Aps: can we follow fcps and go back 4 days/week in April?

[Anonymous]

I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

No. Too crowded in many elementary schools already.

[Anonymous]

Fingers crossed! The Board asked for a new plan, so hopefully the staff will copy elements of FCPS’s plan!

[Anonymous]

Don’t get too excited about FCPS’s plan. It’s school by school, if there is room, only then for parents that opted for in person in the fall. It’s better than nothing, but it’s not a universal return 4 days, even for kids who opted hybrid.

— FCPS parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

Where did you see there would be a revised plan? I missed that.

[Anonymous]

Insanity. Do people actually think CDC will go lower than 3 feet in school? If they don’t, APS is essentially saying we can’t be full time in the fall. Parents, we need to push now that this is unacceptable. Maybe some kid from APS who went to TJ could show them how to optimize classroom seats? Because they clearly can’t figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Here’s what one principal in FCPS sent their families:

Please be patient as we work through the updated guidance to see if we are able to shift additional In-Person students to four day instruction in the near future, recognizing that we may not be able to honor four-days for all grade levels or in every classroom within a grade level due to the factors shared above.

This is extremely loose goosy. Can you imagine being at a school and some of the 3rd grade classes are in 4 days but not your kid’s class? Or half the class is there 4 days but not your kid? I think the APS parent community who are pushing for us to follow FCPS would want heads to roll even more than they do now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

Where did you see there would be a revised plan? I missed that.

At the last school board meeting the board told him that his plan to keep the status quo for the rest of the year wasn’t good enough and he needed to try harder and come back with something better for the next meeting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

Where did you see there would be a revised plan? I missed that.

At the last school board meeting the board told him that his plan to keep the status quo for the rest of the year wasn’t good enough and he needed to try harder and come back with something better for the next meeting.

How would you propose this happens? Honestly curious what you are hoping for.

Remember the 3 feet guidance was only for elementary abd 6 feet at lunch must be maintained. I only see this working in the < 50 % hybrid schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

Where did you see there would be a revised plan? I missed that.

At the last school board meeting the board told him that his plan to keep the status quo for the rest of the year wasn’t good enough and he needed to try harder and come back with something better for the next meeting.

How would you propose this happens? Honestly curious what you are hoping for.

Remember the 3 feet guidance was only for elementary abd 6 feet at lunch must be maintained. I only see this working in the < 50 % hybrid schools.

I’m hoping elementary goes back 4/5 days a week. 5 days for k-2 which is not concurrent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

Where did you see there would be a revised plan? I missed that.

At the last school board meeting the board told him that his plan to keep the status quo for the rest of the year wasn’t good enough and he needed to try harder and come back with something better for the next meeting.

How would you propose this happens? Honestly curious what you are hoping for.

Remember the 3 feet guidance was only for elementary abd 6 feet at lunch must be maintained. I only see this working in the < 50 % hybrid schools.

Bare minimum - 4 days/week for k-2. Even better for all elementary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

Where did you see there would be a revised plan? I missed that.

At the last school board meeting the board told him that his plan to keep the status quo for the rest of the year wasn’t good enough and he needed to try harder and come back with something better for the next meeting.

How would you propose this happens? Honestly curious what you are hoping for.

Remember the 3 feet guidance was only for elementary abd 6 feet at lunch must be maintained. I only see this working in the < 50 % hybrid schools.

I’m hoping elementary goes back 4/5 days a week. 5 days for k-2 which is not concurrent.

Can your school maintain 6 feet of space at lunch? (Great if it can!) many schools cannot and outdoor doesn’t count as there has to be a foul weather plan per the safety plan. The only way I see this working is if they do it school by school. Some s hooks with 80+% hybrid rates cannot make the spacing work.

[Anonymous]

sorry, but Duran is incapable of making this happen, sadly. NO CONFIDENCE!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope so - is there any chance this is what duran’s revised plan will be on Thursday?

Where did you see there would be a revised plan? I missed that.

At the last school board meeting the board told him that his plan to keep the status quo for the rest of the year wasn’t good enough and he needed to try harder and come back with something better for the next meeting.

How would you propose this happens? Honestly curious what you are hoping for.

Remember the 3 feet guidance was only for elementary abd 6 feet at lunch must be maintained. I only see this working in the < 50 % hybrid schools.

I’m hoping elementary goes back 4/5 days a week. 5 days for k-2 which is not concurrent.

Can your school maintain 6 feet of space at lunch? (Great if it can!) many schools cannot and outdoor doesn’t count as there has to be a foul weather plan per the safety plan. The only way I see this working is if they do it school by school. Some s hooks with 80+% hybrid rates cannot make the spacing work.

On days when kids eat inside, can't they alternate eating, so half the kids eat for ~15 minutes while the other kids read or watch a movie, then they switch. That way two kids who are three feet apart aren't eating at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s what one principal in FCPS sent their families:

Please be patient as we work through the updated guidance to see if we are able to shift additional In-Person students to four day instruction in the near future, recognizing that we may not be able to honor four-days for all grade levels or in every classroom within a grade level due to the factors shared above.

This is extremely loose goosy. Can you imagine being at a school and some of the 3rd grade classes are in 4 days but not your kid’s class? Or half the class is there 4 days but not your kid? I think the APS parent community who are pushing for us to follow FCPS would want heads to roll even more than they do now.

Yeah that’s nuts. I’m in LCPS but I’d be apoplectic if the kids whose teacher got the bigger room (not all are the same size at our school) got to go back 4 days and our class didn’t.