I’m getting nervous about school because of delta

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

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In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

I’m a teacher. There is no federal law that says your lunch has to be duty free. Now, by FCPS policy we are supposed to have a duty free lunch, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be in the classroom while the students have lunch. The school might be able to arrange a different time for you to eat. I don’t know if that helps with coverages. Last spring half our team stayed in the room during the students’ lunch while the other half of the teachers ate.

Monitoring the children is a duty. Just because it's not bus duty or recess duty does not mean it is not a duty.

Yes, but didn’t understand what I wrote. YOUR lunch is supposed to be duty free. It doesn’t mean you can’t monitor the students during their lunch. They just need to provide a different duty free time for you to eat.

Well yeah except when we aren’t eating lunch we’re teaching. I’m never just chillin in the building with nothing going on lol

EXACTLY. When would that time be? Because we're teaching...

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Anonymous wrote:Today’s Post story about schools that have opened in the south is not promising. There are already outbreaks and temporary return to virtual instruction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/schools-start-in-person-pandemic-masks/2021/08/09/29e7fb6c-f8b4-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html

I don’t have a paid subscription, but let me guess. Florida? LA? Texas? Oooh, oooh, Arkansas?

Georgia LOLZ

I’m from Georgia. It’s burning through the unvaccinated there which sadly impacts children. I think we will fare better here.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

I’m a teacher. There is no federal law that says your lunch has to be duty free. Now, by FCPS policy we are supposed to have a duty free lunch, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be in the classroom while the students have lunch. The school might be able to arrange a different time for you to eat. I don’t know if that helps with coverages. Last spring half our team stayed in the room during the students’ lunch while the other half of the teachers ate.

Monitoring the children is a duty. Just because it's not bus duty or recess duty does not mean it is not a duty.

Yes, but didn’t understand what I wrote. YOUR lunch is supposed to be duty free. It doesn’t mean you can’t monitor the students during their lunch. They just need to provide a different duty free time for you to eat.

Well yeah except when we aren’t eating lunch we’re teaching. I’m never just chillin in the building with nothing going on lol

Again, let me reiterate and I’ll add to what I wrote.

We had 6 classes. Three teachers stayed with their class in the classroom while the students ate and the other three teachers went and had their lunch. Their classes were covered by IAs. Then those three teachers took their classes and ours to recess while we had lunch. Our lunches were duty free, but we didn’t eat at the same time the students ate.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

I’m a teacher. There is no federal law that says your lunch has to be duty free. Now, by FCPS policy we are supposed to have a duty free lunch, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be in the classroom while the students have lunch. The school might be able to arrange a different time for you to eat. I don’t know if that helps with coverages. Last spring half our team stayed in the room during the students’ lunch while the other half of the teachers ate.

Monitoring the children is a duty. Just because it's not bus duty or recess duty does not mean it is not a duty.

Yes, but didn’t understand what I wrote. YOUR lunch is supposed to be duty free. It doesn’t mean you can’t monitor the students during their lunch. They just need to provide a different duty free time for you to eat.

Well yeah except when we aren’t eating lunch we’re teaching. I’m never just chillin in the building with nothing going on lol

EXACTLY. When would that time be? Because we're teaching...

See my post at 10:06.

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Anonymous wrote:Today’s Post story about schools that have opened in the south is not promising. There are already outbreaks and temporary return to virtual instruction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/schools-start-in-person-pandemic-masks/2021/08/09/29e7fb6c-f8b4-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html

I don’t have a paid subscription, but let me guess. Florida? LA? Texas? Oooh, oooh, Arkansas?

I just read it. Mississippi, Kentucky and Georgia.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

I’m a teacher. There is no federal law that says your lunch has to be duty free. Now, by FCPS policy we are supposed to have a duty free lunch, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be in the classroom while the students have lunch. The school might be able to arrange a different time for you to eat. I don’t know if that helps with coverages. Last spring half our team stayed in the room during the students’ lunch while the other half of the teachers ate.

Monitoring the children is a duty. Just because it's not bus duty or recess duty does not mean it is not a duty.

Yes, but didn’t understand what I wrote. YOUR lunch is supposed to be duty free. It doesn’t mean you can’t monitor the students during their lunch. They just need to provide a different duty free time for you to eat.

Well yeah except when we aren’t eating lunch we’re teaching. I’m never just chillin in the building with nothing going on lol

Again, let me reiterate and I’ll add to what I wrote.

We had 6 classes. Three teachers stayed with their class in the classroom while the students ate and the other three teachers went and had their lunch. Their classes were covered by IAs. Then those three teachers took their classes and ours to recess while we had lunch. Our lunches were duty free, but we didn’t eat at the same time the students ate.

I'm so happy that plan worked for you and your school. We have three IAs at my school and they need to be helping with instruction not spending half their day watching kids during lunch. The majority of kids will be eating in the cafeteria and I am 100% fine with that.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

Can't they have their contract lunch during specials?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

Can't they have their contract lunch during specials?

