LCPS Board Meeting TODAY -- vote to return ES to hybrid

[Anonymous]

Anyone tracking how the school board members plan to vote today? Anyone have predictions on whether we are returning elementary schoolers to hybrid, as the acting superintendent is proposing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone tracking how the school board members plan to vote today? Anyone have predictions on whether we are returning elementary schoolers to hybrid, as the acting superintendent is proposing?

You want to return at the worst moment of the pandemic? I’m surprised I’m not surprised.

[Anonymous]

My prediction is they will vote for the option that adds school based metrics on top of the previous two metrics, but not replace the previous metrics.

I think it will sadly be another month or more before anyone goes back to hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone tracking how the school board members plan to vote today? Anyone have predictions on whether we are returning elementary schoolers to hybrid, as the acting superintendent is proposing?

You want to return at the worst moment of the pandemic? I’m surprised I’m not surprised.

I have mixed feelings about it, but yes. Otherwise, my child is in a daycare environment so I don't see the difference from a risk perspective, and the benefits of being in person twice a week cannot be understated. I have several friends with children in private elementary schools and things are going fine. Teachers will be vaccinated soon, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone tracking how the school board members plan to vote today? Anyone have predictions on whether we are returning elementary schoolers to hybrid, as the acting superintendent is proposing?

You want to return at the worst moment of the pandemic? I’m surprised I’m not surprised.

I have mixed feelings about it, but yes. Otherwise, my child is in a daycare environment so I don't see the difference from a risk perspective, and the benefits of being in person twice a week cannot be understated. I have several friends with children in private elementary schools and things are going fine. Teachers will be vaccinated soon, too.

I agree OP, especially for ES (but honestly for all grades.) But the fear-mongers will win, per usual. I'm not getting my kids hopes up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone tracking how the school board members plan to vote today? Anyone have predictions on whether we are returning elementary schoolers to hybrid, as the acting superintendent is proposing?

You want to return at the worst moment of the pandemic? I’m surprised I’m not surprised.

I have mixed feelings about it, but yes. Otherwise, my child is in a daycare environment so I don't see the difference from a risk perspective, and the benefits of being in person twice a week cannot be understated. I have several friends with children in private elementary schools and things are going fine. Teachers will be vaccinated soon, too.

I agree OP, especially for ES (but honestly for all grades.) But the fear-mongers will win, per usual. I'm not getting my kids hopes up.

Thanks. I think feelings of fear are normal right now, and honestly it is scary for us too. But we are already at a higher risk with two kids in a daycare. I'd rather them be at the elementary school getting their education in-person if we are going to take on that much risk, which we have to in order to bring in an income.

[Anonymous]

Many elementary schools had NO cases. They should have been allowed to remain open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My prediction is they will vote for the option that adds school based metrics on top of the previous two metrics, but not replace the previous metrics.

I think it will sadly be another month or more before anyone goes back to hybrid.

Interesting. I'm not sure I understand how that would work. As they are presented in the slide deck, the options seem to be an either/or situation, that the new metrics would replace the old. Do you mean that the new metrics would kick in after the CDC metrics are low enough to reopen? Staff is recommending "Option B," which is that the elementary school children return to hybrid, but the MS and HS students remain in 100% DL until the CDC metrics they were using previously return to lower levels. That's not to say that the board could decide to do something entirely different.

I predict that the school board will be split. My guess is that Barts and Corbo will be opposed to anything but 100% DL until the CDC measures are low again. Most likely Morse will be in favor of the staff recommendation, as he has been a proponent of keeping the schools open this entire time and has pointed to lack of known school transmission.

[Anonymous]

The slideshow I saw (and Atoosa Reaser and others posted) has three options.

1. Use only existing metrics

2. Use existing metrics plus school based metrics

3. replace existing metrics with only school based metrics.

I'm not sure how the vote will go.

[Anonymous]

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/loudoun/Board.n...id%20Instruction.pdf

Slide 22 lists the three choices.

[Anonymous]

Is anyone planning to watch the meeting tonight. I'm only interested in the Return to School portion, which per usual is almost at the end of the agenda.

WHY DO THEY DO THAT?

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher and my school already has “concerns and questions” meetings scheduled tomorrow so I fully expect them to vote to send us back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and my school already has “concerns and questions” meetings scheduled tomorrow so I fully expect them to vote to send us back.

The staff is recommending Option B, which would keep everyone at 100% distance learning until one of the two CDC metrics go down below the "highest" category. There is no reason to think that the school board will go against that recommendation, although a few of them would like to do so.

[Anonymous]

RIP Susan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and my school already has “concerns and questions” meetings scheduled tomorrow so I fully expect them to vote to send us back.

The staff is recommending Option B, which would keep everyone at 100% distance learning until one of the two CDC metrics go down below the "highest" category. There is no reason to think that the school board will go against that recommendation, although a few of them would like to do so.

I mean the reason I have is that my admin has preemptively scheduled meetings about THIS meeting. Happy to be wrong but I’m not pulling my reasoning out of thin air.