The prospect of kids not going back to school until 2021

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

• Stokes School will transition to in-person attendance for all students when DC enters Stage 4 of the ReOpen DC Plan and there is an effective vaccine or cure for COVID-19.

This is horrifying. Kids are supposed to sit around with their education on hold for potentially months or years, until there's a vaccine or cure? This will be enormously damaging to the kids, their families, and their future.

Here's my plan

1. Open school in August for non-high-risk students/staff with all feasible risk-reduction measures.
2. Provide distance teaching/learning for school employees and kids who are in high-risk categories or who live with people in high-risk categories.
3. Prepare to close individual schools for two weeks in case of covid exposure.

Close them each and every exposure? Hmmm never ending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

• Stokes School will transition to in-person attendance for all students when DC enters Stage 4 of the ReOpen DC Plan and there is an effective vaccine or cure for COVID-19.

This is horrifying. Kids are supposed to sit around with their education on hold for potentially months or years, until there's a vaccine or cure? This will be enormously damaging to the kids, their families, and their future.

Here's my plan

1. Open school in August for non-high-risk students/staff with all feasible risk-reduction measures.
2. Provide distance teaching/learning for school employees and kids who are in high-risk categories or who live with people in high-risk categories.
3. Prepare to close individual schools for two weeks in case of covid exposure.

Close them each and every exposure? Hmmm never ending.

This. What are the notification requirements. If the kid comes and says my dad has covid. Do they quarantine the kid and close the school? Everyone may already have been exposed? What happens when inevitably kids get sniffles and the flu? Temp checks on the way into schools and turned away if you're sick or sent home? What about busses?
If there was a rapid, cheap and accurate test everyone could take every day then we could open as normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I’m a research scientist and I approve of the Stokes plan.
Finally, a school that gets it.

Yup. And they can always go back to in person learning quickly if things change. Better to be prepared now.
Fall and winter will be so bad. And yet so many people don't want to wear the damn masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I’m a research scientist and I approve of the Stokes plan.
Finally, a school that gets it.

Yup. And they can always go back to in person learning quickly if things change. Better to be prepared now.
Fall and winter will be so bad. And yet so many people don't want to wear the damn masks.

You have no idea if it will be worse in fall and winter-nobody does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

• Stokes School will transition to in-person attendance for all students when DC enters Stage 4 of the ReOpen DC Plan and there is an effective vaccine or cure for COVID-19.

This is horrifying. Kids are supposed to sit around with their education on hold for potentially months or years, until there's a vaccine or cure? This will be enormously damaging to the kids, their families, and their future.

Here's my plan

1. Open school in August for non-high-risk students/staff with all feasible risk-reduction measures.
2. Provide distance teaching/learning for school employees and kids who are in high-risk categories or who live with people in high-risk categories.
3. Prepare to close individual schools for two weeks in case of covid exposure.

Close them each and every exposure? Hmmm never ending.

Better to close individual schools when there's an exposure than to keep the whole school system closed indefinitely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

• Stokes School will transition to in-person attendance for all students when DC enters Stage 4 of the ReOpen DC Plan and there is an effective vaccine or cure for COVID-19.

This is horrifying. Kids are supposed to sit around with their education on hold for potentially months or years, until there's a vaccine or cure? This will be enormously damaging to the kids, their families, and their future.

Here's my plan

1. Open school in August for non-high-risk students/staff with all feasible risk-reduction measures.
2. Provide distance teaching/learning for school employees and kids who are in high-risk categories or who live with people in high-risk categories.
3. Prepare to close individual schools for two weeks in case of covid exposure.

Close them each and every exposure? Hmmm never ending.

This. What are the notification requirements. If the kid comes and says my dad has covid. Do they quarantine the kid and close the school? Everyone may already have been exposed? What happens when inevitably kids get sniffles and the flu? Temp checks on the way into schools and turned away if you're sick or sent home? What about busses?
If there was a rapid, cheap and accurate test everyone could take every day then we could open as normal.

Yes, for 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

• Stokes School will transition to in-person attendance for all students when DC enters Stage 4 of the ReOpen DC Plan and there is an effective vaccine or cure for COVID-19.

This is horrifying. Kids are supposed to sit around with their education on hold for potentially months or years, until there's a vaccine or cure? This will be enormously damaging to the kids, their families, and their future.

Here's my plan

1. Open school in August for non-high-risk students/staff with all feasible risk-reduction measures.
2. Provide distance teaching/learning for school employees and kids who are in high-risk categories or who live with people in high-risk categories.
3. Prepare to close individual schools for two weeks in case of covid exposure.

