APS: details on how long dropoff will take?

[Anonymous]

I know parents must stay until the child passes health screening. Has your school shared any other info on how long health screening might take, for families who walk or drive?

[Anonymous]

Who cares? They get to go to school after 1 year off - that’s good enough for me

[Anonymous]

I’m an APS teacher. We have been doing a daily screening using a website for staff that I believe they will be having students complete as well. That way the screening is done ahead of time. Then when you get to school or on bus all that needs to be done is the temp check as you enter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? They get to go to school after 1 year off - that’s good enough for me

I'm op and am elated! I want to know if I will need to reschedule a recurring morning meeting that takes place on my kids in person day. I'm really looking forward to having my early elementary kid in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher. We have been doing a daily screening using a website for staff that I believe they will be having students complete as well. That way the screening is done ahead of time. Then when you get to school or on bus all that needs to be done is the temp check as you enter.

Thank you, this is great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? They get to go to school after 1 year off - that’s good enough for me

I'm op and am elated! I want to know if I will need to reschedule a recurring morning meeting that takes place on my kids in person day. I'm really looking forward to having my early elementary kid in school.

Realistically, if they’re going to make parents stay, they’re going to need a whole lot of thermometers to make this go quickly. Otherwise, they’ll have to get rid of drop-off lanes (if you don’t have a half dozen staff members out here, each with their own thermometer, to scan kids as they get out of cars, it just won’t be feasible to do car drop-offs). And if you get rid of drop-off lanes, you will have dozens of additional people crowding toward the doors every morning, which will make it harder for the school to enforce social distancing.

[Anonymous]

The logistic are unreal, parents better be patient. Kids all have to be ready to start the day at their desks at 9am, so hybrid families need to plan to show up at school really early to wait in line. No pulling into the kiss and drop at 8:45.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher. We have been doing a daily screening using a website for staff that I believe they will be having students complete as well. That way the screening is done ahead of time. Then when you get to school or on bus all that needs to be done is the temp check as you enter.

If APS can pull this off this is great, but I have little faith in them. It will save so much time.

This is what our private school does. I fill it out each morning before school and take his temp at home. No temp check at school-he just walks in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher. We have been doing a daily screening using a website for staff that I believe they will be having students complete as well. That way the screening is done ahead of time. Then when you get to school or on bus all that needs to be done is the temp check as you enter.

If APS can pull this off this is great, but I have little faith in them. It will save so much time.

This is what our private school does. I fill it out each morning before school and take his temp at home. No temp check at school-he just walks in.

DP. APS will still be doing temp checks, but parents will do the rest of the screening at home through an app. If you’re just doing temp checks and you buy enough forehead thermometers, that process can be fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The logistic are unreal, parents better be patient. Kids all have to be ready to start the day at their desks at 9am, so hybrid families need to plan to show up at school really early to wait in line. No pulling into the kiss and drop at 8:45.

We were told drop off will be rolling so they we won’t necessarily start right at 9 (staff)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The logistic are unreal, parents better be patient. Kids all have to be ready to start the day at their desks at 9am, so hybrid families need to plan to show up at school really early to wait in line. No pulling into the kiss and drop at 8:45.

We were told drop off will be rolling so they we won’t necessarily start right at 9 (staff)

Of course not, we'll be lucky if the academic day begins by 9:30 each day. So much for this not impacting actual academic time. Glad those Open Schools Now people only care about having their kids in a building, and not actually getting an education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The logistic are unreal, parents better be patient. Kids all have to be ready to start the day at their desks at 9am, so hybrid families need to plan to show up at school really early to wait in line. No pulling into the kiss and drop at 8:45.

We were told drop off will be rolling so they we won’t necessarily start right at 9 (staff)

Of course not, we'll be lucky if the academic day begins by 9:30 each day. So much for this not impacting actual academic time. Glad those Open Schools Now people only care about having their kids in a building, and not actually getting an education.

um- its not open schools now that is advocating for the theater of temperature checks as people enter the buildings.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/08/13/fauci-says-coronavirus-temperature-checks-notoriously-inaccurate/?sh=41adf58133f0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The logistic are unreal, parents better be patient. Kids all have to be ready to start the day at their desks at 9am, so hybrid families need to plan to show up at school really early to wait in line. No pulling into the kiss and drop at 8:45.

We were told drop off will be rolling so they we won’t necessarily start right at 9 (staff)

Of course not, we'll be lucky if the academic day begins by 9:30 each day. So much for this not impacting actual academic time. Glad those Open Schools Now people only care about having their kids in a building, and not actually getting an education.

The education pretty much sucks, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The logistic are unreal, parents better be patient. Kids all have to be ready to start the day at their desks at 9am, so hybrid families need to plan to show up at school really early to wait in line. No pulling into the kiss and drop at 8:45.

We were told drop off will be rolling so they we won’t necessarily start right at 9 (staff)

So what time will the kids not in person/full time DL that day start?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The logistic are unreal, parents better be patient. Kids all have to be ready to start the day at their desks at 9am, so hybrid families need to plan to show up at school really early to wait in line. No pulling into the kiss and drop at 8:45.

We were told drop off will be rolling so they we won’t necessarily start right at 9 (staff)

The way it was explained to us was that it would be rolling, but starting earlier so the day would still start on time. That’s why they’ll have holding points for students at arrival, so teachers don’t have their morning prep time interrupted when kids start showing up a half hour before school starts.