When do you think in-person 5 day a week school will return?
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Anonymous
| This board has been pretty right about predicting the state of things in the past. Assuming vaccinations of teachers start at the end of January, when do you think in-person, 5 day a week, teaching will happen (for those who want it.) If you personally wouldn’t go back, then answer when you think schools will be open for others to attend. |
Anonymous
| May be in September 2021 |
Anonymous
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Middle and high school, fall of 2021, as everyone should be vaccinated by then (trials underway for 12+)
Elementary, we shall see |
Anonymous
| How many different threads do we need on this topic? |
Anonymous
I hope elementary goes back to early dismissal Mondays. |
Anonymous
One every week. At least. Otherwise we’re not complete and can carry on with our lives. That being said, you’re still not getting 5 days until second quarter of 2021-2022 sy |
Anonymous
| January 2022 |
Anonymous
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Teachers are not being vaccinated in January. They haven't even gotten through half the medical personnel not to mention essential employees.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/920287.page https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations |
Anonymous
I say Fall 2021 as well. |
Anonymous
| Have you been watching school board meetings? There is no way it will be 5 days. Also- they have successfully cut out Monday already- it will be a four day work week. That is one of the numerous goals of the teachers unions. I recommend for you / others to join a few FB groups that are focused on reopening to get more details about what is going on. Twitter also has a lot of info. |
Anonymous
I have a question about the 4 day week thing. Would it continue even after covid ( assuming such a time ever comes around)? |
Anonymous
| FCPS employee and parent. I would guess Fall 2021. I think there will be a serious push to get all school personnel vaccinated by the end of summer. Even if FCHD doesn't roll it out, most employees will independently go to CVS or Walmart or wherever and get the vaccine as soon as it's widely available. I also think they'll get much more reliable rapid tests sooner rather than later and make those available at any local pharmacy. If most adults are vaccinated and there's a way to quickly and accurately test anyone who wants/needs it, I expect most of my coworkers to feel reasonably comfortable returning in person. I do think, or at least hope, that masks should be required on busses and in hallways and that they'll revert back to everyone having individual school supplies in younger grades. I also hope they continue to be very serious about keeping sick children home, because that has gotten really out of hand over the years and too many parents took advantage. |
Anonymous
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Yes and here is why, bc I hate when people don't at least give their reasoning to this question. We are sitting at 21 plus million confirmed cases in the US right now.we know it is approximately 40-50 percent asymptomatic..let's say 40% to be conservative, so that's another 8.5 million. Puts us at just about 30 million cases already. 10% pop.
Yes, vaccine rollout has been slower than expected but i am confident this will pick up, it's been a whopping 3 weeks after all. We will likely fall short of Fauci's herd immunity prediction of late summer with this slower roll out. Let's saywe hit 75% of the vaccine target, that's still vaccines for about 50% of the public. 60% of pop conservatively will be there by next school year. I think that will be deemed "safe enough" with masks in the classrooms and some other logistical mitigation like maybe pods for upper grades, less moving of classes etc. It will not be 100% safe but we also will have a community will that will be very hard to ignore if the numbers have come down and we are at 60% , continuing to approach herd immunity before cold and flu season |
Anonymous
That is the union's plan.. like many years ago when Mondays were half day..So- yes, I completely think that it will yield to a 4 day school week as permanent. The unions in Virginia will be getting collective bargaining power this summer. This is the WORST thing that can happen to opening schools. |
Anonymous
Do you have a source for this? I'm FEA/NEA and have not seen anything indicating they're angling for a four day school week next year. |