No to classroom monitors

[Anonymous]

There is no way that I would ever send my child to school to sit with a classroom monitor - someone who has no college education, someone whose background has not been thoroughly evaluated. Not a hope in hell.

I have tried to hire nannies willing to work with my two children. The ones willing to work for $15 an hour and I would never have hired. If they implement the classroom monitor scenario, I can guarantee they are going to be dealing with legal problems for years to come.

[Anonymous]

I agree. But I also believe fcps should make teachers return to the classroom if they’ve been vaccinated. If they’re still too afraid, they need another career or to teach the virtual only students.

[Anonymous]

Well there's two things I know for sure that will take place between now and June:
1) FCPS is going to use classroom monitors,
2) Most of the teachers with ADA accommodations will be staying virtual for the remainder of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree. But I also believe fcps should make teachers return to the classroom if they’ve been vaccinated. If they’re still too afraid, they need another career or to teach the virtual only students.

Good thing your “beliefs” are invalid.

[Anonymous]

What is the plan to phase out th he classroom monitors? If it's not safe for teachers to return after getting the vaccine, when will it be safe? The virus is NEVER going away. It will be around just like the flu, but we'll have the vaccine and antibody treatments to make it less severe when people catch it.

When will teachers feel safe? Is this about worry over loved ones at home, and teachers who have ADAs using them as long as they're allowed? Or are teachers with ADAs really afraid of catching COVID, even with a 95% effective vaccine, which is likely 100% effective against severe illness?

[Anonymous]

Then I guess you will be remaining distance because they have to be used for this plan to work. Make your choice, we don’t need to know

[Anonymous]

Or are there some people who cannot get the vaccine at all because of some unique health condition? But that has to be a very small minority, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the plan to phase out th he classroom monitors? If it's not safe for teachers to return after getting the vaccine, when will it be safe? The virus is NEVER going away. It will be around just like the flu, but we'll have the vaccine and antibody treatments to make it less severe when people catch it.

When will teachers feel safe? Is this about worry over loved ones at home, and teachers who have ADAs using them as long as they're allowed? Or are teachers with ADAs really afraid of catching COVID, even with a 95% effective vaccine, which is likely 100% effective against severe illness?

This is discussed in another thread, but all of the ADA requests have to be re-evaluated, and they won't have time to do that until over the summer. Some teachers have ADAs that say they cannot be vaccinated because of their health condition, so they legitimately are still at risk of coming in to the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then I guess you will be remaining distance because they have to be used for this plan to work. Make your choice, we don’t need to know

Mine are going private. But it's not my children that would be abused anyways. It's probably going to be those underprivileged kids that can't speak up for themselves, right? But you don't care about them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then I guess you will be remaining distance because they have to be used for this plan to work. Make your choice, we don’t need to know

I have a right to know what the plan is for phasing out monitors, who are basically teaching aids without a teaching background. This is a continuance of the sub-par education our kids have been receiving, just relocated to the school building. And no one is talking about it being temporary and for how long. As a parent and tax payer, I absolutely have a right to know when they plan to phase it out, at $300k per month.

The only thing I don't have a right to know is the specific health reasons why teachers are staying home with ADAs, and I am not asking about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree. But I also believe fcps should make teachers return to the classroom if they’ve been vaccinated. If they’re still too afraid, they need another career or to teach the virtual only students.

Agreed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way that I would ever send my child to school to sit with a classroom monitor - someone who has no college education, someone whose background has not been thoroughly evaluated. Not a hope in hell.

I have tried to hire nannies willing to work with my two children. The ones willing to work for $15 an hour and I would never have hired. If they implement the classroom monitor scenario, I can guarantee they are going to be dealing with legal problems for years to come.

This is just more fear mongering to oppose return to school. What kind of legal problems? Monitors are needed during class, which means there will be a teacher watching what this monitor does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way that I would ever send my child to school to sit with a classroom monitor - someone who has no college education, someone whose background has not been thoroughly evaluated. Not a hope in hell.

I have tried to hire nannies willing to work with my two children. The ones willing to work for $15 an hour and I would never have hired. If they implement the classroom monitor scenario, I can guarantee they are going to be dealing with legal problems for years to come.

Are you a teacher with kids who aged out? If you're a parent, did you choose in person or DL back in July? What grades are your children in? Have they doing ok with what FCPS is providing so far?

What feasible alternative do you propose? I agree that for many college grads with other options, $15/hr is not an attractive amount for the amount of risk. But take a guess how much those nonteacher people supervising SACC before and after school classes used to get. Most are not college grads, they were not licensed teachers. SACC centers all over Fairfax have run fine all these years. Kids are not suddenly at greater risk compared to the caliber of SACC people/instructors.

Don't say hire only college grads, do a background investigation so thorough it takes a long time to hire, and pay them higher, like 40 dollars an hour. Pretend you're the superintendent and propose a realistic solution please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then I guess you will be remaining distance because they have to be used for this plan to work. Make your choice, we don’t need to know

I have a right to know what the plan is for phasing out monitors, who are basically teaching aids without a teaching background. This is a continuance of the sub-par education our kids have been receiving, just relocated to the school building. And no one is talking about it being temporary and for how long. As a parent and tax payer, I absolutely have a right to know when they plan to phase it out, at $300k per month.

The only thing I don't have a right to know is the specific health reasons why teachers are staying home with ADAs, and I am not asking about that.

So when you emailed the superintendent to ask about phasing out monitors what did he say? nobody on this board is probably going to know because they are not in the RTS slide deck and the county has not begun to think about next fall.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t in ES but I’m fine with it in secondary. Thankfully LCPS has the classes divided for ES. No classroom monitors.