Which school districts will be 5 days in fall

[Anonymous]

Loudon? Faquier? We live in DC but have given up hope. Looking to move but only for 5 days/week. Are any districts in VA giving strong signals towards opening?

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I don't think anyone knows. I think it largely depends on how well hybrid works this spring - do we have classroom-based outbreaks? Do community numbers skyrocket?

Personally, I feel very optimistic Falls Church City will be open 5 days a week in the fall especially for high school (it's a big building) and K-2. Space is the issue for grades 3-5 but hopefully we will be in good enough shape by then we won't have to worry about 6 feet of spacing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudon? Faquier? We live in DC but have given up hope. Looking to move but only for 5 days/week. Are any districts in VA giving strong signals towards opening?

Thank you!

We’ve already heard loudoun is not doing 5 days luckily

[Anonymous]

Faquier is already moving toward 4 days/week this spring. 5 days/week sounds promising for next year there. Prince William has been quietly pretty good on re-opening.

[Anonymous]

All of them.

[Anonymous]

Here's whats open now

https://cai.burbio.com/school-opening-tracker/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loudon? Faquier? We live in DC but have given up hope. Looking to move but only for 5 days/week. Are any districts in VA giving strong signals towards opening?

Thank you!

We’ve already heard loudoun is not doing 5 days luckily

No you have not you lying troll.


OP nobody really knows but it’s likely they all will with plans for temporary DL if necessary during outbreaks and some continued mitigation. all have stated that is their goal and with numbers dropping and vaccinations happening there’s no real reason it won’t happen

[Anonymous]

Loudon? Faquier? We live in DC but have given up hope. Looking to move but only for 5 days/week. Are any districts in VA giving strong signals towards opening?

Thank you!

All of them, or possibly none of them. You were aware that there is a pandemic, right? And that no one knows what will happen as the year progresses, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudon? Faquier? We live in DC but have given up hope. Looking to move but only for 5 days/week. Are any districts in VA giving strong signals towards opening?

Thank you!

There is literally no way to know this- if you really want a guaranteed 5 day a week school next year, you will need to leave the area and head south- lots of districts in Georgia and Florida are open full time with no masks- enjoy.
But for real, I’m hopeful we can make hybrid work this spring and begin phasing into more days a week in June so that something closer to full time happens in August but there is no way to predict this in February.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loudon? Faquier? We live in DC but have given up hope. Looking to move but only for 5 days/week. Are any districts in VA giving strong signals towards opening?

Thank you!

We’ve already heard loudoun is not doing 5 days luckily

I know your health director already said something about 6' and fall. I also know that your superintendent already had a plan for phasing kids in more days this year.

https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2021/02/loudoun-co-superintendent-maps-path-to-expand-in-school-learning/

This came before CDC's "school closing guidance," so I don't know if it still stands.

[Anonymous]

Given what has been disclosed about the current reopening plan, I predict ACPS will not have students back five days a week this fall.

[Anonymous]

I think they all will be open. Rates are plummeting and we will all have had the opportunity to be vaccinated by them. The small risk to kids with low community rates will not justify staying hybrid. I’m still going private because I think low rates should allow school to be normal (no masks, distancing, recess, etc). I am not a COVID denier but with low rates and adult vaccines, kids should get their lives back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they all will be open. Rates are plummeting and we will all have had the opportunity to be vaccinated by them. The small risk to kids with low community rates will not justify staying hybrid. I’m still going private because I think low rates should allow school to be normal (no masks, distancing, recess, etc). I am not a COVID denier but with low rates and adult vaccines, kids should get their lives back.

I understand what you’re saying, but closing schools was because Trump said to open them, not about science or health. Assuming the decision will be made based on science seems silly at this point. My thought was that maybe a purple-ish county would give us a better chance of school.

[Anonymous]

Trying to pinpoint what individual school systems will do is pointless. Falls Church City is small enough to be nimble. Besides that, everyone will watch FCPS which is the most powerful system and do what they do. Because it’s the safest, easiest option.

I’d say VA/FCPS aligned schools give you the best shot after Falls Church. Better than MoCo and DCPS. But FCPS is posed to give teachers collective bargaining rights in May. So anyone who things we have a 5 day a week open without a kids vaccine is delusional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they all will be open. Rates are plummeting and we will all have had the opportunity to be vaccinated by them. The small risk to kids with low community rates will not justify staying hybrid. I’m still going private because I think low rates should allow school to be normal (no masks, distancing, recess, etc). I am not a COVID denier but with low rates and adult vaccines, kids should get their lives back.

I understand what you’re saying, but closing schools was because Trump said to open them, not about science or health. Assuming the decision will be made based on science seems silly at this point. My thought was that maybe a purple-ish county would give us a better chance of school.

I think you’re partially wrong here. RTS is a much more bipartisan issue than most things. I don’t think blue states made decisions to defy Trump. Lot of be
Very angry liberal parents about these calls. 60% of FCPS parents wanted to go back. I think people (rightfully) didn’t trust Trump or a Trump affiliated science. Without reliable data, they were scared to go back.

After that, blue states were frozen because of teachers unions. Which is infuriating, because we are supposed to be the party of investing in kids.