What will school look like after the pandemic??

[Anonymous]

I'm wondering what the "new normal" will look like for schools, after the pandemic. Between Mondays being asynchronous, the remote learning going on a year, reduced hours, etc. I'm curious if school will ever be the same as pre-pandemic.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

[Anonymous]

I sure hope they offer DL for the kids that prefer it. I mean forever not just next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

You sounded reasonable until the "entitled white parents" jab.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope they offer DL for the kids that prefer it. I mean forever not just next year.

They couldn't sustain this unless they did concurrent forever. If this is what you want, the state should double down on a centralized model, not the districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope they offer DL for the kids that prefer it. I mean forever not just next year.

Virtual Virginia..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

You sounded reasonable until the "entitled white parents" jab.

Agreed. I was feeling this post...then out of nowhere, an unnecessary slap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

This is a decent take for a lot of reasons. Here's mine. I am a parent.

50% chance DMV public schools do hybrid at some point in the Spring 2021. Some stay virtual all year.

Fall 2021 is 5 day masked. There is a concurrent option for those who want it, and parents are strongly encouraged to keep their kid home for a concurrent/virtual day if they are sick. For HS, expect some difficulty around cohorting, and some attempt to keep using virtual learning.

In elementary, there is a greater spread in differentiation among students.

There are already staffing problems re teachers deciding now is the time to retire, become a SAHP, or leave the profession. This affects some counties more than others. Property tax goes up.

Some counties move to year-round school, with shorter breaks punctuated through the year, to improve student outcomes. Remediation and enrichment is done during the breaks.

Catholic schools that were previously undersubscribed have their enrollment up even post pandemic, from parents sick of this.

Schools are the last in society to drop the masks, going on 4-5 years.

I hope for a tutoring corps or more Americorps, to give young people meaningful work remedying this education crisis, and get them into the teaching profession long term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

You sounded reasonable until the "entitled white parents" jab.

Agreed. I was feeling this post...then out of nowhere, an unnecessary slap.

It’s not an unnecessary jab. It’s reality. You don’t have to like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

I’m curious what doctors or scientists (people much smarter than me on this stuff) would say about masking kids all winter. Kids’ immune systems are really good and are learning. It’s important for them to be exposed to bacteria and even viruses so they can develop immunity. Masking kids all winter so they’re never exposed to anything seems like it would backfire in adulthood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. For 2021-22 if will be 5 day with masks and maybe period returns to DL for kids or classes if there are outbreaks among kids

By 2022-23 it will be largely back to normal but when you look at the flu stats for this year, it is very obvious we should be masking in winter forever for public health. So much decrease in other viruses due to masking and distance, it’s insane we ever just went around sick and unmasked in flu seasons.

That is what school will look like on a practical level. On a macro level, a lot of good teachers will leave and many who would have been great will never enter after seeing what teachers had to do this year. We will be facing a serious crisis in education. I am worried on behalf of my kids because they have many years of school left and fewer and fewer talented and dedicated teachers will be able to justify staying or ever joining the field. That plus entitled White parents who want to vote to defund schools out of anger and spite mean schools will really face a crisis in the next 5-7 years. The impact of this year will be like a tsunami. Deceptively slow rolling but disastrous in the aftermath

I’m curious what doctors or scientists (people much smarter than me on this stuff) would say about masking kids all winter. Kids’ immune systems are really good and are learning. It’s important for them to be exposed to bacteria and even viruses so they can develop immunity. Masking kids all winter so they’re never exposed to anything seems like it would backfire in adulthood.

They would say mask. Look at this graph of youth death from flu. Almost NONE this year : https://twitter.com/dakhterakhter/status/1355400664419950600?s=21

[Anonymous]

I would guess that school will be hybrid in the fall. Luckily my child will be a seventh grader by then, so the situation is not so bad for us.

[Anonymous]

I cannot see schools mandating masks once teachers are all vaccinated. It will be optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would guess that school will be hybrid in the fall. Luckily my child will be a seventh grader by then, so the situation is not so bad for us.

why hybrid? all the teachers and staff will have been vaccinated by then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot see schools mandating masks once teachers are all vaccinated. It will be optional.

Wrong. Until kids can get vaccinated they will need masks.