Do we still need all these classroom monitors if teachers are vaccinated?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
|
My kids are slated to go back to school mid March. All FCPS staff should be vaccinated by then. Their group seems to be requiring a lot of classroom monitors. Won’t they need less (none) if their teachers are vaccinated? There will still be full virtual classses.
And will it still be concurrent? Just seems ridiculous to have a teacher at home with a monitor to watch a half empty class do online school on a laptop in a classroom. I really hope I am misunderstanding the situation and someone can correct me. |
Anonymous
| It seems ridiculous--I could see needing a handful--I wish the school board had asked braband about it. |
Anonymous
Separate from receiving the vaccine if they have an ADA accommodation to teach virtually any in-person students will need a class monitor. FCPS has not said that they are going to reevaluate ADA accommodations this year, they will probably do it over the summer. |
Anonymous
| Students will not be vaccinated and there are too many unknowns with the vaccine. |
Anonymous
|
Check out this recent thread.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/945576.page |
Anonymous
| The RTS slides said staff will still have to quarantine if we're exposed. If that happens, we will still teach virtually and a monitor will supervise the class. They absolutely do not want to send student in Groups 1-6 back to virtual unless there is no other option, so monitors it is! |
Anonymous
| You can still contract Covid after receiving two vaccinations. Read about the Congressman who did. |
Anonymous
| Do we need 2 different threads on this same topic within 6 hours of each other? |
Anonymous
Was he symptomatic? If this is a real risk, then there’s no point in vaccinating anyone. |
Anonymous
| Classroom monitors will cost almost $300,000 a week. |
Anonymous
LOL, financially it makes sense to stay virtual. |
Anonymous
It makes more sense to open schools. With vaccinations, monitors are not necessary/ |
Anonymous
It doesn't matter. He was just diagnosed, so we don't know yet if he's asymptomatic or presymptomatic, but in either case, COVID is transmissible asymptomatically and presymptomatically. I know you really, really want to believe that vaccinated people can't transmit COVID even when positive, but the absolute FACT of the matter is that while it is currently being studied, the only true answer is WE DO NOT KNOW. Of course there is a point in vaccinating. The best vaccine has a 95% protection rate. He's in the 5%. Vaccine coverage in the population will greatly reduce cases and thus spread. |
Anonymous
But that's not going to happen, so... We just have to keep moving forward. |
Anonymous
| No, we don’t. But, the teachers worked the system, so here we are. |