In elementary that is when the teachers get their contracted planning time.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

I’m a teacher. There is no federal law that says your lunch has to be duty free. Now, by FCPS policy we are supposed to have a duty free lunch, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be in the classroom while the students have lunch. The school might be able to arrange a different time for you to eat. I don’t know if that helps with coverages. Last spring half our team stayed in the room during the students’ lunch while the other half of the teachers ate.

Monitoring the children is a duty. Just because it's not bus duty or recess duty does not mean it is not a duty.

Yes, but didn’t understand what I wrote. YOUR lunch is supposed to be duty free. It doesn’t mean you can’t monitor the students during their lunch. They just need to provide a different duty free time for you to eat.

Well yeah except when we aren’t eating lunch we’re teaching. I’m never just chillin in the building with nothing going on lol

Again, let me reiterate and I’ll add to what I wrote.

We had 6 classes. Three teachers stayed with their class in the classroom while the students ate and the other three teachers went and had their lunch. Their classes were covered by IAs. Then those three teachers took their classes and ours to recess while we had lunch. Our lunches were duty free, but we didn’t eat at the same time the students ate.

Sounds great if you have the number of IAs. No way we do in my school.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

I’m a teacher. There is no federal law that says your lunch has to be duty free. Now, by FCPS policy we are supposed to have a duty free lunch, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be in the classroom while the students have lunch. The school might be able to arrange a different time for you to eat. I don’t know if that helps with coverages. Last spring half our team stayed in the room during the students’ lunch while the other half of the teachers ate.

Monitoring the children is a duty. Just because it's not bus duty or recess duty does not mean it is not a duty.

Yes, but didn’t understand what I wrote. YOUR lunch is supposed to be duty free. It doesn’t mean you can’t monitor the students during their lunch. They just need to provide a different duty free time for you to eat.

Well yeah except when we aren’t eating lunch we’re teaching. I’m never just chillin in the building with nothing going on lol

Again, let me reiterate and I’ll add to what I wrote.

We had 6 classes. Three teachers stayed with their class in the classroom while the students ate and the other three teachers went and had their lunch. Their classes were covered by IAs. Then those three teachers took their classes and ours to recess while we had lunch. Our lunches were duty free, but we didn’t eat at the same time the students ate.

I'm so happy that plan worked for you and your school. We have three IAs at my school and they need to be helping with instruction not spending half their day watching kids during lunch. The majority of kids will be eating in the cafeteria and I am 100% fine with that.

It wasn’t ideal and yes, the IAs would have been better used working with students. I am also fine with the students eating in the cafeteria although we do have covered outdoor alternatives at our building.

The main point of my post was that our duty free lunch does not have to be at the same time the students eat. That’s all.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

Can't they have their contract lunch during specials?

In elementary that is when the teachers get their contracted planning time.

Correct. That is not a break. Lunch needs to be an actual break.

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Anonymous wrote:Today’s Post story about schools that have opened in the south is not promising. There are already outbreaks and temporary return to virtual instruction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/schools-start-in-person-pandemic-masks/2021/08/09/29e7fb6c-f8b4-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html

I don’t have a paid subscription, but let me guess. Florida? LA? Texas? Oooh, oooh, Arkansas?

I just read it. Mississippi, Kentucky and Georgia.

Shocker.
Can I get half a point each for FL and LA?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

Can't they have their contract lunch during specials?

In elementary that is when the teachers get their contracted planning time.

At our base & center - the teachers have been supervising recess since 2014 when my oldest started school. When I was a teacher in DCPS - there were recess monitors. That seems like an easy fix (swapping lunch & recess supervision) but fcps seems incapable of thinking outside the box.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of masks for most of the day when all the kids are in one big lunchroom with their masks off eating for 20 minutes? Everyone eating in one room makes the school a single cohort, not a classroom.

+100

In the spring, the kids ate in their classrooms. Why can't they do that again?

+1. I grew up in elementary schools with no cafeteria. We always ate in the classroom.
If teachers want to avoid virtual or concurrent learning, they may have to compromise and have lunch in the classroom.

This is something the schools can definitely arrange, they just need to hire monitors for the classroom. Teachers are contractually allowed a lunch and it is federal law, so don't expect the teachers to eat with the kids. I'm not trying to be a pain, but the county can't use teachers as lunch monitors as a solution.

Can't they have their contract lunch during specials?

In elementary that is when the teachers get their contracted planning time.

At our base & center - the teachers have been supervising recess since 2014 when my oldest started school. When I was a teacher in DCPS - there were recess monitors. That seems like an easy fix (swapping lunch & recess supervision) but fcps seems incapable of thinking outside the box.

I think FCPS has considered this before, I think it all just gets tied back to money. Is this where they want to be spending their money instead of on other areas?

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Anonymous wrote:Today’s Post story about schools that have opened in the south is not promising. There are already outbreaks and temporary return to virtual instruction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/schools-start-in-person-pandemic-masks/2021/08/09/29e7fb6c-f8b4-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html

I don’t have a paid subscription, but let me guess. Florida? LA? Texas? Oooh, oooh, Arkansas?

I don’t have a paid subscription too. Please, can you give more details about what was said in the article?