Predictions for full time in person in the Fall please

[Anonymous]

What are the chances it will be full time in person with teachers in the classroom along with the kids.

[Anonymous]

Assuming the vaccine rollout means that everyone who wants to be vaccinated has had the chance, and that case counts plummet (as would be expected if vaccination is widespread), I think school will be full-time in person.

[Anonymous]

I think it will be full time in person- but it will probably still look different than pre-covid. I think aftercare/beforecare will potentially look a lot different (at least at my school).

[Anonymous]

100%

[Anonymous]

100% chance of 50/50, except for 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.

[Anonymous]

I think PK-5 will be FT in person and that any school that struggles to handle that will be in trouble with parents and DCPS (including charters).

I think MS and HS are going to be tricky and that MS in particular is going to prove problematic because kids normally switch classrooms and participate in more specialized classes and none of those kids will be able to vaccinate by September. I could easily see MS and HS being hybrid in the fall but I think there will be enormous pressure to offer as much in person as possible.

I've heard a number of well-respected epidemiologists and virologists talk about how younger kids can be well protected from the virus before vaccination because if teachers and parents are vaccinated it creates an umbrella of protection for these kids who spend all of their time with vaccinated adults. It's a harder question with older children. 16 and up will be able to vaccinate by September, but no one else will. Plus kids this age are more social and independent and that's going to impact trust by the teacher's union as well as families who are happy with DL and reluctant to return. And you need those groups on board.

[Anonymous]

School should be back full time and will be in 95 percent of the country. But I’d say a 50/50 chance of hybrid in DC with no aftercare. Leadership is not leading here.

[Anonymous]

I don't think we should be 100% back in person, as normal, right now. I'm not telling you that to start a debate; I'm telling you that so you understand what my position is.

I can't imagine why we WOULDN'T be back 100% in-person in August/September. That's six months from now, and everything looks like we are on track to have an extremely high rate of vaccine roll-out by then.

I appreciate the perspective above about tweens/early teens. (My kid is 11, starting MS in fall.) But that seems like a solvable problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100% chance of 50/50, except for 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.

Huh? Are you one of those who think KIDS need to be vaccinated before school can resume? If so, you are nuts. Then again, lots of people have gone nuts during this, so maybe you are right. I still hold out hope that sanity will prevail.

[Anonymous]

100% for ES; MS and HS will look different but back IPL. HS has the majority of student who can and will be vaccinated so maybe HS will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think PK-5 will be FT in person and that any school that struggles to handle that will be in trouble with parents and DCPS (including charters).

I think MS and HS are going to be tricky and that MS in particular is going to prove problematic because kids normally switch classrooms and participate in more specialized classes and none of those kids will be able to vaccinate by September. I could easily see MS and HS being hybrid in the fall but I think there will be enormous pressure to offer as much in person as possible.

I've heard a number of well-respected epidemiologists and virologists talk about how younger kids can be well protected from the virus before vaccination because if teachers and parents are vaccinated it creates an umbrella of protection for these kids who spend all of their time with vaccinated adults. It's a harder question with older children. 16 and up will be able to vaccinate by September, but no one else will. Plus kids this age are more social and independent and that's going to impact trust by the teacher's union as well as families who are happy with DL and reluctant to return. And you need those groups on board.

But if the parents of middle schoolers are vaccinated, then why would they worry about their middle schoolers? The chances of Covid harming them are lower than the flu. How did these parents ever send their kids to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think PK-5 will be FT in person and that any school that struggles to handle that will be in trouble with parents and DCPS (including charters).

I think MS and HS are going to be tricky and that MS in particular is going to prove problematic because kids normally switch classrooms and participate in more specialized classes and none of those kids will be able to vaccinate by September. I could easily see MS and HS being hybrid in the fall but I think there will be enormous pressure to offer as much in person as possible.

I've heard a number of well-respected epidemiologists and virologists talk about how younger kids can be well protected from the virus before vaccination because if teachers and parents are vaccinated it creates an umbrella of protection for these kids who spend all of their time with vaccinated adults. It's a harder question with older children. 16 and up will be able to vaccinate by September, but no one else will. Plus kids this age are more social and independent and that's going to impact trust by the teacher's union as well as families who are happy with DL and reluctant to return. And you need those groups on board.

But if the parents of middle schoolers are vaccinated, then why would they worry about their middle schoolers? The chances of Covid harming them are lower than the flu. How did these parents ever send their kids to school?

I think the issue is they are in that brackish age of getting Covid and getting sick and not getting vaxxed. So 6th and 7th maybe no issue but 8th?

If the vax goes down to age 12 by the fall then I don't see why MS wouldn't open normally.

I do think we will see the pediatric vax sooner than we think. I'm prepping my kid mentally to be jabbed.

[Anonymous]

100% in person, but Wednesdays are off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think PK-5 will be FT in person and that any school that struggles to handle that will be in trouble with parents and DCPS (including charters).

I think MS and HS are going to be tricky and that MS in particular is going to prove problematic because kids normally switch classrooms and participate in more specialized classes and none of those kids will be able to vaccinate by September. I could easily see MS and HS being hybrid in the fall but I think there will be enormous pressure to offer as much in person as possible.

I've heard a number of well-respected epidemiologists and virologists talk about how younger kids can be well protected from the virus before vaccination because if teachers and parents are vaccinated it creates an umbrella of protection for these kids who spend all of their time with vaccinated adults. It's a harder question with older children. 16 and up will be able to vaccinate by September, but no one else will. Plus kids this age are more social and independent and that's going to impact trust by the teacher's union as well as families who are happy with DL and reluctant to return. And you need those groups on board.

But if the parents of middle schoolers are vaccinated, then why would they worry about their middle schoolers? The chances of Covid harming them are lower than the flu. How did these parents ever send their kids to school?

I think the issue is they are in that brackish age of getting Covid and getting sick and not getting vaxxed. So 6th and 7th maybe no issue but 8th?

If the vax goes down to age 12 by the fall then I don't see why MS wouldn't open normally.

I do think we will see the pediatric vax sooner than we think. I'm prepping my kid mentally to be jabbed.

But middle schoolers' risk of getting severely sick or dying from Covid is lower than it is for the flu (despite the flu vaccine). So this is just not logical.

[Anonymous]

K-5 will be back in person five days per week, with DC setting up a citywide online academy for anyone not comfortable with this plan.

I also predict that DCPS communication will continue to be dismal, planning for the 2021-22 school year will begin months late, the WTU will continue to move any goalpost that's out there and that everything still will be unnecessarily suboptimal for the kids.

Don't forget that DCPS will have to start reviewing boundaries likely before we're fully out of the pandemic. That'll be something to behold.