carlin Springs 87
Randolph 154
Campbell 185
Drew 188
Montessori 212
Long Branch 215
Barcroft 241
Hoffman Boston 253
Glebe 257
Nottingham 306
Oakridge 318
Barrett 329
ATS 329
Tuckahoe 332
ASF 333
Ashlawn 334
Fleet 338
Taylor 370
Claremont 371
Abingdon 380
Jamestown 386
McKinley 394
Discovery 403
Key 409

Data not very helpful without PERCENTAGES. that’s what dictates hybrid safety.

No - the point is, it's not because only North Arlington schools demanded schools be reopened. Hundreds of families at ALL schools did.

Well. The actual point was that someone tried to compare APS to NYC or DC “reopening.” NYC has very small numbers of students requesting in person. Nothing like the N Arl percentages. And DC is only bringing back students by invitation based on academic and emotional needs. Not trying to give everyone their choice. Which is particularly hard for these N Arl schools where everyone wants in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To address the * list:

* Parent of kid who is not getting enough mental, emotional, or physical stimulation for long-term health
* Parent of kid who highly values in-person school
* Parent who highly values in-person school
* Parent of kid getting headaches from looking at a screen all day
* Parent of a kid who is frustrated that they turn in assignments online and teachers can't find them
* Parent of kid who has seen that there are schools here in Arlington and across the country making this work
* Parent of kid who thinks Arlington's extreme risk-averse position is damaging kids
* Parent who believes in science and works in health and thinks APS needs to get its act together

All of the above.. Besides emailing and calling the SB and pushing for SB1303, what else, as concerned parents, can we do? I'm concerned many families are not fully aware of the current situation and believe the kids will go back asap hybrid and ft in the full without a doubt.

No one thinks that. Dr. Duran’s email is clear that the announcement of dates will start on Feb 18. Not confusing at all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Community rates are so high now that ensuring teacher vaccinations before return is the only responsible option. So just hang on for a few more weeks and APS will start opening next month! You’ve come this far. Let your teachers get fully immunized.

this is fine - after they are fully immunized, kids should return full-time, 5 days/week in-person.