My ES is letting advanced kids push in and I am upset about it

[Anonymous]

I thought the entire point of this system was to create a bubble but our Principal told us this morning that all students receiving advanced curriculum (math or LA) will be able to push in to the AAP class. Do tell--How is that safe? I am really worried because my child has about 6 kids that push in and his class is already at 24 kids. Not all 24 kids are returning. Add 3 more and that's 14 kids give or take depending on split!!!!!! (again, assuming they all go back--which I don't think is the case) but it's still mixing. Should I be worried? I am thinking of holding back my child to be virtual. I am very nervous about this mixing. We have grandparents at home. I wish those kids just stayed in their GenEd class. Are other ES schools in the area doing this? Is this an FCPS thing? I feel like they misinformed us. I thought they care about safety.

[Anonymous]

Our school is doing this. IMO the eating lunch in the classroom is a way higher risk than masked children joining the classroom.

[Anonymous]

So you think kids advanced enough to push in should just stay in their gen ed class that isn't meeting their needs so your kid can have fewer kids in his class? SMH. Keep your kid home or get grandma a vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Lol. AAP parents are an obnoxious bunch, aren't they? Let's keep everyone out--even if the numbers don't even equal what half a gened class is with the push ins. LOLLLLLLLLLLLL. This can't possibly be serious.

[Anonymous]

If this makes you uncomfortable, stay virtual for the year. They are wearing masks and the six foot distancing thing is excessive.

[Anonymous]

Keep your kid home. The AAP push ins are coming in to burst your AAP bubble. SMH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you think kids advanced enough to push in should just stay in their gen ed class that isn't meeting their needs so your kid can have fewer kids in his class? SMH. Keep your kid home or get grandma a vaccine.

It's an obnoxious post (b/c implies they should be kept OUT of her DC's AAP class all day rather than kept IN all day.) But OP's underlying point about how it basically doubles or triples the cross-exposure to have kids from 2-3 other classes going in and out of another class for math and then again with possibly a different set of kids for Reading. They should just principal place them into the AAP class ALL DAY instead of having the kids go back and forth and brinigng possible covid exposure to and from other classes.

And if they do this, are all parents going to be told "hey, so it's not just your kids' class you need to worry about, but also the 3 other 4th grade classes since 4-5 students leave their classrooms and go join another class for an hour during the school day" It affects all the kids in any grade level that has AAPs where this is a common practice.

[Anonymous]

Why don't all AAP kids just stay home indefinitely. And take their parents with them.

[Anonymous]

Stay virtual OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this makes you uncomfortable, stay virtual for the year. They are wearing masks and the six foot distancing thing is excessive.

It makes me uncomfortable to know this and my kid doesn't push in at all. But her BFF who is in her gen ed class does. So now my kid will not only be exposed to the 10 kids who are going in person to be in the same classroom, but she'll also have BFF coming in and out. So if any kid in the AAP class has to quarantine, then looks like our class will too. Awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don't all AAP kids just stay home indefinitely. And take their parents with them.

Wow. Tacky.

But flip it in a different direction. Are they sending kids out for in person speech? Will those kids meet up with 4-5 other kids for speech class who are in a different class? Well then ur bubble has just been breached.

I think the main issue is that they are implying that each class will be self contained bubble but it won't. They are not explaining how this will work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this makes you uncomfortable, stay virtual for the year. They are wearing masks and the six foot distancing thing is excessive.

It makes me uncomfortable to know this and my kid doesn't push in at all. But her BFF who is in her gen ed class does. So now my kid will not only be exposed to the 10 kids who are going in person to be in the same classroom, but she'll also have BFF coming in and out. So if any kid in the AAP class has to quarantine, then looks like our class will too. Awesome.

The plan is to have the push in kids pretty far away in their own corner so they probably won’t meet the criteria for quarantining with the class.

[Anonymous]

Cohorting is just one possible mitigation, and it's not even one of the core five.

FCPS has claimed their ventilation is good. They are making kids wear masks. There will be six feet distancing. That's more than the mitigations in MANY studies that had low-no in-school COVID spread. Personally I'd be comfortable with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this makes you uncomfortable, stay virtual for the year. They are wearing masks and the six foot distancing thing is excessive.

It makes me uncomfortable to know this and my kid doesn't push in at all. But her BFF who is in her gen ed class does. So now my kid will not only be exposed to the 10 kids who are going in person to be in the same classroom, but she'll also have BFF coming in and out. So if any kid in the AAP class has to quarantine, then looks like our class will too. Awesome.

Does your kid not have kids who get pulled out for Sped services? Wont they be mixing with kids with other classes? Sometimes the size of those groups equals 10 kids. You know sped services wont get denied. So if you're that uncomfortable, keep your child home. The chances of proper distancing in an AAP class are great--even with the numbers quoted by the OP.

[Anonymous]

kids in advanced math will stay in advanced math. If you don't like it, keep your kid home