APS FAQ

[Anonymous]

https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2021-22/faq/
Some good information in here

[Anonymous]

Thank you! Very helpful to have all that info in one spot. I would have liked more clarity on class sizes but I guess this is the best they can do.

[Anonymous]

Very detailed and helpful. APS has always done FAQs exceptionally well.

[Anonymous]

The part about MS teachers being quarantined and teaching synchronously to those at home while someone else subs for their class is confusing. This is actually worse than concurrent--the teacher will have to create both sets of lessons and trust an untrained sub to teach them to part of the class.

Last year, teachers who had been vaccinated did not need to quarantine.

[Anonymous]

I have a question that isn't in the faq. We're eligible for bus service in elementary and signed up for it. But the grandparents are asking if the kids could take the bus in the mornings, and then they could pick them up in person in the afternoon. Can the kids split bus use like that? Obvious first time bus user here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a question that isn't in the faq. We're eligible for bus service in elementary and signed up for it. But the grandparents are asking if the kids could take the bus in the mornings, and then they could pick them up in person in the afternoon. Can the kids split bus use like that? Obvious first time bus user here.

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a question that isn't in the faq. We're eligible for bus service in elementary and signed up for it. But the grandparents are asking if the kids could take the bus in the mornings, and then they could pick them up in person in the afternoon. Can the kids split bus use like that? Obvious first time bus user here.

Yes. You just need to make the arrangements very clear to the school admin and your kid’s teacher.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone read anywhere how APS middle and high school students will submit proof of vaccination to the school? If this is a factor in quarantine rules following a potential exposure, it seems that schools will need this information. ideally there would be a secure way to electronically submit this information into the student’s health record, right? TIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone read anywhere how APS middle and high school students will submit proof of vaccination to the school? If this is a factor in quarantine rules following a potential exposure, it seems that schools will need this information. ideally there would be a secure way to electronically submit this information into the student’s health record, right? TIA.

I imagine you would only need to submit it if you were potentially up for quarantine, or if you were on a sports team. Either way, I think that it would be more of a case by case sort of thing.

[Anonymous]

Dumb FAQ type of question... But what is an open house? Do the kids come to the open house or just the parents? Also, I have two kids in two separate classes, but my husband can't come. Can I just go for 15 minutes per class, or should I have a friend sit in on one class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dumb FAQ type of question... But what is an open house? Do the kids come to the open house or just the parents? Also, I have two kids in two separate classes, but my husband can't come. Can I just go for 15 minutes per class, or should I have a friend sit in on one class?

Hello and welcome!! Open House is also known as meet your teacher day. You just stop by with each kid to meet the teacher, see their room and find their seat, etc. there’s no set program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb FAQ type of question... But what is an open house? Do the kids come to the open house or just the parents? Also, I have two kids in two separate classes, but my husband can't come. Can I just go for 15 minutes per class, or should I have a friend sit in on one class?

Hello and welcome!! Open House is also known as meet your teacher day. You just stop by with each kid to meet the teacher, see their room and find their seat, etc. there’s no set program.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Kids do not come to Back to School night. That’s a couple weeks after the start of school. In the evening. No kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids do not come to Back to School night. That’s a couple weeks after the start of school. In the evening. No kids.

I believe most schools are doing virtual back to school nights.

[Anonymous]

Hope someone can help: I’m not seeing anywhere in the FAQ or on the website what type of negative test (rapid or PCR) is required to return to school if you keep a child home because of any kind of symptoms. And if one child has a negative rapid, do you need to keep home other healthy siblings if you choose to get a PCR also? I want to do the right thing but also don’t want to unnecessarily start excluding some of my kids from school if they’re healthy and there’s no covid in the house but a sibling has some other run-of-the mill bug. I’d imagine this will happen to lots of families but I’m not finding where this is addressed. Appreciate any help.