It is absolutely horrifying. I'm hoping come mid-August they understand just how ridiculous they are being and/or someone higher up steps in and makes them change it. We have no guarantee for a treatment or vaccine literally ever. This should not be part of the reopening plan at all.

Everyone should contact every elected representative they have. The people I have talked to, who don't have kids in school, have no idea there's even the possibility of schools staying closed when the next school year starts.

If this is true, we have bigger problems because there are frequent phone conferences for all of the elected officials and the various plans and limitations are being debated. Why aren’t your elected officials calling in? Are they too busy finalizing their Covidpalooza photo ops?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Everyone should contact every elected representative they have. The people I have talked to, who don't have kids in school, have no idea there's even the possibility of schools staying closed when the next school year starts.

If this is true, we have bigger problems because there are frequent phone conferences for all of the elected officials and the various plans and limitations are being debated. Why aren’t your elected officials calling in? Are they too busy finalizing their Covidpalooza photo ops?

PP you're responding to. "People I have talked to" doesn't refer to elected officials. It refers to people, such as my neighbors, my co-workers, my friends, etc. Ask some of your neighbors, co-workers, friends, etc., who don't have kids in school, how much they know about the plans for school next fall.

[Anonymous]

Rolling two week closures is more disruptive than staying in DL.

[Anonymous]

The most optimistic scenario is to have children back in the classroom early in 2021.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

• Stokes School will transition to in-person attendance for all students when DC enters Stage 4 of the ReOpen DC Plan and there is an effective vaccine or cure for COVID-19.

This is horrifying. Kids are supposed to sit around with their education on hold for potentially months or years, until there's a vaccine or cure? This will be enormously damaging to the kids, their families, and their future.

Here's my plan

1. Open school in August for non-high-risk students/staff with all feasible risk-reduction measures.
2. Provide distance teaching/learning for school employees and kids who are in high-risk categories or who live with people in high-risk categories.
3. Prepare to close individual schools for two weeks in case of covid exposure.

Close them each and every exposure? Hmmm never ending.

This. What are the notification requirements. If the kid comes and says my dad has covid. Do they quarantine the kid and close the school? Everyone may already have been exposed? What happens when inevitably kids get sniffles and the flu? Temp checks on the way into schools and turned away if you're sick or sent home? What about busses?
If there was a rapid, cheap and accurate test everyone could take every day then we could open as normal.

Yes, for 2 weeks.

And than his sibling who develops symptoms on day 10?
Than her friend / classmate 8 days later. Rolling 2 week closures like a snowstorm every 4th day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most optimistic scenario is to have children back in the classroom early in 2021.

So you are totally fine with 7 months of lost educational time? Because that is exactly what it is.

There is no basis for keeping schools closed for another 4 months in MOCO.

If teachers/staff don't feel safe even with precautions they can take leave without pay or find a new job. It's not everyone's job to feed into the irrational fear.

Children are suffering while school staff get to spend the majority of their days on an extended vacation while receiving full paychecks. Of course they don't want school buildings to open. What incentive do they have?

[Anonymous]

No back to normal until spring 2022 at the earliest.
1- until vaccine or better treatment options are available to all
2 - most of the country willing to take vaccine (currently close to 1 in 4 says
they won't take it even if it is available)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

• Stokes School will transition to in-person attendance for all students when DC enters Stage 4 of the ReOpen DC Plan and there is an effective vaccine or cure for COVID-19.

This is horrifying. Kids are supposed to sit around with their education on hold for potentially months or years, until there's a vaccine or cure? This will be enormously damaging to the kids, their families, and their future.

Here's my plan

1. Open school in August for non-high-risk students/staff with all feasible risk-reduction measures.
2. Provide distance teaching/learning for school employees and kids who are in high-risk categories or who live with people in high-risk categories.
3. Prepare to close individual schools for two weeks in case of covid exposure.

Close them each and every exposure? Hmmm never ending.

This. What are the notification requirements. If the kid comes and says my dad has covid. Do they quarantine the kid and close the school? Everyone may already have been exposed? What happens when inevitably kids get sniffles and the flu? Temp checks on the way into schools and turned away if you're sick or sent home? What about busses?
If there was a rapid, cheap and accurate test everyone could take every day then we could open as normal.

Yes, for 2 weeks.

And than his sibling who develops symptoms on day 10?
Than her friend / classmate 8 days later. Rolling 2 week closures like a snowstorm every 4th day?

Dude. Quarantines are a known thing. We don't have to invent them from scratch. The sibling who develops symptoms on day 10 will stay home in quarantine because that's how quarantine works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most optimistic scenario is to have children back in the classroom early in 2021.

Everything else will be open, but schools will be closed? That shows the priority we place on children and schools.