Parents - are you willing to do DL the rest of the year for 5 day in-person next fall?

[Anonymous]

I personally wish the school board would stop wasting mental energy on hybrid logistics and just focus on 5 day in person in the fall. If you are students doing DL right now, do you agree?

[Anonymous]

No way will we get real school next fall if we don't get kids in the building this year.

[Anonymous]

It's January and the school year ends in June.

Students will be back in school in the next few weeks until all students who chose will be in the building in the next couple months.

Why are you talking about DL for the rest of the year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally wish the school board would stop wasting mental energy on hybrid logistics and just focus on 5 day in person in the fall. If you are students doing DL right now, do you agree?

Yes!! I completely agree.

[Anonymous]

Yes, and also I think there will be no in-person this year anyway so I'd rather they stopped wasting time. Same story as the summer, they spin their wheels instead of making DL better (it can be better) or just opening in person when they should have.

[Anonymous]

But 5 days should not take a lot of work. It is a lot of work to develop a system that has never been done. We know how to do 5 days. Just add masks. Bam. Done. They don’t need 9 months to prepare for that.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

Actually, this is pretty much how it will go down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But 5 days should not take a lot of work. It is a lot of work to develop a system that has never been done. We know how to do 5 days. Just add masks. Bam. Done. They don’t need 9 months to prepare for that.

+1

It doesn't take any extra work at all.

[Anonymous]

Things are looking grim.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

[Anonymous]

No. I will homeschool. I'd rather the school not get our pupil money unless they're going to provide in person teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's January and the school year ends in June.

Students will be back in school in the next few weeks until all students who chose will be in the building in the next couple months.

Why are you talking about DL for the rest of the year?

Well, my kids were supposed to be back today. Now they are saying March 8th. I suspect that will get pushed even further back, because Inova just canceled all the teacher vaccine appointments and vaccine availability seems to be low to none, at least in Fairfax county. So best case scenario, we're talking late March of early April. Once May hits, there is not a whole lot of learning going on, whether in person or DL. Add to that the logistical issues that will inevitably pop up as soon as kids start returning to school, I'll take DL for the rest of this school year and an in-person start in the fall. I agree that at this point it's just a waste of time even trying to get kids back this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Things are looking grim.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

Actually, the numbers in Fairfax----the only numbers that matter---have been trending steadily down.

[Anonymous]

No, this is a false choice.

[Anonymous]

No, because I think they need to trial some form of in-person to have the will to plan for fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way will we get real school next fall if we don't get kids in the building this year.

This. It’s a silly question, because teachers will never go back 5 days. In July, they’ll be hysterical because they don’t have proof kids are all immunized.