If you chose hybrid for APS, are you comfortable with kids going back next month?

[Anonymous]

If not, do you plan to ask the school to change to hybrid?

[Anonymous]

I choose hybrid for my struggling ES student. I thought they were following the metrics. I am not comfortable with sending teachers and kids back given current statistics and knowing we are just starting to see effects of the COVID variant. We are not just in a holiday surge. Keep an eye on what’s happening in the UK.

I’m not sure what you mean about asking the school about hybrid but I certainly will be in touch with the school board.

[Anonymous]

Yes. But I have a HS kid who has no chance of going back anytime soon. Had we not pulled our ES kid for private, I’d send him back today if I could.

[Anonymous]

Yes. My preschooler has been going to daycare since summer. The hybrid plan for kindergarten is not meaningfully different from that environment (cohorting, masks, etc.). The plan for middle and high school looks dicey, though.

[Anonymous]

We chose hybrid in July (Level 3 parent) but switched to DL in December because the writing was on the wall that they would pull something like this. Don’t trust them blindly with my kid’s health and they kept moving the ball from specific metrics to vaguer CDC metrics to now what amounts to no metrics whatsoever. It’s always safe in schools just grab a mask and stay 6 feet apart, is the new position of APS. Thought they were smarter than that. Even Fairfax and Loudon are delaying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I choose hybrid for my struggling ES student. I thought they were following the metrics. I am not comfortable with sending teachers and kids back given current statistics and knowing we are just starting to see effects of the COVID variant. We are not just in a holiday surge. Keep an eye on what’s happening in the UK.

I’m not sure what you mean about asking the school about hybrid but I certainly will be in touch with the school board.

Yes, it’s pretty distressing that they changed the metrics. I was ok with 5%, but not 11. What I mean about asking the school to change is will you call your ES principal and ask to be switched to DL from Hybrid even though they said we likely can’t change.

[Anonymous]

At our school they said you can change hybrid to DL very easily. You should call. They can’t possibly hold parents to choices from last year when they are planning to return at the peak (and still increaseing) of pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our school they said you can change hybrid to DL very easily. You should call. They can’t possibly hold parents to choices from last year when they are planning to return at the peak (and still increaseing) of pandemic.

What grade level are you talking about? I have heard that from our middle school but not for elementary. In fact quite the opposite from elementary principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school they said you can change hybrid to DL very easily. You should call. They can’t possibly hold parents to choices from last year when they are planning to return at the peak (and still increaseing) of pandemic.

What grade level are you talking about? I have heard that from our middle school but not for elementary. In fact quite the opposite from elementary principal.

APS needs to clarify this quickly. If too many kids move to DL they will need to pull another teacher back into DL to balance numbers. One or two kids, fine the DL class gets larger. 5 or more? You need two online classes. The principals and teachers better be ready to pivot on this.

[Anonymous]

I also do not feel bound at all to the decision I made in October for two elementary kids.

They need to give people a chance to pick again when they are serious about going back whenever the hell that might actually be.

[Anonymous]

My main consideration at this point is timing as much as health metrics.

If they don’t get these kids back until March, for example, it’s not worth the disruption in routine for my kids.

[Anonymous]

For sure. They are going to have to move more elementary to DL I suspect. Although you never know. There are a lot of Open Schools NOW advocates who think community spread rates are entirely irrelevant. Even though every study they rely on says community spread must be low for the info to be valid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school they said you can change hybrid to DL very easily. You should call. They can’t possibly hold parents to choices from last year when they are planning to return at the peak (and still increaseing) of pandemic.

What grade level are you talking about? I have heard that from our middle school but not for elementary. In fact quite the opposite from elementary principal.

APS needs to clarify this quickly. If too many kids move to DL they will need to pull another teacher back into DL to balance numbers. One or two kids, fine the DL class gets larger. 5 or more? You need two online classes. The principals and teachers better be ready to pivot on this.

Bwhahahah. APS pivot quickly on anything? You must be new here.

[Anonymous]

No. I am not. I’m annoyed because they were supposed to stick with their metrics!

[Anonymous]

Seven-day average test positivity rate by health district (Jan. 4, 2021)
SOURCE: Virginia Department of Health

Health District Peak Low Current
Arlington 42.8% / April 20 2.4% / June 26 9.9%