APS - how do you feel about no distancing in the fall?

[Anonymous]

What are your concerns? Or are you totally ok with this?

[Anonymous]

Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

[Anonymous]

I’m ok with it with masks and the air purifiers in every room. I am an elementary teacher and parent. I’d be more cautious if we were at the high school stage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Why? 3ft vs 6ft vs 60ft indoors make no difference. If kids are eating 6ft apart, it’s not like the air won’t go across the room.

By fall, rates will be much lower. I am not even a tiny bit worried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Why? 3ft vs 6ft vs 60ft indoors make no difference. If kids are eating 6ft apart, it’s not like the air won’t go across the room.

By fall, rates will be much lower. I am not even a tiny bit worried.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Why? 3ft vs 6ft vs 60ft indoors make no difference. If kids are eating 6ft apart, it’s not like the air won’t go across the room.

By fall, rates will be much lower. I am not even a tiny bit worried.

Distancing doesn’t matter for the hours and hours in enclosed rooms with lame masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Why? 3ft vs 6ft vs 60ft indoors make no difference. If kids are eating 6ft apart, it’s not like the air won’t go across the room.

By fall, rates will be much lower. I am not even a tiny bit worried.

the point is that kids will no longer be eating 6 feet apart in the fall. That is the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m ok with it with masks and the air purifiers in every room. I am an elementary teacher and parent. I’d be more cautious if we were at the high school stage.

So are you ok with lunch too?

[Anonymous]

Not sure they’re really enforcing the distancing now. My kid is taking selfies with other kids in the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m ok with it with masks and the air purifiers in every room. I am an elementary teacher and parent. I’d be more cautious if we were at the high school stage.

No Air purifiers in the middle school cafeterias

[Anonymous]

As long as they are masking when they’re not eating, I’m okay with this. Odds are most middle and high schoolers will be able to get the vaccine shortly after school starts, if not earlier, and elementary students are easy to cohort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure they’re really enforcing the distancing now. My kid is taking selfies with other kids in the class.

With masks on?

The only thing that concerns me is lunch, for me as long as the kids are wearing masks I don’t worry about distancing.

[Anonymous]

I'm not worried one bit. Parents that think social distancing is being enforced right now are kidding themselves. For the risk of sounding Republican, people need to simmer down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe ok in the classroom, but not good at all for lunch and buses.

Why? 3ft vs 6ft vs 60ft indoors make no difference. If kids are eating 6ft apart, it’s not like the air won’t go across the room.

By fall, rates will be much lower. I am not even a tiny bit worried.

the point is that kids will no longer be eating 6 feet apart in the fall. That is the problem.

Right, and my point is it doesn’t make any difference and I don’t care. I am willing to take the risk even if my kids are elbow to elbow at lunch tables like usual. I don’t think it is much less safe than sitting 6 feet apart at desks in the gym, which is what my elementary age kids do now.

[Anonymous]

I think with randomized rapid testing, we can keep most of COVID out of our schools. But APS isn’t even considering it.