All schools should offer an all-virtual option

[Anonymous]

With all the bad news about Delta, there are enough parents that would prefer to keep their kids all virtual for the few months until they get vaccinated. Schools should offer this. It would get kids out of the classroom, making it safer for the kids choosing in-person. Parents should not be forced to choose to leave their school in order to keep their kids safe.

[Anonymous]

ughhh people please give it up or sign up for KIPP.

Where is your data that there are enough parents who want this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With all the bad news about Delta, there are enough parents that would prefer to keep their kids all virtual for the few months until they get vaccinated. Schools should offer this. It would get kids out of the classroom, making it safer for the kids choosing in-person. Parents should not be forced to choose to leave their school in order to keep their kids safe.

So tell me how to operationalize this? What if only 5 kids in first grade want virtual. But the other 70 kids have don’t. And there are 3 teachers for Grade 1. Should one teacher have only 5 kids while the other two teachers have 35 kids in their class?

[Anonymous]

I agree. It's the future of education anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With all the bad news about Delta, there are enough parents that would prefer to keep their kids all virtual for the few months until they get vaccinated. Schools should offer this. It would get kids out of the classroom, making it safer for the kids choosing in-person. Parents should not be forced to choose to leave their school in order to keep their kids safe.

It'd be a lot better and easier to just mandate the vaccine for public employees. We have to start getting back to normal. Kid to kid transmission is very unlikely.

I am very much in favor of common sense measure like masking, maximizing outdoor time, mandating vaccines for staff, etc. I am beyond done with catering to either the hypochondriacs or the anti-vaxxers though.

[Anonymous]

OP, I agree with you!!

I'd be cool with a half-day a week touch point, preferably outdoors.

[Anonymous]

NO. They don't have the resources to do this. Not well, anyways.

[Anonymous]

In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

And people in hell want ice water. How is any school administrator supposed to plan for what you’re asking for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, parents had to apply for a virtual “academy” and provide medical documentation that their child could not attend in person. They will not be taught by teachers from their neighborhood school, but by teachers that are hired specifically for this virtual academy. If approved, they are locked into the virtual academy until the halfway point of the school year.

In a school system of over 180K students, there are under 1000 that have been accepted grade K-12.

DC has one. In a school system of 51k students, hey've accepted 19 students and rejected 19.

That isn't what OP is asking for. We want something that bridges the gap to the vaccine, creates a structure for the inevitable back-and-forth to virtual for those families who prefer in-person, and maintains the belonging to their own school community.

Great! So, start your own private school that provides that. What you're expecting is way out of range of what public schools can or should provide.

OP, I could not disagree with you more.

[Anonymous]

No, no, no! That’s ridiculous. Virtual options should certainly be provided but every school should not and couldn’t not reasonably provide both in person and virtual options. No one is saying “no” to a virtual option… home schooling has been available online for 20 years.

[spudmqueen]

I was just posting that. Especially since delta data is finally available.

[Anonymous]

home school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all the bad news about Delta, there are enough parents that would prefer to keep their kids all virtual for the few months until they get vaccinated. Schools should offer this. It would get kids out of the classroom, making it safer for the kids choosing in-person. Parents should not be forced to choose to leave their school in order to keep their kids safe.

So tell me how to operationalize this? What if only 5 kids in first grade want virtual. But the other 70 kids have don’t. And there are 3 teachers for Grade 1. Should one teacher have only 5 kids while the other two teachers have 35 kids in their class?